Refugees from Ukraine in Catalonia: welcoming and helping will take place on April 5, from 12:30 to 14:30, in the auditorium of the Ciutadella campus. With this extraordinary session, the UPF wants to make a gesture to demonstrate its commitment to refugees, support those who will ask for shelter from the university and create a space for meeting and non-confrontation.

The session also aims to generate more knowledge on the subject and raise awareness and help find concrete solutions (from the educational, legal, social-affective, legal, economic, etc.), in a subject that is fully circumscribed in the initiative of the University's Planetary Welfare.

The event will be opened by Oriol Amat, rector of the UPF, and by Ester Oliveras, vice-rector of Social Commitment and Sustainability of the University, who will explain what the UPF can offer at this time to university students arriving from Ukraine and what other actions are planned, information that will be collected in the special website on the conflict that the University updates.

Speakers of the session:

• Victòria Alsina, Minister of Foreign Action and Open Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
• Enric Morist, head of the Red Cross Catalonia
• Gemma Pinyol, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM-UPF).
• Sílvia Cóppulo, journalist, professor at the UPF Barcelona School of Management and director of the Observatory of Leadership in Business.
• Tamara Djermanovic, professor in the Department of Humanities at UPF and director of the Slavic Studies Seminar.

On the other hand, on the same day of the session, April 5, the Ciutadella campus will be the place of solidarity collection of different food, hygiene and clothing products for refugees [see list of products].

Registration to the event is required