What are the future challenges for university mediation services?

Meeting of experts on university mediation in the morning.
Meeting of experts on university mediation in the morning.
Academic
(08/02/2019)

On Monday February 4, the University of Barcelona held the 1st Scientific Dissemination Session on Conflict Mediation Services, a meeting aiming to set synergies between the different university mediation services, to analyse its current state and to consider future challenges the universities have to face regarding mediation. A close-doors meeting for experts took place in the morning and a roundtable for analysis took place in the afternoon. The meeting, coordinated by Immaculada Armadans, Marina Romeo, Elena Lauroba and Maria Munné, counted on the institutional support of Maite Vilalta, vice-rector for Equal Opportunities and Social Action, and Antonio Solanas, dean of the Faculty of Psychology.

Meeting of experts on university mediation in the morning.
Meeting of experts on university mediation in the morning.
Academic
08/02/2019

On Monday February 4, the University of Barcelona held the 1st Scientific Dissemination Session on Conflict Mediation Services, a meeting aiming to set synergies between the different university mediation services, to analyse its current state and to consider future challenges the universities have to face regarding mediation. A close-doors meeting for experts took place in the morning and a roundtable for analysis took place in the afternoon. The meeting, coordinated by Immaculada Armadans, Marina Romeo, Elena Lauroba and Maria Munné, counted on the institutional support of Maite Vilalta, vice-rector for Equal Opportunities and Social Action, and Antonio Solanas, dean of the Faculty of Psychology.

Prestigious experts took part in both morning and afternoon sessions: Marina Granell, advisor on equality and gender, certified mediator as workplace mediation and volunteer in the Student Resolution Service at the University of Oxford; José F. Campos Vidal, co-founder and current director of the Laboratory of Mediation, Conflict Resolution and Family Planning at the University of the Balearic Islands; Isabel Viola, co-director of the Legal Clinic on Property Law and Residential Meditation of the UB (ClinHab); Javier Plaza, deputy of Data Protection at the University of Valencia, and Emiliano Carretero, executive director of the Program on Intralegal Mediation in the Leganés and Getafe Courts at the Charles III University of Madrid.

Participants analysed the task carried out from the different university frameworks, in their respective spaces for knowledge transfer or services, aimed at knowledge transfer and services to the same university community and society in general. Also, they analysed future challenges and the chances university mediation and its sustainability offer. The attendants could ask on the details of the different types of presented models.