System of actions to integrate university processes to the management of local development

Abstract

Local development in Cuba represents in recent times a topic of great importance in public agendas, from which Higher Education assumed it as a priority in its strategic planning. On this basis, the management of the professional training process of university students should focus on territorial needs, based on the development of activities and actions that respond to social needs and contribute to their professional performance. To this end, the training process should facilitate the articulation of knowledge, innovation, as well as the development of skills for entrepreneurship and the training of social leaders to enhance the fulfillment of economic policies. Taking these aspects into account, the objective of this research is to propose a system of actions to contribute to the integration of university processes to the management of local development. In order to achieve this objective, theoretical and empirical methods were used, which made it possible to achieve as main result the design of a proposal of actions that contributes to provide ways to ensure that the training process of professionals is developed in an integrated manner to the management of local development, facilitating structural changes and improving the quality of life of the population.