The training of creative scientists with a regional perspective in public universities: a challenge

Abstract

Public universities have gradually becomecenters of training, cognitive and technological development, promoting a science somewhat dissociated from society and its problems, creating the need forinterdisciplinary and systemic platforms. Consideringcreative and collective approaches to educationwith a humanistic perspective would lead toa paradigm shift regardingthe socio-environmental crisis that we face, ata regional scale. Some reflections of the authors are presented, based on their teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels, regarding the importance of eliminating rigid approaches and promoting creativity and collective intelligence. The need to integrate regional and local problems as elements that make research within universities more relevantis also discussed.