Programme for Children's Care and Family Education
Scholarships to access specialised resources and extracurricular activities, purchase of books and school supplies, as well as school support activities for children of families in situations of emergency or social vulnerability, are some of the intervention actions included in this programme promoted by the Barrié Foundation and Cáritas. This programme will be carried out at autonomous region level until December 2015. Applications to Cáritas in Galicia.
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KTORCE 18. Programme for the prevention of infringing behaviour
Programme to inform adolescents and their parents about the Children Act through talks at schools and colleges, to inform, prevent and make them aware of the consequences of their acts. Developed by the Arela Association in collaboration with the Barrié Foundation.
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More Social. Training programme
Classroom training program, in Vigo and A Coruña, in which 44 previously selected social organisations participate in More Social 2014/2015, which aims to ensure that the management, board members and executives of these Galician organisations that provide social services improve their training and have models and management tools that encourage the success of their organisations in the medium and long term.

The contents cover: strategy and change, communication and marketing, people management, fundraising, project management, presentation of projects, measurement of results and associative networks and social movements.
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While it is happening. Present-day drifts: Art and Culture in the new century (I)
Series of conferences organised in collaboration with the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art (CGAC), which aims to provide a picture of the complexity of contemporary art from the voice of key figures and agents from different areas, from the theory of art, architecture or artistic experience, to generate a kind of map of theories, experiences, places and reviews.

8.00 p.m Free entry until seating capacity is reached.

Location A Coruña
•9th June: Art galleries as the driving forces behind the development of Art, by Juana of Aizpuru. Gallery owner.

Location CGAC
•10th June: Art galleries as the driving forces behind the development of Art, by Juana of Aizpuru. Gallery owner.

•22nd June: 33 artists in 3 acts, by Sarah Thornton. Author and sociologist of the art.
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25 years of UDC. The University of A Coruña and Ferrol
Location: A Coruña. Until 1st September.

Exhibition scheduled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the University of A Coruña this academic year 2014-2015 dedicated to visualising the evolution of the UDC in its 25 years of life, which consists of three parts: Professional schools, the University in A Coruña and Ferrol and the University of A Coruña.

Informative Area of the Portico of Glory
Weapons Room, Pazo de Xelmírez, Santiago de Compostela.

This permanent space covers the history, iconography and the restoration programme being developed in the Portico of Glory: the Cathedral Programme funded with four million Euros from the Barrie Foundation.
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Architecture, Matter and Vision:
The Construction of the Portico of Glory
1st International Symposium Cathedral of Santiago Programme

The Barrié Foundation and the Cathedral Foundation, in their ongoing commitment to the restoration of the historical and cultural heritage of Galicia, alongside the General Foundation of Madrid Complutense University, organised an International Scientific Symposium in Santiago de Compostela, included in the programme of activities defined in the collaboration between the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Programme, on the study and restoration work of the Portico of Glory of the basilica of Santiago de Compostela. This single-subject symposium, focusing on the research area of construction and structural studies, will provide a unique opportunity to open the project to internationally renowned specialists to create an interdisciplinary forum in the field of study of the Portico of Glory that will help generate a fertile intellectual environment with which to pave the way in various fields of study for the coming decades.

Santiago Cathedral
9th July – 9.00 p.m.
Concert by the group Martín Códax.
Free entrance with invitation. Limited seating.

Assembly Room of the University of Santiago de Compostela
10th July – 8.00 p.m.
Informative conference
Free entrance. Limited seating.
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Science Xpression Seminars
Location: A Coruña. From 21st to 25th September.

Workshops aimed at graduates, doctoral and postdoctoral students in order to improve oral and written communication skills in the science field and in any area of research. Organised by the Institute of Biomedical Research of A Coruña (INIBIC) and the Barrié Foundation.

Summer Camps: At the Foundation we're going on vocation. Kreaturama
Locations: A Coruña and Vigo, from 7th July to 28th August from Monday to Friday, mornings and afternoons.

Educational project using hand tools, electronic devices (smartphones, tablets...) and social networks to create from everyday life and develop the skills and abilities of children and young people between 6 and 16 years, offering a wide range of proposals in summer camp format on architecture, photography, design, music and art, merging creativity, sustainability and technology and projecting culture from a participatory and fun format.

Barrié Mentors
Training course in the network of mentors of the Barrié Foundation. Location: A Coruña. From 16th to 18th September.

Network of mentors from the Barrié Foundation for professional development. Intensive training course for the group of mentors to reinforce their professional capacity, skills and networking, with special attention on leadership.

Compete X Galicia
Opening conference. Location: A Coruña. 25th September.

Training program aimed at improving the employability skills of graduates of the three universities in Galicia. The opening conference marks the launch of a programme that includes, in addition to skills training and vocational guidance, observation stays in leading companies in Galicia.

Talento 3.0
Training of faculty staff in identification and training of talent in the classrooms.

Intensive, residential training programme taught by a team of experts from USC and a team of trainers from the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented at the University of Connecticut (USA), led by Professor Joseph Renzulli and Professor Sally Reis.

•22nd-25th June, Santiago de Compostela. European Confratute. Training of 50 lecturers in SEM methodology of the University of Connecticut

•25th June, Santiago de Compostela. Project Fair Talent 3.0.
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Call for School Projects
Project presentation deadline: until 30th June.

With the aim of encouraging, recognising and supporting the work of teachers, the Barrie Foundation through educaBarrié proposes an annual call for school projects to which initiatives can be submitted, promoted by teachers, which are held at schools in Galicia during the 2015-2016 school year.
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