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Tuesday June 14, 2022 at 07:30

Sustainable cities, a challenge for the XNUMXst century

Sustainable cities, a challenge for the XNUMXst century Sustainable cities, a challenge for the XNUMXst century

A URJC summer course reflects on the challenge that sustainability in cities poses for our societies.

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70% of the world's population has chosen cities as the favorite place to live, develop and fulfill their life goals. For this reason, the United Nations Organization approved in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, which is a milestone in the work of the International Community to protect Cities and Urban Centers.

The director of the course, Sagrario Morán, Professor of Law, commented on the importance that cities must have in complying with the 2030 Agenda, "one of those objectives is to end poverty in the world, that is very important, but the others The objectives are of great importance and in this course great emphasis will be placed on objective number 11, which aims to achieve sustainable, inclusive, resilient and safe cities and communities”.

The summer course 'Cities and Sustainable Development: an indisputable challenge in the 4st century', will be held from July 6 to XNUMX at the URJC headquarters in Quintana.

Professor Morán reminds us that “cities are human constructions and like everything that human beings have done throughout history, they have virtues, defects and contradictions. Therefore, we have to make a study of the favorite place chosen by people to live. It is about moving forward and that is what objective number 11 aims to achieve, to achieve sustainable communities, that offer an adequate life, well-being, that are safe and that is the objective pursued by this SDG (sustainable development objective) of the 2030 agenda” .

The course is aimed at anyone who is interested in cities, in knowing what that space chosen by the population to make life is like. It is also interesting for the students of our university. “To the students of the International Relations degree and of the double degrees, International Relations and Economics, International Relations and Law, as well as Political Sciences. In general, to anyone who is interested in learning more about cities”, commented the professor.

Importance of SDG 11

The course will pay special attention to goal number 11 of the 2030 Agenda, which has 7 goals where issues such as city infrastructure are addressed, as well as how to make cities safer spaces, the right to housing, which is a recognized human right. On this point, Professor Morán points out that "we see how there are many homes within the framework of cities that do not meet the necessary requirements to offer a life project and well-being to their population, so precisely in this course they are going to address those 7 goals.

The artistic and cultural heritage

Cities contain a large part of the artistic and cultural heritage of societies and we can see how in the context of war they are in danger, "precisely, that is why one of the days we are going to have Professor Vicente Garrido, who is going to talk to us about how the cultural and artistic heritage of Ukraine is being affected now by the war situation, apart from being a tragedy where incalculable human lives have been lost”, says the director of the course. Garrido will be one of the 12 professors who will participate in the seminar, some of them from other universities.

According to Sagrario Morán, "increasingly, civil society is aware of contributing its grain of sand to the achievement of sustainable development, which is the 2030 agenda." This course thus aims to be a contribution from the URJC, fully committed to compliance with the SDGs, as shown by the URJC 2030 strategy.

The complete program of the summer courses with schedules and speakers can be found on the registration page. We remind you that they are all free and open to the public, you can also follow us on our Instagram account @summer_urjc.