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Núcleo de Estudos
Technological Incubator for Popular Cooperatives
- INCUBACOOP
Person in Charge:
José Roberto Pereira
jrobpereira25@yahoo.com.br
Institutional Information:
incubacoopuflaufla@gmail.com
www.incubacoopufla.br
Background:
The Technological Incubator for Popular Cooperatives -
INCUBACOOP, created in 2005 and linked to the Office of
the Dean for Extension and Culture (PROEC) of Federal
University of Lavras, performs a managerial and executive
role in incubation projects, providing consulting services
and advice to groups of people and solidarity economy
enterprises like associations and cooperatives, among
others. INCUBACOOP is part of the National Network of
Technological Incubators for Popular Cooperatives (ITCPs),
supported by Decree No. 7357 of November 17, 2010, which
regulates ITCPs as organizations that develop “initiatives
to incubate solidarity economy enterprises and function as
spaces for studies, research and development of technologies
geared to work organization, focusing on self-management”
(BRAZIL, 2010). In this sense, INCUBACOOP is a university
extension project based on participative methodologies of
social intervention that aim at social insertion. Hence, the
incubator meets the demands of workers, unemployed or
active in the informal sector, to achieve their social rights for
the full exercise of citizenship, based on the organization of
group work, such as associations and, mainly, cooperatives,
generating work and income and contributing to the
development of Lavras and surrounding region.
Overall Objectives:
To assist groups of people in situations of social vulnerability,
precarious work relations, low income and unemployment
to formalize and administrate their economic enterprises
in the form of associations and cooperatives.
Areas of Expertise:
1. Public Policies: Operationalization of public policies
aimed at work organization, income generation, social
inclusion and environment.
2. Social Management: Training of students, workers
and members of cooperatives and associations in social
management.
3. Cooperativism: Advise to groups of workers in
establishing associations and cooperatives based on
cooperative principles.
4. Solidarity Economy: Development of educational
activities for the practice of solidarity economy in the
organization of incubated enterprises.
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