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● projectActive · local · 2010
Proyecto Utopía (Universidad de La Salle, Yopal)
University campus created in 2010 by Universidad de La Salle in Yopal (Casanare) that trains rural youth who are victims of the conflict or living in poverty, selected in their territories, as agronomic engineers with a full scholarship.
illustrative atlas image · Rodion Kutsaiev / PexelsUDUniversidad de La Salle (Colombia)HCHno. Carlos Gabriel Gómez Restrepo
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01 The context
Learning-by-doing and teaching-by-demonstrating methodology; in their final year students carry out productive projects in their communities. More than 700 young people from 30+ departments. National Solidarity Prize 2016.
02 How it works
method · Learning by doing and teaching by demonstratingmethod · Productive projects for returning to the territorymethod · Comprehensive scholarship with targeted territorial selectiontool · Productive agricultural campustool · Multidimensional selection tests in the fieldtool · Philanthropic scholarships
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
2 published documents support this project. No independent evaluation is in the atlas yet. Know of any? Contribute it.
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EvidenceEl Proyecto Utopía (estudio de caso de inversión social)Latimpacto · 2023
EvidencePremio Nacional de Solidaridad 2016 - Proyecto UtopíaFundación Alejandro Angel Escobar · 2016