040919_campus-inclusivo

To achieve an inclusive campus . This is that people with disabilities or at risk of exclusion find the conditions to be able to study in any of the two universities in Navarra. This is the goal of the VII edition of these conference that have organized during the next week the University of Navarra and the Public University of Navarra, which joins for the first time to this project. The program is promoted by the ONCE Foundation, the Repsol Foundation and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. 

From this Saturday, September 7, Schools of the two campus will open its doors to 16 young people. They come from Navarra, but also from Valladolid, Madrid, Guipúzcoa, Zaragoza, Granada and Venezuela, Colombia, Morocco or Peru. Each one with their particularities, with different Degrees of physical or intellectual disability but with a dream that can come true: to study at a university. The only requirement to access the program was to have completed the previous year the 4th year of ESO (Education Compulsory Secondary Education), high school diploma or training cycles of Degree Medium of training Professional.

The program, which will run until September 15, aims to reduce the school withdrawal of people with disabilities or at risk of exclusion, promote their access to the university Education , promote inclusive Education , and ensure the rights and continuity of the university programs of study under conditions of equality and equity. "This inclusive campus is a good opportunity for the University and university life to share space with these boys and girls who, on so many occasions, find it difficult to enjoy and get to know this institution," says Lucía Martínez Virto, director of area of Action and Equality of the Vice-Rectorate for University Projection, Culture and knowledge dissemination, the body that has prepared the program at UPNA through the Social Action and Equality Unit. "We are very pleased to welcome them in this house and show them that this University can also be a possible horizon for them". For her part, Paula Salvador, manager of the program at the University of Navarra, through the social service volunteer activities Tantaka, added: "The goal is that the two universities open their doors to students with different abilities and at risk of social exclusion. Let them know that if they want, there are means and possibilities for them. Let them have the opportunity to experience the University". 

It includes academic, cultural, sports and inclusive leisure activities, as well as workshops on the educational offerings of the two universities and orientation at programs of study. Young people will be able to visit the Schools Architecture, Education and Psychology, Medicine or the radio sets and programs of study used in the School of Communication of the University of Navarra; also, the department of sciences, the Farm of Agricultural Practices and research of the School of Agricultural Engineers, the Jerónimo de Ayanz center, a tour to know the almost one hundred species and varieties of trees and shrubs of the campus of Arrosadia or to know the School of Social Sciences of the Public University of Navarre. Participants will be able to enjoy a musical session, at position by Xabier Armendáriz Arraiza, graduate in Business Administration and Management at the UPNA and graduate in Piano and Musicology at the Conservatory of Music of Navarra. Twelve hours a day for nine days to experience all the possibilities offered by the university.

The program of the campus can be consulted at the following links: www.unav.edu/tantaka and www.unavarra.es/unidadaccionsocial/campus -inclusive