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título propio de competencias
New degree for the development of skills and values
24 March, 2023
Mathematic skills factor into nearly 20% of employment opportunities
4 April, 2023

International Week at the Faculty of Economics

The Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences of Universidad CEU San Pablo has held the ninth edition of International Seminaries with multiple sessions, workshops and cultural and social activities. Sixteen teachers from different European and African Universities visited Madrid to take part in the international seminaries of the Faculty and teach sessions to students and professors on topics related to sustainability and the actual energy crisis.

Ana Doś, Monika Foltyn, Joanna Błach, Dominika  Krawczyńska and Marcin Tomecki, from the University of Economics in Katowice, Poland; Chiara Bernardi, from the UAS and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland; Piet Wallays, from HoGent, Bélgica; Linda Snippe and Abdul Kara, from InHolland UAS, the Netherlands; Theo Daselaar, from Hogeschool Utrecht UAS, the Netherlands; Simone Scholtens and Audrey Gran Weinberg, from Amsterdam UAS, the Netherlands; Karen Kooi, from Hanze UAS, The Netherlands and African teachers Rebecca Esliker, Jalikatu Jalloh and Mohamed O. Turay from UNIMAK, Sierra Leona; have shared their knowledge, experiences, visions and ideas with students and teachers.

Between all degrees over 400 students have taken part in the more than 30 sessions organized. Some of the sessions which gave rise to great expectations were “Sustainable Entrepreneurship”; “Banking for Energy Transition”; “Sustainability and SRI funds”; “Sustainable Performance and Risk Management”; “Currency Redomination in Sierra Leone”; “Environmental sustainability and industry analysis”; “Powerful presentation Skills”; “Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Business Strategy” or “The effect of FGM (female gender mutilation) on women and girls in Sierra Leone”. After these sessions we detected an increase of students’ sensibility towards the speeches of Sierra Leona.

Also during these days there have been several workshops and informative sessions for students and professors. In particular it is worth highlighting research, teaching innovation and internationalization workshops in order to know the research lines of participants; to extend networks; exchange ‘best practices’, initiatives, projects and programs of the different universities; in addition to the dissemination of programs such as the BIP (Blended Intensive Programs) and COILs (Collaborative Online International Learning).

One of the workshops with the greatest audience among students and professors was the informative session where professors informed on facts and details of the relevant universities of origin promoting international mobility and solving doubts to future students and/or teachers of those centres.

As social activity and to transmit visiting professors the importance of Spanish culture there has been an informative session with the curator of the National Museum Thyssen-BornemiszaJuan Angel López-Manzanares, who has explained his role as curator of a museum of reference in the national and international scope. Participants in the session have been able to appreciate the commitment and essential respect to National heritage and to observe the commitment with the challenges of climatic emergency in their activities and exhibition rooms. The Museum works firmly towards sustainability and social responsibility adopting the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO) included in UN 2030 Agenda; according to the topics of International Seminaries. After the session, professors have enjoyed a tour guided by him.