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Over 380 students to participate in the 13th edition of Campus Ítaca

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The social-educational programme Campus Ítaca will begin its 13th edition on Monday 27 June. This year, the UAB will welcome more participants from a greater number of centres, with a total of 388 girls and boys aged 15.

22/06/2016

The Campus Ítaca is a social-educational programme aimed at 15-year-old girls and boys about to start their last year of compulsory education, in which they will have to decide whether to enter the labour market, take a vocational training course or continue on to upper secondary education. The objective of the Campus Ítaca is to encourage participating students to continue their studies and expand their future professional opportunities. Moreover, the programme converts the UAB into a space for coexistence between students from different social backgrounds.

The programme is promoted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and since 2015, it is organised by the Fundació Autònoma Solidaria. The Faculty of Education, the Santander Group and the town councils participating in the programme collaborate jointly to give support to the initiative.

Campus Ítaca 2016 has grown in comparison to earlier editions. This year, there is one new county, three towns, 24 centres and 60 participants more than last year's edition, with a total of 33 town councils from 7 counties from the province of Barcelona participating; and a total of 77 centres and 388 students aged 15.

This year, the two 2-week sessions will take place from 27 June to 14 July. In this 13th edition, the typology and structure of the activities best rated by monitors, students and staff will be maintained. At the same time, others have been reformulated with the objective of providing the project with more coherence.

The training activities will take place under the tutorship of university lecturing and research staff from different faculties and affiliated centres, and which this year have been appointed following a public selection process. The campus is made up of workshops, debates, complex problems, "who's right" activities and projects. All activities, based on experiential learning, take into account the participants' prior knowledge and aim to favour cooperative working.

This week the team of monitors is attending training sessions to prepare themselves for the campus, which will begin next week.