This coming 18, 19 and 20 June, the Tànger building (55.003) on the Poblenou campus will be playing host to the: Encuentro Europeo: Jóvenes de aquí y de allá, organized in the framework of the project “Sociocultural Learning of Youth in Mobile Societies” - SLYMS, from the EU’s Erasmus + programme led by the University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece), involving the UPF Youth, Society and Communication research group (JOVIS) of the Department of Communication, together with researchers from Portugal.

Fostering the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities, mainly through non-formal and informal education

As a primary goal, the Conference aims to promote intercultural dialogue and encourage reflection and debate by those involved in working with young people, especially the highly mobile (immigrants and refugees), in order to promote the inclusion and employability of young people with fewer opportunities, mainly through non-formal and informal education.

Attendance at the 3-day meeting is free. Day one will consist of discussion and debate, while days two and three will involve the presentation of experiences, workshops and discussion. Organizations from Catalonia, Greece and Portugal will be participating in order to discuss, debate and contextualize the policies and practices in the field of youth work. The first day of the meeting will involve intersectoral debates. The second and third days will involve presentations of practical experiences, workshops and the pooling of experiences.

The meeting targets professionals in the field of youth, education and social work dealing with immigration, diversity and inclusion. Public and private organizations related to youth issues and non-profit organizations, and youth recreation associations and entities.

A book that expresses the main difficulties of the Youth Guarantee in comic format

On 18 June at 6:30 pm in activities room 55.003 on the ground floor of Tànger building 55 on the Poblenou campus at UPF and in the framework of the European Meeting: the youth of here and there, there will be the presentation of the book Perfiles y Desafíos de la Garantía Juvenil: Una Aproximación con Novelas Gráficas (Tirant publishing, 2019), a collaborative work coordinated by Tanja Strecker and M.  Àngels Cabasés Piqué, members of JOVIS, which is illustrated by Lauri Fernández.

“We were lucky, as coordinators, to have a team of excellent writers and, above all, an exceptional Argentine researcher and illustrator, Lauri Fernández, who has made the idea of combining academic texts on the main difficulties of the Youth Guarantee in Spain in comic format possible. We are hopeful it will prove an ideal presentation of the content to convey, that will make its reading more entertaining and lead it to be read by more people”.

Further information: www.upf.edu/web/joviscom

See the detailed programme here

The event is free but requires prior registration. You may register for one day only, two days or the entire conference.