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.

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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Energy in transportation

3rd Edition

Transport and Mobility

Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation

Media and information literacy

The increase in rental housing prices is a complex phenomenon influenced by a combination of economic, social, and legislative factors:  

Among the economic factors, we can identify a demand that exceeds the supply of housing due to the lack of policies that incentivize and promote the existence of an affordable rental housing stock, as well as the strong interest from investors in investing in the rental property market, which drives prices up. Both factors contribute to rising prices. Additionally, difficulties in obtaining mortgage loans to buy homes can increase the demand for rentals.  

Among the social factors, the high population concentration in cities also contributes, making prices higher in urban areas. In Spain, the prices in cities like Madrid and Barcelona stand out. Changes in family structure, with the increase in single-person households or nuclear families, also play a role. Furthermore, the rise in tourist rentals (such as through platforms like Airbnb) can reduce the supply of housing available for long-term rental, increasing prices.  

Among the legislative factors, regulations that set limitations on the rental price can reduce the incentive for owners to enter the rental market or invest in building maintenance, thus reducing supply. Tax regulations can also affect the rental price, in the event that tax rates are passed on to tenants.  

During this challenge we will try to find out what initiatives, proposals and measures could be taken by local governments to solve this problem in urban communities, starting with the Spanish city council of Terrassa as a pilot

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Tackling the Housing Crisis: Strategies for Lowering Rent in urban communities.

How can Terrassa's City Council address high rental prices to ensure housing access and stability for residents?

Resilient communities

Critical and innovative thinking

Inter-personal skills

This course will provide to students basic knowledge of Catalan and Spanish languages and their cultures. The main objective is to enables students to understand and use everyday expressions of very frequent use and simple sentences aimed at satisfying immediate needs. It will also introduce them to some key aspects of the Catalan and Spanish cultures.  

The linguistic and cultural background of students is used as the ground to build upon and to maximize their learning. They will work using a communicative and challenge-based learning methodology. 

This course is not intended for students who have lived in Catalonia, even for a short period. It focuses on discovering the basics and essence of the culture. Therefore, if you have lived there, we do not recommend enrolling

Exploring Catalonia: An introduction to its language and culture

Language learning

Global citizenship

As part of international migrations, according to UNHCR, in 2022, disasters caused a record 32.6 million displacements. Remarkably, 98% of these were triggered by climate-related hazards as documented by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. 

In fact, 84% of refugees and asylum seekers in 2022 fled from countries highly vulnerable to climate change, marking a 61% increase compared to 2010. Most people forced to flee their homes move within their own countries, but international migrations are increasingly common. 

Currently, the right to asylum due to the effects of climate change is not yet recognized, unlike protection for those escaping war conflicts, as defined during the 1951 Geneva Convention.  This lack of recognition, coupled with the complex and multi-causal nature of migration reasons, makes it challenging to assess how much climate change is influencing new international migration trends and its role as a decisive factor. 

With this challenge, we aim to demonstrate/quantify the existence of forced displacements due to climate change, to provide consistency and contribute to the debate surrounding climate change migration.

Climate change and migratory movements.

How could we identify to what extent the effects of climate change are causing new migratory processes at an international level?

Energy and sustainability

**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

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.

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

Understanding forced displacement and migration from a human rights perspective.

Intra-personal skills

**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)

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.

Member university

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Member university

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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