Um CECANE para a UFJF: possibilidade de intersetorialidade e potencialização da função social da universidade

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that the schools should be vehicles to promote food and nutrition education of their students, given that the high percentage of diseases related to eating and life habits. Brazil has manifested a commitment to the global movement of articulating health (food and nutrition) with education, a factor highlighted by several policies conducted by different Ministries. Therefore, this dissertation was dedicated to the investigation of the Collaboration Centers for School Food and Nutrition – CECANEs, in Portuguese, fomented by the National Fund of Education Development (FNDE, in Portuguese). The aim of the study was to propose the creation of a CECANE the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF, in Portuguese) and as such we intended to study the Collaboration Centers as a strategy of integration between health care (food and nutrition) and education as well as the implementation of the National Program of Food for Schoolchildren (PNAE, in Portuguese); to investigate the CECANEs as potentializers of the social aspect of federal universities, since there are housed in such institutions and identify the elements that provide structure to the constitution of a Collaboration Center for School Food and Nutrition at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). It is a qualitative research constituted as a case study. We investigate the CECANEs as a strategy to support PNAE, which is dedicated to the construction of healthy eating habits, and of fomenting the social aspect of universities. We proceed to a an analysis of the national outline of the CECANEs at their universities by means of bibliographical review, establishing a connection between that and the Collaboration Centers, to a comparative of the existing Collaboration Centers and of a semi structured interview conducted with a representative of a CECANE. The study allowed us to confirm the initial hypothesis and identify structuring aspects to constituting a CENANE for the UFJF, showing a viable initiative. We also presented a proposal to creating a CECANE for UFJF based on elements previously identified on chapter 1 especially in regards to the social aspect of universities and their interaction with basic education and other actors and public organisms related to the structuring aspects identified in the conducted analysis. Among such aspects there are the shared participation the dialogue among partners, both internal and external to the institution, in formulating, executing and assessing the proposal, as well as the presence of the principle of indissociability between teaching, research and academic extension, crucial to the social contribution of the university towards society, viabilized by the Collaboration Centers.