Last week took place the course organized by the high school Core Curriculum for doctoral students "instructions Anthropological and Ethical of the research in the University" took place last week.

During the course sessions, taught by professors from the University itself, a dialogue was opened on topics such as the global vision of the research in the university, the identity of the university institution and the University of Navarra, the profile staff and professional researcher, the multidisciplinarity, the social and environmental responsibility of the university and the relationship between science and religion.

The major challenges posed in the course were to recover a broad, not fragmented, vision of reality, and to promote colloquium among researchers from all areas of knowledge.

The opinion of the doctoral students: 

Iñaki Celaya, PhD student of School of Psychology and Education

"This course is an invitation to reflect on the work of researcher, something very necessary now that this work has become so bureaucratized and focused on the technical and productive dimension. In addition, the speakers have spoken on a variety of topics that surely cover the various disciplines represented there.

From the sessions on Christian identity, science and religion, I would highlight the fact that the process of secularization has also occurred in an important way in the scientific field. After modernity, the current that considers science and religion to be exclusive elements has gained strength".

Willy Atangana, PhD student the School of Science and Business

"Personally I have been delighted with this course and I would recommend that people take it in the first year of doctorate. financial aid to become aware of what a doctorate entails. Some loose ideas that I would highlight from these days is that everyone has to try to seek the truth knowing that the science we use, as well as ourselves, has limits. The university (and I personally believe that all institutions), has as its main goal to improve the reality of the society it studies.

For a thesis to be good, besides trying to be good at what you do, you have to be humble. Many times, we need people from other branches to help us and we have to be humble enough not only to accept criticism but also to ask for financial aid". 

Teresa Gutiérrez Alemán, doctoral student of the School de Enfermería

"Having the opportunity to access this training course given by prominent speakers on different topics, as well as the dialogue that arose after the presentations has been, without a doubt, a privilege and an opportunity to learn more about the essence of the University.

From the course I would like to highlight the defense of wisdom that has resounded strongly in the background of the speeches. This was understood as the way to avoid a worrying reality in today's man of science: the specialization or, as José Ortega y Gasset said, "the barbarism of specialism".

As a way to approach this wisdom, the professors stressed the importance of establishing a constructive dialogue between the sciences. A dialogue that can only take place to the extent that one walks through one's own science and understands or recognizes the language of the others. I believe that many of us have understood the importance of this, and hence the proposal to continue these sessions with colloquia on topics of interest to the students of doctorate of the various Schools. It will be a very enriching opportunity to begin to grow in this interdisciplinary dialogue. It has been a timely welcome at the beginning of development of the academic vocation".