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The Campus for Peace-Africa project offers, among other things, training for virtual trainers and courses on human rights, environmental sustainability, conflict resolution, and support for employment and entrepreneurs. The courses and materials are designed to be offered via the UOC’s virtual platform, the Global Campus and a website (wiki), which students and teachers can access at any time and from anywhere. In general, the programmes are very wide-ranging, as they do not just include the courses contents themselves, but also a “resources” section that includes a series of complementary information materials.

About the UOC’s Campus for Peace

The Campus for Peace is the UOC’s charitable initiative. The project develops training, research and awareness raising programmes for social and humanitarian ends, via its e-learning methodology.

This charitable initiative has been created to contribute to peace, solidarity with less fortunate people and societies, development cooperation, humanitarian aid, and sustainability. The Campus is based on basic ethical principles, such as those of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the Earth Charter.

The implicit aim of the Campus for Peace is to provide people with the knowledge they need to live autonomously, to be able to resolve their own problems, to defend their fundamental rights without violence, and live together in peace. Among other contributions, the Campus offers courses to train trainers, continuous pedagogical advice, expert volunteers from around the world and specific teaching materials. Currently, there are more than three thousand students being taught one of the hundreds of subjects from the different knowledge areas by the more than two hundred teachers on the Campus.

This initiative allows for the organisation of meetings of experts to establish strategic plans and shared tactics, the creation of operational networks and publications with innovative contents in the field of human rights, conflict resolution and peace processes, environmental sustainability and international cooperation.

The UOC’s Campus for Peace collaborates with organisations such as the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Gaia Education, UNDP, World Organisation of the Scouting Movement, and a number of universities, city councils and citizen associations from around the world.

Training, research and raising awareness

This charitable initiative has a team of multidisciplinary professionals from the UOC working for it. This team of experts is charge of promoting official training, providing skills for development cooperation through the Virtual School for Cooperation and for environmental education through the EcoUniversity, and offering peace studies through the University Network for Peace and Conflict Resolution.