Activities: academic, recreational and institutional
Activities: academic, recreational and institutional
The activities are grouped into four categories: academic, recreational, skills workshop and institutional. All of them are divided into subcategories.
They are divided into: cases to be solved and research projects.
The cases to be solved are activities facilitated by UAB teaching staff, which present students with a case or challenge that they must solve over the course of 6 hours spread over the course of a single day. The set of cases to be solved -as well as research projects- aims to be a representative sample of the studies offered by the UAB; for this reason, the contents are very diverse. Each group of students participates in two cases to be solved during the stay.
The research projects are an articulated set of activities in a field of knowledge, which represent how -and what- is investigated academically in this field. They last 10 hours, spread over 3 days. The results of this project are presented at the closing ceremony on the 7th day.
They are divided into: group games, water games and swimming pool.
Group games are activities facilitated by the monitors of the Ítaca Campus. They include both the activities of the first day: knowledge games, group creation and gymkhana, as well as the recreational activities of the afternoon period. Knowledge games and group creation are facilitated by both group monitors and transport monitors and are the activities that will later allow each of the stable groups of 12-13 students to be formed during the 7 days, accompanied by their group monitor.
Water games are carried out on two of the four afternoons intended for recreational activities, and the aim is for students to better withstand the high temperatures typical of the summer months.
Finally, the swimming pool is a free activity, without stimulation, but with supervision by monitors, which aims to promote that students also have a more relaxed, refreshing space and unregulated interaction.
Skills workshops are activities aimed at helping students develop and enhance their transversal learning skills.
These workshops, lasting 3h30' concentrated in a single day, are led by future educators with training in pedagogy or psychology, students of the Educational Guidance specialty, of the University Master's Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching.
There are two institutional events: the welcome event and the closing event. The welcome event is a brief meeting of all the monitors and students, with a representative from the UAB and the program technician. The closing event, unlike the welcome, is more extensive, and is the space in which the students present the results of their research projects; we describe it in more detail in a specific section of this same website.