The implementation of the new university system requires replacing the current teaching dynamic with another where students are no longer passive subjects and become the protagonists of their own learning. They will thus be prepared for the changes occurring in the social and professional realms. The book called “Aprendizaje Experiencial como metodología docente. Buenas prácticas” [Experiential Learning as Teaching Methodology. Best Practices] aims to assist in said change of perspective and addresses the use of experiential learning as a teaching tool, paying close attention to how to practically apply it in the classroom. It’s about improving motivation and academic performance while bringing the professional world closer to university students, thus opening doors to collaboration between the university and the job market. This book also closely considers the ethical challenges that universities must face in the creation and administration of responsible and sustainable companies.

In order to achieve the proposed objectives, it is divided into 3 sections:
Section I: Conceptual approach to the use of experiential learning as a teaching methodology in the classroom.
Section II: Experiential learning for approaching the professional world.
Section III: Experiential learning as a teaching tool for developing professional abilities and social skills.

Based on first-hand observation, photos, and two years of interviews by Daniel Briggs and Rubén Monge Gamero, with violent drug addicts with complex illnesses, the text describes the reason for looking into Spain’s most dangerous drug market and one of the most problematic ghettos in Europe. Only 8.5 miles from the center of Madrid, there is forgotten, abject poverty where violence is normalized and tolerated by the authorities.

Attorney Pedro Carmona arrives in Madrid during the Christmas season of 1853 with his mentor, Ramón de Sotomayor, hoping to get rich in the capital. A mysterious murder in which he is coincidentally involved will complicate his work in a turbulent political climate in the midst of the downfall of the moderate government of the Count of San Luis.

The protagonist, who you’ll remember from Un trienio en la sombra, will attempt to find the inner peace and professional courage to get the bottom of the plot in a political context that will give rise to the Spanish Revolution of 1854.

Ten years after solving the murder of Antonio Robledo in Antequera, his date with destiny is now with the past, present, and future in the city of Madrid.

Will Pedro Carmona deliver justice?

This work by Juan José Beunza offers an overall view of interprofessional education, starting at its origins and going on to university education. According to the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE), the great arbiter in the field, interprofessional education occurs “on those occasions when students of two or more health professions learn together with the object of cultivating collaborative healthcare centered on the patient.” Beunza is a professor of Public Health at Universidad Europea and director of the Program for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice.

Víctor Manuel Cabrera García, professor of Architecture at Universidad Europea de Canarias, evaluates the uniqueness of the traditional windmills in the Canary Islands. They form a legacy that is part of the history and identity of the Canaries. They are also part of the Spanish Historical Heritage, and their introduction to the islands  was essential in changing lives of their inhabitants. The lack of studies and inventories, the disappearance of traditional ways of life, and the fragility of their materials makes them especially vulnerable. This book is an effort to know them better and vindicate their historic importance.

Almudena Rodríguez Tarodo, Nuria Recuero and Francisca Blasco have written a book to help companies attract and retain talented employees. This practical work reviews successful cases and keys to creating and managing the employer’s brand. Rodríguez Tarodo, a professor at Universidad Europea, explains the ART methodology that has been applied by companies like Santander, Ferrovial, Accenture, Repsol and Cepsa, and which she describes as a road with five steps: identify what the organization offers to candidates and employees; listen to them and analyze what the competition is doing; identify the differentiating element and create a hallmark; communicate and activate the employer’s brand; and evaluate its impact.

The aliens in this book aren’t green martians, although they’re presented that way on the cover. In reality, you work and come into contact with them every day: managers, colleagues and staff with whom you’re obliged to interact on a daily basis. Learning to deal with people who have other viewpoints and aspirations is essential for our mental health and professional success. Juanjo Beunza, lecturer in Public Health and Inter-professional Education, sets out real cases and suggests techniques and tools to improve personal skills for relationship building and teamwork. Because, as you know, you can move galaxy but you’ll always have to work with aliens.

This book is populated by politicians and sportspeople, revolutionaries and social campaigners, intellectuals and popes. The only thing they have in common is the fact that they’ve gone down in history. The teacher and journalist Moisés Ruiz brings a cast of 100 leaders into the spotlight, just as the European Union desperately searches for direction. Pau Gasol and Joseph Stalin. Napoleon and Steve Jobs. There’s no moral criteria to this selection, which is why there are examples of bad and good alike, sorted into three leadership models: influential, motivational and inspirational. Adolfo Suárez, Albert Einstein, Alexander the Great, Anne Boleyn, Ana Patricia Botín, Hannibal… And so on, right through to z. 100 characters that changed history.

Marco Molpeceres is a young civil guard who wants to change the world. The problem is that… Alas! He doesn’t know how. An opportunity arises in his first posting, a peacekeeping mission under European Union command in the city of Zólto. There, he meets Loter Tucol, from whom he learns the principles of holography. You know, the technology first revealed to us by George Lucas when he projected an image of Princess Leia in a galaxy far away. Jorge Portocarrero, writer and specialist in neurology, challenges his character to differentiate between endless layers of reality, forcing him to explore the liberating power of art.

Be Social is a tribute to 30 young social entrepreneurs whose struggle has centered around social and environmental concerns, through innovative projects and new economic models aimed at the common good and social justice. The book describes the way Universidad Europea and the International Youth Foundation have supported social entrepreneurship  and the people who have carry it out, who are real agents for change.