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The Biblioteca de Catalunya will host the conference series “Eulàlia Technical Institute: one hundred years”. These are four talks, which will take place on the 5th, 12th, 19th and 25th of March 2026 in the Sala de la Caritat, at 6.30 pm, on the occasion of the centenary of this educational center.

Also as part of this commemoration, you can see the exhibition “Eulàlia Technical Institute: one hundred years” at Espai Zero, in the Library lobby, from March 5 to April 19.

The Eulàlia Technical Institute, a product of the wide-spread restlessness of the Catalan school in the first third of the 20th century, was conceived as a modern, secular, mixed and Catalan centre. The historical vicissitudes forced it to overcome the onslaughts of war (with the exile of the founders) and to become a bastion of freedom and tolerance under the dictatorship, while leading the pedagogical changes in the society of consumerism, competition and new technologies from the transition.

The program of the conference cycle is as follows:

• Thursday 5 March 2026, Sala de la Caritat, 6.30 pm:
  Gabriel Martí: “Bartomeu Oliver, founder of Técnic Eulàlia”
  The author of the biography Bartomeu Oliver A humanist between two worlds, he will talk about Dr. Oliver’s training, the foundation of Technician Eulàlia, the war and exile in Venezuela, and his intermittent returns to Barcelona.
  At the end, the exhibition “Eulàlia Technical Institute: one hundred years” will be inaugurated.

• Thursday 12 March 2026, Sala de la Caritat, 6.30 pm:
  Oriol Pi de Cabanyes (1950) and Valentí Sallas (1956): “Our technician Eulàlia”
  The contrasting experience of two students at the turn of the sixties. The reasons for going to the Technician and their diverse and complementary memories.

• Thursday 19 March 2026, Sala de la Caritat, 6.30 pm:
  Mariona Cusí (1951) and Itziar González (1967): “Student and teacher, teacher and student”
  The experience of two students at very different times, before and after the dictator’s death. Mariona Cusí was a student at Técnic and, later, a teacher at Técnic and Frederic Mistral. And, at some point, teacher of Itziar González.

• Wednesday 25 March 2026, Sala de la Caritat, 6.30 pm:
  Artur Ramon: “Josep Obiols and the paintings of Technician Eulàlia”
  One of the top specialists in Josep Obiols reviews the painter’s relationship with Technician Eulàlia and the outstanding artistic interventions he made there.

Free entry with limited capacity.

All conferences can be followed by streaming at YouTube channel of the Library of Catalonia.