10 June 2025
Bilbao Campus
Learning has no age and the University of Deusto has designed a new programme in Culture and Society, aimed at adults who wish to live or relive the university experience without the need for previous studies. This programme replaces the previous Diploma in Culture and Solidarity, with almost 30 years of experience, and represents a further step in the commitment of DeustoBide, the School of Citizenship of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, to lifelong learning.
More than 170 people attended the information session introducing these studies, which now include, as a new feature, the possibility of an exchange with another university or the option to complete a final degree project. The new degree lasts four years, structured in two two-year cycles, and its syllabus includes topical subjects such as feminism, psychology, international relations, the challenges of Artificial Intelligence, world conflicts, the human body, economics and science, among others. In addition, in some subjects, adult students will share classrooms with young undergraduate students, thus promoting intergenerational dialogue.
Classes will be held three days a week - from Monday to Wednesday - and Thursdays will be devoted to workshops, conferences and complementary activities which, thanks to agreements with cultural centres in Bilbao and Biscay, can be held in cultural centres and institutions in the surrounding area.
Thanks to its educational work since the 1990s, DeustoBide has established itself as a benchmark in the university offer aimed at adults in the Basque Country. The new programme reinforces this leadership and the commitment to a methodology in which, according to its director, Irene Gantxegi: "learning and enjoyment go hand in hand". In short, a programme that “combines academic rigour with openness to today’s world, enabling a better understanding of the society we live in and fostering continued growth as active citizens”.
