Universidad San Francisco de Quito
EN-10: Community Partnerships
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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3.00 / 3.00 |
Maria Jose
Ayala Innovation and Sustainability Officer Innovation and Sustainability Office |
Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability :
Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? :
Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe?:
Which of the following best describes the partnership?:
Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? :
A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability:
The School Fab Lab is a project in collaboration with Schlumberger and its SEED (Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development) project. Students and professors from various disciplines of USFQ give life to educational projects within the laboratory, which has state-of-the-art technology installed collaboratively. This initiative seeks to promote education in the country and achieve a rapprochement with students from schools and colleges so that they lose the idea that science, engineering or mathematics are difficult or abstract and, in a fun way, they can learn experientially. The School Fab Lab was designed with the Fab Foundation, who also developed a platform with material for workshops for school teachers on the use of new technologies. The project has 300 beneficiaries and the collaboration between the careers of Education, Computer Science and Industrial Engineering; it was recognized as an outstanding practice of SDG 4 by Global Compact Network Ecuador in 2020.
Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (2nd partnership):
Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? (2nd partnership):
Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe? (2nd partnership):
Which of the following best describes the partnership’s sustainability focus? (2nd partnership):
Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? (2nd partnership):
A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (2nd partnership):
This collaboration is based on research under the cooperation agreement between the Governing Council of the Special Regime of Galapagos, the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion and USFQ, which identified the challenges and needs of the population of the islands in terms of violence prevention and strengthening of rights systems.
The project seeks to strengthen the local capacities of the population of the islands through awareness and training in the following areas: gender, human rights, sustainable entrepreneurship and responsible tourism. The project has 300 beneficiaries led by the career of Anthropology.
Name of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (3rd partnership):
Does the institution provide financial or material support for the partnership? (3rd partnership):
Which of the following best describes the partnership timeframe? (3rd partnership):
Which of the following best describes the partnership? (3rd partnership):
Are underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations engaged as equal partners? (3rd partnership):
A brief description of the institution’s formal community partnership to advance sustainability (3rd partnership):
The Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) is a biological field station established in Amazonian Ecuador in 1994 by the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in collaboration with Boston University. We serve as steward of 638 hectares (about 1500 acres) of primary lowland rainforest approximately 300km (200 mi) ESE of Quito. TBS is situated on the north bank of the Tiputini River, a southern tributary of the Napo River within the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve.
Our primary activities are associated with research and education. Located within the world’s greatest biodiversity hotspot (link paper) and one of the planet’s last wilderness areas, our main goal is to better understand nature so that appropriate and effective conservation strategies may be implemented.
TBS also serves as an official guard post for the Yasuní National Park.
A brief description of the institution’s other community partnerships to advance sustainability:
Up until the period 2020-2021 USFQ has collaborated with 84 different organizations in community engagement projects with the participation of 568 faculty members and 1507 students with 282,000 beneficiaries.
Website URL where information about the institution’s community partnerships to advance sustainability is available:
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