XI 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 running for ten 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 provide a high-quality and rigorous postgraduate training proposal in the field of studies and policies in early childhood, childhood and youth, from a national, regional, international and comparative perspective.

• To foster dialogue on the topics of ongoing research and the difficulties involved in this process.

• To 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-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 the INJU Network, Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Childhood and Youth and of its Doctorate in Social Sciences, Childhood and Youth of Cinde and the University of Manizales, General Director of the Cinde Foundation, Colombia)
Pablo Vommaro (Director of Research at CLACSO, Argentina)
Alejandro Gambina (General Coordinator of Training at CLACSO, Argentina)
Yamileth Andrade (Vice-Rector, University of Manizales, Colombia)
Silvia Borelli (Representative of the INJU Network, PUCP-SP, Brazil)
Rodolfo Cruz (Director of the Department of Population Studies at El Colef, Mexico)
Alejandra Barcala (Representative of the INJU Network, UNLa, Argentina)
Myriam Southwell (Representative of the INJU Network, FLACSO, Argentina)
Daniel Llanos Erazo (Representative of the Salesian Polytechnic University of Ecuador and Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group on Childhoods and Youth)
Melina Vázquez (Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group on Childhoods and Youth, Argentina)
María Camila Ospina (Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group on Children and Youth, Colombia) 
Daniela León (Director of Teaching, University of Manizales, Colombia)
María Isabel Domínguez (Coordinator of the Youth Studies Group of the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research, CIPS, Cuba)

The School will hold its session within the framework of the V Latin American and Caribbean Biennial on Early Childhood, Childhood and Youth: Generational Inequalities, Collective Social Mobilization and Life Narratives with some independent activities such as workshops and focused conferences. Similarly, the thematic axes for this version of the school will be those addressed in the epistemic souths of the biennial: 

• South 1 Generational Inequalities: Childhoods and Youth: Policies, Resistance, Poverty and Hunger.
• South 2 Social-Collective Mobilization: Democratic Transformations, Agencies and Violence.  
• South 3 Narratives of life: social movements, diversities and identities.
• South 4 Childhoods and Youth and educational processes.

The lectures are expected to contribute to the school's core concepts, while the workshops aim to create a space for reflection and co-creation based on participants' practices. Similarly, each workshop session will focus on the following points of exchange and analysis:

• Objects of knowledge / objects of work
• 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 participationThey will be given to all students who participate in carrying out the set of proposed activities.

• Certificate of Approval Postgraduate seminar consisting of 40 hours of in-person work and 95 hours of non-in-person work (135 total hours) awarded by the University of Manizales. Only for those who complete the written work after the School. 

At the end of the School, the evaluation guidelines for the intensive seminar will be established, which include the completion of a written paper in article format. These papers will be evaluated by the School's academic committee. 

The best written works will be published in digital format.

The call for applications is aimed at:

• Master's or doctoral thesis students with thesis projects 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, made up of members of the academic committee and other designated evaluators, will select the participants.

The evaluation will take into account 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 in Childhood and Youth of CINDE and the University of Manizales.  

Fifteen international master's or doctoral students, fifteen public policy officials and/or representatives of international social organizations, and ten local participants will be selected, for a total of four participants. 

Ten (10) participants will be selected from the applications submitted by local students. These participants may be master's or doctoral students, public policy officials, and/or representatives of social organizations in the city of Manizales, Caldas. Lunch and snacks will be provided for them on the days of the school's activities.

RedINJU Special Fund: 1 postgraduate student will be selected from each institution that is part of the Network: CLACSO, Cinde Foundation, University of Manizales, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo/PUCP-SP, Brazil; University of Lanús/UNLa, Argentina, Faculty of Social Sciences/FLACSO, Argentina; Salesian Polytechnic University (Ecuador); Colegio de la Frontera Norte/El Colef, Mexico; University of Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina); Center for Psychological and Sociological Research (CIPS, Cuba) and the University of the Republic/UdelaR, Uruguay.

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 endorsement (in the case of public policy representatives or social organizations)

IMPORTANT

Those who have 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; Tijuana, 2019 and Quito, 2022, will not be able to apply.