Keyword: INCO

Report presented by Reynals, Cristina ( University of Buenos Aires-IAI-UPU ) and Surian, Alessio ( IAI - UPU ) at the P. Freire Forum, Sao Paulo, 2008 This work presents advances of the International Meetings of the Urban Popular University, an initiative of the International Alliance of Inhabitants, presenting first the objectives of the center, and secondly the experience of the meetings in the community center that occurred in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in May of 2006 and in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) on April 2007. As a central point, the specific objectives of the meetings entitled “Building the Urban Popular University in Latin America” were pointed out causing the participants to be motivated to produce new knowledge.Finally, the preparations will in turn, put in the form of a debate the advances of the proposal of the methods used in the discussions, whose specificity is part of the persistent intent to share and come up with the interpretation with those who take part in the socio-educational process.

The first regional conference of the UPU, “Building the Popular Urban University”, was brought off successfully. It was directed by leaders of working class communities, small business associations and local business leaders from Argentina, Peru and Brasil. Based on the evaluation carried out by the participants and by the UPU trainers, the conference’s model will be revised with the aim of launching similar conferences in other areas, at an international level.