The UNI Project is an initiative of the W.K.Kellogg Foundation, which started in Botucatu in 1993 and presupposes an effort toward cooperation among the university, local health services and community organizations. The main purpose of the UNI Program is to support the integrated development of innovative models of teaching, local health services and community participation. In Botucatu, the UNI Project is a partnership which includes the Botucatu Medical School (FMB), the Municipal Health and Environment Office and the Union of Associations and Societies of Municipal Communities, the Unasabs. Shared management is the project’s trademark. The project is now going through its second phase of operation and is being transformed into the UNI Foundation. The foundation is a UNI initiative that allows the outlining of a new way to integrate partners and develop models. It favors the training of health professionals so that they adapt scientific and technological advances to our people’s needs.
Medical education; interinstitutional relations; community-institutional relations
