Support program for refugees and people from conflict areas
This program opens complementary and safe paths to the resettlement of refugees and people from conflict zones based on access to university education, but also based on social and work inclusion. Its main activity is the Transition course to university studies, which promotes the inclusion of these people in UB studies.
The Program also includes, depending on the case, academic guidance; assistance in paying tuition; training in Catalan and/or Spanish; accommodation; mentoring; legal advice; health insurance; psychosocial support; psychological assistance, and support in socio-labor insertion.
This program is related to the following ODS of the Agenda 2030:
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ODS 4. Quality education
Target 4.3: By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.
Target 4.4: By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Target 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.
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ODS 10. Reduced inequalities
Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
Target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.
Target 10.7: Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.
Social and educational intervention program in the northern area of the Nou Barris district of Barcelona
This program organizes various social and educational activities with the aim of stimulating the cultural and associative life of the northern area of the Nou Barris district; for example, the urban garden maintenance course for people in a situation of homelessness or the social and community cooking course for young people with difficulties in joining the labor market.
The program also includes the management of the Eucaliptus building, with 22 social housing units, transferred to the University by the City Council of Barcelona, and aimed at members of the university community in a situation of social vulnerability and other people at risk of exclusion.
This program is related to the following ODS of the Agenda 2030:
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ODS 10. Reduced inequalities
Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
Target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.
- ODS 11. Sustainable cities and communities
Prometeus Program
This program ensures that young people from Barcelona neighborhoods with a university population index lower than the city average can access university and pursue higher studies successfully, regardless of economic and social conditions.
The initiative came from the Associació Educativa Integral del Raval and the newspaper El Raval, together with the two public high schools in the neighborhood. The city’s public universities participate in the Prometeus motor group.
This program is related to the following ODS of the Agenda 2030:
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ODS 4. Quality education
Target 4.3: By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.
Target 4.4: By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Target 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.
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ODS 10. Reduced inequalities
Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
Target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.