Integrating social innovation into the curriculum of higher education institutions in Latin America: insights from the Students4Change project

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dc.contributor.authorUnceta Satrústegui, Alfonso
dc.contributor.authorGuerra, Igone
dc.contributor.authorBarandiarán Irastorza, Xabier
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-08T08:05:03Z
dc.date.available2025-05-08T08:05:03Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-11
dc.date.updated2025-05-08T08:05:02Z
dc.description.abstractIn the last two decades, social innovation (SI) and social entrepreneurship (SE) have gained relevance and interest within the framework of academia at international level. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are key players in promoting innovation and social entrepreneurship initiatives that respond to multifaceted challenges. They support strategies on the basis of the strengthening of participation, collaboration, and cooperation with society and its local communities. However, the approach of Latin American universities to SI and SE has been very uneven in the way they have understood them, integrated them into academic programmes, and transferred knowledge to society. On the basis of the experience of the Students4Change project, we sought to understand the role of Latin American HEIs in promoting social innovations by analysing the experiences of 10 participating universities to formalise a pedagogical programme on SI and SE in their institutions. The results suggest that there is still a need to formalise an academic syllabus that is specifically designed to promote social innovations and to train universities in this endeavour. This paper contributes to the identification of the main levers of change, strengths, and challenges that Latin American universities face to institutionalise SI and SE in their contextsen
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Program of the European Union under Key Action 2 with the following reference number: 2 574133-EPP 1-2016-1-MX-EPPKA2-CBHE-Jen
dc.identifier.citationUnceta, A., Guerra, I., & Barandiaran, X. (2021). Integrating social innovation into the curriculum of higher education institutions in Latin America: insights from the Students4Change project. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/SU13105378
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/SU13105378
dc.identifier.eissn2071-1050
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2689
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.rights© 2021 by the authors
dc.subject.otherStudents4Change
dc.subject.otherSocial innovation
dc.subject.otherSocial entrepreneurship
dc.subject.otherHigher education institutions
dc.subject.otherLatin American universities
dc.subject.otherAcademic syllabus
dc.subject.otherUniversity strategies
dc.subject.otherErasmus Plus Program
dc.subject.otherSocial innovation ecosystem
dc.titleIntegrating social innovation into the curriculum of higher education institutions in Latin America: insights from the Students4Change projecten
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.issue10
oaire.citation.titleSustainability (Switzerland)
oaire.citation.volume13
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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