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Multimedia Production Center for the cooperative ventures development
In recent years the Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives (ITCP COPPE UFRJ) has devoted special attention to the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the incubation of popular cooperatives. Among its outcomes, we highlight the establishment of an ICT center at ITCP headquarters, the launch, in 2006, of the Cooperativism Portal www.cooperativismopopular.ufrj.br on the internet, and the establishment of a computer training program for cooperative members and their families. The great interest in this program promoted the inclusion of young people and adults from low-income classes, allowing, at the same time, their digital and productive inclusion through cooperativism.
Cyber-School Project: digital and social inclusion of young people
The Cyber-School Project benefited young male and female, aged from 18 to 24 years-old, from low income families (40% enrolled in the governmental social program), residents of Nova Iguaçu, municipality of Rio de Janeiro.
Under this project, they received training and professional qualification in basic and advanced computing (Maintenance of computers; installation and maintenance of networks, and Web Design), as well as advice for formation of a popular cooperative of micro-business in computer technology.
Vegetable Oil Recycling Program for Social Inclusion and Environment Protection
The Vegetable Oil Recycling Program (PROVE) encourages the reuse of waste vegetable oil in the production of biodiesel, as a way to work for environment preservation and protection.
The Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives provides advice to cooperatives participating in the PROVE, assisting them in their administrative organization, political articulation and logistics for vegetable oil collection, implemented in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro.
Building a Mental Health Entrepreneur’s Network
The Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives project aims the social (re)integration of users of the mental health system, seeking to strengthen the experiences of employment and income generation projects in this field, through qualification of mental health technicians across Brazil and the creation of a network of social enterprises coming from the public mental health system.
The creation of a mental health entrepreneur’s network by ITCP COPPE UFRJ seeks the exchange of knowledge and ideas, the increasing of their economic viability and the dissemination of the issue of psychiatric reform and social inclusion of people with mental disorders through work.
Sustainable rural business associations: recovering degraded areas and generating wealth
Empower technical implementers to promote sustainable management of natural resources was just the point-of-departure of Technology Incubator of Popular Cooperatives (ITCP COPPE UFRJ), in a multidisciplinary program, known informally as "Watershed Project", developed by the Secretary of Agriculture and Fisheries of Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the World Bank, through the Global Environment Facility.
The objective of this project is to promote community organizing for sustainable self management of natural resources by rural communities using the watersheds as the unit of planning.
Tourism and local development
The tourism sector is considered, in the world economy, one of the economic activities with a greater capacity for expansion. In this context, the Ministry of Tourism developed a partnership with the Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives (ITCP COPPE UFRJ), under the Program of Technology Replication for Social Incubation of Popular Cooperatives and Community Organization, in Prioritized Areas of Low Human Development Index (HDI), with Potential in Tourism.
ITCP COPPE UFRJ has been transferring incubation technology for deployment of three Incubators in order to foster cooperativism, seeking sustainable local development in the tourism production chain in the North section of Brazil: Lençóis Maranhenses (Maranhão), Serra da Capivara and Delta do Parnaíba (Piauí) and in the Jericoacoara (Ceará) national park.
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