University of Andorra Launches Courses on Cultural Rights, Peace and Holocaust Education

The University of Andorra (UdA), partnering with the UNESCO Pau Casals Chair at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), has announced a new course titled “Cultural Rights and Peace: Perspectives and Professional Applications”. The programme examines how cultural rights as human rights can support peace-building, analysing their interactions and offering practical tools for conflict resolution and non-violence promotion. It features theoretical sessions, hands-on activities and debate formats.

Delivered over three in-person Saturdays—7 and 21 March, and 21 April—the course includes a study visit to the Pau Casals Museum in Sant Salvador, El Vendrell (Baix Penedès). Enrollees also receive a free ticket to a Pau Casals commemorative concert at Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Catalana in June. Pre-registrations are open until 13 February via the UdA website, with successful participants earning a joint diploma from the UdA and UNESCO Chair.

Alongside this, the UdA is running the second edition of “The Importance of Teaching the Holocaust and Historical Memory”. Prompted by the planned placement of Andorra’s first Stolpersteine—memorial cobblestones—in April 2025, the course addresses Holocaust education to restore dignity to deportees and victims, counter denialism and hate speech, and advance democratic values alongside human rights. Supported by Canillo parish council, it spans nine hours across three afternoon sessions from 3 to 6 March, with pre-registrations closing 17 February.

Both initiatives fall under the UdA’s OHPI-UE Observatory on interdisciplinary history, political science, international relations and the European Union, promoting cultural rights, peace education and historical memory.