X International School of the Ibero-American Network of Postgraduate Studies in Childhood and Youth – RedINJU

This is an intensive postgraduate training program with a comparative and regional perspective. It has been held for nine consecutive years with the participation of master's and doctoral students, professionals responsible for the formulation and implementation of public policies, and representatives of social organizations working on early childhood, childhood, and youth issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• To offer a high-quality and rigorous postgraduate training program in the field of early childhood, childhood, and youth studies and policies, from a national, regional, international, and comparative perspective. • To foster dialogue on ongoing research topics and the challenges this process entails.

• Exchange knowledge among participants on theoretical, epistemological and methodological issues of research on early childhood, childhood and youth, as well as professional management practices in social policies.

• To creatively and respectfully address the challenges of integration among the countries of the region; to recognize, value and live with ethnic and cultural diversity, and to make visible the regional, national and local particularities that frame the discourses and practices of the participants in the School.

• To empower participants with a critical and analytical vision of the social, political, cultural, and economic institutions and forces of their countries and the continent; a position committed to building conditions of equity and justice in the region, as a framework for knowledge production processes, policy analysis, and the design of programs aimed at the human, social, cultural, and political development of early childhood, childhood, and youth; as well as the construction of opportunities and conditions for dignified and equal living.

• To generate dynamics of articulation between the production of knowledge and the development of social policies and actions, as well as to promote solidarity, collaboration, the sense of collective action and the exchange of experiences in the construction of common projects.

• Strengthen the network that is being formed with researchers, public policy officials and representatives of social organizations on issues of early childhood, childhood and youth.

• To promote dialogue and exchange of experiences between researchers at different stages of their training.

• Sara Victoria Alvarado (Coordinator of RedINJU, Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Childhood and Youth of CINDE and the University of Manizales, Colombia)
• Yamileth Andrade (Vice-Rector, University of Manizales, Colombia)
• Nicolás Arata (Director of Training and Knowledge Mobilization at CLACSO, Argentina)
• Pablo Vommaro (Director of Research at CLACSO, Argentina)
• Father Juan Cárdenas, Sdb. (Rector of the Salesian Polytechnic University) 
• Daniel Llanos Erazo (Salesian Polytechnic University of Ecuador)
• Claudia Patricia Uribe (Casa Grande University, Ecuador)
• Melina Vázquez (Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group on Childhoods and Youth, Argentina)
• María Camila Ospina (Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group on Childhoods and Youth, Colombia)
• Juan Romero (Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group on Childhood and Youth, Uruguay)
• María Isabel Domínguez (Coordinator of the Youth Studies Group of the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research, CIPS, Cuba)
• Silvia Borelli (Representative of RedINJU, PUCP-SP, Brazil)
• Alberto Hernández (Representative of the RedINJU, El Colef, Mexico)
• Alejandra Barcala (Representative of the RedINJU, UNLa, Argentina)
• Myriam Southwell (Representative of the RedINJU, FLACSO, Argentina)

The School will be organized around conferences and workshops. The conferences and workshops will address the School's theme, "Towards a New Agenda for the Rights of Children and Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean . "

In the workshops, students will work in groups around four thematic axes, within which reflection on the effects and impacts of the pandemic will be transversal:

● Childhoods and Youth: conflicts, violence, memories and citizenships

● Children and Youth: Public Policies and the State

● Children and Youth: participation and social movements

● Childhoods and Youth and educational processes.

● Knowledge objects / work objects

● Categories of analysis in research and in the development of policies or actions for social intervention.

● Connections between Social Sciences, policy formulation and social intervention. Research and policies for transformation.

• Certificate of participation: will be given to all students who participate in carrying out all the proposed activities.

• Certificate of completion for the postgraduate seminar, consisting of 40 hours of in-person work and 95 hours of independent work (135 total hours), awarded by the University of Manizales. This certificate is only valid for those who complete the written assignment following the seminar. At the end of the seminar, the evaluation guidelines for the intensive seminar will be established, which include the completion of a written assignment in article format. These assignments will be evaluated by the School's academic committee.

The call for applications is aimed at:

• Master's or doctoral thesis students with a thesis project in the areas of childhood or youth, preferably linked to a CLACSO member center or studying a postgraduate course in the CLACSO Postgraduate Network.

• Public policy officials or representatives of social organizations working in the areas of childhood or youth in Latin American or Caribbean institutions.

Participation in the School is free. Latin American and Caribbean participants will have their accommodation in shared rooms and meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) covered at the location provided by the organizers during the 6 days of activities.

An international jury, comprised of members of the academic committee and other designated evaluators, will select the participants. The evaluation will consider academic, geographic, and institutional criteria to ensure the participation of students from diverse countries and institutions. The decision will be final and cannot be appealed.

The results will be published on the websites of CLACSO and the Center for Advanced Studies on Childhood and Youth of CINDE and the University of Manizales. Twenty master's or doctoral students from around the world and fifteen public policy officials and/or representatives of international social organizations will be selected, for a total of thirty-five participants.

RedINJU Special Fund: 1 postgraduate student will be selected from each institution that is part of the Network: University of the Republic/UdelaR, Uruguay; CINDE-University of Manizales, Colombia; Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo/PUCP-SP, Brazil; College of the Northern Border/El Colef, Mexico; Faculty of Social Sciences/FLACSO, Argentina; and University of Lanús/UNLa, Argentina.

Those interested should register on the CLACSO website.

To do so, they must complete the following requirements:

● Online form

● CV

● Letter of intent

● Summary of your research project (in the case of postgraduate students)

● Letter of support (in the case of public policy representatives or social organizations)

IMPORTANT: Those who participated in previous editions of the RedINJU International Postgraduate School, held in Cartagena de Indias, 2011; Montevideo, 2012; La Paz, 2013; Tijuana, 2014; Antigua, 2015; Manizales, 2016; Tegucigalpa, 2017; Manizales, 2018; and Tijuana, 2019, are not eligible to apply. APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 15, 2022