In a context of global inequalities, armed conflicts, hate speech, and xenophobia, human rights violations against migrants, especially women, children, and LGBTQI+ individuals, are alarming. These issues are more evident in territories around European borders, currently considered zones of non-law. The social narrative on refugees and migration is influenced by media and partial readings, undermining the fight for their rights. Exclusion, xenophobia, and criminalization in fortified Europe make migrants and racialized individuals more vulnerable.

**Therefore, this course is a strategic opportunity for future professionals to be critical citizens addressing human rights violations and rising racist and xenophobic discourses.**

This course aims to strengthen university's community role in generating, appropriating, and promoting knowledge and critical analysis. It provides tools for a resounding, sustained, and efficient response to deactivate racist and xenophobic attitudes and discourses and defend the rights of refugees and migrants, especially women, children, and LGBTQI+ individuals.

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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Fortress Europe: human rights violations against migrants and refugees at Europe's borders.

Understanding forced displacement and migration from a human rights perspective.

Resilient communities

Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation

Inter-personal skills

Intra-personal skills

Global citizenship

**Content**

**Package 1 : Philosophy and Law**

Conceptual introduction to the ways in which knowledge is produced and disseminated without paying attention to gender, age, race, and class differences and sexual difference as regards relations among subjects and among bodies, and, thereby, becoming what might be understood as rigid, immaterial, and disaffected knowledge. The impact of producing and disseminating knowledge in these terms will be made clear by analyzing the so-called neutrality of the Law and its effects in gender equality policy making.

**Package 2 : Psychology and Literature**

(1) Applied critical consideration of epistemic violence, that is, of how gender differences have an effect on subjects and bodies and how they have an effect in their well being depending on the role that gender is given in Psi Disciplines.

(2) Applied critical deconstruction of gender stereotypes and of prejudices that symbolically limit the imaginary field of subjects and bodies and tie them to the immateriality of heteronormativity. 

**Package 3: Anthropology and Pedagogy**

Attention will be payed to a specific challenge in order to (1) make clear how to take into account diversity, difference, and inequality by means of situating knowledge and of feminist methodologies and feminist data analysis and how to (2) validate and make epistemically relevant different kinds of agency by gendering it (including age, class, and race differences).

Gender as a cross-cutting tool for understanding, diagnosing, and solving challenges

SELF-PACED OPEN MOOC (5TH EDITION)

Critical and innovative thinking

Energy has become an increasingly important factor in recent years. We have transitioned from a world where energy was cheap and readily available to one where it is becoming more difficult to obtain. Furthermore, **energy consumption has dramatic consequences for the environment,** as its use leads to an increase in CO2 concentration and subsequently, **global warming**. Understanding this factor and being able to manage it quantitatively is becoming increasingly necessary for the next generation.

In this course, we will be studying**transportation and analyzing it in terms of energy**. We will learn how to **calculate the impact of our transportation systems**in terms of energy, and explore the best strategies to reduce their impact.

Energy in transportation

2nd Edition

Transport and Mobility

Media and information literacy

During the last few years, **Sant Joan Despí** has grown from **migratory processes** that have contributed to the diversity that characterizes the Sant Joan neighborhood. In the last half century, the town has welcomed people from different parts of the world, expanding the population's diversity of origins, a phenomenon experienced by the whole of Catalonia. However, this process is not simple, it requires a **mutual adaptation** **of the people**who arrive and those who were already there; there is a lack of knowledge, stereotypes and prejudices prevail and there is a lack of experience of living together.

All these dynamics are **aggravated by the geographical structure** of the city. It is a territory with neighborhoods divided by an industrial area in the process of being dismantled. In this sense, the various demographic transformations of recent years have been creating neighborhoods with very different social, economic, and cultural characteristics, which has become a situation of coexistence, rather than coexistence, on the part of the neighborhood.

## **Challenge Providers**

Hosting University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Stakeholder: Sant Joan Despí City Council

Meet our neighbors: break the class, race, and gender segregation in Sant Joan Despí

How to break down barriers between neighborhoods, to promote coexistence and equal opportunities

**BACKGROUND**

La Botiga (The Shop) is a food guarantee, community empowerment and sustainability project, which arose as a response to traditional food distribution strategies in the face of food insecurity situations suffered by the most impoverished groups in the community. It is a project that evolves towards self-management, as the goal of a government model, and that is articulated on two major axes: the social and the environmental. La Botiga is organized in a self-service and/or assisted sales model. There are products preferably from food reuse and the local market, where organic, seasonal, and local products will prevail. In this sense, it is a model of food guarantee that starts from an emancipatory logic, of community empowerment and that does not stigmatize the users, since they are the ones who carry the service. A groundbreaking model and different from that assumed by most municipalities in the EU, which work from a final service logic based on cash register cheques. At this point, it is necessary to ask which of the two models brings more benefits to citizens. To find it out, it is necessary to measure the different social impacts that each of them has.

**GOAL**

How could we know the real impact that this service model has on the community providing evidence of the transformative benefits of its implementation? We must consider the context in which we will find ourselves from next September, when the European Union will close the European Aid Fund for the Neediest (FEAD), relegating all food policy to cash checks.

**CHALLENGE PROVIDERS**

Stakeholder: el Prat de Llobregat City Council

Hosting University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Guarantee food security based on local ecosystems

Circular economy

### Background

The city of Terrassa, like other European cities, embraces many different social groups. Such circumstance leads to a city with increased dynamism and cultural wealth. However, aspects such as ethnic and cultural origin, age, functional diversity, as well as sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic conditions are **axes of vulnerability**that can lead to discrimination, and therefore **inequality**.

People's identity is partly constructed, but it is also determined by other factors such as age, gender, origin, ethnicity, or class. Such factors cannot be chosen or modified; hence people’s identity is conditioned by axes of inequality. It must be considered that people have **multiple identities**, formed by several layers that derive from **social relations, history, and the intervention of power structures**. We belong to more than one community at the same time and, **we can experience oppression and privileges simultaneously**. To deal with it, the City Council of Terrassa has been implementing intersectionality in public policies for years: a tool that allows to visualize, analyze, and intervene in situations of inequality using a complex approach, which considers that the axes of oppression do not act independently, but are interrelated. The challenge will be carried focusing on this methodology.  

### Goals

- Achieving more agile and effective responses to situations of aggression or violence in public space.
- Improve the perception of security in public space, especially for people susceptible to aggression for sexist, lgtbiphobic reasons, racists, ableists, etc.
- Dissuade and prevent aggression for sexist, lgtbiphobic reasons, racists, ableists, etc. in the public space and collect and systematize information on discrimination in the city to be able to provide answers with a comprehensive approach.

### Challenge Providers

- Stakeholder: Terrassa City Council
- Hosting University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Dealing with discrimination in young groups

Providing tools to young citizens to identify discrimination

### **BACKGROUND**

*La Botiga* (The Shop) is a food guarantee, community empowerment and sustainability project, which arose as a response to traditional food distribution strategies in the face of food insecurity situations suffered by the most impoverished groups in the community. It is a project that evolves towards self-management, as the goal of a government model, and that is articulated on two major axes: the social and the environmental. *La Botiga* is organized in a self-service and/or assisted sales model. There are products preferably from food reuse and the local market, where organic, seasonal, and local products will prevail. In this sense, it is a model of food guarantee that starts from an emancipatory logic, of community empowerment and that does not stigmatize the users, since they are the ones who carry the service. A groundbreaking model and different from that assumed by most municipalities in the EU, which work from a final service logic based on cash register cheques. At this point, it is necessary to ask which of the two models brings more benefits to citizens. To find it out, it is necessary to measure the different social impacts that each of them has.

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**GOAL**

How could we know the real impact that this service model has on the community providing evidence of the transformative benefits of its implementation? We must consider the context in which we will find ourselves from next September, when the European Union will close the European Aid Fund for the Neediest (FEAD), relegating all food policy to cash checks.

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**CHALLENGE PROVIDERS**

Stakeholder: el Prat de Llobregat City Council

Hosting University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

How to transform local food guarantee models to adapt to the new reality of eco-social crisis

Energy and sustainability

The UAB Language Service offers online courses in Spanish language organized in different levels to develop students’ linguistic and intercultural skills. 

The number of hours working on the platform vary by level (A1 and A2: 80-100 hours per level; B1and B2: 120-150 hours per level).

There is no final assessment.

Language Studies - Spanish

ONLINE COURSE

Language learning

Energy has become an increasingly important factor in recent years. We have transitioned from a world where energy was cheap and readily available to one where it is becoming more difficult to obtain. Furthermore, **energy consumption has dramatic consequences for the environment**, as its use leads to an increase in CO2 concentration and subsequently, **global warming**. Understanding this factor and being able to manage it quantitatively is becoming increasingly necessary for the next generation.

In this course, we will be studying**transportation and analyzing it in terms of energy**. We will learn how to **calculate the impact of our transportation systems** in terms of energy, and explore the best strategies to reduce their impact.

The UAB Language Service organizes courses in Catalan language to develop **foreign students’ linguistic and intercultural skills** with the aim of helping them to integrate into the Catalan social and academic context.

These **online courses** are carried out in Parla.cat. Each level consists in **135 hours**and students have **2 hours of online support from a professor of the UAB Language Service**, including the **correction of 2 activities**.

All offered levels are based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Language Studies - Catalan

At the heart of the modern lifestyle lies a growing concern for health and well-being, coupled with an ever-increasing dependence on technology. Recognizing this intersection, we have crafted the TechFit Challenge: **Empowering Healthy and Sporty Lifestyles through Technology, a transformative learning offering aimed at harnessing the power of technology to inspire and facilitate the adoption of healthier habits by the university community.**

This learning initiative is born out of a fundamental desire to address the pressing need for individuals to prioritize their health amidst the fast-paced, technology-driven world we inhabit. We believe that by leveraging technology effectively, we can empower individuals to take control of their physical activity, nutrition, and overall wellness. 

University campuses usually have a large amount of equipment and activities with the aim of helping students lead a healthy life. However, many of these possibilities are not sufficiently known or do not have as much reach as they deserve.

**The importance of this initiative cannot be overstated. In an era where sedentary lifestyles and poor dietary choices are prevalent, the TechFit Challenge serves as a beacon of hope, offering practical solutions and guidance to combat these issues, from the point of view of technology. Our overarching goal is to instill in the community a newfound sense of agency over their health and equip them with the tools and knowledge needed to cultivate sustainable habits for a lifetime.**

Students should eagerly embrace this opportunity to be part of the TechFit Challenge because it offers a unique and invaluable learning experience. Participants will not only enhance their technological literacy but also develop crucial skills in goal-setting, data interpretation, and decision-making pertaining to the well-being of the university community.

By the end of the TechFit Challenge, participants will emerge with a heightened awareness of the health status of the university community, a repertoire of strategies for improving fitness, sport and wellbeing, and the confidence to navigate the intersection of technology and wellness in the digital age. Join us on this empowering journey to transform your lifestyle and unlock your full potential for health and vitality.

TechFit Challenge: Empowering Healthy and Sporty lifestyles through Technology

Embracing the power of technology to contribute to wellness.

### Content

**Package 1 : Philosophy and Law**

Conceptual introduction to the ways in which knowledge is produced and disseminated without paying attention to gender, age, race, and class differences and sexual difference as regards relations among subjects and among bodies, and, thereby, becoming what might be understood as rigid, immaterial, and disaffected knowledge. The impact of producing and disseminating knowledge in these terms will be made clear by analyzing the so-called neutrality of the Law and its effects in gender equality policy making.

**Package 2 : Psychology and Literature**

(1) Applied critical consideration of epistemic violence, that is, of how gender differences have an effect on subjects and bodies and how they have an effect in their well being depending on the role that gender is given in Psi Disciplines.

(2) Applied critical deconstruction of gender stereotypes and of prejudices that symbolically limit the imaginary field of subjects and bodies and tie them to the immateriality of heteronormativity. 

**Package 3: Anthropology and Pedagogy**

Attention will be payed to a specific challenge in order to (1) make clear how to take into account diversity, difference, and inequality by means of situating knowledge and of feminist methodologies and feminist data analysis and how to (2) validate and make epistemically relevant different kinds of agency by gendering it (including age, class, and race differences).

SELF-PACED OPEN MOOC (4TH EDITION)

Whether in your studies, a real-life (ECIU) challenge or in your future career, the need to develop your intercultural competences and become able to work with anyone and anywhere in the world is becoming more and more important. Being connected with other countries and other cultures can provide you with wonderful opportunities for collaboration and new and refreshing insights. To accommodate such creative collaboration, it is important to make sure you have the right tools for effective teamwork in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary groups. With this course, you will gain practical insights into intercultural competences by creating your own Citizen Science project! During this micro-module, you will learn to better understand and work within diverse groups, how to improve on your communicative skills and create an effective team, and how you can apply and present your solutions in a broad variety of contexts. 

For more information and the latest updates, check out [https://www.utwente.nl/en/intercultural-competences/](https://www.utwente.nl/en/intercultural-competences/)

Member university

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Member university

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Learning opportunities of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona