Course presented by the University of the Basque Country:

Connecting Cultures: Sustainability, Travel, Translation & Migration

The Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Connecting Cultures: Sustainability, Travel, Translation & Migration provides students a framework for analyzing the complexities of cultural transfer and their implications for sustainability, and leads them, during the on-site week, to co-create solutions to challenges formulated in interaction with sociocultural agents. Its first edition took place from March to May 2024, with five online sessions and one on-site week. It brought to the Faculty of Arts of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) twenty-five master’s and doctoral students from ENLIGHT (Galway, Uppsala, Bratislava, Ghent, Groningen, Tartu, Basque Country), fifteen international experts and representatives of five cultural institutions and NGOs committed with environmental issues, social inclusion, multilingual diversity, minority languages, or sustainable gastronomy.

After three days of workshops, students presented and discussed their proposals with the agents, teaching staff and international experts during a Research seminar on cultural transfer and sustainability. The course was a pilot project of pedagogical innovation for the implementation of Challenge Based Education in Humanities. In view of the success and the significant impact it left on all participants on both academic and personal level, the design of the following editions has been launched.

Contact: Frederik Verbeke (UPV/EHU), frederik.verbeke@ehu.eus