Convenios Bilaterais
European Projects of the Senior University without EU funding.
When these projects have been finished, the University of A Coruña signed cooperation agreements with several partners. Nowadays, there are signed bilateral contracts with Het Perspectief (Gent, Belgium) and Comune di Scandiano (Emilia Romagna, Italy).
The general objectives of the initiatives developed under these bilateral agreements are:
- Strengthening the European identity amongst the senior students.
- Working for an active European citizenship
- Promoting mutual understanding of different cultures, specifically through literature.
- Learning Foreign Languages.
- Promoting the use of Information and Communication Technologies.
Our Belgian partners are senior students of Spanish language from Het Perspectief (Adult Education Center) of Ghent, which enabled us to carry out various academic activities with an European Bilateral Initiative named "Rosalía de Castro".
The Comune di Scandiano (a municipality from Emilia Romagna, on the north of Italy) joined in 2014. Scandiano has a strong experience on Adult Education on an European dimenssion.
During those academic years, we developed several singular initiatives under these bilateral agreements:
European Workshop "Rosalía de Castro", with the literature as meeting point of the different European cultures.
Blog Obradoiro Europeo "Rosalía de Castro"
En-Red-Versados (On-line Reading Club on Poetry)
From October 2014, in collaboration with our partners from Het Perspectief of Gent, the Senior University started an initiative for using of social participation technologies (social web) to encourage the use of virtual communities through a blog as Virtual Reading Club on Poetry.
Iniciativa ACTing "En-Red-Versados"
“SpeakSpeare!”. Under the name “Speak-speare! Let's talk with William”, the Senior University of A Coruña and the Comune di Scandiano are collaborating in a singular initiative for learning English using the Shakespeare's theatre as a way to learn foreign languages and to raise European awareness. as well as to share best practices and outcomes by using the ICTs (Facebook group) and on the occasion of a transnational visit at the end of the inititative: May 2015 in A Coruña.
2015-2016: "Tras as pegadas de Quixote - Sulle orme di Don Chisciotte".
- Blog do Taller Europeo 2015-2016
2016-2017, Il Nome della Rosa - "O Nome da Rosa".
In 2015, the Universidade da Grande Idade de Rio Tinto - UGIRT starts to participate at the academic exchanges, using the second edition of the Clube de Poesía On-Line "En-RED-Versados", with the poetry of the lusophony. At the academic year 2017-2018, the Programa de Estudos Universitários para Seniores da Universidade de Porto (Portugal) became a new partner of the academic exchanges.