Campus for Peace

[07/07/2009]

The UOC presents the master’s degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies in Paris

The President of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), Imma Tubella, and Academic Director of the new international master’s degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Mustapha Cherif, are to present the UOC International Graduate Institute’s new range of courses this Tuesday. The presentation has been organised with the support of the Association of Arab Women in the Press and Media (AFACOM) and is to take place at the Foreign Correspondents’ Centre in the French capital.

[08/06/2009]

The UOC to train up to 30,000 unemployed people via monthly e-learning courses

The Catalan Department of Employment and the Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Foundation for the Open University of Catalonia, FUOC) have set up an innovative, free e-learning programme for 30,000 unemployed people in Catalonia. The aim of this e-learning programme is to improve the skills and employability of those out of work in Catalonia.

[13/05/2009]

The UOC and international experts to offer Spain’s first virtual master’s degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) International Graduate Institute (IGI) is to offer Spain’s first virtual master’s degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies as of the next academic year, 2009-2010. It aims to provide students with basic knowledge on the Islamic world so that they have the elements and criteria needed to understand, interpret and assess these realities on a political, social and economic level. The launch of this new training offer, one of a handful in Europe, has been publicised as part of the roundtable entitled The Muslim world, between the past and the future, which involved the University’s President, Imma Tubella, and Mustapha Chérif, Academic Director of the master’s degree, among others. The event took place in Madrid and focused on fundamental aspects of the Muslim world and its relations with Europe, as well as its cultural influence, the future of Euro-Arab relations and the political, economic and cultural challenges.

[07/05/2009]

A number of world food and society experts meet in Barcelona

To coincide with the opening of the UOC Food Systems, Culture and Society department, Barcelona will be hosting a meeting of a number of experts in food and society on 7 and 8 May to discuss leading issues, such as world food policies, nutrition level indicators and agricultural policies. These experts are members of the department’s academic committee. The department plans to offer courses for the coming year as part of the UOC’s International Graduate Institute.

[16/03/2009]

Agreement with Hassan II University Mohammedia Casablanca for mobility of capital and knowledge

The agreement involves training of trainers in e-learning, an increased range of masters degrees, credit validation and collaboration in Arabic language courses and the masters degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies to be offered at the UOC

[12/02/2009]

The UOC brings together over a thousand ‘virtual’ teachers

The UOC is to organise a meeting of its teaching collaborators in Barcelona this Saturday.

[21/01/2009]

The worldwide food crisis under analysis at the UOC

Both the millions who die of hunger and the scarcity of food continue to increase. With the aim of gaining insight into the current situation in Catalonia and around the world, the UOC has organised a session entitled “Understanding the Silent Tsunami. Perspectives on the Food Crisis at Home and Abroad”, in collaboration with the Catalan government’s Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Action, Intermón Oxfam and the non-profit association Slow Food. The event is to take place on Thursday 22 January at 6pm at the University’s Barcelonès Support Centre (Rambla de Catalunya, 6).

[27/10/2008]

The Catalan government, the Human Rights Institute for Catalonia and the UOC set up the first Masters in Human Rights and Democracy

A collaboration agreement signed by the Catalan Minister for the Interior, Institutional Relations and Participation, Joan Saura; the President of the Human Rights Institute of Catalonia, Jaume Saura, and the President of the UOC, Imma Tubella, has marked the start of the first Masters in Human Rights and Democracy in Catalonia (and the first online in Spain). Teaching is to begin on October 29.

[13/10/2008]

The UOC expands the Health area and creates Global Executive Education to strengthen its postgraduate studies offer

The UOC’s International Graduate Institute (IGI) has expanded the training on offer for the academic year 2008-2009, which begins on October 29, with more postgraduate courses in the Health area and the creation of Global Executive Education (GEE). While Health incorporates a new range of courses in the health and hospital field, Global Executive Education strengthens the postgraduate teaching in the field of business and economics.