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Logros y retos de los primero 15 años de funcionamiento del Instituto de Innovación Regional del Tolima Innovar Suroriente. Desarrollado por el PhD Eduardo Aldana Valdés
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INSTITUTO DE INNOVACION REGIONAL DEL SURORIENTE DEL
TOLIMA - INNOVAR
Prepared by Innovar’s Staff
Achievements and Challenges
March 2013
South America, Colombia, Tolima and Purificación
IBAGUÉ
PURIFICACIÓ
N
BOGOTÁ
Purificación: 200 Km. from Bogotá and 100 Km. from Ibagué
Educational level in the municipalities of theregion
Fuente: Autor con base en datos obtenidos de http://190.25.231.242/cgibin/RpWebEngine.exe/PortalAction?&MODE=MAIN&BASE=CG2005AMPLIADO&MAIN=WebServerMain.inl
Educational level
achieved by people
from the region
Municipalities
% P
eop
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Basic/ grades 1-5 Secondary/grades 6-9High school/grades 10-11Technical (2-3 years)Professional (4-5 years)
A review
Southeastern Tolima: A region with a rich natural endowment but with a poorpopulation.
Puri(Sisben) Tolima
Colombia Population below poverty line 95%
57% 50%
Population below extreme poverty line 54% 20%
16%
Magdalena river Tropical dry
forestSaldaña river
The origin: Presidential Mission for Science, Education and Development, 1994
“…we propose the foundation,…in each region [within each department] of anInstitute for Regional Innovation, INNOVAR. Those institutes should be charged toproduce or acquire pertinent knowledge for the region…As part of its mission, eachINNOVAR will undertake postsecondary education activities to form highlycompetent technitians, technologist and professionals.”
¿What is INNOVAR SURORIENTE DEL TOLIMA?
The Regional Innovation Institute for southeastern province of Tolima (At present, 2013: Alpujarra, Dolores, Prado, Suarez, Purificación, Saldaña and Guamo) located at Purificación.
A not-for-profit organization financed by the local, state and nationalgovernments and the private sector, and associated with the University of Ibagué, Unibagué.
INNOVAR (2012): A type of “community college”
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With students from themunicipalities of Purificación,Prado and Saldaña.
With ICT resources and librarydonated by government agenciesand private corporations.
It operates in a 10,000 square-feetbuilding and 10 acres land site
provided by the local governmentin 2008.
Our principles:
1. Concentation of resources in “capital cities” has produced regional inequaliy, poverty of rural areas and theincreasing degradation of the metropolitan suburbia. Solution to these problems requiere integral rural development.
2. Sustainable and equitable development requieres a “bottom up” approach.
3. Rural populations need “new ideas to solve their oldproblems”.
4. Local organizations should be part of networks and do locally only what they can do well.
¿Who are our promoters and allies?
Mission
To provide and environment of opportunities to the people at southeastern Tolima for the acquisition and management of knowledge to construct their own future through three pursuits: education of the youth, sustainable economic development, and community capacity building.
INNOVAR: Its three functions
Promote community capacity building
To achieve local and regional development
1. Provide access to transforming education: INNOVAR IS HOST TO A CERES
CERES are alliances promoted by the National Ministry of Education INNOVAR is an ally to the CERES at Purificación Purificación’s CERES is one of INNOVAR programs operated by Unibagué
CERES
Universities and other SEI
INNOVAR local ally
State and local
administrations
SENA & prívate
enterprises
Other
INNOVAR
programs
Selected problem and response.
330 students finish highschool each year (More
than 1000 in southeastern Tolima)
Innovar is becoming, thru its educationfunction, a worthy,
pertinent and inclusive life option.
Our students
Some of the education programs offered at INNOVAR
Challenges&Proposal Challenges
Increase enrollment, mainly in technological programs Develop advanced technological education programs ¡Reduce dropouts! Offer 2+3 transfer programs (See below) Duplicate Innovar in other regions (3 are underway)
Proposal
Professional (university
level) educationprograms
Basic cycle (2 years)
Face to face instruction with good teachers and supported by online
developments
Offered by Unibagué in agreement with other allies
Professionalcycle (3
years)
Offered by each ally in its own campus since it requires specialized professors,
laboratories and facilities not available at any CERES
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Achievements
¡We are growing!
Some 30 students have been transferred to Unibagué and are finishingengineering undergraduate studies. For them, Innovar was their life opportunity
2. Support competitive endeavours.Selected problem and response.
The in use “top-down” approach
rendersdependency
Assit small producers tosolve their own problems
thru empowerment, knowledge and organization
An innovative environment
Coaching through university student’s servicelearning
Dialogues between teching staff and local producers
Videoconferences of “good practices” in Colombia and in other countries
Participation in trade fairs and other local and regional events
Links to external markets
2. Achievements: Small producers associations
Asohortipuri: Producers of Vegetables Asomucaf: Asociation of female-headed
household that provide food products
Acuisur: Piscicultural Producer Sembrar Paz: Rural development
3. Promote community capacity building.Selected problems, no concrete responses.
Science and technology are not part of people’s culture (way of living )
Absence of future vision: “To the person who does notknow where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.” –Seneca
Sense of belonging ¿Which traditions, values and beliefsdo we share?
Dependency on favors from politicians and government.
What we are working on…
“Educate children to educate their parents”: “Little Scientifics”, Scratch, Sembrar Paz
Building a future’s vision. Redefining our (local) future: Collaboration from Engineers Without Borders and Unibagué’sService Learning Program (Paz y Region).
Empowering women (Not yet implemented).
Developing sense of belonging: ¡San Juan Festival!
3. Achievements: Building a sense of belongingSan Juan Festival
2008-2011
3. EDUCATE THE CHILDREN TO EDUCATE THEIR PARENTS: PQC & SCRATCH
Little Scientists: Inquiring education(Uniandes&Unibagué)
Teachers training by Fundación GabrielPiedrahita Uribe in the use of Scratch (Adevelopment of MIT Media Lab).
Do we dare…?
Many people see things as they are and ask Why?… I dream ofthings that never were and ask Why not? (Bernard Shaw)
A tourist airship flights overPurificación’s bridge going to San
Agustín (Famous archeological park in southern Colombia)