The next 26 and 27 of March 2025 will take place the Fourth Free Culture Days of the URJC. They are conceived as a meeting point, training, and exchange of experiences on topics related to free culture at the University: open publication (of teaching materials, research, etc.), open science, open data, free software, etc.

It will feature expert presentations on some of these topics, workshops on specific topics, and paper presentations by the university community. This year we will have again a fair space, where we will share tools and novelties about free culture and software; and a poster exhibition space.

Location: Salón de Actos and main hall, Edificio de Gestión, Campus de Fuenlabrada

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RAC credits will be awarded based on the number of hours of attendance, and students can attend the entire event or specific blocks. To do so, they must mark their attendance through the methods proposed during the Days. If you participate in all the days and workshops, you can accumulate RAC credits.

Remember that to attend the Days, you must register at this link. Additionally, if you want to participate in a specific workshop, you must register at the corresponding link that appears in the program.

Complete Program:

WEDNESDAY 26 - Salón de actos Edif. Gestión Fuenlabrada

08:30 - 09:30 REGISTRATION

08:40 - 09:15 Coffee with OfiLibre: Candidates for Rector and Free Knowledge

  • Session with the two candidates for Rector: Fernando García Muiña and Abraham Duarte, where we will talk about free knowledge, open publication, open science, free software, open data, etc. Live in the Salón de Grados of the Edificio de Gestión of the Fuenlabrada campus.

  • Jesús González Barahona, Tomás Zarza Núñez, and Florencia Claes, OfiLibre.

09:15 - 09:30 REGISTRATION

09:30 - 09:50 OPENING ACT - Inauguration of the IV Free Culture Days

  • Javier Ramos, Rector of the URJC.

  • Mercedes del Hoyo, Vice-Rector of Community Campus, Culture and Sport.

09:50 - 10:45 Invited Lecture: Citizen Laboratories

  • María García Cristóbal

10:45 - 11:00 Library and its experience in citizen laboratories

  • Cristina Rincón Moreno

11:00 - 11:30 Short Papers: CITIZEN SCIENCE, WIKIPEDIA

  • Piedad Tolmos Rodríguez-Piñero: Connections with the environment: citizen laboratories.

  • Victoria Mora de la Torre y David García Marín: The white book of the Erasmus + VIRION project.

  • Lizette Martínez Valerio: Do older adults trust Wikipedia? What do they know about free knowledge? What reliability do they give to open sources?

  • Antonio García Jiménez y Rebeca Suárez Álvarez: Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool in Communication Sciences.

  • José María García de Madariaga: Club Wikimedia: project to improve content on science and innovation in Spanish Wikipedia.

11:30 - 12:00 BREAK, COFFEE, AND FAIR

  • Stands present at the Fair and Posters.
    • Museo Virtual URJC
    • Oficina de Conocimiento y Cultura libres
    • Clínica Jurídica
    • RoboTech
    • Open Source Robotics
  • The organization invites attendees to coffee, juices, and pastries.

12:00 - 14:00 EDUCATION BLOCK

12:00 - 12:10 Open Educational Materials: Strategy or Serendipity?

  • Juan Carlos Aguado Franco

12:10 - 13:00 Short Talks: Education

FREE CULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM

  • Rafael Fernando Linares Palomar and Laura Fernández Ramírez: Behind the Cameras: Podcast on Trades and Professionals in the Film Industry. An Innovation Tool for Audiovisual Communication Teaching.

  • Oriol Borrás Gené, Almudena Macías Guillén: Promoting Free Culture in the Training of Future Secondary and High School Teachers.

AI AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

  • Nerea Benítez Aranda: Producing Open Educational Resources Using Generative Artificial Intelligence.

  • Antonio Julio López Galisteo: Using Generative AI: Boosting Active and Interactive Learning in University Classrooms.

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

  • Iria Paz Gil: Creating OERs for Teaching and Learning Organizational Sustainability.

  • María del Carmen Gertrudis Casado: Circular Economy Slow Game Jam: Video Games and Sustainability.

  • Manuel Gertrudix Barrio: “Recycle and Tell”: Citizen Science Project Developed for the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR 2024).

Diploma Ceremony: Open Courses and Diploma Awards

13:15 - 14:00 Free Culture and Experiences Within the University

  • Library: Materials You Can Use: A Practical Guide for Teachers Seeking Open Resources, by Emilio Alvarado Pérez

  • European Projects Office: Video-Podcast to Promote Calls from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon Europe) and Encourage Researchers’ Participation, by Rosa María Mesa Vélez

  • International Doctoral School: Open Access Publication of Doctoral Theses. Institutional Repository (Training Activity) and Award-Winning Monograph Collection, by Inmaculada Mora, Isabel Jiménez and María del Pilar Abad Romero

  • URJC Academic Director of Culture: Cultural Contests and Open Culture, by Javier Enrique Otero García

  • Don’t Keep Your Ideas to Yourself, Share Them, by Irene Ros

14:00 - 15:00 LUNCH - FAIR

  • Stands at the Fair and Posters:

    • URJC Virtual Museum
    • Office for Free Knowledge and Culture
    • Legal Clinic
    • RoboTech
    • Open Source Robotics

  • The organization invites attendees to free drinks, sandwiches, snacks, and hugs :)

15:00 - 17:00 Workshops (special registration required)

  • Organize, Design and Share Knowledge with LaTeX. Marcelo Moreno Porras and Patricia Labrador Ballestero

    • Fuenlabrada. Lab 3, Room 1027
    • Registration
    • This workshop will show how to use LaTeX via Overleaf to create cheat sheets, which are very useful for compressing and sharing knowledge. The duration is about 90 minutes. The preferred room setup is with computers, but participants may bring their own. Target audience: teachers and researchers.

  • Design, Production, and Distribution of Educational Podcasts. Pablo Acosta Gallo

    • Fuenlabrada, Lecture Hall 2, Room 207
    • Registration
    • In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create podcasts for educational purposes. Approximate duration: 90 minutes. Intended for: educators and students.

  • OpenStreetMap: Miguel Sevilla-Callejo

    • Fuenlabrada. Auditorium, Management Building
    • Registration
    • This workshop introduces collaborative mapping with OpenStreetMap, offering a project overview, data structure introduction, and hands-on mobile mapping tools.

  • Introduction to Open Source Language Models: Artificial Intelligence Association