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Cooperate by cooperating: Training project for cooperation and international volunteering practices.
The University of La Laguna, through its Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization and Cooperation, promotes awareness of global inequalities and the challenges of sustainable development, seeking to develop critical, participatory, and committed citizens, promoting fundamental values such as social justice, equity, democracy, and the common good.
Goals
The creation of alliances with other universities for the development of priority areas, which will contribute to the consolidation of professionals and local development agents in partner countries and in international research teams.
Promoting cooperation with other social institutions to identify needs and achieve joint solutions.
Within this framework, with funding from the Tenerife Island Council's Directorate of Foreign Affairs, the ULL is developing the "Cooperar-cooperando" project, which includes two aspects:
Training for cooperation:
Carrying out training, awareness-raising and educational activities for global development and cooperation, a transversal content that contributes to the comprehensive training of students and to research (as a consequence of the training) oriented towards sustainable development and direct participation in social profile initiatives.
Professional volunteer internships:
Within the International Mobility Plan for ULL students, the program aims to carry out internships (curricular and extracurricular) and carry out development cooperation work in countries with a medium-low human development index and with which the ULL has cooperation agreements. The objectives include:
Promote solidarity and the values of development cooperation among the university community.
- Allow students to develop strategies to put knowledge into practice
and skills acquired in other social, economic and cultural contexts. - Allow students to learn while providing community service
(service-learning methodology). - Promote a critical citizenship that advocates for an economic model
alternative and a social transformation. - Provide students with international mobility experiences.
- For more information about the internships, see the link: Cooperation Internships