Six researchers have received grants to develop their projects at Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), the research center at Humanities and social sciences of the University of Navarra. They are one financial aid from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie); one Ramón y Cajal and two Juan de la Cierva, from the Ministry of Economics, Industry and Competitiveness; one from the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, and one from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

3ie has awarded US$63,760 to Alex Armand of ICS's Navarra Center for International Development for a project related to public subsidies for agricultural insurance in Bolivia. This NGO provides grants to promote for evidence-based development policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries, and one of its main sources of funding is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

David Thunder, researcher of project 'Religion and Civil Society' of the ICS, is the beneficiary of the Ramón y Cajal, endowed with 208,600 euros. With it, he will analyze a new paradigm of social order and self-government, the associative pluralism. This proposal seeks to give effective representation to the different associations present in society and to delegate a large part of the tasks of government to the local spheres.

Javier García-Manglano, from the ICS, and Anna Piata, from the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (University of Geneva), have each been awarded a Juan de la Cierva prize of 64,000 euros. García Manglano will study youth and employment in Europe, especially in the South. Under the direction of Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, from the Navarra Center for International Development of the ICS, he will analyze youth unemployment in recent decades and relate it to indicators of the family and social status of young people.

For his part, Piata will join the research 'Creatime' line of the ICS's project 'Public discourse', which seeks to understand human creativity by analyzing how time is imagined and represented in conversation, film and literature.

partnership with project Man Spain

In addition, the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has awarded 42,683 euros to project 'Addiction, personality and frustration tolerance: a neuropsychological study in subjects attached to project Hombre', from group 'Mente-cerebro'. The research, directed by Francisco Güell, will last three years. Together with project Hombre España, it will study whether frustration and personality are related to the fees of withdrawal of programs against addictions.

Finally, José Miguel Carrasco, from the ATLANTES Program, is the beneficiary of a financial aid 'José Castillejo' for mobility abroad, granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and endowed with 19,745 euros. Thanks to this grant, he is spending a stay at the University of Glasgow (UK) with Professor David Clark, where he is developing the project 'The message of palliative care. From global statements to local context'.