16 October 2024
Bilbao Campus
The University of Deusto and Alboan held on October 16 the opening day of “Euskaditik Mundura”, a joint project that seeks to reflect and design strategies for a more sustainable and fairer Euskadi. The rector of Deusto, Juan José Etxeberria, and the director of Alboan, Mary Tere Guzmán, presented this initiative, funded by eLankidetza, the Basque Agency for Cooperation and Solidarity, which seeks to promote critical reflection and generate concrete proposals for the Basque Agenda 2030 from a global and human rights perspective.
In his speech, the rector said that this project is an invitation to act “urgently” in the face of global challenges such as armed conflicts, migration crises, diseases or violence, in a context where there is a proliferation of discourses that threaten democracy and question the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Hence this action, which aims to bring together diverse voices: from academia, the third sector, authorities and, above all, youth, to address these challenges from the local level, focusing on four fundamental pillars: sustainability, education, gender and human rights. A call, in short, to “work together, so that we will be able to imagine and build a more just, sustainable and inclusive future”. Full speech.
Gaël Giraud SJ, French economist, PhD in Mathematics and Theology, specialized in non-linear dynamic macroeconomics and economic ecology; Cristina Churruca, professor of International Relations, Humanitarian Action and Peace Building at the Human Rights Institute of the University, and director of the NOHA Mundus Master; and Paul Ortega, director of eLankidetza, also participated in the launching day of “Euskaditik Mundura”.
