Territórios de interlocução e participação: O Edital “UFPB no seu Município” como meio de interlocução multissetorial para o fomento de políticas públicas

Abstract

In this work, we sought to research institutional communication, in order to identify in which ways the extension actions of the “UFPB in your Municipality” Program could contribute to a greater dialogical dialogue between university and society, with the benefit of stimulating municipal administrations to the creation of contextualized public policies in the municipalities where they operate. Then, content analyzes were carried out on documents of proposals for extension actions approved and concluded from 2017 to 2019, analyzes of online databases (SIGAA-UFPB, DataSEBRAE, IBGE-Cidades, Portal da Transparência), and analyzes of questionnaires. Therefore, there was a high degree of territorialization of extension actions, which are carried out in all mesoregions of the State of Paraíba and in four other Brazilian states, three in the Northeast and one in the Midwest. It was noticed that the extension actions have a high capacity to articulate multiple public and private organizations and the possibility of raising external resources to promote their activities was verified, which imposes the realization that there is potential for the creation of contextualized public policies with local realities based on extension actions.