ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION: DEVELOPING SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO TRAFFIC EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2163272309101

• Palavras-chave: interdisciplinary university traffic nucleus; college education; sustainable university; innovative social technologies; social entrepreneurship.

• Keywords: interdisciplinary university traffic nucleus; college education; sustainable university; innovative social technologies; social entrepreneurship.

• Abstract:

  The creation of NIUT, awarded by the Citizenship Institute 2013/2014 as a Social highlight in Pernambuco, highlights the importance of the role of higher education institutions in terms of local sustainability, understanding that the university, as a locus of knowledge and in an innovative stance, needs create interdisciplinary spaces for dialogue aimed at developing transformative educational actions. This enterprise, based on the possibility of providing opportunities for social and urban changes, is the result of the demand for new social technologies endorsed in the author's Dissertation through the Master's Degree in Sustainable Local Development Management at the University of Pernambuco - GDLS/FCAP/UPE. This innovative methodological proposal, developed within academic research, sees as a priority the active participation of the institutions of the National Transit System - SNT and all members of society in the public and political life of their locality. In other words, based on action research, NIUT involved both research and extension, seeking the construction of contextualized knowledge, as well as the application and mediation of the propagation of this knowledge from the perspective of social transformations. This innovative methodological approach had the challenge of listening to local needs, connecting SNT public bodies in a proposal to align actions and open space for the discussion of new public policies. This interdisciplinary and interinstitutional proposal highlighted the social responsibility of higher education in the face of social demands, enabling approaches and the creation of spaces for dialogue between informal knowledge and technical-scientific knowledge.