Programs and Projects

Community engagement programs bring together projects that share a common objective and contribute to local, national, or regional development. These initiatives are directed toward clearly identified communities, respond to the concrete needs of their contexts, and align with the institutional objectives of the University of the Arts.

Through these programs, the University promotes processes of training, creation, circulation, participation, and collaborative work with diverse territories, groups, organizations, and communities.

Institutional Programs

Community engagement at the University of the Arts is organized through institutional programs that group projects according to their objectives, working approaches, and participating populations.

Territories and Diversities

This program fosters encounter and the collaborative construction of knowledge between the University of the Arts and diverse communities. Its purpose is to strengthen the dialogue of knowledges and to recognize the arts as tools for sociocultural transformation, community empowerment, and the addressing of social issues.

Arts Education for Children and Adolescents

This program develops extracurricular arts education processes aimed at children and adolescents, with the goal of contributing to the exercise of their cultural rights and strengthening their creative capacities.

Production and Circulation of Artistic and Creative Practices

This program promotes the production, circulation, and dissemination of artistic and creative practices and knowledge together with different communities, with the aim of contributing to the democratization of access to the arts.

Continuing Education

This program develops courses, seminars, workshops, discussions, conferences, and other training initiatives aimed at the exchange of knowledge and the strengthening of capacities.

Community engagement projects

Community engagement projects are sets of duly planned activities and processes aimed at transforming a specific reality or contributing to the solution of a concrete issue.

At the University of the Arts, all community engagement projects fall under one of the institutional programs. They also constitute an important space for students' pre-professional practice and community service.

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2026 Community engagement project call results

The Directorate of Community Engagement thanks all the community engagement projects submitted in the 2026 call. It also congratulates those approved by the corresponding committees.

Project / Name	Project Director	Degree Program – Academic Unit
Guardianas de saberes. Fomentando la memoria cultural Afrodescendiente en el sistema etnoeducativo de Guayaquil	Ana María Carrillo Rosero	Transversal Department
Expresarte en una segunda lengua	Jenny Monserratt Mogrovejo Rosero	Intercultural Arts Education
Tropicalia: Memorias, creatividad y futuros en territorios.	Mariuxi Alexandra Avila Manrique	Transversal Department
Comunapolis; un juego para la economía popular	Pedro José Mujica Paredes	Intercultural Arts Education
Praxis escénica: Experiencias formativas para el encuentro con las artes.	Vanessa María Guamán Saavedra	Theater Creation
Bibliotricimoteca vol. 5	Marcelo Ivan Leyton Ponguillo	Theater Creation
Habitar el sueño: Brigadas de creación artística para infancias y juventudes de los barrios populares de la ciudad de Guayaquil	Cristian Agustin Alvarado Montalvo	Literature

Carryover Projects from Previous Years

Project / Name	Project Director	Degree Program – Academic Unit
Trayectorias de vida: Puesta en valor de las historias de vida y organización de las mujeres en Guayaquil	Ybelice Briceño Linares	Transversal Department
JEP fase II: Juegos de expresión desde la plástica: Espacios, metodologías y vínculos desde, para y a través de las artes	Serrano Macías Joaquin Humberto	Visual Arts
Bitácora, incidencias de las prácticas artísticas en Guayaquil desde la Escuela de Artes Visuales	Moran Panchana Carlos Esteban	Visual Arts
PAZ: Pedagogías en artes para la transformación social en sectores en condición de vulnerabilidad	Tigrero Vaca Jorge William	Bachelor's Degree in Intercultural Arts Education
By the Winds that Blow: Training program for ensembles and musical bands to strengthen the artistic education of children and adolescents.	Astaiza Vallejo Andrey Mijail	Musical and Sound Arts
Creas: Las comunidades sonoras y musicales a relevancia	Pedro Segovia González	Music and Sound Production
SOMA: Prácticas corporales para el cuidado de la salud y la consciencia corporal	Sofia Mera Espinoza	Dance
Cine por la paz	Jorge Flores Velasco	Film

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