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Applications can be submitted until 16 April for the course that will run until 2024.
The European Parliament elections and municipalism will mark a programme that, for the first time, comes to Alicante and Castellón.
New teaching staff and training modules on the challenges of international politics, citizens' rights and hate crimes
The 5th Citizenship School opens the registration period for migrants and people of migrant origin who wish to access this programme, which has already trained more than 160 leaders in its first four editions in the Valencian Community. Those interested in participating in the selection process can apply for one of the 45 places available by filling in this form until 16 April.
Promoted by Jovesólides, Acoec ONGD and Espai Obert El Marítim with funding from the Vice-presidency of Social Services, Equality and Housing, the 5th School of Citizenship will be marked by the elections to the European Parliament next June and by political municipalism. For the first time, the School of Citizenship lands in Alicante and Castellón with activities open to the public that will be announced in the coming weeks.
In this sense, the conversational meetings between representatives of parties and institutions are maintained; the mentoring of political referents of migrant origin; and the open days in all Valencian political parties. Visits are also planned to parliamentary seats such as the Corts Valencianes, where students will be able to learn first-hand about the workings of the regional legislative chamber.
The course will begin on 24 April with an inaugural lecture on the European elections.
Training programme of the 5th Citizenship School
The training programme consists of 62 teaching hours. This year, a new module has been created on the challenges of international politics and connections with the local political agenda; another will address the fronts opened by citizens' rights (employment, housing, education, health, information, etc.); another on administrative violence; and one dedicated to the right to equal treatment, hate crimes and channels of complaint.
A large part of the teaching staff has also been renewed with the aim of reinforcing training in those subjects and rights with the greatest impact on the daily lives of people of migrant origin.
Moussa Bourekba, senior researcher at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), who will address the challenges of international politics and their connection with the local and migratory political agenda; Mirna Acosta and María Vázquez, representatives of Comisiones Obreras del País Valencià, who will give a session on the right to dignified employment and possible violations of labour relations; Fátima Bourhim, physiotherapist specialising in women's health and co-founder of Sobre los Márgenes, who will speak on the right to inclusive education; Lurdes Vidal, director of the Arab and Islamic World Area of the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and editor-in-chief of the magazine Afkar/Ideas, who will discuss the right to information, social, ideological, political and cultural pluralism, as well as strategies against disinformation and hoaxes; Rita Bosaho, a Spanish health worker and activist of Equatoguinean origin, former member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies, who will give a session on the right to equal treatment, against hate crimes, and existing channels of complaint; and Salomé Carvajal, pedagogue and researcher at the University Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Valencia, who will speak on the right to good treatment in the Public Administration and against administrative violence.
The new teachers join a teaching staff led by the Director of the School and Manager of Jovesólides Boutaina El Hadri, which includes the activist and politician Guillem Balboa, the communicator Fani Grande, the sociologist Albert Mora, the political scientist Aída Vizcaíno and the doctor specialising in public health Rafel Sotoca.
The programme of the 5th School of Citizenship is structured in the following five modules:
Module 1. Social participation and political influence.
-The map of social and political participation in Spain.
-Forms of social and political participation
Module 2. Challenges of International Politics and connections with the current political agenda.
-Challenges of international politics and connections with the local political agenda.
Module 3. Political diversity in diverse and polarised societies.
-From social participation to political activism
-Cultural identities in diverse and polarised societies.
Module 4. Open fronts for citizens' rights.
-Right to decent employment and labour relations.
-Right to inclusive education
-Right to information, social, ideological, political and cultural pluralism
-Right to health
-Right to equal treatment, hate crimes and channels of complaint
-The right to good treatment in the public administration
Module 5. One's own voice in politics: leadership and effective communication.
-Leadership and effective communication
Aquí puedes consultar el programa formativo detallado y el cuadro de profesorado.
Here you can consult the detailed training programme and the teaching staff.
The training will be given in Valencia on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, between May and July 2024, to 45 people living in the Valencian Community.
It is aimed at immigrants or descendants of immigrants with a level of education equivalent to the Bachillerato (homologation is not necessary), accredited experience in associative movements and an average level of Spanish.
If you meet the requirements and want to be part of this community of leaders, register here until 16 April to enter the student selection process.
Find out about all the editions of the School of Citizenship
The aim of the School of Citizenship is to encourage the participation of immigrants in Valencian society through training, personal empowerment and the positive management of interculturality. The aim is to encourage their involvement in associative movements and in the political life of the Valencian Community.
The School of Citizenship is a pioneering project in Europe that has had a major political, social and media impact.
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Citizenship School is an education project for global citizenship and development, promoted by Jovesólides, Acoec ONGD and Espai Obert El Marítim with funding from the Vice-presidency of Social Services, Equality and Housing. To follow all the news of this project follow the hashtags #EscuelaDeCiudadanía and #MigrantesEnPolíticaYa on social networks.
