UNESCO Learning CityGironaSpain
Girona, located in Spain, was inducted into UNESCO’s Global Network of Learning Cities in 2022.
Ms. Marta Madrenas i MirMayor of Girona
“Girona is one of the four capitals of Catalunya and has a privileged geographical location. The city has an extensive historical and cultural heritage and educational network made up with more than 40 schools, institutes, a university, and multiple facilities and services for our citizens.”
A diverse municipality
Girona is a city of opportunities that has welcomed people from other regions and countries to create a highly diverse municipality.
Personal development and social inclusion
The city believes that lifelong learning should enable all citizens to achieve two objectives: personal development, which will allow individuals to pursue their life projects, achieve their personal and professional goals, and feel fulfilled; and social inclusion, reducing inequalities among the population as a whole, and achieving a fairer and more egalitarian society.
Ms. Marta Madrenas i MirMayor of Girona
"Learning is a process that affects people at any time in their lives in any place and any circumstances. The local government is the closest to the citizens. Through local policies on learning and education, we can build a better city for all."
Sustainability and health in Girona
The city focuses on promoting and training citizens in health issues, from both an individual and a community perspective. Viewed holistically, health is integral to development, social inclusion and more sustainable cities.
Promoting equity and inclusion
Girona's strategy includes projects that promote educational equity, for example, by combating school segregation, ensuring the equitable distribution of resources, and creating individual learning itineraries that reflect individuals’ needs and interests.
Ms. Marta Madrenas i MirMayor of Girona
"One of the great challenges facing the city is digital literacy as a gateway to 21st century skills. Girona implements the concept of a learning city transversally, in the different services of the institution and through projects with external collaborations and participation bodies. Two key examples are the civic centres and the table of educational resources."
Girona’s commitment to decent work and entrepreneurship
Girona has established a training council comprising different actors involved in vocational training, career guidance and employment. It has also launched Youth Spaces, a project that helps young people to design their own training itineraries.
Girona’s good practices The INTRO Project
The INTRO project provides citizens with training in the use of new information and communication technologies, thereby tackling the digital divide in education.
Girona’s good practices Girona learning city interactive map
The Girona learning city interactive map shows the location of all training and learning initiatives available in the local area and includes an explanation for each one.
Girona’s good practices Catalan courses
Learning Catalan is key to facilitating the inclusion of people who have recently arrived in Girona. Hence, language courses are offered by the City Consortium for Linguistic Normalization.
Ms. Marta Madrenas i MirMayor of Girona
"The will is to facilitate and create synergies that promote educational learning along the life. Also, Girona has been an education city for than 30 years. For all of this, we are looking forward to working together with the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities."
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) supports and improves the practice of lifelong learning in member cities by promoting policy dialogue and peer learning, documenting effective strategies and good practice, fostering partnerships, providing capacity development, and developing tools and instruments to design, implement and monitor learning cities strategies.
UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities
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UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities
Image Credits: Ayuntamiento de Girona; alexsalcedo/Getty Images; JohnnyGreig/Getty Images; vm/Getty Images; fstop123/Getty Images; Monkey Business Images; Alexey Emelyanov/Getty Images; BakiBG/Getty Images
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Girona
Ms. Marta Madrenas i Mir
A diverse municipality
Personal development and social inclusion
Ms. Marta Madrenas i Mir
Sustainability and health in Girona
Promoting equity and inclusion
Ms. Marta Madrenas i Mir
Girona’s commitment to decent work and entrepreneurship
The INTRO Project
Girona learning city interactive map
Catalan courses
Ms. Marta Madrenas i Mir
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities