Members of the Urubamba Project from La Salle Campus Barcelona - URL visit Peru putting in practice the first planned actions

This summer, some members of the Urubamba Project from La Salle Campus Barcelona moved to Peru to start acting on the ground, putting into practice the first planned actions and working on other ways of collaboration in the project. The experience was a very rewarding one, concluding that the international cooperation project is solid and of mutual enrichment. The Urubamba Project is a social action and international cooperation project in line with the Lasallian spirit as well as the objectives of the UNESCO Chair in Education, Development and Technology of Ramon Llull University. Urubamba was born thank you to the relationship linking La Salle to the town of Urubamba, where the institution manages a public school with the goal of uniting the rural villages of the Sacred Valley, at between 2800 and 4000 meters of altitude. The main problem in the area is that residents and students mostly speak Quechua and have little knowledge of Spanish. This reality hinders their schooling and access to higher education. The Urubamba Project gained recognition last June when it was awarded the first prize of Aristos Campus Mundus for best practices in university cooperation for development, of an amount of 1000 Euros. The last two editions of the "Botifarrada Solidaria" (a solidarity party) of La Salle Campus Barcelona destined benefits to the project and the PROIDE (NGO for the development of La Salle Catalunya) Christmas lottery will dedicate part of its fundraising this year. The following actions were carried out from July 22^nd to August 2^nd, in the course of La Salle Campus Barcelona visit to La Salle Urubamba ISP:

• Radio La Salle: review of radiolasalle.com.pe to improve the broadcast on the Internet, which was heard intermittently. Auditing and collection of data from all computers for technical documentation configuration and subsequent analysis by experts of La Salle Campus Barcelona. Furthermore the communities of Huilloc, Totora and Pampallacta were Geolocated in order to study the possibilities for the emission of Radio La Salle by using different technologies.
• Teacher training: the training course "new technologies in the teaching environment - learning" was carried out. This course consisted of two workshops "ICT to KLT: introducing technologies in learning" and "New teaching methodologies for students’ motivation", taught by Xavi Canaleta and Guillem Villa respectively. Teaching materials in subjects of video editing and digital photography were provided. And possible ways of working were defined in order to specify training through online educational content.
• Digital repository for the Inca culture: a time was established for 2013-2014 detailing all project developments of the repository and the virtual museum creation.
• Documentary: for the edition of a project's documentary, 3 brothers from the community, 6 members of Radio La Salle, 5 teachers of computer science, the Mayor of Urubamba and different people from the rural communities were interviewed. Additionally, videos of all Urubamba and the surrounding area have been collected.

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