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Universidad Rural Paulo Freire, Serranía de Ronda

Asociación Montaña y Desarrollo Serranía de Ronda

Serranía de Ronda, Málaga, Spain

Community developmentEducationGender equalityLGBTQ+
AssociationFounded 2002Local reach
Profile last updated: July 18, 2026

About

Founded in 2002, Universidad Rural Paulo Freire, Serranía de Ronda is a non-profit association based in Serranía de Ronda, Spain working on community development, education, gender equality +2 more.

Non-profit association based in the Serranía de Ronda, Málaga, Spain, operating as a rural development centre. It runs the Universidad Rural Paulo Freire, an educational project inspired by Paulo Freire's pedagogy that promotes a sustainable rural development model. Its work covers rural culture, agroecology, participatory democracy, gender equality and the visibility of diverse gender and sexual identities in rural areas. It runs a research chair, the Feminario, rural feminist forums and a documentation centre, and it is a member of a state network of rural development organisations. The association was created in 2002 under the legal name Asociación Montaña y Desarrollo de la Serranía de Ronda.

Location

Serranía de Ronda, Spain

Founded

2002

Organisation type

Association

Legal form

Asociación

Legal name

Asociación Montaña y Desarrollo Serranía de Ronda

Focus areas

rural developmenteducationPaulo Freirefeminismgender equalitydiversityagroecologySerranía de Ronda

Languages

ES

Causes & programmes

Causes

Community developmentEducationGender equalityLGBTQ+Environment & Climate

Works for

Women & GirlsCommunities

How they work

Awareness & educationResearchCapacity buildingCommunity programmes

Programmes

Cátedra de Dinamización Rural

Community development · Spain

Area of research and transformative training on rural dynamisation, linked to the association's rural development projects.

Feminario

Gender equality · Spain

Space for meeting and debate on the visibility of women and their role in rural history, which advises local groups on applying a gender perspective and runs awareness, training and research projects.

Foros Feministas Rurales

Gender equality · Spain

Series of rural feminist forums held since the early editions, including the IX Foro Feminista Rural 'Identidades Diversas' held in Arriate in November 2018.

Centro de Documentación

Heritage · Spain

Documentation centre that holds bibliographic, photographic, audiovisual and press collections on the history, culture and environment of the Serranía de Ronda.

Countries of operation

Spain

Credentials & affiliations

Industry memberships

COCEDER

Partnerships

Plataforma Rural, CIFAES

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