Geographic Indication and non-formal education in traditional communities: a proposal for collaborative workshops

Abstract

This paper presents the proposal of carrying out non-formal education workshops for exploitation of communities in knowledge of the Geographical Indication (IGs), having as parameters: raising its potential (products); the actual feasibility of commercialization with a view to the regulation of use required by the National Institute of Industrial Property and the empowerment of the social agents through the strengthening of your autonomy and collective action. The Methodology to the instrumentalization of IGs as support development of the local creative economy, in its planning, is divided into three stages with six encounters: 1) Research, theory, and method for ministers, through data collection in research bases and public management; 2) community awareness and workshops, with dynamic activities involving diagrams, word cloud, and Mandalas and 3) Validation of the results, elaboration of institutional documentation and demand of public management for the registration and support to improve the quality of life of the producers.

Keywords

• creative economy
• associations
• certification
• community empowerment