The Martiana Chair: It's Contribution to the Social Commitment of the University

The Cuban university has the mission of training professionals with independence and creativity, endowed with ethical values, in accordance with the scientific-technical development experienced in the world. The University of Informatics Sciences (UCI) fulfills its social responsibility, gets involved with the community and assumes the growing role that corresponds to it. The C & aacute;tedra Martiana of the UCI, through the promotion of activities, managed to place itself at the center of educational work and contribute to the training of comprehensive professionals, in addition to fostering the necessary link between community and university. Therefore, it constituted a key space for the comprehensive training of students based on the educational instructional work that was developed from it. Hence, the objective of this work is to describe the contribution of the Martiana Chair of the UCI to the social responsibility of the university through the comprehensive training of future professionals. The methods and techniques used were of the analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, historical-logical theoretical level, documentary analysis, testimonies, as well as the triangulation of information sources and methods; and at the empirical level, observation and interview.