1. Multidisciplinary project with organized agrarian communities seeking to improve rural life quality. Universidad Javeriana Cali - Asociación de Caficultores Orgánicos de Colombia. (ACOC) Eduardo Ruiz Anzola Jaime A. Aguilar Z. California, May 21st, 2007

2. Outline General information Project location Javeriana University, Cali, Colombia The multidisciplinary project The problem and the actors The strategy and multidisciplinary team Results First phase of project Comercial and productive component of the project Conclusions

3. Project location

4. Javeriana University, Cali, Colombia

5. University Engineering Faculty Student’s Affairs Office Cooperative Rural Families TeachersStudentsCultivationProcessTrade Organic Coffee Community with weak welfare conditions The problem and the actors

6. Establishing interaction objectives Defining initial projects Carrying out political and Social workshops Executing the projects Reporting results The strategy and multidisciplinary team University and Cooperative Directors, Engineering Faculty professors Representatives of cooperative and University research groups Engineering Faculty Professors and students, Sociologist, political scientist and professional communicator Engineering Faculty Professors and students, zone farmers Cooperative directors board, Student Affairs directors, Engineering Faculty representatives

7. First phase of Project

8. Commercial and productive component of the project

9. Industrial component

10. Conclusions The project has strengthened the interaction of students and professors with rural communities applying the scientific knowledge in the solution of their needs. The project puts in evidence two aspects: the first one, the multidimensional nature of the project and the second one, the need of multidisciplinarity in order to act effectively in the environment.

11. Conclusions The training of the future engineers has been fortified. The third function of the university: the service to the community, has been evidenced. It has been verified the advantage to have communities organized to have greater incidence in the work that is carried out by the University.