Civil Associations on Digital Platforms: Convergence Between Academic Knowledge and Society’s Demands



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Jane Sara Freitas Lopes, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
Ana Maria Ferreira Menezes, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil

Abstract

Universities structure their Institutional Pedagogical Projects (PPI) by guiding their principles for Teaching, Research, and Extension, which consolidate in the process of knowledge creation in alignment with demands of society, fulfilling their social responsibility. Our aim is to investigate data and information on digital platforms of civil associations that enable convergence between university projects and social demands. We base our approach on dialectical epistemology, the theoretical foundations of the knowledge creation process: socialization, externalization, combination, internalization (SECI), and in the Ba context, referencing Nonaka and Takeuchi. A mapping of the associative world was carried out through exploratory research on the following platforms: Union of International Associations (UIA); Répertoire National des Associations (RNA) of France; and the Map of Civil Society Organizations (CSO MAP) in Brazil. The indicators Defense of rights, Education, Health, and Sustainability emerged from the purposes of the associations listed on the platforms, in accordance with the social objectives outlined in the IPP. The results showed that the platforms serve as an inductive context for interactions between teachers and students, whose divergent-convergent knowledge provides reinterpretation and insights from the specificities of the organizations and their multiple purposes; they are effective sources of explicit knowledge, manifested in the systematized data ready for dissemination, which, when incorporated into tacit knowledge, form the spiral, resulting in the conversion of knowledge. The platforms of the associations constitute a context capable of expressing social demands by composing the knowledge cycle in interaction with Teaching, Research and Extension, enabling projects focused on social responsibility.


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Conference: PCE2025
Stream: Higher education

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To cite this article:
Lopes J., & Menezes A. (2025) Civil Associations on Digital Platforms: Convergence Between Academic Knowledge and Society’s Demands ISSN: 2758-0962 The Paris Conference on Education 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 553-568) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0962.2025.42
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0962.2025.42


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