ORCID meets SSH Workshops at the University of Barcelona

On the 15th of May, the University of Barcelona hosted a workshop entitled Social Sciences and Humanities meet ORCID: towards a fruitful collaboration, attended by more than 70 researchers from over 25 departments and diverse research groups in SSH with a focus on Law, Human Rights, Linguistics, Communication and Media, Education, Demographic studies, from 7 Catalan universities. The... Read More

Conference ‘Health Literacy and Social Justice’

Conference ‘Health Literacy and Social Justice’   BY PROFESSOR RIMA RUDD, SENIOR LECTURER ON HEALTH LITERACY, EDUCATION AND POLICY- HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, AND LEADING PROPONENT OF “HEALTH LITERACY”.   International Sociological Debates Universitat de Barcelona (ISDUB) Date: Tuesday 29th April Time: 11:00 h. Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics... Read More

MICHAEL BUROWAY at UB, 7TH OF MARCH: “NEW SOCIAL THEORY FOR NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS”

Next Thursday March 7th, at 4 PM, at the Aula Magna of the School of Economics and Business, will be with us the professor MICHAEL BURAWOY, from the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and currently President of the International Sociological Association (ISA), who will speak about:  ”NEW SOCIAL THEORY FOR NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS” Burawoy is known... Read More

Nov. 28th 2012. Gender Violence among Youth and Adolescents Seminar: The mirage of ascent. Causes and overcoming from research.

Gender Violence among Youth and Adolescents Seminar: The mirage of ascent. Causes and overcoming from research (Women’s Institute. Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality). It will present the results of research bringing new elements of analysis in order to advance on the knowledge and in the field of equality policies, education and the fight against gender violence,... Read More

Ist Internacional Seminar on Antisemitism in Catalonia

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INCLUD-ED AS ONE OF THE 10 EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS STORIES FROM THE FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMES OF RESEARCH (SEE PRESS RELEASES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION)

Under the €3.4 million INCLUD-ED project, researchers from 14 Member States working in schools in disadvantaged multicultural settings achieved an increase from 15% to 85% in the number of children achieving basic reading levels. The key to this success was the involvement of families – especially female relatives - and local communities, using a new approach linking... Read More

International Symposium on the Contributions of Successful Cooperativism to the Overcoming of Economic Problems

The 6th and 7th of June, 2012 researchers from different universities of the world, representatives of companies, civil society organizations, and of the cooperativist and political sphere have been reflecting on types of business organizations such as the successful cooperativism that made possible to create quality employment and that offer successful economic alternatives in... Read More

Marta Soler and Ramon Flecha talked about “Overcoming Inequality through Dialogue” in the seminar “Public Sociology, Live!”, a joint collaboration between the International Sociology Association (ISA) and the University of California, Berkeley

Marta Soler and Ramon Flecha talked about “Overcoming Inequality through Dialogue” in the seminar “Public Sociology, Live!”, a joint collaboration between the International Sociology Association (ISA) and the University of California, Berkeley Michael Burawoy (president of the ISA) organizes the seminar “Public Sociology, Live!” at the University... Read More

INCLUD-ED Final Conference: Successful Actions overcoming social exclusion in Europe. European Parliament Headquarters, 6th of December 2011.

Members of the European Parliament, representatives of different Member States and regional Parliaments, European Commission representatives -DG Research, DG Education, DG Employment, among others- policy makers, researchers, teachers, family members, citizens, NGOs, companies and children have participated, today 6th of December 2011, in the INCLUD-ED Final Conference at the European... Read More

DG European Commission Research highlights INCLUD-ED Final Conference in its news website

Titled “Strengthen education to build social cohesion” the website of DG Research European Commission highlighted the INCLUD-ED Final Conference. The new begins with the following words: Europeans are rising to meet the challenge of overcoming inequalities and of promoting social cohesion, but existing educational differences are not making this easy. EU-funded researchers... Read More