Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 39.01
Liaison YOLANDA MENDOZA CAVAZOS
Submission Date June 19, 2015
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Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
EN-13: Community Stakeholder Engagement

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Miriam Sanchez Garza
MDE
Sustainability dept
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Has the institution adopted a framework for community stakeholder engagement in governance, strategy and operations?:
Yes

A brief description of the policies and procedures that ensure community stakeholder engagement is applied systematically and regularly across the institution’s activities:

The Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas has various agreements with public and private community sectors.
The agreements are to formalize social and charity activities with the organization in the following sectors: social, productive, educational institutions and research centers.
They are collaborative projects which fit in the actual University operational lines of each of the parties involved, in order to create synergies to maximize the results.
In 2014 there were 125 cooperation agreements with the social sector, 59 with the productive sector and 16 with educational institutions and research centers.


A brief description of how the institution identifies and engages community stakeholders, including any vulnerable or underrepresented groups:

The Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT) and other higher education institutions, once they identify community needs, they make a public invitation in which a person can participate if they fit with the established requirements.
When a project of a person is approved, this is notified to a legal, technical and administrative responsible of the University (UAT).
After the agreement is inspected, it is sent to the corresponding funding source, which is a part of the UAT Agreements' System; then it is reviewed by the University's lawyer also. In case of a clarification, change or observation, the lawyer can make the changes in order to be signed and published.


List of identified community stakeholders:

COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS WITH THE SOCIAL SECTOR:

• City of Victoria
• National Forestry Commission
• Mexican Institute of Social Security
• Sustains Corporate Commitment to Solid Waste Manage
• DIF Tamaulipas
• Tamaulipas Congress
• Ministry of Social Development
• Municipal Commission of Water and Sewerage of the city of Tampico
• Court of the Judiciary of the State of Tamaulipas
• Tamaulipas State Government
• Banamex (Bank)
• Food Bank of Victoria, B.C.
• Tamaulipas Institute for Adult Education
• Pemex Refinery
• Other

COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS WITH THE PRODUCTIVE SECTOR:

• Intrersec Services, S.A. de C.V.
• Specialties Hospital "Santander"
• Union of Foresters and Forest Entrepreneurs of Tamaulipas, AC
• Mexico Optical
• Rio Regional Hospital CV S.A
• Santander Bank Student Mobility
• Santander Bank Scholarships
• Banorte Bank General Insurance S.A of C.V.
• Others

COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTRES:

• "Juárez" Tabasco Autonomous Univeristy
• Bicentennial Mar de Tamaulipas Technological University
• Coahuila Autonomous University
• Eastern Washington University
• Escuela Libre de Derecho (Law School)
• Burgos University
• Ecuador Technological University
• Norbert Wiener Private University (Peru)
• National Commission on Science and Technology
• Mexico Autonomous University
• Polytechnic of Torino, Italy
• Americas College
• Calquímica
• Others


A brief description of successful community stakeholder engagement outcomes from the previous three years:

The Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas has made agreements for over 45 years, which has allowed many benefits in different aspects.
The fact that the University has an agreement with a public or private institutions benefits all the individuals involved in the community.
With this agreements, the students can be involved in community service applying what they learn in the classroom. In some cases the coomunity service is for the improvement of a needed sector like blind, deaf or mute people.


The website URL where information about the institution’s community stakeholder engagement framework and activities is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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