University institutional capacities in a certification network of technical specialties (#1689)

Authors

Carrizo, Nancy Alejandra

Castelló, Gonzalo Eduardo

Abstract

In the information age, a total transformation has occurred in every plane of existence. This process has been taking place gradually since the 1970s and accelerated with the appearance of the Internet, inaugurating a milestone that would change the modes of production and development: the technological revolution. This article aims to analyze how the regional faculties of the National Technological University use their university institutional capacities, taking a research carried out that analyzes the case of the CARICET Network of the Certification Program for technical specialties (trades) of the National Technological University (UTN). ) within the Argentine industrial sector, within the framework of a multi-sector articulation. The research has a mixed research design and multiple case study. From a qualitative perspective, the field work was developed with fluid contact with key informants of the Trades Certification Program at an operational level, that is, regional offices that serve the Certification Program in the different Regional Faculties that participate in the Network. In this sense, it is intended to determine the way in which the social dialogue of multisectoral actors (workers, the University through its regional faculties, companies and the State) manage to articulate and confront the technological, economic and social changes that impact in the normal functioning of a public and federal university such as the National Technological University that can impact the current certification system for technical specialties.