The UNED Dénia awarded the UNED SDG Award for her work "Exploring Equality with COE and DUCA"
On February 26, in I UNED International SDG Day: UNED, a university open to the SDGs, the CA UNED Dénia team went to Madrid to collect the 5st UNED ODS Award for their contribution to SDG No. XNUMX with their work: Exploring Equality with COE and DUCA.
SDG 5 is the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 on Gender Equality, which reads “Ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls is not only a basic human right, but it is also crucial for sustainable development. It has been proven time and again that empowering women and girls has a multiplier effect and helps to promote economic growth and development worldwide. ” (UNDP)
The UNED, the largest public university in number of students, decided to integrate the United Nations 2030 Agenda into its Strategic Plan (2019 - 2022), thus creating the SDG Observatory and confirming its commitment, both theoretical and practical, with the values advocated by the 17 SDGs of the United Nations.
El “I Día Internacional de los ODS de la UNED: la UNED, una universidad abierta a los ODS” incide en la educación, la investigación, la transferencia de conocimiento y la excelencia en la gobernanza para conseguir asegurar el progreso social y económico sostenible en todo el mundo y fortalecer la paz universal, la igualdad y la libertad de oportunidades para todas y todos – objetivos de los ODS-, razón por la que Federico Mayor Zaragoza destacó: “You are showing here how you should act and for that I congratulate you”.
The Observatory table was chaired by Mr. Ricardo Mairal Usón, Rector of the UNED; Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Honorary President of the ODS UNED Observatory, former Director General of UNESCO and honorary doctorate in Education from UNED; the executive director of the Spanish Global Compact Network, Cristina Sánchez; the vice-rector of Institutional Policy and International Relations and first vice-rector, Esther Souto; and the vice-dean of the Faculty of Education, María José Bautista-Cerro.
During the Raquel Martí Signes award ceremony, Director of CA UNED Dénia highlighted that “For the Associated Center UNED DÉNIA, it has meant an institutional recognition of a rewarding and useful work for society. When we were awarded the I UNED ODS Prize, we thought that our effort had been worthwhile, that what we believe and work in can become visible in a mature society that demands respect and training. The main purpose of this project is to develop pedagogical tools aimed at promoting coeducation at an early age from childhood and adolescence to adulthood, all coordinated under the UNED DÉNIA Equality Observatory since its creation in 2012.
The innovation of this study lies in the fact that after applying the pedagogical techniques and tools related to coeducation, the results improve, creating an environment of equality and respect for diversity and non-violence”.