The UAB approves a student participation guide

This new guide aims to cover the various ways of participating in university life, ranging from forming part of associations to volunteering and cooperation activities, cultural and sports activities, mentoring or exercising the right to student representation in the bodies of the institution. Participation enables the acquisition of transversal skills necessary both to become part of an active and committed citizenship and to facilitate employability. For this reason, the UAB Strategic Plan 2018-2030 sets as an objective “to help students' lives during their time at the university to be transformative in terms of personal and professional growth”.

The guide establishes four strategic axes: transversal measures for welcoming the student body - mentoring, accompanying, etc. - and for disseminating actions; dialogue with the student body so that, among others, it can propose activities; support for the student body by performing student representation tasks; and programming of social, cultural, sports, health and community activities of the institution. In addition, in order to follow up on the topic, the guide stipulates the creation of a technical commission to prepare a periodic report on the development of actions, as well as a working group to hold periodic meetings with those responsible for promoting activities.

The approved text is the result of an analysis of the transversal competencies derived from participatory practice and a diagnosis of the extracurricular experiences of UAB students, as well as a participatory session held with the vice-deans and the deputy director of students of the different teaching centres. As for the regulatory framework, it is based on the Organic Law of the University System (LOSU), which places special emphasis on “quality and meaningful participation”, as well as the University Student Statute and the Law of University Coexistence.