24th EB Session
EB24/12/10
Paris | 2December 2010



Vice President Technical Activities

(And Advisors)

PROJECT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WORLD FAMILY UNIVERSITY

1. PRESENTATION

The World Family University (WFU) is regarded as an important decentralized space of international cooperation directed toward creation of a group that supports studies, research and experiences of Family Pedagogy.

It is based on social inclusion and diversity, access to graduate and postgraduate courses that will provide a network of knowledge to support projects of intervention and quality policies in the field of the Family.

2. JUSTIFICATION

Why implementing the World Family University?

  • Necessity to create a recognized space for human formation on Family issues, for worldwide exchange, opened to political commitment, unrestricted to graduate and postgraduate courses;
  • Social changes that overcome barriers for scientific knowledge;
  • To conduct research and studies in the field of families;
  • To develop, in cooperation with specialized space, policies for improvement, inter alia, of housing, health, sanitation, nutrition, education, recreation, work conditions, welfare systems, social protection and benefits, family relationships and environmental issues affecting families;

3. MISSION

To promote education and to produce continuous knowledge by means of partnerships and pedagogical, scientific, technological mediation and respect for culture, contributing for the formation of qualified professionals and with developed sense of social responsibility, capable of contributing, reflecting, arguing and considering important improvements on servicing Family basic needs.

4. OBJECTIVE

To implement the World Family University in order to promote education and productions of continuous knowledge for the formation of qualified professionals.

5. OPERATIONAL AND ACADEMIC PRINCIPLES

◘ Processes Participatory Management

◘ Actions, Systems and Processes Networks

◘ Social Responsibility

◘ Solid Scientific Reference

◘ Contextualized Pedagogical Approaches

◘Value of Actors Individual Experiences

◘ Knowledge Sharing

◘ Affirmation of Human Dimension in Education

6. PROGRAMS

The WFU will offer and give support to courses for professional formation, specialization, master and doctorates.

To offer these courses, the WFU will count on their own structure, besides a network of partnerships that study the family and that will be part of University alliances in the same regional structure adopted by the WFO. The courses will be available on and off campus.

The WFU will work on on/off campus research and extension projects.

The program will be offered through forums, seminaries and specialized courses, organized on and off campus through the platform of the World Family University.

7. STRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION

The central physical and functional structure (the headquarter) should be located in Paris and should also be represented by regional centers, the same regional configuration of the WFO.

Global functional structure that allows international sharing and creates partnerships, not to mention the importance ethics has throughout the process.

Essential Elements: Autonomy, Flexibility, Collegiate Participation.

Challenge: to create a management structure that represents and favours the accomplishment of multiple experiences, supported by partnerships and to provide a structure of the WFU beyond geographic, cultural, economic and social limits.

8. ORGANIZATION CHART

World Management Council

President

Ethics and Evaluation, Legal Council

Vice-presidencies

Teaching, Research and Extension and Financial and Administrative

Inside the Teaching, Research and Extension has:

Center of Studies of Peace for inclusion of tolerance toward Pluralism of ideas

Center of Health Sciences and Housing

Center of Education, Work and Entrepreneurship of Families

Center of Documentation, Register, Memory and Communication

EXECUTION CALENDAR

Activities Calendar to implementation of the World Family University to 2010 and 2011.

Activities / 2010 / 2011
1◦ Semester / 2◦Semester / 1◦ Semester / 2◦Semester
Elaboration of the Project to implementation of the WFU / X
Present the project to advisors VICE Technical Activities 181th EB to analyze and discussion / X
Present the project to 182 th EB New York / X
Elaboration of Statute and other necessary documents to implementing the WFU / X
Present final Project to General Assembly / X
Implementation of the WFO: Administrative and Functional Structure / X
Elaboration of the Portfolio of the first courses to be offered / X
Spreading of the WFU implementation / X / X
Official opening of the WFU / X

FINANCIAL STRUCTURE

To be defined by the WFO

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