The Summer University of Adeje 2022 will be held from July 18 to 22, recovers its face-to-face format and repeats the structure that combines eleven three-day courses with nine one-afternoon workshops. Enrollment will open on Monday, the 20th, at the price of 25 euros for courses and 10 euros for workshops. The Aula Magna of the central building of the University of La Laguna hosted the presentation, yesterday, in an act presided over by the rector, Rosa Aguilar, with the presence of the vice-rector for Culture and Social Participation, Juan Albino Méndez, and the Adeje Councilor for Culture, María Rosario Clavijo.
The rector valued the close collaboration with the city council for decades culminating in the launch of a university campus in Adeje and, for two years, with the development in its municipal facilities of the EBAU tests. The Vice Chancellor highlighted the quality of the training proposal, endorsed by the teaching staff of the University of La Laguna that has developed it and that, in addition, tries to cover a wide variety of topics, attending to the concerns of society.
The Councilor for Culture of Adeje referred to the variety of workshops and the programming of parallel activities. She also revealed that this year the leitmotif of the courses has been emotional well-being and health and, in line with this, the opening speaker will be the pedagogue specializing in emotional intelligence, Mar Romera.
“30 years have passed but the anniversary is postponed because in 2020 there were no courses”
During the event, the advertising poster was also presented, the work of the artist from Adeje, Oriol Cruz Martínez. It combines views of municipal buildings from different perspectives with people of different ages and ethnicities, thus trying to link socio-cultural diversity with the territory in which it develops.
The courses will be taught both in the morning and in the afternoon and may be validated for an ECTS credit. Carrying out three workshops is also validated with a credit. The organization will carry out the return transfer of students who come from the urban area Santa Cruz-La Laguna, at no additional cost.
The courses that will take place from July 18 to 20 will be: Communication, loss and grief (Alfonso Miguel García); Community participation and development in my neighborhood (Vicente Zapata); Performing arts for the development of communication skills (Javier Rivero) and Anthropology of death (Alfonso Miguel García).
“This university is a teaching proposal and a meeting point for students”
From July 19 to 21 they will be: Direction and management of Social Services after the pandemic’ (Juan Manuel Herrera) and Cognitive biases: how do human errors affect the assessment of our personal, social and academic-work life? (Christian Robert Rosales).
Between July 20 and 22: Are there differences between men and women? (Ángela Torbay), The image is nothing, the story is everything. The leadership of brands in the era of fake news (Patricia Adriana Delponti), The eruption of Cumbre Vieja in La Palma 2021 (María Candelaria Martín), Emotional intelligence. Tools for the analysis of our emotions and those of others (Christian Robert Rosales), and Integration of the SDGs in the operations and communication of small and medium-sized organizations. Practical tools (Patricia Adriana Delponti).
As for the workshopsMental health will begin on July 14 (Eduardo Vera); 18, Spanish Sign Language (LSE), (Mª del Carmen Rodríguez); on 19, Science and pseudoscience 2022 (Luis Javier Capote); on the 20th, Mindfulness and positive psychology (María Teresa Miró) and The new employment contracts after labor reforms (Dulce Mª Cairós); on the 21st, Grassroots sports as a tool for values education (Pablo Caneiro); and on the 22nd, Paths with a botanical theme (Victoria Eugenia Martín).
From 20 to 22, the School of Music will host two urban dance workshops (Vicky Gómez), for people over 17 years old and between 9 and 16 years old.
