Registration for 20th edition of Els Juliols is now open

Model courses, new proposals

The courses from Els Juliols program have a 20 hour length, and these hours are distributed over a week, either in the morning or the afternoon. With teachers coming from different fields, both university and professional, public and private sectors, the offer is structured in four main blocs: Arts and humanities, Social Sciences, Resources and Strategies, and Natural and Health Sciences.

The twentieth edition of the courses brings some courses back —the ones which got successful participation in other editions, such as the ones related to research and stem cells clinics, philosophical thinking in the three main Asian states, tecniques of neurolinguistics programming for self-improvement and the one on mindfulness, the ones related to entrepreneurship, Chinese medicine, political thinking and tours to discover Barcelona historically and artistically.

Current affairs, social interest and multidiscipline are also the main connectors of all the programmed courses for 2016. The most highlighted are the ones dedicated to child abuse, welfare construction, cinema and historic memory, economy and energy models in current society, international cooperation roles in conflict resolution and the refugeesʼ drama. There are also courses about the controversies provoked by the nutrition-health binomial, about pain, medicine and science seen by literature and TV series, about wine and the wide range of products made from grapes, about the impact of the climate change on the vineyards, about the gold rush and river prospecting, and even about the Catalan rumba.

Most of the courses in Els Juliols take place in the Historical Building of the University of Barcelona. The others, depending on their characteristics, are taught in the cities of Alella, Badalona, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Sant Joan Despí, Terrassa, Vilafranca del Penedès, and specially in Cornellà de Llobregat, where between July 6 and July 10 there will be four courses within the 8th edition of the Universitat dʼEstiu de les Dones (Summer University of Women).

Financial support

The University of Barcelona has called 35 grants to study a course in Els Juliols in the 2016 edition, thanks to the collaboration of Securitas.

The grants are for the bachelor, engineering, master, or doctorate students registered at the University of Barcelona during the 2015-2016 academic year, and consist of a discount of 70 euros of the price of the course. To apply for them the following steps are required (between May 17 and June 3):

•  Submitting the course enrolment via internet or in person, paying for half of the course (70 euros) and leaving the rest waiting for the grant to be given.
•  Applying for the grant via electronic office of the University of Barcelona or the address of the grant service.
• Printing the application and the rest of documentation required in the callʼs instructions and handing it in in any register office of the UB.

Once the results are published, the applicants will receive the results via text message.
 

Registration process

The registration can be done until the first day of the course, via two ways: in person in the secretary office of the Area de Formació Complementària (Complementary Training Area) of the UB, Barcelona (Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 582) and in El Carme Cultural Centre in Badalona (Francesc Layret, 78-82), and in the Cross Tower of Sant Joan Despí (Torre de la Creu, Passeig de Canalies, 14) or via auto-registration which you can have access to via this link. The support service hours both in person and via phone are Monday-Friday 10-14h and 16-20h.

In Els Juliols website you can read the detailed schedule for each course and all the information related to registration and academic recognition of the activities.