Social Innovation Center

Centro para la Innovación Social, Campus Chiapas

Through a multidisciplinary team, our purpose is to develop training and research strategies to address some of the main social needs of the country and the world, generating and validating innovative solutions.

The Social Innovation Center develops social impact projects that favor the communities and cooperatives with which we collaborate in organizational, economic, social, community and sustainability aspects, among others.

In this Center, you can develop, innovate, create and, mostly, combine efforts in willingness to contribute and generate empathy, learning and actions that allow you improve life quality of people in communities with whom we collaborate.

The Social Innovation Center has the purpose of linking national and foreign students and universities willing to work together on social innovation projects. It is concretized as a world-class center, with an interdisciplinary team that will contribute to the generation of an ecosystem of social innovation, for research, generation and validation of innovative solutions to this problem.

Winter i

The course will take place in the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. A multicultural city where the worldview of indigenous peoples descended from the Maya coexists with the international vision of visitors and residents from around the world.

Program features

Location: CIS, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México.
Level of instruction: Undergraduate.
Program´s length: 5 weeks.
Date(s): January 4th to ebruary 3rd 2023.
Maximum number of participants: 25 per group.

Student goals

Strengthen and apply the curricular and co-curricular competencies defined in the Tec21 educational model.
Use the knowledge gained in the classroom in a specific cultural and community context.
Develop a vision of the diverse socio-economic conditions in Mexico.
Develop awareness about the care and use of natural resources.
Contribute to the development and enhancement of the capacities of communities in relation to the challenges.

Communities

Through academic challenges we address the needs of communities and organizations of different municipalities in the region called "Los Altos de Chiapas", mostly belonging to the Tzotzil ethnic group who subsist through different social, productive and commercial projects.

Summer i

Program features

Location: CIS, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México.
Level of instruction: Undergraduate.
Program´s length: 5 weeks.
Maximum number of participants: 20 per group.

Student goals

Strengthen and apply the curricular and co-curricular competencies defined in the Tec21 educational model.
Use the knowledge gained in the classroom in a specific cultural and community context.
Develop a vision of the diverse socio-economic conditions in Mexico.
Develop awareness about the care and use of natural resources.
Contribute to the development and enhancement of the capacities of communities in relation to the challenges.

Communities

Awakening

We, at Center for Social Innovation, provide an experiential learning experience with a holistic and inclusive approach, addressing the different dimensions of the human being, henceforth the participants strengthen their authentic self thus developing their capabilities as change agents. Awakening Week consists of five immersive days of educational and recreational activities through personal accompaniment and strengthening for young people motivated to grow to serve, forming in our highschool students' social responsibility as an axis of life.

Program features

Location: CIS, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México and Chiapas Campus, in Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
Level of instruction: Highschool.
Student's profile: Regular academic status, be in your second or third year of high school, an average equal to or greater than 80, not having disciplinary or academic integrity committees and not having lost rights to participate in any Tecnológico de Monterrey program.
Program´s length: 5 weeks.
Date(s): October 30th to november 5th, 2022.
Maximum number of participants: 20 per group.

Application process

Kick-off. Call
Group registration
Participants confirmation
Partial/total payment, documents delivery and flight itinerary
Full payment (if not given the total payment previously)
Awakening Week

Tec Semester

Social Innovation Concentration is offered through a Tec Semester in Chiapas, providing experiential learning´s experience with a holistic and inclusive approach, addressing 4 fundamental axes of knowledge in Social Innovation:

Sustainable development
Leadership
Social economy
Innovation

Program features

Location: CIS en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México.
Level of instruction: Highschool and Undergraduate.

Competencies to develop

Innovation: Generate original and creative solutions, using innovative concepts and/or tools to satisfy a need, solve a problem or make a significant contribution to a product, process or service in the community in which they work.
Citizenship: Participate in favor of the strengthening of democracy and the joint, committed and supportive solution of the problems and needs of today's society to serve others with responsibility and justice.
Entrepreneurship: Identifies opportunities that allow developing and implementing new ideas that transform reality and generate social, economic and environmental value.
Ethics: Respond constructively and from an ethical point of view to the problems and needs of the various areas of life, through a prior process of reflection, which allows you to take perspective with imagination and impartiality in the face of personal and other situations, decide for yourself, and act with responsibility, commitment and justice.

Accreditations

Tec Semester, social innovation concentration and 200 citizen social service hours.

Martha Lucía Velázquez Díaz
martha.velazquez@tec.mx

José Manuel Islas Pacheco
jose.islas@tec.mx

Sebastián Hernández
sebastianhdj@tec.mx

Abigail Ríos Barrera
abirios@tec.mx