CES Resolution: RPC-SO-13-No. 194-2019

Entry profile:

To be a third level professional in the areas of:

• Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Journalism, Communication, Law, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Architecture, Sociology, Anthropology, Tourism, Education, Computer Systems, Agricultural Economics.

General objective

To train professionals specialised in sustainable local development processes, with theoretical and practical mastery of policies, local strategies and cooperation values within the framework of citizen participation and the socio-economic development of localities.

Specific objectives.

• Knowledge and know-how
• To systematically deepen and specialise knowledge related to territorial planning and management and the social and solidarity economy.
• To master the theoretical, practical and technical knowledge on sustainable local development processes that contribute to the integration of resources and actors in geographical, social, economic, environmental and natural spaces, as well as to the use of territorial resources from an ethical and responsible perspective, applying quantitative, qualitative and integrative methodologies.
• Analyse the trends in territorial planning and organisation of the process of sustainable local development.
• Investigate the interpretative practices of local policies and strategies within the framework of sustainability.
• Relevance
• To contribute to the solution of problems and tensions of the local economy through the planning of local and regional development and the social and solidarity economy, the management of sustainable development projects, the interpretation of territorial structures and dynamics, the promotion of spaces for meeting and exchange of knowledge, the integration of social, economic and political actors and public, private and academic participation in favour of life in the territory.
• To propose innovative policies that stimulate the development of the social and solidarity economy in accordance with the local reality.
• To carry out collaborative projects to advise local development organisations.
• To carry out research and development projects for the social, economic and environmental strengthening of society.
• To the apprenticeships
• Design plans, programmes, projects and strategies that promote local and regional development.
• Develop analytical research on real cases of sustainable local development.
• Design and execute economic and social projects that contribute to sustainable local development.
• Plan and manage development and territorial planning policies in accordance with national indicators and regulations in order to resolve problems and tensions in sustainable local development processes.
• Interculturality
• Promote the practice of ethical values in each and every one of the roles, functions and scenarios of the master's performance with social responsibility, equity, interculturality, dialogue of knowledge and inclusion in contribution to the change of the productive matrix and the objectives and guidelines of the PNBV.
• Debate in the subjects of Sustainable local development and Intellectuality, gender and other vulnerable groups and Planning and foresight of intercultural local development.
• Trends in the planning and management of the process of sustainable local development.
• Assess the potentials and limits of the process of sustainable local development throughout the programme.

Schedule of classes

Fridays: 18:00 - 21:00
Saturdays: 08:00 - 14:00
Sunday: 08:00 - 14:00

Modules:

• First academic period - Common core
• The global and Ecuadorian economic and political context.
• Local sustainable development, gender and interculturality.
• Intersectoral relations in local development.
• Research methodology and quantitative analysis.
• Project management and entrepreneurship for local development.
• Degree workshop I.
• Second academic period MENTION: PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND TERRITORIAL PLANNING
• Planning and foresight of intercultural local development.
• Models of territorial and environmental development.
• Policies and technical-legal instruments in the decentralisation of local and rural development.
• Territorial analysis and advanced GIS.
• Development planning and land-use planning in Ecuador.
• Degree workshop II.
• Second academic period: SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY.
• Planning and prospective of intercultural local development.
• Models of social and solidarity economy.
• Public policies in the Popular and Solidarity Economy in Ecuador.
• Financing the social economy.
• Organisational strengthening in associative enterprises.
• Degree workshop II.