UdA partners with UNESCO Chair for practical training in cultural rights and peace-building, plus a new

The University of Andorra (UdA), in collaboration with the UNESCO Pau Casals Chair at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), is offering a new course titled “Cultural Rights and Peace: Perspectives and Professional Applications”. The programme explores the links between cultural rights as human rights and peace-building efforts. Participants will analyse these connections, gaining practical skills for conflict management and fostering non-violence through a mix of theoretical sessions, practical exercises and debate activities.

The course runs across three in-person Saturdays—7 March, 21 March and 21 April—with one session featuring a study visit to the Pau Casals Museum in Sant Salvador, El Vendrell (Baix Penedès). Enrolment also provides a free ticket to a commemorative Pau Casals concert at Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Catalana in June. Pre-registrations close on 13 February via the UdA website, and completers receive a joint diploma from the UdA and the UNESCO Chair.

In parallel, the UdA has launched the second edition of “The Importance of Teaching the Holocaust and Historical Memory”. Timed ahead of Andorra’s first Stolpersteine—memorial cobblestones—installation in April 2025, it focuses on Holocaust education to honour deportees and victims, combat denialism and hate speech, and strengthen democratic values and human rights. Backed by Canillo parish council, the nine-hour course takes place over three afternoon sessions from 3 to 6 March, with pre-registrations due by 17 February.

Both courses are organised by the UdA’s OHPI-UE Observatory on interdisciplinary history, political science, international relations and the European Union, advancing cultural rights, peace education and historical memory.