The UNESCO Chair of Cultural Policies and Cooperation at the University of Girona has a wide and diverse educational range of activity resulting from a long history in the training of professionals and a close link between the academic world, research, and professional practice.
The Chair's educational activity includes regulated academic education, non-regulated education and tailor-made training, aimed at university students as well as professionals, public administration technicians, cultural managers, guides, entities, and organisations in the cultural, heritage, and tourism sector, both locally and internationally.
In the area of academic training, the Chair participates in university bachelor’s and postgraduate programmes, as well as in specialised master’s and modules, contributing to the training of future professionals from a critical, interdisciplinary and committed perspective with the values of UNESCO.
At the same time, intense activity of non-regulated education is developed through conferences, seminars, specialisation courses, workshops, and lectures, which allow for the constant updating of knowledge and discussion around the main contemporary challenges.
The Chair also offers tailor-made training, designed according to the specific needs of territories, institutions and groups, with a clear applied orientation and a strong connection with professional reality.
Although cultural management and policies and international cooperation are at the heart of its activity, the Chair's training has been progressively expanded to other related areas, such as cultural heritage (material and intangible), guiding and interpreting heritage, cultural and religious diversity, intercultural dialogue, and cultural, religious, and sustainable tourism, also incorporating new perspectives such as well-being, health, sustainability, and regenerative development.
The formats and methodologies are adapted to the objectives of each programme, combining theoretical sessions, practical work, participatory methodologies and experience-based learning.This task is carried out thanks to a plural teaching team, made up of university teaching staff, researchers, and active professionals who guarantee rigorous, up-to-date education that is closely connected to reality.