YUSTE CAMPUS NEWS
The Foundation opens Campus Yuste with an encounter on culture and the media during Spain’s Transition to democracy and their projection towards Europe
The European Academy of Yuste Foundation has opened its Campus Yuste training program with the organization of the 7th Yuste Encounters on the Spanish transition to democracy, this year titled “Culture and the media in democratic Spain and their projection towards Europe”, to be held on 7 and 8 April at the Royal Monastery of Yuste, the headquarters of the Foundation.
The European Academy of Yuste Foundation offers 35 grants for the 7th Yuste Encounters on the Spanish Transition to Democracy
The European Academy of Yuste Foundation is offering a program of 35 grants to cover board and lodging expenses for the “7th Encounters on the Spanish Transition to Democracy” which, on this occasion, will focus on “Culture and the media in democratic Spain and their projection towards Europe” and open the Campus Yuste 2016 schedule.
Respect for human dignity can be achieved by means of inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue
Rosa María Martínez de Codes, Professor of American History at the Complutense University of Madrid and the director of the course titled Religion in 21st-century Europe: Challenges and proposals for religious coexistence, has stressed that the underlying idea which has driven all the speakers’ interventions is that inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue can enhance “respect for human dignity” and that, upon this basis, “we can build and improve our relationships with others”.
Rosa Balas highlights the work of citizens, regions and municipalities as examples of European values in the face of the refugee crisis
Rosa Balas, the Director of the Executive Commission of the European Academy of Yuste Foundation and General Manager of External Action, today highlighted the work of citizens, regions and municipalities, because they have known how to “apply the principles of solidarity, social justice and the defence of equality in the face of the migratory flows and refugee crises we are dealing with”.
The call for grants for the course titled Religion in 21st-century Europe: challenges and proposals for confessional coexistence closed
30 September was the deadline to apply for one of the 30 enrolment, board and lodging grants offered by the European Academy of Yuste Foundation for the last international course of the University of Extremadura which forms part of the Campus Yuste 2015 program, titled Religion in 21st-century Europe: challenges and proposals for confessional coexistence, to be held from 21 to 23 October at the Royal Monastery of Yuste. For those who wish to attend the course without a grant the enrolment period will remain open until the day before it begins and until it is full.