THE SOCIAL PROJECTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND THE STRENGTHENING OF COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

Abstract

Social Projection as a substantive function of Higher Education Institutions (IES) is the way to develop and strengthen work in the communities, to train their community leaders and establish an adequate and effective link between the institution and its environment. In the relationship of HEIs with the community, the role of community leaders, who have a highly relevant role in their communities, receives special attention. These human resources can be addressed by these institutions through training programs, consultancies, training in the formulation of social, entrepreneurial and technical projects that solve social problems. Due to the above, the Social Projection is constituted in the function that allows the interaction of the IES with the communities and their community leaders, this constitutes the motivation of the present work that has as objective to make a theoretical approach and to formulate a series of recommendations for the training of community leaders and the execution of joint projects in order to achieve great transformations in society.