Universitat de València, through the 0.7 Programme A Nau of Solidarity, has carried out in the city of Salta and its province, in the north of Argentina, the project of co-operation “Meta, Animate, Salta”, for the promotion and formation in sociocultural animation of young adults of Salta with no access to higher education.
The project, led by professor Joan Maria Senent, Director of the Department of Comparative Education and History of Education of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences at Universitat de València, has counted with the team work of fifteen people, among them we find some professors of Salta and València universities; two coordinators (Davinia de Ramón, from Valencia, and Andrea del Carmen Reynaga, from Salta); and a ten of monitors from the Argentinian region.
“We detected that in Salta they had problems mobilising civil society because there was not a specialised training of possible leaders or directors of sociocultural or community animation”, explains Senent. Therefore, his team started a project to train sociocultural animators, as well as animators’ trainers. “We wanted that, after our intervention, they could make progress by themselves. That was the starting point”, claims the Director.
With the collaboration of the Social and Educational Research Centre in the North of Argentina, the Valencian team, enrolled in the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of Salta, started to develop the project, which deals with the realisation of two training courses of sociocultural animators and a training course of trainers, addressed to youngsters of the society of Salta, specially, to groups with no access to higher education or from groups with social roots in the city which, finally, gathered 85 students.
The training courses in animation include theory and practice. “They have developed community animation projects which, in some cases, have worked and are still on”, says Joan Maria Senent. On the one hand, in the case of population of the province, the projects consisted on the empowering communities for the decision-making process, as in the case of the quarters of the city of Salta, several projects have been made in order to discuss at meetings and social gatherings topics related to municipality, cultural dynamics or empowering of women of Salta. They have also worked with other communities like La Quebrada del Toro and Tartagal, where even though they still preserve their own culture, they wanted to recover part of the popular folklore. Other projects, however, according to Senent, have served to make social recognitions, such as in the case of infrastructures, for example, which are in many occasions insufficient.
On the other hand, some students of previous courses and animation community experienced professionals acceded to the training course for trainers. With this formative project, they achieved a “snowball effect” of continuity at the community and sociocultural animation.
“‘Meta, Animate, Salta” (“meta” means “O.K.” in Argentinian and “Animate” means “Cheer up” in Spanish) project has achieved, in this way, to foster intercultural links between the two countries, retaking experiences Social Education and Education Sciences that students have come to participate in the frame convention of mobility arranged by National University of Salta and Universitat de València in 1997, being still nowadays in force. This was one of the objectives that have been achieved together with a social network to reinforce a development of a long-term project, establishing a sub-node of the RIA (acronym for International Animation Network) in the north of Argentina.
Furthermore, the work, from sociocultural animation, with young Salt people with little resources, its empowering and its promotion of this type of activity is another goal of the project of Universitat de València which have contributed to enrich the society in the north of Argentina to a community and social level, “generating a movement with an own line of training and development”, claims Senent. Likewise, his enrichment takes place in the Valencian society, as for from this project, four are the generations of students who have gone to Salta to do their training internships, and some projects have also started to work with bibliographical exchange and teaching research groups.
0.7 A Solidarity Nau
“Meta, Animate, Salta” frame project, organised by the General Foundation of Universitat de València, is the 0.7 A Solidarity Nau Programme (http://links.uv.es/5wev1In) which the Internationalisation and Cooperation Vice-Principal convokes.
The Program organised by the 0.7 Commission, which was created in 1995 in order to establish the general lines of action in terms of co-operation to the development of Universitat de València. It was also created to distribute the 0.7 budget -which is obtained from the 0.7% of Universitat’s budget, as well as with a voluntary character of the 0.7% of the staff salary and the registration taxes of students- among the diverse co-operational programmes. It was created to control and to supervise this budget, and to prepare and solve project calls of co-operation.
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