[18/06/2007]
The UOC's Campus for Peace and Solidarity is starting up a new website containing information about the courses that it offers, its projects and activities. This is the first step in this initiative, the aim of which is to become an NGO-style virtual campus with practical information, training resources and a space that promotes relations and communication. The website is published in Spanish, Catalan and English.
The UOC's Campus for Peace and Solidarity is starting up a new website
In an initial phase, all the information relating to the courses offered by the UOC's Cooperation Department and those run with organisations such as the Red Cross or Amnesty, and also the projects and activities of the Campus for Peace and Solidarity, are published. A second phase will offer a virtual campus that provides information and efficient communication between NGOs and governmental organisation, universities and humanitarian agencies. Consequently, it will have an extensive database on the following fields: training, health, fair trade, ethical banking and the environment. The new website will display a virtual university that is dedicated to facilitating and sharing peace, humanitarian and sustainability initiatives. It is a portal designed to provide anyone or any organisation, wherever they are, with a database that helps them with actions in the social and humanitarian field. To carry out these actions, the website can be used to access the range of public funding possibilities, find information about protection and reporting procedures in cases of human rights violations, consult information about virtual and face-to-face training in all fields of knowledge, always with a definite caring, social and humanitarian feel. The aim of this database is also to facilitate the use of pacification skills in conflicts, humanitarian project management, cooperation in development, environmental management and sustainability, development of ethical business and fair trade, etc.
Campus for Peace and Solidarity
In 2000, the UOC founded the Campus for Peace and Solidarity, which is dedicated to
contributing to peace processes, promoting human rights, facilitating literacy, providing
humanitarian aid to people and nations in a critical situation caused by wars, natural disasters or
poverty. Similarly, through the sustainability of the planet, it strives to improve living
conditions through scientific and technical knowledge and virtual education within the reach of the
greatest number of people possible by using IT and Internet technology resources. The UOC's Campus
for Peace and Solidarity now has over one hundred virtual volunteers. Graduates, students,
management and teaching personnel and other collaborators offer their knowledge to the
organisations that work in the field of solidarity, cooperation and development. The virtual
volunteers are arranged into a number of teams: virtual trainer training, website production,
collaboration with NGOs and in dissemination tasks, and writing chronicles for the Campus for Peace
and Solidarity magazine created by volunteers sent to countries which are in a situation of
conflict.
Information Society