Category: Activities 2022-2023

Call for activities 2023

The Student’s House opens the call for Activity Projects in the Student Recreation Centre for the year 2023

The call “ACTIVITY PROJECT AT THE STUDENT RECREATION CENTRE” consists of the presentation of proposals for artistic, cultural and recreational activities by the university community.

We invite you to read the call for proposals:

Activity Projects + Bases of the call for proposals 2023(spanish)

 

In case you want to propose your own activity, please fill in the following form:

Activity Projects Form 2023 

 

European day for sexual health

February 14 is not only Valentine’s Day, but also Sexual Health Day, a day that reminds us of the importance of taking care of ourselves in sexual
day, a day that reminds us of the importance of taking care of oneself in sexual relations and also of
enjoy each other’s sexuality with protection, safety and wellbeing.

Pictures of the day

Relevant links:

14h february, european day for sexual health

REUPS press release 

Qualitative study on sexual health in young people (2019)

WHO > Health Topics > Sexual Health

Ministry of Health > Sexual and reproductive health

GVA Health > Health and gender

CDC > Female condom use

World election day 2023

We remember this day in a year in which Spain will face several electoral processes.

Every first Thursday of February is celebrated around the world as World Election Day, an initiative that arose during the World Conference of Election Officials, held in Hungary in 2005, and which was endorsed by the United Nations, among other international organisations.

The objectives of this event are:

To raise public awareness of the different types of voting systems, to raise awareness of the importance of promoting a democratic culture and high levels of voter participation, and to encourage new voters and young people to exercise their right to vote.

Elections are the mechanism by which voters express their opinion through a secret ballot to elect a representative to a political, trade union or other office. This institutional process is possible in a democratic environment.

How to motivate youth

For young people to be empowered and to make use of their right to vote, it is important to value democracy.

But what is democracy?

Beyond a regime or form of government, it is a way of life where the highest values in the human sense are highlighted.

It has to do with upholding the rule of law, the division of powers, universal suffrage and regular elections.

It involves the institutional defence of human rights.

It is linked to the freedom of expression, opinion, thought, conscience…

It has to do with the right to freedom to investigate and to receive and disseminate information and ideas by any means of expression.

It implies the active participation of citizens and transparency in public administration.

The democratic ideal is related to respect for ethnic, religious, gender, sexual orientation and ideological differences.

In its fullest sense, democracy is about access to minimum levels of socio-economic welfare.

Elections in Spain

In Spain, several elections are scheduled for 2023. The first will be on 28 May: municipal and regional elections (the latter, however, will not be held in all autonomous communities, excluding the regions of Andalusia, Castile and Leon, Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country). The other electoral event is expected to take place in November or December, and will be the General Elections to elect the people’s representatives to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate.

2023 elections

Global Game Jam 2023

The video game club participates in the Global Game Jam as the official venue, an international event in which, with a common theme in the different venues and countries, a video game has to be made in 48 hours. They are distributed in different teams of a few people in order to coordinate better with people from different fields: programming, 2D and 3D art, music, level design, etc. UPV students of computer science, fine arts, design and technologies, industrial design and other situations together with people from outside.

Welcome Day by ESN Valencia UPV

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On the 2nd of February took place the “Welcome Day” organised by Erasmus Student Network Valencia UPV at the Student Recreation Centre, where the exchange students of the second semester were welcomed with live music and paella.

In this event the students were able to enjoy an ideal morning to make new friends and learn about all the activities and services offered by ESN.

If you want to keep up to date with ESN UPV events, visit their website or one of their social networks:

 

 

Pandemic Community exhibition

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At a time when we are facing a “new planet” due to the presence of a new disease that has completely altered all spheres of human life, some epidemiologists prefer to think of this as a passing issue, while others advocate looking at the situation from the perspective of the “new normal”, to which new viruses, zoonoses, variants and mutations are being added.

Creating Immunity on Planet Earth through Art and Activism
In this online transmedia art exhibition, we start with the concept of community itself, and how it is being affected by the pandemic, which is destroying entire families, villages and communities, especially those with fewer resources, the poorest. At the same time, we observe the overuse of technologies and social media in all fields, as they can involve various types of actors in different parts of the world. In our case, in this exhibition Pandemic Community we wanted to generate a context of a hybrid multimodal and transnational network, where we find artists from different countries, ages, sexes, as well as from different backgrounds.

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