As part of its educational strategy, La Ricotta designs and promotes activities for all kinds of audiences, with an intergenerational approach, in the form of programmes, courses, labs, and sessions. It is also possible to propose one of these activities by filling in the dedicated form and sending it to the email address laricotta_proyecto@anche.no with the subject La Ricotta Activity Proposal.
Programmes: These are long-term events centred around a guiding theme and activities of various kinds — e.g.: talks, workshops, experiments — related to that theme. They are designed to foster individual and collective reflection, and the development of shared long-term projects aimed at the recovery and revitalisation of the environment, its villages, and life in the comarca. Programmes may be specific, permanent, or external.
Specific programmes are characterised by a concrete theme, and aim to bring together interested people and develop the minimum tools required to design an associated project, including a work plan. This work plan will be the final objective of this type of programme. A final report will be produced and published on this page. This type of programme typically lasts two weeks.
Permanent programmes, by contrast, focus on a broad theme that serves as a guiding line, around which activities of different types are developed. These programmes have an indefinite duration, and activities take place throughout the year. At present, there are three permanent programmes:
Specific programmes are characterised by a concrete theme, and aim to bring together interested people and develop the minimum tools required to design an associated project, including a work plan. This work plan will be the final objective of this type of programme. A final report will be produced and published on this page. This type of programme typically lasts two weeks.
Permanent programmes, by contrast, focus on a broad theme that serves as a guiding line, around which activities of different types are developed. These programmes have an indefinite duration, and activities take place throughout the year. At present, there are three permanent programmes:
- Science Days in Rural Areas — This is a series of activities aimed at conveying the research process through talks, workshops, and experiments related both to everyday aspects of life and to more hidden aspects of nature. An integral part of this programme are the cycles of public meetings organised during academic events, such as Dende o universo ata o rural, within the framework of the summer schools The disordered universe and other academic events related to cosmology, particle physics, and astrophysics, and Sementes de información, organised within the framework of the summer school The quantum in the haystack.
- Between Music and Anthropology — This series highlights the cultural, historical, and anthropological value of music, exploring and retracing the origins and development of instruments, musical traditions, and songs, through direct contact with them.
- Ideas for Rural Areas — This series seeks to promote ideas that, even if they originate from more or less distant contexts, can serve as a starting point for reflecting on and implementing actions aimed at the recovery and revitalisation of our rural environment, with a long-term perspective, even when they can be carried out in the short term, and designed for and among the people who live there. The series was inaugurated with the meeting More than a Home: Forms of Communal Living from the Nordic Countries.
External programmes, finally, are programmes in which participation takes place through activities designed by the project itself, but which are organised and coordinated by another entity. La Ricotta takes part in the 2025–2026 biennium of Aulas +55, a programme of sociocultural activities for people over 55 in the Historical Territory of Álava (Basque Country), through the talk Why Is the Night Dark? and the course Physics for Citizens.
Courses: These are specific activities centred on a concrete topic that may take place over several days or even weeks. The minimum duration is 4 hours, which may either be concentrated in a single day or distributed over two days. They include both a theoretical component and another in which the audience can familiarise themselves with or experiment, individually or in groups, with what they have learned, although in general there is no sharp division and both aspects are intertwined. Course topics may vary widely; however, all of them share the pedagogical approach described in Educación.
Labs: These are specific activities focused on a concrete topic that, in general, take place over a single day. Although they are primarily practical activities, they will always be interwoven with more conceptual information, which may be explored in greater depth depending on the interest of the audience. Topics may be of different kinds.
Sessions: These are activities generally led by a guest of La Ricotta and will focus on topics that form part of their field of expertise. Like the other activities, they may cover a wide range of subjects, leaving ample space for interaction with the audience.