SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY CENTER
OUR PURPOSE
Promoting social commitment to build a better world, improving education for sustainable development.
OUR MISSION
Contributing to create social transformation agents, strengthening the community-University bond to transform our country's social fabric and improve the quality of life of vulnerable groups.
We address our purpose through four areas of responsibility:
Outreach
University Outreach
Outreach is considered a substantive function of the University, which, together with education and research, make up our academic model cornerstones.
In its interaction with external stakeholders, outreach activities position the University in an ongoing communication process with actors in the public, private and third sector arenas, to understand the transforming power existing in a dynamic and cooperative relation between academia and society.
A set of projects are instrumental to fulfilling this purpose and materializing this ideal:
Transversal Academic Projects (PAT)
Articulating certain university chairs and civil society organizations, these projects focus on the resolution of social demands, and have students, with educator’s guidance, design learning and discipline-specific spaces to deal with those scenarios (duration: two-month or four-months).
Community Intervention Projects (PIC)
These are projects addressing more complex issues than those in PATs. They are fleshed out in multidisciplinary fashion with a format similar to research teams and the difference that these ones deal with subjects applied to actual community needs (Duration: annual).
Community Outreach Services (SEC)
Services provided together with community organizations, giving an answer to opportunities identified and with high impact potential. Their execution can be articulated with PATs and PICs (Permanent).
Volunteering 21
This commitment and service space addressing issues for the community at large gives room to shared missions, by identifying, generating and disseminating volunteering opportunities to partner with allied organizations from across the country, thus offering the connections and acting as facilitators for volunteer students, graduates, and faculty. Comprised of 4 development areas: Service, Education, Environment and Human Rights.
Academia
Solidarity practice
Solidarity practice provides experience geared to completing / supplementing students’ professional curriculum; all undergraduate study plans, regardless of the modality they are imparted in, include Solidarity Practice as a mandatory subject. This is an experience supplementing professional education and seeking to develop in students a Social Responsibility (RS) component as applies to them as citizens and social leaders.
Certificate in sustainability competencies
The Certificate in Sustainability Competencies provides an integrated and multidisciplinary approach introducing concepts, ideas, and methodologies associated with sustainable development, a notion that comes to strike a balance between human economic development and environmental care, while at the same time paying attention to social needs.
The Certificate seeks to supplement academic evolution providing knowledge and training in skills and abilities for professional practice. They are an addition to all undergraduate studies, which can be pursued from the University junior year without extra costs.
Specific subjects aligned to SDGs
These subjects seek a learning proposition through specific sustainability education. They are:
Social Responsibility
The bases of Social Responsibility and sustainable development are introduced through this subject, generating global citizenship awareness and providing tools for analysis and actions in this direction.
Sustainable Organization Managements
This subject will provide tools and methods to fully understand organizations’ potential to act in pursuit of social sustainability.
Community Mediation and Peace Culture
This will help you know, understand and analyze the conditions of the new social scenarios and the contribution of community mediation as a social health strategy.New Economies & Social Innovation
This will allow students to know and understand the foundations of New Economies. These movements, appearing at all world and local levels, offer the possibility to approach entrepreneurship for a purpose with triple impact (economic, social and environmental).
Gender Studies for Professional Development
This subject will introduce you to conceptual and political discussions on diverse gender and sexual orientation. It will give you notions, methods and legal tools for gender and sexual diversity political and social debates and will offer a discussion forum to employ the conceptual tools learned.
Diploma in social and work inclusion competencies
Within its educational offering, Siglo 21 University includes the only Diploma in Social and Work Inclusion Competencies in Argentina. The courses are open annually in Siglo 21's Cordoba and Rio Cuarto Seats and the Buenos Aires Learning Center.
The diploma is obtained after two and a half years of study, for the purpose of offering intellectually impaired people, an inclusive academic space, respectful of the right to education and access to equal conditions and opportunities.
It promotes in the students' community the development of self-determined behaviors and acquisition of technical and soft competencies allowing to obtain better social insertion and work opportunities to back up independent living projects.
During this journey, the student gets included for work in both civil society organizations and businesses, through solidarity practices and supervised work practices where learning stretches out from academic life to actual working environments.
Inclusion
Accessibility
At the Social Sustainability Center, we work in collaboration with various Siglo 21 University areas to ensure the Right to Education and Accessibility of our entire student community with any disability.
We seek to offer support and advise in their academic journey, to all students who request it, providing reasonable adjustment to secure equal conditions in access, permanence and exit.
We are committed to provide advise and training in good inclusion practices to our faculty by implementing the Inclusive Educational Practice Protocol to ensure alignment and action.
Siglo 21 University, through its Social Sustainability Center, is part of the Cordoba Universities Disability Inclusion Network (IDUC Network) created as a strategic inter-university space for reciprocal support in reflection, exchange, cooperation, technical assistance and action, with a view to promote and effectively materialize the inclusion of people with disabilities into the university and establish disability as a human rights issue.
If you are part of our community and need a space for encounters, please ask for it here:
Sustainability report
In 2017, we adhered to the United Nations Global Compact, reasserting our commitment to the implementation of its 10 Principles and 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
If you want to know more on recent years' sustainability reports, click below:
Contact us
Social Sustainability Center: sustentabilidad21@ues21.edu.ar
Volunteering 21 Community: voluntarios21@ues21.edu.ar