Required equipment: Comfortable clothes, shoes and a personal computer

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This course addresses how Portugal's entry into the European Union has changed the country and how the European Union influences the day-to-day life of populations and the management that governments make of the territory. We will look at European institutions and the process of valuing cities through European Capitals.

 

We will look at cultural heritage, with emphasis on the city of Porto and its region. We will learn in a practical manner about places that have been European Capitals of Culture, Youth and Sport and understand how these processes take place and how they bring dynamism to localities. We will also understand the place of Portuguese culture in the European context and what similarities there are between cultures across the European continent.

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With this course we intend to explore the concept of culture through contact with elements of Portuguese culture, in order to create a method of critical observation that leads us to distinguish, as citizens, the elements of our native cultures and how to become ambassadors of the same. By contacting with locals one can get in touch with different ways of seeing the world and better understand what unites us as Europeans and what makes us unique among ourselves.