This project originated from the initiative and coordination of various bodies within the University of Valencia, such as the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization and Cooperation, the Rector Peset Residence Hall, and the European Documentation Centre of the General Foundation of the University of Valencia. It is also the result of collaboration with several external institutions and public bodies, including the Delegation of the Council for the European Union and External Relations of the Valencian Government, the Valencia City Council, and the Europe Direct office in Valencia.
Desembre Europeu 2025: Memory and future of Europe | València, 1-20 december 2025 #DesembreEuropeu2025
Program:
Radio
The Great European Songbook
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 7 p.m.
Radio Malva 104.9 FM
The Great European Songbook is a collection of 164 songs: six from each of the Member States in as many categories, plus one British song and the EU anthem. All include chords and lyrics in the 25 original languages (and three different alphabets), accompanied by a version in "singable European English" translated by specialist translators from each country. From Spain, the selected songs are "Si tú no estás aquí" (1996) by Rosana Arbelo, in the love songs category. Joan Manuel Serrat appears in two sections: his iconic "Mediterráneo" (1971) is the song selected for the "nature and seasons" category, while "La saeta" (1969), based on a poem by Antonio Machado, is in the "songs about faith or spirituality" category. The Spanish songbook is completed with Nino Bravo's immortalized hit "Libre" (1972), and with "Asturias, patria querida" in popular songs, and "Hola, don Pepito" in children's songs.
https://www.eu-songbook.org/
Workshop
Fediverse and Non-Proprietary Social Networks #Let'sGoTogether
Instructor: David Marzal
Friday, December 5, 2025, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Campus dels Tarongers. Social Sciences Library. Training Room.
We're also fed up with toxic social networks, so we've moved to a new neighborhood: the Fediverse. We invite you to join this community, where we're committed to a more humane, free, and collaborative internet. Furthermore, we're committed to addressing the challenges of nurturing a collective and decentralized tool like this, regulating its use and sustaining it through resource mobilization based on the shared responsibility that initiatives like this require.
David Marzal is a GNU/Linux systems administrator by profession, passionate about free software and sustainability by vocation. Activist in associations such as GNU/Linux Valencia, KDE Spain, and Zero Waste of the Region of Murcia.
Free activity with limited capacity for 20 people, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Registration is via email: cde@uv.es
In collaboration with the Library and Documentation Service of the University of Valencia.
Coffee with Projects
European Union Network in the Valencian Community
Wednesday, December 10, 2025. 11:00 a.m.
Faculty of Economics. Lecture Hall.
Meeting between the heads of the offices of the various European Union information networks in the Valencian Community: EURES, Eurodesk, Europe Direct, European Documentation Centres, Euroaxess, and the Enterprise European Network, with a view to launching projects specific to the European Union network of networks in the Valencian Community.
Limited capacity. An invitation is required to attend the event (email cde@uv.es).
Logo Presentation
InfoEuropa Website of the CDE at the University of Valencia
Wednesday, December 10, 2025. 1:00 p.m.
Faculty of Economics. Lecture Hall
Theater
A Moment of Beauty, by Escena Erasmus
Wednesday, December 10, 2025. 7:00 p.m.
Teatre El Musical del Cabanyal.
2023 Valencian Performing Arts Honorary Award
Original text: Daniel Tormo and Anna Marí. With contributions from the actors themselves. Dramaturgy coordination: Daniel Tormo. Direction: Josep Valero.
Free admission with a downloadable invitation from the TEM website.
The European theatre project Escena Erasmus, from the University of Valencia, delves into the desolation caused by an unprecedented catastrophe in southern Valencia in its sixteenth performance. The tragedy struck and marked an entire town. Through texts by renowned authors from the current cultural scene, some of whom experienced that terrible event firsthand, Escena Erasmus UV explores the emotions and feelings of those who saw life as they knew it disappear under the weight of water and debris. It also reveals how, amidst the chaos and destruction, surprising flashes of light appeared in the form of lines of volunteers and solidarity campaigns from around the world, reminding us that it is indeed possible to rise from the mud. The performance also reflects on the beauty that, despite the pain, can emerge from the natural disasters that humanity must endure: fires, earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods. A human beauty that appears unbidden and comforts the victims in moments of such sadness.
Other dates for the #DesembreEuropeu2025 tour:
Thursday, December 11. Teatre Principal de Castelló. Morning performance for secondary school students.
Friday, December 12 (7:30 p.m.). Teatre Arniches d’Alacant. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Literature
The Great Raid
Raúl Quinto, in conversation with Santiago Lemoine, bookseller, and Lola Miñarro, librarian, about the novel Martinete del rey sombra (The Shadow King's Hammer)
Saturday, December 13, 2025. 12:30 p.m. La Batisfera Bookstore
Raúl Quinto holds a degree in Art History from the University of Granada and currently lives in Almería, where he works as a professor. He was one of the coordinators of the José Ángel Valente Poetry Faculty and has contributed as a critic to publications such as Quimera. His narrative works include La canción de NOF4 (The Song of NOF4), for which he received the Alfonso X Literature Prize; and Martinete del rey sombra (The Shadow King's Hammer), critically acclaimed and winner of the 2024 National Narrative Prize, the 2024 Critics' Prize, and the 2023 Cálamo Prize. And, more recently, La ballena azul, perfectly described by Mariana Enríquez as "a compendium of the dark mythology of the internet."
In collaboration with the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization and Multilingualism of the University of Valencia.
Film
2025 European Parliament Lux Awards Marathon
Monday, December 15, 2025. 5:00-midnight
Cinestudio d’Or, Valencia
Animal (2023), by Sofia Exarchou. Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Romania | 116 min | Drama. 5:00 p.m.
Dahomey (2024), by Mati Diop. Benin, France, Senegal | 67 min | Documentary. 7:00 p.m.
Flow (2024), by Gints Zilbalodis. Belgium, France, Latvia | 85 min | Animation. 8:30 p.m.
Julia Keeps Quiet (2024), by Leonardo van Dijl. Belgium, Sweden | 100 min | Drama. 10:15 p.m.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
In collaboration with the European Parliament Office in Spain.
Conferencia
España en la Unión Europea: Logros, límites y retos pendientes
Conferencia a cargo de Francisco Aldecoa, presidente del Movimiento Europeo España
Martes, 16 de diciembre de 2025, 12:30 h.
Facultad de Economía UV. Salón de Grados
Conferencia magistral Manuel Marín
Francisco Aldecoa es profesor con más cincuenta años de experiencia y catedrático de Relaciones Internacionales durante treinta y cinco años, ha contribuido al proceso político de la construcción de Europa en calidad de miembro de la sociedad civil organizada. Desde finales de los años setenta ha participado activamente en el Consejo Federal Español del Movimiento Europeo (CFEME), organización que actualmente preside. Desde 2020 es board member del MEI (Movimiento Europeo Internacional) y también miembro del Consejo Federal de la UEF (Unión de Europeos Federalistas). Es catedrático Jean Monnet ad personam desde los años noventa.
Seminar
Communicating Data and Knowledge in the Era of Fake News: From Graphics to Storytelling, by Germán Molina.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025. 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM.
Campus dels Tarongers. Social Sciences Library. Training Room.
Free activity with limited capacity of 20 people, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Registration is via email: cde@uv.es
In this era characterized, in part, by social media and fake news, have data, science, and rigor lost their influence? Can a rigorous graphic be attractive and go viral? Is it a problem with the sender, the receiver, the channel, or the format? Or is it a matter of communicating differently? What is certain is that the communication landscape has changed in recent times: in how we consume information, in the formats we use, in the attention we pay to it, and so on. In this workshop, we will answer these questions and provide some key strategies for effectively communicating information, data, and knowledge to a general audience, using data visualization and adhering to the "designer's obligations" outlined by the French philosopher J.F. Lyotard.
Germán Molina is the founder and director of Dataly, a design studio specializing in data visualization and communication, and information design. He holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration, an MBA, and a Master's degree in Graphic Design and Communication. He was the Managing Director of the Valencian Institute of Economic Research.
In collaboration with the Library and Documentation Service of the University of Valencia.
Roundtable Discussion
Memory and Future of Europe: Forty Years of Spain in the European Union #podcast
With Ana Enguídanos, Valencian Government, Víctor Fuentes, retired professor from the University of Valencia, and Isabel Punter, student at the University of Valencia. Moderated by Alfonso Moreira, European Documentation Centre of the University of Valencia.
Thursday, December 18, 2025. 12:00 PM.
European Documentation Centre of the University of Valencia
Forty years have passed since Spain (and Portugal) joined the European Communities. On the one hand, 1986 marked an endpoint, culminating the democratization and international integration of the Spanish economy. At the same time, it was a starting point for Spain to liberalize its economy (within the context of the harmonization brought about by the single market), definitively modernize its society, and expand its influence in the world. We take stock of the past four decades with people who have played a significant role in this process over the years.
With the support of Radio Malva 104.9FM.
Music
Christmas Concert by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Valencia. Hilari Garcia Gázquez, conductor.
Works by P. I. Tchaikovsky, E. Wladteufel, etc.
Friday, December 19, 2025. 1:00 p.m.
Free admission, limited seating.
Charles Darwin Hall, Burjassot Campus, University of Valencia.
https://links.uv.es/Ir584E8
Organized by the Music Department of the Vice-Rectorate for Culture and Sport of the University of Valencia.
Exhibition
Forty Years of Spain in the European Union
Hall of the Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia
December 2, 2025 - December 20, 2025
Opening December 2, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
The exhibition offers a journey through the main milestones of the European integration process, from the post-war context in which the proposal to create a European Coal and Steel Community was launched in 1950, to the challenges of the present. Visitors can explore, through information panels, selected books, graphic material, and an extensive timeline of more than twelve meters, the key moments that have shaped the Europe of today.
10 years of posters for #EuropeanDecember
December 3, 2025 - January 22, 2026
European Documentation Centre, University of Valencia.
