Economia solidária e o papel da Incubadora Universitária: contribuições no processo sócio-educativo dos pescadores da Associação dos Pescadores do Açude Boqueirão do Cais - Cuité - PB.

Abstract

Given the situation in which workers live around the world, in due to the high rate of unemployment and technological advances that are not aimed at good collective, the university incubator appears, a new alternative that tends to alleviate this harsh reality of exclusion for the less favored classes. This study about the Incubator and Solidarity Enterprise sends Association of Fishermen and Fish Farmers of the Boqueirão do Cais Dam, Cuité - PB, which has farmers in its composition with a relatively low level of education who survived from the practice of agriculture and the predatory fishing, however, activities that were no longer economically viable. The work field work for data collection had the support of the association's fishermen. Were 20 informal interviews were carried out and 20 semi-structured questionnaires were applied with the members and their families about the importance of the university incubator for the association and what it added to the lives of these fishermen, in terms of education, work and sustainability. This alternative was given through the assistance of the Study Program and Actions for the Semi-Arid Region (PEASA) and the Panu'ba Technological Park Foundation (PaqTcPB). The fishermen's association is an alternative to improve family income and stands out with a lot of emphasis on the importance of the university incubator in the feasibility of the project to create tilapia in tanks - net. The University Incubator provided members with a more high level of knowledge with the training and courses offered.