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The 56th edition of the Catalan Summer University dedicated its first day, corresponding to Saturday, August 17, 2024, to celebrating the 37th Andorran Day, which, as every year, was organized by the Andorran Society of Sciences (SAC), with the support of FEDA and the Government of Andorra. This year’s monographic topic was Globalization and Andorra, and the program included an extensive list of participants, each from their sectoral or social perspective, which contributed to shaping very interesting debates about the future of the country.

Among the presentations related to higher education, the academic protonotary of eUniv, Dr. Marc B. Escolà, presented his on The globalization of the university offer from Andorra: future perspectives, placing special emphasis on the typological differences between universities, which are especially contrasted when considering academic internationalization.

Also present at this year’s UCE activities were the Coordinator of Humanities studies, Francesc X. de Fantova, Dr. Llum Torrens, Coordinator of Catalan Language and Literature studies, the Director of the University Institute of Applied Technology, Joaquim Vallès, and the Vice-Rector for Academic Organization, Dr. Eladi Llop.

The agreement includes, among others, the creation of an institutional delegation of the Barcelona University in Sant Julià

The European University and the Ateneu Barcelonès reached an institutional cooperation agreement last June, which marks the beginning of a relationship born with the desire to promote and strengthen the Catalan language within the area of ​​Catalanophony. The rector of the eUniv, Dr. Antoni Noguero, and the president of the Ateneu Barcelonès, Isona Passola, signed the agreement which includes several collaborative activities.

“We are an Andorran university and, as such, it is also our responsibility to defend the use and survival of the language”, said Dr. Noguero. In the same way, from the Ateneu they pronounce themselves adding that “this kind of initiatives, which go beyond borders, allow us to feed back with a clear objective; may the language survive”. The commitment between both entities is clearly reflected in the agreement to create an institutional delegation of the Ateneu Barcelonès at the eUniv headquarters in Sant Julià de Lòria.

Thus, the agreement also contemplates that both entities collaborate in the organization of conferences, round tables and presentations, the edition of publications and the organization of training programs. In addition, the collectives of the eUniv and the Ateneu Barcelonès will be able to make use of the respective libraries.

The Ateneu Barcelonès is an association that has supported Catalan society and culture for more than one hundred and fifty years, with the aim of being one of the main centers of intellectual debate.

Its main objectives are to promote citizen cultural self-education, promote an open, transversal and constructive dialogue with civil society, be a center for the dissemination of national debates and a creative nucleus to promote intellectual activity collective.

From August 17 to 23, 2024, the 56th edition of the Catalan Summer University will take place in the town of Prada de Conflent. This year’s program of events includes the traditional day organized by the Andorran Society of Sciences, with the sponsorship of the Government of Andorra and FEDA, and which this year will address the topic “Globalization and Andorra”.

The conference will take place on Saturday, August 17, and a total of 21 presentations will be presented in person, to which another 13 will be added in the subsequent publication.

Among the face-to-face presentations that will be presented during the afternoon is the presentation by Dr. Marc B. Escolà, Academic Prothonotary of the eUniv, who will discuss “The globalization of the university offer from Andorra: future perspectives”.

On July 10, 2024, the inter-institutional cooperation framework agreement was signed between eUniv and the Miguel Hernández University of Elche. This agreement is accompanied by two other specific agreements, one dedicated to arranging the stays of visiting teaching and research staff from both universities, and the other to the regulation of the academic conditions of the exchanges of the respective students.

These agreements are part of eUniv’s institutional strategy, aimed at fostering institutional links with the international academic environment, and especially with universities in Catalan-speaking territories.

As a result of these agreements with the Miguel Hernández University, in the next academic year 2024-2025, the eUniv will receive researchers from the Faculty of Law of the Illicitan university, who will carry out research stays dedicated to the comparative analysis of various institutions of the private international law.