Art as a teaching tool to promote learning, peaceful coexistence and sustainability. This is one of the driving forces behind the school programs of the Museo Universidad de Navarra The project, presented last Wednesday in the center's workshops, is one of the driving forces behind the school's collaborative programs. 

The collaboration and support of the General Directorate for Peace, Coexistence and Human Rights of the Government of Navarre and the Mancoeduca Environmental Education Program (Mancomunidad de la Comarca de Pamplona), an expression of networking between institutions, allows for greater dissemination and depth of the initiatives. 

The proposals for the 2020-21 academic year are inspired by the exhibition of the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, which can be visited at the Museum until March, and are based on interdisciplinarity, the promotion of creativity and learning to think. At the presentation, Jaime García del Barrio, general director of the Museum, valued the potential of Vik Muniz's work to develop these proposals: "He deals with very diverse and current issues, although when he began to reflect on them they were not so current, such as inequality, the environment, the circular economy, the recognition of difference or recycling".

In this sense, he stressed that the Museum's educational and family programs are a commitment so that "through art, we are able to work with future generations and the audiences of the future, while supporting teachers and educators with innovative tools at a time when the pedagogical and teaching environment is more complex".

The meeting was also attended by José María González, director of the Coexistence and Human Rights Service of the General Directorate for Peace, Coexistence and Human Rights of the Government of Navarre; Mar García, coordinator of the Mancoeduca Environmental Education Program; and Fernando Echarri, head of the Education Area of Museo Universidad de Navarra. 

"In this atypical year due to Covid-19, the Museum has evaluated the risks and has proposed not only the on-site scenario, in which the schools come to the Museum, but also the online scenario. In this way, if the students could not come, the Museum would safely bring disinfected materials to the schools so that they can develop our programs," explained Echarri. 

In addition, online guided tours have been designed, which allow "real time visits from the Museum to educational centers. In a classroom, students can interactively enjoy a visit to the Vik Muniz exhibition, ask questions and make observations". The center has also contemplated a third scenario, to develop the proposals from home if the teaching cannot be done from the schools. The head of the educational area has also highlighted the importance of "tender puentes to society" and to continue with the line of "networking".

In this line, José María González pointed out that the program Schools with memory, for peace and coexistence that has been developed since 2016 by the Directorate General for Peace, Coexistence and Human Resources is in line with the objectives of the Museum's programs: "It is a program aimed at the younger generations, based on action through educational centers. This program aims to train for coexistence by highlighting values, attitudes and human skills that allow everyone to prepare for a life in society based on dialogic attitudes to resolve conflicts, delegitimizing violence as a tool to achieve any kind of ends, and to develop critical thinking". He also highlighted the "experiential nature of the activities", which connect with emotions. 

Mar García also coincided in highlighting the objectives shared by the three institutions: "We work on environmental awareness, and we were curious to receive a proposal centered on the Museum's activity. We all talk in our daily lives about how to be responsible citizens in this society in which we live. And we saw that this exhibition can work very well on many issues. It has a very powerful social background". In addition, the coordinator of Mancoeduca has valued the importance of "learning from others and with others, which in this case will be in a network formed by all the schools, the Museum and other institutions.