From the 26th of May to the 6th of June, the Faculty of Pedagogy of the University of Barcelona has held the intensive Erasmus program on Education for Democratic and Intercultural Citizenship. Twenty-six postgraduate students and forteen lecturers from eight countries (The Netherlands, Greece, Finland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Israel and Spain). The European Union funds this project, lasting for four years, with 40000 euros with the aim of train students in these topics and plan joint research projects among the participant institutions.

In these two weeks, the students (three of which are from the University of Barcelona), have presented their research and taken part in different round-table discussions. Four of the fourteen lecturers are from the University of Barcelona: Maria Rosa Buxarrais, Francisco Esteban, Miquel Martínez and Elena Noguera.

Maria Rosa Buxarrais, professor at the Department of Theory and History of Education and also the director of this event, thinks this has been a very positive experience that “has contributed to a contextualised concretion of terminology not just from a theoretical point of view, but also based on the research carried out in each country“.