Below are the ITESO community partners for the 2020 Summer fellowship experience.
ITESO's CEGINT
CEGINT (Center for Technology and Innovation in Management) currently offers 27 startup’s space and mentorship as they seek to grow their companies within ITESO’s Technology Park. The park encourages startups in the fields of electronics, software, aeronautics, food engineering and design to collaborate with ITESO faculty and students to help them grow their companies in ways that contribute to developing economic mobility of local communities and those traditionally left out of the technology industry. Students who are interested in this opportunity should have a background in these fields of study as you will get practical real life work experience.
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CISAI
CISAI is a center of social innovation that seeks to unite the capacities that people, groups and organizations have to generate systemic change in the environment. CISAI promote sustainable change in the structures and behaviors of the underlying people, institutions and organizations that are part of the problem but can also contribute to achieve a solution. Students from across fields are encouraged to apply.
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Signa Lab
Signa Lab, a cutting-edge interdisciplinary lab with the goal of generating knowledge, methodologies and tools for a multidimensional understanding of the sociodigital world. The lab is led by renowned Latin American Professor Rossana Reguillo from ITESO’s Department of Sociocultural Studies-- a previous Stanford Tinker Fellow. Under Prof. Reguillo’s leadership Signa Lab seeks to carry out research to understand social reconfigurations in the digital age, with the aim of contributing, disseminating and providing critical approaches to the production of tech knowledge.
Signa Lab is looking for Stanford students interested in analyzing international geopolitical agendas and discourses (via electoral processes, (im)migration and climate change). Types of desired outcomes: Data mining. Development of scripts to visualize and download data. Machine learning for text analysis and natural language processing. Database management for graphs. Deep learning for multimedia content analysis. |
Social and Cultural Transformation
This program takes place a three community spaces in “Cerro del Cuatro”. The territory is comprised in the states of Jalisco, Nayarit and Durango, of the Wixaritari and Na´ayeri villages. In this territory, 10 secondary and high school schools of Intercultural education work in a network.
You will work a group of teachers, youth and adults to develop several education, cultural and sports projects over the course of the summer. The goal of these projects is to develop them in a way that seek to strengthen the communities social and cultural fabric. Some past project has included: creating documentaries, creating photo and video workshops, football and sports training in general, courses and educational workshops on art making and cooking and developing science lesson plans for women and youth. Students interested in education, sustainability and sports education encouraged to apply. |
Indigenous Intercultural Program
Students will have the opportunity to collaborate with one of four community partners to develop short films and documentaries to showcase the educational projects of these indigenous populations. Students who have a strong interest in film and documentary making encourage to apply.
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One of the oldest community partnership at ITESO. Students in the Indigenous Intercultural Program will have an opportunity to
Tarahumara: Collaboration through the SINÉ-COMMUNAR organization, located in Creel Chihuahua with projects in various communities in the region on issues of intercultural education, alternative trade, gender, art, defense of the territory and human rights. JIU: Collective Urban Indigenous Youth, who work with young people in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, opening spaces for dialogue on issues of interculturality, discrimination, identity and visualization of the diversity of native cultures in urban areas. ISIA: Higher Intercultural Institute AYUUK, located in Jaltepec de Candoyoc in Oaxaca with careers focused on good living in indigenous communities with degrees in Communication, Education and Administration. |
Centro Dramatico de Michoacan
Since 2003 the Centro Dramatico de Michoacan (CEDRAM) goal has been to decentralize access to cultural production in general and the performing arts in particular. With this in mind, CEDRAM has developed several community theater programs that seek to bring the theater experience to rural communities outside city centers. Students who wish to work with CEDRAM will work summer community theater projects. |
El CAISAME Estancia Prolongada
El CAISAME Estancia Prolongada is a psychiatric hospital under Jalisco’s Institute of Mental Health, which aims to serve patients with serious mental illnesses based on comprehensive rehabilitation models. The hospital caters to older individuals from various states of the Mexican Republic that mostly do not have social security. The hospital has 313 beds. The current population is 266 (92 women and a total of 150 men) with ages ranging from 18 to 90 years.
The hospital also has approximately 220 professional staff from different areas (doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists and social workers) to serve the inmate population of patients. In addition there is management and administrative staff and others that work at the hospital. The hospital is divided into 3 main areas: 1) external consultation, which is intended to serve the population that goes only for a medical consultation or medication and return to their homes that same day. 2) hospitalization, which serves the population that is temporarily or permanently hospitalized within the hospital. This area in turn has different pavilions: women temporary stay, men temporary stay, women permanent stay, men permanent stay, children's pavilion A, children's pavilion B and emergencies. 3) integral rehabilitation (UNIRE / URI) of its patients, where there are people who are about to leave the hospital and who are in the process of social reintegration. |
Students with the support of staff have the opportunity to teach art therapy, dance therapy or cognitive stimulation. |