Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship in the Enactus UFCA Program

results and challenges of extension actions

  • Victoria Régia Arrais de Paiva Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)
  • Eduardo Vivian da Cunha Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)
  • Cris Maria Aureliano Marques Albuquerque Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)
  • Eduardo Leite Alves Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)
  • Isaac Moreira de Carvalho Gomes Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship, Extension, Student Protagonism, Sustainability

Abstract

The Enactus UFCA Program has been operating in communities in Ceara's Cariri for eleven years, focusing on social entrepreneurship, and has three ongoing projects, namely: Maená, Maria Bonita and Phyplant, aimed at the areas of civil construction, production of sanitary pads ecological and phytotherapeutic, respectively. This experience report aims to expose the results and challenges experienced by the projects of the 2021-2022 cycle, promoted by the Dean of Extension of the Federal University of Cariri (PROEX/UFCA). Among the main impacts are the advances in terms of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted both in the training of students, through their engagement with issues related to sustainability, and through the exchange of knowledge with the public participating in the actions, collaborating, therefore, for the generation of work and income for socioeconomically vulnerable populations and for the development of student protagonism.

Author Biographies

Victoria Régia Arrais de Paiva, Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)

Doutora em Sociologia (UFC), docente do Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas da UFCA e coordenadora do Programa de Extensão ENACTUS/UFCA.

Eduardo Vivian da Cunha, Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)

Doutor em Administração (UFBA), docente do Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas da UFCA, e coordenador adjunto do Programa de Extensão ENACTUS/UFCA.

Cris Maria Aureliano Marques Albuquerque, Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)

Graduanda em Engenharia de Materiais (UFCA).

Eduardo Leite Alves, Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)

Graduando em Biblioteconomia (UFCA).

Isaac Moreira de Carvalho Gomes, Universidade Federal do Cariri (UFCA)

Graduando em Engenharia Civil (UFCA).

Published
2023-04-03
How to Cite
PAIVA, V. R. A. DE; CUNHA, E. V. DA; ALBUQUERQUE, C. M. A. M.; ALVES, E. L.; GOMES, I. M. DE C. Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship in the Enactus UFCA Program: results and challenges of extension actions. EntreAções: dialogues in extension, v. 3, n. 2, p. 77-88, 3 Apr. 2023.
Issue
Vol 3 No 2 (2022): EntreAções: extended dialogs
Section
Extension Reports

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