Collective Action, Participatory Democracy and Public Problems Research incubator

Objective: To offer a space in which undergraduate students can participate in the research activities of the Observatory of Networks and Collective Action (ORAC), thus having the possibility of starting their training process as researchers in topics related to social mobilization, participatory democracy and the analysis of the constitution of public problems. Through the seedbed, the students will be able to collaborate in the elaboration of reports that will be made by the ORAC and that will have a public diffusion, beyond our university.

Description: The seedbed is dedicated to the systematic monitoring and periodic analysis of the forms of social mobilization and the exercise of participatory democracy that are taking place in Colombia and that are gaining a certain level of media visibility. By following these political phenomena, we also seek to understand how different social actors contribute to the constitution of various public problems in the country. The seedbed is therefore a space where students learn to use qualitative and quantitative research techniques that can be applied to the observatory's objects of study. It is also a space in which students can participate and contribute both in the collection of information used by the ORAC, and in the preparation of its databases and reports.

Objective: To offer a space in which undergraduate students can participate in the research activities of the Observatory of Networks and Collective Action (ORAC), thus having the possibility of starting their training process as researchers in topics related to social mobilization, participatory democracy and the analysis of the constitution of public problems. Through the seedbed, the students will be able to collaborate in the elaboration of reports that will be made by the ORAC and that will have a public diffusion, beyond our university.

Description: The seedbed is dedicated to the systematic monitoring and periodic analysis of the forms of social mobilization and the exercise of participatory democracy that are taking place in Colombia and that are gaining a certain level of media visibility. By following these political phenomena, we also seek to understand how different social actors contribute to the constitution of various public problems in the country. The seedbed is therefore a space where students learn to use qualitative and quantitative research techniques that can be applied to the observatory's objects of study. It is also a space in which students can participate and contribute both in the collection of information used by the ORAC, and in the preparation of its databases and reports.