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Inditex Spanish Culture and Language Chair at the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Inditex Spanish Culture and Language Chair at the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) was founded through an agreement signed between Inditex and the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña in Spain and the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Its purpose is to promote Spanish language and culture in Bangladesh and scientific exchange and production in this field, as well as the mobility of students and lecturers between the university institutions.

In 2012 the Chair, with a yearly budget of €463,472 initiated the second Spanish language and culture course, with 230 students.

The Chair has been designated as an examination centre for the Spanish as a Foreign Language Diploma (DELE), the official, universally recognised certificate issued by the Cervantes Institute. The aim is to hold these exams at the University of Dhaka.

In the cultural field, the Chair, in conjunction with the Spanish Embassy, sponsored in October the Bengal Art Foundation and the National Engraving, an exhibition of Goya engravings and the publishing of its catalogue. In the same field, the cycle of lectures and debate on ‘Bangladesh speaks Spanish’ was initiated. In addition, sessions of Spanish cinema were held monthly by the Chair.

In the scientific field, the Inditex Chair has started working on the preparation of a Spanish-English-Bengali glossary. This project is in conjunction with the Chair’s lecturers and the lecturers from the University of Dhaka Modern Languages Centre.

The Inditex-UDC Social Responsibility Chair

The objective of this chair, established in 2010 through the agreement between Inditex and the University of A Coruña, is to promote academic training, applied research and the transfer of results in the field of social responsibility, with government bodies, universities, companies, and not-for-profit entities. Inditex invested €100,000 in this project in 2012. This chair has promoted three main activities: presentation of the second University of A Coruña Social Responsibility Report; the second Social Responsibility Post-graduate course, with the participation as lecturers of more than 40 renowned national and international professionals from the world of social responsibility management; and finally, a line of publications discussing issues related to university transference and social responsibility.