A study on Andalusian immigration receives the University of Barcelona’s Peace Research Award
The study “Ligeros de equipaje”. La immigració andalusa a la Barcelona dels anys seixanta. El cas concret de la Barceloneta, by Lola Valiente, a student at the Institut Verdaguer in Barcelona, has won the nineteenth edition of the University of Barcelona’s Peace Research Award for high school research projects, which is promoted annually by the UB Solidarity Foundation and the UB’s Institute for Professional Development (IDP).
The study “Ligeros de equipaje”. La immigració andalusa a la Barcelona dels anys seixanta. El cas concret de la Barceloneta, by Lola Valiente, a student at the Institut Verdaguer in Barcelona, has won the nineteenth edition of the University of Barcelona’s Peace Research Award for high school research projects, which is promoted annually by the UB Solidarity Foundation and the UB’s Institute for Professional Development (IDP).
According to the prize verdict, “the study stands out for its ability to use oral history to investigate the quality of life, both in the places of origin and in the places of destination of migration”. The jury also praised “the fierce defence of living memory to explain the contribution of immigration and, therefore, of diversity, in the urban, social and cultural construction of the city”, and defined the project as “a great example of how the recovery of the past can serve to understand the present and project the future”.
The prize, which aims to promote peace education in high school and strengthen the culture of peace through research, was awarded yesterday, Wednesday 22 May, at a ceremony in the University of Barcelona’s Historic Building’s boardroom. Both the winning student and her school each received a prize of 500 euros.
Five special mentions
The jury also awarded five special mentions to the projects Fort Pienc: el Chinatown de Barcelona. Particularitats i evolució de la comunitat xinesa a la nostra ciutat (Fort Pienc: Chinatown in Barcelona. Particularities and evolution of the Chinese community in our city), by Jiayi Xu, from Institut Verdaguer in Barcelona; Viure sense llar (Living without a home), by Júlia Salvador and Carlota Enseñat, from Institut Pau Claris in Barcelona; La cultura popular, del paper al carrer (Popular culture, from papers to the streets), by Joan Valcárcel, from the Escola Sagrat Cor de Jesús in Terrassa; Situació econòmica de les persones amb dependència. El cas d’Erika (Economic situation of people with dependency. The case of Erika), by Haydée Juan, from the Institut Cristóbal Despuig in Tortosa, and Anys solitaris: la importància de l’acompanyament durant la vellesa (Lonely years: the importance of companionship in the elderly), by Carla Agüera, from the Escola Pia Balmes in Barcelona.
In the current context of genocide, the jury wanted to highlight “the imperative need for education for peace that this prize recognises and defends: understood not only as an education in values, but also as a political education, which, as the objectives of the baccalaureate state, allows people to ‘exercise democratic citizenship, from a global perspective, and to acquire a responsible civic conscience’”.
The event was presided over by the rector of the UB, Joan Guàrdia, accompanied by the vice-rector for Equality, Inclusion and Gender, Montserrat Puig, representing the UB Solidarity Foundation; the director of the IDP, Maria Rosa Buxarrais; the lecturer of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine, Mar Grasa, representing the jury, and the awardee.
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