Teachers from Sweden visit experiences in Agro-tourism, special coffees and ICT for development in Cauca

Deycy Sánchez and Zhara Zamani, from the University of Halmstad, together with researchers from the ECoS-CteI project, visited the related experiences in Popayán, Silvia, Tunía and Cajibío.}

During the week of December 13 to 17, 2021, Deycy Sánchez and Zhara Zamani, professors at the University of Halmstad (Sweden) and ECoS-CteI researchers visited significant agro-tourism experiences at La Playa and Casa del Agua in the municipality of Silvia; in ICT for development QUALITAS TEST TEAM and CODESCRUM in Popayán; in special coffees from the Don Alejo farm of the Cauca Peasant Federation in Tunía, and Tecnicafé in Cajibío.

These conferences allowed the ECoS-CTeI project to become more widely involved with the experiences and real contexts presented by each of the areas and actors involved in the different productive dynamics, making visible the importance and need to work in coordination between the different sectors University, Companies, State and Society (UEES); related to the main production lines of specialty coffees, Agro-tourism and ICT for development.

From these activities led by the Network component and with the accompaniment of the Governance and Innovation Culture components, three workshops on Business Models were developed with actors and institutions that work in the orientation of the three productive lines: La Casa del Agua, Estadero la Playa, Acuarela Family Station, Glamping El Laurel Agro-tourism Farm: Agro-tourism and Conservation, El Colibrí Operator, EnRedArte, Finca Las Alicias, Tecnoaparque - Sena, Departmental Secretariat for Economic Development and Competitiveness, Peasant Federation, BeeTic and Kishron.

Professors Deycy Sánchez and Zhara Zamani from the University of Halmstad assisted and directed these spaces, who, based on their experience and knowledge in relation to the University and Business sectors, guided these workshops to understand and envision the improvement of products and/or services linked to the production lines.

From the construction of a space for dialogue based on the experiences lived in each one of the zones and from the significant experiences in the strategic lines of agrotourism, special coffees and ICT visited, it is possible to identify important aspects that enrich the processes proposed in the different activities of the project, with the intention of contributing to generate contributions that contribute to the sustainability and improvement of the productive lines.

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