A project on the music by Catalans deported to Nazi concentration camps gets the XIV UB Research Prize for Peace
Coinciding with the award ceremony for the XIV UB Research Prize for Peace, the new website recercapau.ub.edu has been published, reconverted in a guide on the research project for upper secondary education students. The project La música dels catalans deportats als camps de concentració nazis. Buscant la llum dins la barbarie, by the student Ariadna Gómez, from Institut Escola Artístic Oriol Martorell (Barcelona), has won the 14th edition of the Research Prize for Peace for upper secondary school projects, which is held yearly by the University of Barcelona, promoted by UB Solidarity Foundation and the Institute of Professional Development (IDP) - ICE UB, with the support from the Direction of Global Justice and International Cooperation of the Barcelona City Council. The jury, formed by lecturers from the University, decided to award the prize to this research study, which, using secondary sources, identifies musical references from Catalans who were deported to the Nazi concentration camps. According to the verdict, “the jury highlights the courage of the student to face such a specific issue, and admires that, given the lack of proximity information, she knew how to look for the information at an international scale and made a good analysis of secondary sources”. The jury also highlighted the link and coherence of the project with culture of peace, integration of global dimensions (Nazism) and local (deported Catalan people) in the treatment of this topic, and the fact that the author shared the results of the research with a concert of some of the identified works, in the memorial of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Coinciding with the award ceremony for the XIV UB Research Prize for Peace, the new website recercapau.ub.edu has been published, reconverted in a guide on the research project for upper secondary education students. The project La música dels catalans deportats als camps de concentració nazis. Buscant la llum dins la barbarie, by the student Ariadna Gómez, from Institut Escola Artístic Oriol Martorell (Barcelona), has won the 14th edition of the Research Prize for Peace for upper secondary school projects, which is held yearly by the University of Barcelona, promoted by UB Solidarity Foundation and the Institute of Professional Development (IDP) - ICE UB, with the support from the Direction of Global Justice and International Cooperation of the Barcelona City Council. The jury, formed by lecturers from the University, decided to award the prize to this research study, which, using secondary sources, identifies musical references from Catalans who were deported to the Nazi concentration camps. According to the verdict, “the jury highlights the courage of the student to face such a specific issue, and admires that, given the lack of proximity information, she knew how to look for the information at an international scale and made a good analysis of secondary sources”. The jury also highlighted the link and coherence of the project with culture of peace, integration of global dimensions (Nazism) and local (deported Catalan people) in the treatment of this topic, and the fact that the author shared the results of the research with a concert of some of the identified works, in the memorial of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
The award, which aims to promote education for peace in upper secondary school, and strengthen culture of peace with research, was given on Wednesday, May 29, in a ceremony held in the Chapel of the Historical Building of the UB. The awardee and her high school received, each, a prize accounting for 500 euros.
The jury awarded seven quality awards to the following projects: LGBTfòbia, by Victoria Cano and Anna Fenoy, from Institut Can Jofresa (Terrassa); Salud y migración. El impacto de la regularización en la salud de inmigrantes venezolanos, by Isabella Palmieri, from Institut Juan Manuel Zafra (Barcelona); La sexualitat. Coneixem totes les orientacions sexuals?, by Andrea Seligrat, from Institut Guinovarda (Piera); Guernica 2.0. La història es repeteix, by Adrià Torras, from Institut Joan Mercader (Igualada); Donem la cara o donem lʼesquena? Estudi dels desplaçaments humans a conseqüència de la Guerra Civil espanyola i la guerra civil de Síria, by Laia Casanovas, from La Salle Manlleu (Manlleu); Implementación de los sistemas aumentativos y alternativos de comunicación (SAAC) en Montcada i Reixac, by Glenda Jiménez, and La fragilitat dels ecosistemes, by Maria Hernàndez, both students from Institut Montserrat Miró i Vilà (Montcada i Reixac).
Also, the special award by Consell Comarcal del Garraf (county council), which awards the best research project of upper secondary education in the region, was given to Hacia Dios, por el amor y la ciencia, by Pablo Valero, from Institut Manuel de Cabanyes (Vilanova i la Geltrú). The award ceremony will take place on Friday, June 7, at 12 noon, in Masia d'en Cabanyes. Also, Joan Gomis Award, given by the City Council of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, to the best research project in this city, was given to Lʼeducació. Lʼorigen del problema? La coeducació. Una possible solució?, by Alba García, from Institut Les Vinyes. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, June 27, at 6.30 p.m., in the Santa Coloma de Gramenet mayor's office.
Yersterday's ceremony was presided over by the rector of the UB, Joan Elias. Other attendants were Maite Vilalta, vice-rector for Equal Opportunities and Social Action, representing UB Solidarity Foundation; Xavier Triadó, director of IDP-ICE UB, and Mary Nash, emeritus professor of History and Archaeology of the UB, in charge of reading the jury's verdict. Jordi Cortés attended as representative of the Direction of Global Justice and International Cooperation of the Barcelona City Council.
Reconversion of the website recercapau.ub.edu
The award ceremony for the XIV UB Research Price for Peace counted on the presentation of the reconversion of the website recercapau.ub.edu -in a guide on the research projects by upper secondary school students. Titled Recerca pels Drets Humans, the new website will offer guidance, activities and resources to do research on global justice.
The material in this website results from the program "Research for global citizenship", an initiative by the UB Solidarity Foundation and IDP-ICE UB, which supports high schools from Barcelona and its provincial area to carry out research projects on human rights and global citizenship. The re-edition of the website jkoins the guidance and material for supervirors of these research projects, published in Portal PAULA, which, since 2005, has supported the educational task of the lecturers from a culture-of-peace perspective.