The MUN presents its 24/25 school campaign with new educational programs to promote peace, coexistence and prevent bullying.

The Education Department of the Museo Universidad de Navarra presented this morning the school programs for the 2024/25 school year, which use the approach to art as a teaching strategy and which this year present four new features.

1. "Diversity and coexistence. Prevention of bullying", aimed at secondary and high school students, has among its objectives the prevention of bullying and is supported by the General Directorate for Peace, Coexistence and Human Rights of the Government of Navarra. 2. "The dance of multicultural emotions" seeks to promote inclusion and emotional intelligence among primary school students, with the support of the General Directorate of Migration Policies of the Government of Navarre. 3. "Migrant Stories. After Cecilia Paredes and Vik Muniz", for fifth and sixth grade, middle and high school, invites to think about empathy towards migrants and the vision of a complex, global and multicultural world through the stories of these two artists; and has the collaboration of the General Directorate of Migration Policies through Navarra de Colores, of the Government of Navarra.Just Breathe", focused on all school ages, cultivates relaxation of body and mind and emotional management.

The director of the Educational area, Fernando Echarri, recalled that when the MUN began its educational work, the school environment soon became "one of the pillars". Echarri also pointed out the value of "networking" with other institutions, such as the General Directorate of Human Rights and Coexistence and Navarra de Colores, of the Government of Navarra; and the City Council of Pamplona.

Rocío Ibáñez, president of the Ayllu Service of Intercultural Coexistence and Fight against Racism and Xenophobia (Government of Navarra), explained that Navarra de Colores, through its initiative Escuela de Colores, seeks to promote the reception and prevention of racism and xenophobia, as well as the importance of these programs to learn to "connect with the emotional world of other people" or to promote sensitivity and coexistence at all levels.

For her part, Teresa Barrio, head of school programs, explained that these proposals have "three hallmarks": fostering the ability to learn to learn, interdisciplinarity (to address different educational processes and content through art), and the development of "creativity or creative intelligence".

The Educational area of the MUN offers twenty programs, with contents and activities adapted to the LOMLOE and to the didactic objectives of each educational stage and cycle, from 0 to 18 years of age. Everyone - infants, children, adolescents and young people - find a place and a specific offer to live a transformative learning experience through art. The MUN's educational program is renewed every year and has a consolidated trajectory. In fact, in the almost ten years of operation of the MUN, more than 42,000 schoolchildren have already participated in its educational proposals.

Most of them have done so by visiting the Museum itself, visiting its exhibition halls and enjoying its workshops; but the "little ones" have been able to enjoy the MUN in their classrooms: "El Museo de los peques" is a program designed to be taken to nursery schools, with which to work together the three areas of Early Childhood Education (Communication and representation of reality, Discovery and exploration and the environment, and Growth in harmony), through a proposal composed of "The Museum's stories", a book with ten stories associated with each of the MUN's paintings; the "Musical Discovery" kit, which includes a set of instruments that children can explore and manipulate; and the "Treasure Box" kit, a discovery box with different objects to discover through the senses.

Likewise, the MUN's school campaign will continue to promote the value of equality with the program "Women in the Arts". This is a collaborative project, designed for secondary school, high school and special education, which covers some of the main moments in the history of art, focusing on the role of women and their evolution as recognized professionals in the world of contemporary art.

The programs, supported by the Government of Navarra and the Pamplona City Council, have their respective teachers' notebooks. Published in four languages (Spanish, English, French and Basque), they are available for consultation on the web.

The event was also attended by José Manuel Santana, pedagogue in the area of Culture, Festivals, Education and Sport, Pamplona City Council; and María José Zazo, head of Escuela de Colores.

On the other hand, during the summer period that has just ended, the MUN has welcomed 150 schoolchildren to the summer camps that, in their tenth edition and under the title Hi Artist! This summer activity is a continuity and reinforcement of the learning done during the school year, in a playful way. As a novelty this summer, families interested in combining Art and Science, were able to enroll their sons and daughters in the art and science camps promoted by the University of Navarra, at reduced prices.