This celebration recalls the strength, perseverance and courage of people around the world who have been forced to leave their homes, fleeing conflict and persecution. We need to show our support to all these families who are victims of this situation, approximately 70.8 million people.

The figure mentioned is considered the highest in recent years, so that the number of refugees, globally, continues to increase. In view of this reality, solidarity is mainly required; what refugees need is, first and foremost, peace. It can be said with certainty that there is humanity in many countries that, despite going through economic, security problems, host refugees. In addition, many people have joined the UNHCR campaign, whose work is more needed than ever.

The agency cited, UNHCR, is the United Nations High Commissioner working to protect and assist refugees around the world. They seek to guarantee certain rights for these persons, including the right to safe asylum in another State. The agency celebrates various activities related to raising awareness and raising awareness of the reality of refugees (playdays, concerts, exhibitions, etc.).

It is crucial to be aware that all people who have fled because of force majeure share the following: on the one hand, an immeasurable fear for his own life and, on the other hand, the fact that none of these people chose to be a refugee. That is why our work of solidarity with refugees must be founded on humanity.

There is no single place of origin, but on the contrary, the forced displaced come from a wide variety of countries, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Somalia or Venezuela. Fleeing the country of origin, for reasons such as those described above, has caused many people to risk their lives and, at worst, even lose it. To save their lives, UNHCR invites you to take another step with refugees.

The European Association of Schools of Social Work held the European Congress of Social Work Schools at the Complutense University of Madrid between June 4th and 7th, 2019.

Within it, Belén Agrela, from the University of Jaén, coordinated a pre-congress activity, together with professors from the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Granada, entitled Feminist academic translations. Teaching, research and transfer for a transforming Social Work.

This symposium presented the experiences, concerns and proposals of gender and feminist approaches of teachers and researchers of Social Work from Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, Chile and Italy. Three axis mark the symposium: teaching, research and knowledge transfer, within the framework of gender and feminist studies involved into European, national and regional projects.

Within the framework, the Provide project was presented and made known, in a paper entitled International research “in three-handed” on Social Work related to proximity violence in migration.

The Congress was attended by professors from national and international universities, professionals from public and private administration, and PhD students.

Find information about the European Congress Of Social Work School at the following link.

The third meeting of the PROVIDE project will take place in Trapani (Sicily, Italy) on February 19th and on February 20th, at the "Centro Polifunzionale" of Contrada Cipponeri.

As in before meetings, there will be present one or two members of each partner group to represent his/her institution and discuss about the training courses (trends, strengths and criticalities); the highlighted opportunities and criticalities of the PROVIDE book, as well as the external reference and publication times, and any other questions about the UNIPA webpage of Provide, the website and the newsletters.

Moreover, this will be a time to speak about the next Final Conference of PROVIDE that will take place on Palermo.

The meeting will end with a short sightseeing tour in the early afternoon of February 20 to visit the "Saline di Nubia" and the historical center of Trapani.

Find information about the meeting in Trapani published by the University of Jaén at the following link.

The University of Jaén (UJA) has organized a conference to present current European projects led by women.

Within the framework, Belén Agrela, responsible for the project in Spain, will present the research "PROVIDE: Proximity in violence: defense and equity" (financed by the European Community REC-VAW-AG-2016-01).

The meeting will take place on Thursday, December 13 at 5:30 p.m., and is part of the calendar of action of the project of the University of Jaen "OFIPI4CEAs2020" funded by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.

The Association for Employment and Social Integration-ASEIS, together with the University of Jaén, held the Information Day of the PROVIDE European research project on the November 8th.

The objective of this day was to present the PROVIDE project to the citizens of Jaén. With this purpose, have intervened the President of the Association for Employment and Social Integration-ASEIS, Aránzazu Díaz León, the Principal Investigator of the Project in Spain, Belén Agrela Romero, and the Director of Nursing Care at the Hospital Alto Guadalquivir de Andújar, Gema Berrios Martínez. Other prominent members of the University of Jaén have also been there; as the Vice-Rector for Research, Gustavo Reyes del Paso, the Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Academic Organization, Alfonso Cruz Lendínez, the Director of the International Project Office, Francisco Díaz Garrido, and the Director of Equality Unit, Matilde Peinado Rodríguez.

In this informative event, ASEIS has done a review of the project since its inception and has announced the training course "Expert in Management of Violence of Proximity", which will be taught to the different professionals and social agents of the Andalusia region and all the countries involved.

PROVIDE participated in the activities of the "European Night of the Researchers" carried out in Jaén (Spain) with an activity designed to make people think about the causes of migration; reflect on the current moment of migrations and refuge situations and review the notions associated with migration, States, the right to migrate (and in family), understandings about how we "welcome" and its consequences for all.

In total, around 200 researchers from the University of Jaen will participate in the 50 activities organized in this seventh edition of 'The European Night of Researchers' in the capital of Jaen, a scientific dissemination project promoted by the European Commission within the actions Marie Sklodowska-Curie of the Horizon 2020 program and held simultaneously in more than 250 European cities.

Around 8,000 people attended the more than fifty activities organized by the University of Jaén to celebrate the European Night of the Researchers.