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The third meeting of the European project Past Continuous (Erasmus+) took place in the city of Corfu, Greece, and marked the final stage of an international cooperation initiative focused on educational innovation in the fields of history education and critical literacy. The meeting brought together participating institutions from Spain, Greece, Italy, and Hungary, including the … Read more

The UB Chair on Gender and Feminisms of the City of Cornellà invites you to participate in the Summer School on Education and Gender. The course is aimed at doctoral students and students who are completing their undergraduate studies in the field of Educational Sciences. It will take place from 29 June to 3 July … Read more

The REDICE project: Training university faculty in the implementation of a gender perspective in higher education classrooms (2023–2025), promoted by the Institute for Professional Development (IDP) of the University of Barcelona, has recently concluded and presents a dissemination video showcasing some of the preliminary research findings. The project is led by Dr. Ilaria Bellatti, a … Read more

We share the publication of two recent books: Embats i escomeses en la didàctica de les ciències socials a l’educació primària, edited by Núria Gil-Durán (DHIGECS-COM / Universitat Rovira i Virgili), and Aula feminista como espacio dialógico docente. Desde un enfoque transdisciplinar, edited by Laura Triviño Cabrera (University of Málaga). Both publications include relevant contributions … Read more

Within the framework of the 26th International Congress of the International Society for the Didactics of Language and Literature (SIDLL), held from 26 to 28 November 2025 at the University of Alcalá (Guadalajara, Spain), Alba Ambròs, together with Leonel Abarzúa and Albert Gener, presented part of the knowledge-transfer project she led for two years for … Read more

Free conference (October 1 and 2, 2025) for Secondary School Social Sciences teachers and interested public. In a context marked by information overload and the proliferation of digital misinformation, acquiring critical media literacy skills is more necessary than ever. One of the great challenges today is to integrate these skills into Secondary Education training, especially … Read more

The objective of this seminar, aimed at secondary school teachers and organized by the Jaume Vicens i Vives Institute of History and the Research Group on Didactics of History, Geography and other Social Sciences – Communication (DHIGECS-COM) of the University of Barcelona, is to offer a rigorous and updated vision of history and current world … Read more

With deep sadness, we inform you of the passing of our beloved colleague, Dr. Judit Sabido Codina, last Friday, April 18, 2025. Researcher and teacher at the University of Barcelona and the University of Vic, collaborator of the DHiGeCs-COM research group, she was always committed to research and improving the initial training of teachers in … Read more

Yesterday, Wednesday April 2, in the auditorium of the Palau de les Heures, the association “Amics del Moviment del Quart Món” met with the future teachers of Early Childhood Education in the framework of the activity “Dones i creativitat: el problema de l’habitatge avui i el cartellisme d’ahir”. In this meeting the topic of homelessness … Read more

On March 5, the 1 st Conference on Communication and Mental Health: “Youth, internet and screens” was held, an event organized by the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, the DHIGECS-COM research group, the CBCD research group and the CRICC. The conference brought together leading experts to discuss the impact of screens on the mental … Read more

The Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona and the research group DHIGECS-COM, together with the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the National University of Singapore, are organizing the II International Conference on Media, Gender, and Sexualities: Representations, Literacy, and Audiences, which will take place at the Centro de Ciencias de … Read more

We present the project ObjectLab-UB confluent realities for the learning of Social Sciences through digital object heritage in Secondary Education (AS017658), led by researchers Tania Martínez Gil and Carolina Martín Piñol, and which team has teachers, archaeologists, historians, art educators and technologists from the University of Barcelona. Of particular note is the collaboration with the … Read more

On November 20th, 2024 the Governing Board of the University of Barcelona announced that it would stop publishing on the social network X (formerly Twitter). In the statement published by the UB, they explain what motivated this decision: “For the UB, distancing itself from a space where hate speech and misinformation are promoted is an … Read more