Academic, Leisure and Institutional Activities
Academic, Leisure and Institutional Activities
The activities are grouped into three categories: academic, recreational, and institutional. All of them are divided into subcategories.
Academic activities:
They are divided into: case studies to be solved, research projects, and skills workshops.
The case studies to be solved are activities facilitated by UAB teaching staff, who present students with a case or challenge that they must solve over 6 hours distributed throughout a single day. The set of case studies 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 takes part in two case studies to be solved during the stay.
The research projects are an articulated set of activities within a field of knowledge, representing how —and what— is researched academically in that field. They have a duration of 10 hours, distributed over 3 days. The results of this project are presented at the closing event on the 7th day.
And the skills workshops are activities aimed at enabling students to develop and strengthen their transversal learning skills.
These workshops, with a duration of 3 hours and 30 minutes concentrated in a single day, are facilitated by future educators with training in pedagogy or psychology, students specialising in Educational Guidance from the University Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education and Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching.
Recreational activities:
They are divided into: group games, water games, and swimming pool.
Group games are activities facilitated by the Campus Ítaca monitors. They include both the activities of the first day: ice-breaking games, group creation and an obstacle course, as well as the recreational activities in the afternoon time slot. The ice-breaking and group-creation games are facilitated both by group monitors and transport monitors and are the activities that will later allow the configuration of each of the stable groups of 12–13 students that will be maintained for the 7 days, accompanied by their group monitor.
Water games take place on two of the four afternoons allocated to recreational activities, and their aim is to help students better cope with the high temperatures typical of the summer months.
Finally, the swimming pool is a free activity, without facilitation but with supervision by the monitors, which aims to promote that students also have a more relaxed, refreshing space for unregulated interaction.
Institutional activities:
There are two institutional events: the welcome event and the closing event. The welcome event is a brief meeting of all monitors and students, with a representative of the UAB and the programme technician. The closing event, unlike the welcome, is longer and is the space in which students present the results of the research projects; it is described in more detail in a specific section of this same website.
These are divided into Case studies and Research projects
Case studies are led by UAB teaching staff and present students with a challenge or scenario to resolve over six hours in a single day. Case studies and research projects alike aim to offer a representative sample of the academic disciplines available at the UAB, covering a wide range of topics. Each student group participates in two case studies during the campus experience.
Research projects consist of coordinated activities within a specific academic field, illustrating how research is conducted in that field. These projects last 10 hours over three days, and the results are presented during the closing ceremony on the seventh day.
These are divided into Group games, Water games and Swimming pool.
Group games, led by campus monitors, include icebreakers, team-building activities, and a scavenger hunt on the first day, along with various afternoon games throughout the programme. These introductory activities are guided by the monitors and are used to form stable teams of 12 to 13 students. Each team remains together for the entire seven-day campus experience, under the guidance of their assigned monitor.
Water games are held in two of the four afternoons to provide students with relief from the high summer temperatures.
These workshops aim to foster the development of cross-discipline learning skills.
Each workshop lasts 3.5 hours and takes place on a single day. They are led by trainee educators with backgrounds in pedagogy or psychology, specifically students specialising in Educational Guidance from the master’s degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education and High School Education, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching.
Two official events take place: The Welcome Ceremony and the Closing Ceremony. The Welcome Ceremony is a brief gathering with all students and monitors, a UAB representative, and the programme coordinator. The Closing Ceremony is a longer event where students present their research projects. Full details can be found in the relevant section of our website.