On Wednesday the 8th of May, F. Javier Murillo, director of UNESCO Chair on Education for Social Justice, will present the main findings of the qualitative study  «Bilingual Teaching Programme in Schools of the Autonomous Community of Madrid from Teachers and Families of Getafe»

This morning, members of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Social Justice met with Janina Welp, Co-Director of the Latin American Zentrum ZUrich (LZZ), University of Zurich, together with the IMEDES and DEMOSPAZ University Institutes in order to exchange perceptions about the implementation of several mechanisms of citizen participation in different democracies around the world. The sharing of lessons learned in IMEDES’ Intercultural Intervention Project (ICI in Spanish), and the recent report "Sign to influence policy? Models and experiences of local citizens' initiative” with Janina Welp amongst its authors, have led to new interesting perceptions. You can read Janina’s report…

International Conference "Towards an education that contributes to Social Justice" F. Javier Murillo, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Social Justice, will give a lecture on the contributions of Social Justice on education at Universidad Libre de Colombia.http://www.unilibre.edu.co/bogota/ul/noticias/noticias-universitarias/4146-hacia-una-educacion-que-contribuya-a-la-justicia-social

Meeting with Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize and Activist for Human Rights Yesterday an interesting informal meeting was held, with Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize and activist for Human Rights, at the La Corrala Cultural Center of the UAM.  We have been encouraged us to join the #StopKillerRobots campaign, due to the serious danger posed by the use of "killer robots" in armed conflicts, since their use implies the absence of human control in battle. In this meeting the UNESCO Chair on Education for Social Justice participated as a commitment to peace and the reproof of injustices, which adheres to…

Conference: The anthropocene: the era of a global ecosocial crisis On Wednesday 10th of April, the Contemporary History Department of the Philosophy and Arts Faculty- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, will be organising the conference "THE ANTHROPOCENE: the era of a global ecosocial crisis". Adrián Almazán, Doctor in Philosophy by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, will impart this conference with the colaboration of Instituto Demospaz and Unesco Chair on Education for Social Justice.

On March 13 we met to put on the table, disseminate and critically argue the need for the strike for the climate of March 15, 2019. After a presentation of the Chair's project by Javier Murillo, in the interventions of Adrián Almazán and Jorge Riechmann raised the underlying reasons that, in this year 2019, make more urgent than ever a decisive action against climate change, and not only. Loss of biodiversity, shortage of materials, a suicidal economic model ... All of them elements that are part of our crisis. However, the protagonists of the day were the students. Not only…