The university community project as the focus of study: reflections on limits and challenges

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DOI: 10.12957/interag.2016.15543

The university community project as the focus of study: reflections on limits and challengesAbstract: This article aims at analyzing the community projects developed at the State University of Mato Grosso (Unemat), specifically in Campus Vale do Teles Pires (Colider/MT). Its relevance resides in the possibility of sharing the limitations and challenges of these actions. The methodological procedures of this study were: documentary, bibliography and field research (questionnaire), qualitative, analytical approach. The analysis of the university community project was a hard and complex task, since it was necessary to understand it as a mechanism of approximation with society. The results founded the perception that the community project is a university function that, together with teaching and researching, enables institutions to fulfill their responsibility in economic and social development. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to introduce the knowledge produced by research in society, which is achieved through the community projects. Finally, it is clear that the university that plays the constitutional tripod (teaching, research and community work) can assimilate social demands and incorporate them in their actions.