Tick the Autonomous Solidarity Foundation box in your UAB registration form for development and education

Tick the box for solidarity before submitting your UAB registration for next year and you will make a €15 donation to cooperation and development projects in underprivileged countries as well as other actions related to the promotion of education in the university campus. For more than 20 years now, the UAB Solidarity Fund has been collecting student and university staff donations which are later allocated to several university cooperation projects promoted by UAB lecturers and students to kick start development.

The list of selected projects will be made public in June. In 2016, the projects selected will be given a grant thanks to the donations collected during the previous period. Some of these projects include the collaboration with universities in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Gambia, Mozambique and Uganda. The projects – proposed by UAB students and lecturers – are related to education, health, environment, democracy, agriculture and nutrition, and will be carried out with help of UAB collaborators from the universities and research centres in the above-mentioned countries.

Three of the selected projects are related to the Education for Development concept (in Catalan: EpD, Educació per al Desenvolupament). There is one project on the paradigm of nutritional sovereignty in the UAB; one project on the development of a platform to provide academic support to studies related with EpD; one project on the role of communication in the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by the UN.

In keeping with the 0.7% campaign created by the UAB in 1994 which promoted cooperation and solidarity in underprivileged countries, the University Senate decided to take part in the initiative by creating budgetary provision for cooperative development actions. The Solidarity Fund is also made up of voluntary contributions from the administrative and service staff and teaching and research staff.

The Autonomous Solidarity Foundation (FAS) operates the Solidarity Fund in the Cooperation and EpD area. Every year, the FAS opens calls for administrative and service staff, and Master's and PhD students to submit their proposals, some of which will be granted with the funds collected from the voluntary donations.

If you are a UAB student, we encourage you to donate the 0.7% of the cost of your annual university fees by ticking the solidarity box and donating €15 to the UAB Solidarity Fund.