About Us

​​​Institutional​

Miss​ion​

To contribute directly​ and effectively to social development through the adoption of innovation strategies and good practices that articulate the efforts of the State, the private sector, the academy, and the communities, hence building cohesion and social sustainability as a stamp of EAFIT’s Social Responsibility.

V​​​​ision

By 2017, EAFIT will be consolidated as a socially responsible community and a reference of social responsibility for all of the country, due to its attained position as the best allies for public and private entities in the implementation of social development projects and the execution of socially responsible policies.

Polic​​ies

• USR, cultural and environmental, being excellence our reference

• To strengthen partnerships between the Government, the private and social sector and the Academy

• To take advantage of the institutional capital of EAFIT

• Social profitability

• Economic, social and environmental sustainability

• Base lines must have defined or validated objectives

• Projects with Measurable impact

• Projects where the community and local institutions would be the development agents

• Projects with an emphasis on Human development

Strategic lines

1. Social an cultural Intervention: Co responsibility, public and private partnerships, strengthening of social Organizations and local administrations, social entrepreneurship, inclusive business, corporate volunteer.
   
2. Academy: Postgraduate programs and continuing education, the “ES” course, research, thesis and projects fighting social problems.
   
3. Knowledge Management: Recognition of endogenous capital and regional actors, initiative´s bank, projects and models of social intervention, intermediation between government, enterprises and community to develop and implement a relevant social portfolio.
   

RSU ​​in EAFIT

University Social Responsibility aims to:

1. Contribute to staff training (values, ethic, solidarity, equity, responsibility, critical attitude, self critic, proactivity)
   
2. Deliver professional training through the application of knowledge in real and diverse contexts. 
   
3. Contribute by from capacities and characteristics of the University´s work
   
4. Contribute to the constant renovation of the University through feedback from introducing new social problems under the University.
   

In line with these aims, University EAFIT is making a commitment through EAFIT Social to support the Institution in achieving its mission of contributing to the social, economic, scientific and cultural progress of the country through the development of undergraduate and postgraduate programs – in an environment of ideological pluralism and academic excellence- to train competent people internationally, and the realization of scientific and applied research programs in permanent interaction with the government, enterprises and the academic sector.

EAFIT Llanogrande coordinates activities aimed to develop RSU processes, projects and initiatives that allow the renovation of the Institutional Mission locally as well as in other parts of the country where the University has presence in. 

For all these reasons EAFIT Llanogrande is considered the main “Social Management” campus of the Institution and the formation center and/or Knowledge Unit for Social Development.

For the development of RSU initiatives, EAFIT Social has formed partnerships with public and private institutions and organizations, such as:

• Alcaldía de Medellín
  
• Gobernación de Antioquia
  
• Fundación Fraternidad Medellín
  
• FALLP. 
  
• FJJME. 
  
• FE. 
  
• FT
  

In partnership with the above entities, EAFIT Social has realized a number of projects that are focused on the creation of social enterprises and the development of productive initiatives that foster the growth of the region, thus improving the quality of life for the populations the projects have influence in.
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