Pre-registrations for the Early Childhood Space are now openFor sons and daughters of teachers, non-teaching staff and students from the University City and surrounding areas.
La Universidad Nacional de Rosario For the third consecutive year, the company has launched its care center located at Pje. Puerto Belgrano 146 bis (Berutti 2100), a strategic location close to the University City (CUR), where a large number of students, teachers and non-teaching staff come every day to carry out different types of activities.
The Early Childhood Space (EPI) at CUR aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children, fostering respect, awareness, and love. It is designed as a space for play-based learning activities that prioritize experiential learning, fostering children's autonomy, interests, abilities, and emotions, so they can be, grow, and learn within a framework that respects their individual development and rights.
This space aims to accompany and assist the university community by “guaranteeing a place to house children, with personnel trained to care for this age group, collaborating with the tasks of those who work and study at the University so that they can effectively do so,” said Rector Franco Bartolacci.
The programme has two shifts: in the morning, from 2 a.m. to 9:12.30 p.m., and in the afternoon, from 13.30:17 p.m. to 1 p.m. Each of them has three rooms open daily, for children aged 2, 3 and XNUMX.
Taking as a basis the experience that has been carried out since 1994 in the Pedagogical Port, a territorial reference space for the families of the Sixth, the Universidad Nacional de Rosario In recent years, it joined in to co-manage this work and thus, jointly, direct its efforts to care for the children of the neighborhood and the university community.
Pre-registration can be done online by clicking here.
A space with a historical territorial anchorage
The Pedagogical Port was created in 1994 as one of the work spaces of the Cooperating Association of the Center for Child Development and Family Promotion (CeDIPF). Three years ago, the Universidad Nacional de Rosario joined in co-managing this place with the Cultural Don Goyo (Puerto Belgrano 123 bis). Thus, in joint work, they direct all their efforts to caring for the children of República de la Sexta and the university community.
Entire families passed through its spaces, receiving support and new learning both in the Pedagogical Port intended for early childhood and in the Cultural Don Goyo and the Casita Esmeralda, both intended for work with second childhood, adolescents and adults.
“For many years, CeDIPF has been a reference and accommodation space in the República de La Sexta neighborhood. At UNR, we seek to consolidate outreach projects and programs, which is why it is essential to continue guaranteeing the sustainability of this space, supporting children and their families,” says Carla Bressan, coordinator of the Child Development and Family Promotion Center.
Following the challenges imposed by the pandemic on territorial work, the network of institutions in the neighborhood was reconfigured and strengthened, allowing for a comprehensive approach to addressing children in conjunction with teams from the Municipality of Rosario, the CeAC Health Center, the UNR Cultural Center, and various organizations from the Sixth.
Wellbeing of the entire community
The UNR has a long history of management, extension and welfare policies with a presence in the territories.
The social context of the health emergency brought to the forefront of the public agenda the importance of care policies and having strategies to reconcile domestic-family and work-educational life.
In the city of Rosario, free, publicly run childcare centers and preschools are scarce and geographically limited, failing to meet the existing population's needs. This makes it more difficult to balance work and studies with the caregiving responsibilities of raising children in their early years. “We believe that the role of the university's presence in the community is crucial, as it allows us, through collaboration with grassroots institutions and organizations and the interactions of all the people who live and work there, to build social consensus, forge new bonds and respectful civic ties, and deepen support for the most vulnerable sectors, in this case, children,” stated Ianara Hummel, Secretary of the Extension and Territory Area at the National University of Rosario (UNR).