The MUN, internationally recognized for its work linking art with research, teaching and the dissemination of knowledge is a leading international institution in the field of art.
The "Arts and Life" project , in which other Schools have participated, has been recognized with the UMAC award organized by the International committee of Museums (ICOM).
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The award was presented in Dubai during ICOM's annual congress .
The MUN is not an ordinary museum: it is a university museum, whose identity includes the creation and transmission of new knowledge, in contact with the different disciplines of knowledge. For its contribution in this direction, it received in Dubai the international UMAC award committee Internationalcommittee for Museums and University Collections) organized by the International committee of Museums (ICOM). She did so thanks to the "Arts and Life" project , which deals with research, teaching and dissemination in the subject of palliative care through art.
The director of the MUN, Jaime García del Barrio, received this award. "It is a great satisfaction to see how the Museum's aims of contributing to knowledge and society are becoming a reality. As a university museum, this distinction encourages us to continue implementing innovation projects professor, and to approach art as a tool available to our teachers and students, through which they can continue researching and learning," he said.
This project has involved the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra (through the Global Palliative Care Observatory ATLANTES), the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Education and Psychology, and the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, which shows the interdisciplinary approach to research .
"Arts and life" sample how professors and researchers in the area of palliative care have used MUN and art as a tool core topic to advance their field, transform teaching and transfer the knowledge generated to the public. The initiative in which the project materializes is the play Cicely and David, which narrates the origins of palliative care by Cicely Saunders. The production was supported by the Pía Aguirreche Foundation, which is committed to promote the awareness and Education of society on this subject.
Doctors, nurses, researchers and other members of the ATLANTES group were the actors and actresses of the play, which has attracted more than 1,200 spectators in Pamplona (MUN and Civivox) and in Malaga (in the framework the XIV International congress of the Spanish Society of Palliative Care), as well as in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia).
The performance is part of a professor innovation strategy promoted by the Museum and the Global Palliative Care Observatory ATLANTES. Thus, Cicely and David is the culmination of a trajectory in which art and artists are an essential part of teaching. Since the beginning of the MUN, every year hundreds of students have been trained in its rooms on end-of-life issues, while contemplating works from its collection in different activities and workshops, developed by professors from the School Medicine (as the subject Decision Making at the End of Life), and Nursing(Palliative Care); an art therapy workshop for palliative care professionals - in the position the MUN, the ATLANTES group and the Palliative Care Society of Navarra (PALIAN); or one on empathy, compassion, communication, integrity and professional skill for medical students.
The School of Nursing's innovative professor project "Nursing and art: an active interdisciplinary methodology to improve students' self-knowledge, empathy and observation" also stands out.
