Universidad en el Campo/UNI, connection and presence in families for the development of communities

Abstract

The National University of Engineering (UNI) in its strategic development project 2020-2030 expresses the importance of university functions in the educational work of this alma mater, from teaching, research and extension; the latter refers to the fact that the extension must link the community; All this is closely linked to what is expressed in the National Plan to Fight Poverty, 2022 - 2026 promoted by the (Government of Reconciliation and National Unity, 2021, p.31) where it emphasizes that "An innovative initiative in higher education has been the University Program in the Countryside (UNICAM), aimed at caring for young people from rural communities”; In this program, the work modality that is carried out is by encounters, adjusting to the socio-productive reality of the families in the field; Therefore, the UNI assumed the commitment from the year 2021 to teach higher technicians in agro-industrial technologies and irrigation, the purpose being to promote educational actions as the National University of Engineering that lead to the extension and linking of families and communities, contributing to the creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.