The University signature a agreement with four European universities to research military orders during the Middle Ages average and Modern

Aligning forces and promoting common initiatives for the study of military orders during the medieval and early modern periods. This is one of the goals of the agreement Militarium Ordinum Nexus - Beyond Boundaries (MON-2B), signed by the University of Navarra, the University of Porto (Portugal), the University of Malta , the University of Castilla - La Mancha , and the Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona). The alliance enables a network of partnership between these academic centers, which will promote exchanges and the attraction of talent.

Julia Pavón , dean of the School of Philosophy and Letters and researcher at the group ' Links, Creativity and Culture ' from the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra, explains that this agreement responds to the need of several international groups to seek new perspectives of work for the historiographical and memoristic study of the crusades and military orders: “The agreement It allows us not only to work on the traditional political-institutional sphere but also on issues of cultural, religious, social cohesion and projection imprint and knowledge from different sources." In this sense, he points out that "it will facilitate the exchange and proposal of a methodological and historiographical renewal."

To achieve this, having an international network is essential. core topic , since "the military orders are the only international institutions of the Middle Ages" average , with large headquarters in the Mediterranean and Western Europe,” says Pavón, principal investigator of the project “The Memoirs of the Temple and the Hospital in the Crown of Aragon and Navarre (12th-15th Centuries)”, in which this alliance is framed. “Since its tradition, each researcher brings both the perspective of his training disciplinary as well as the uniqueness of the character of its regional sources,” he assesses. In addition to researchers from all the signatory countries, experts from Israel, France, and the United Kingdom also collaborate.

This work in network will promote the promotion of projects research and the exchange visiting professors, researchers and students in different programs, in addition to establishing synergies to share information and materials. It will also allow cooperation in scientific, teaching and research activities. research and organize joint events, such as seminars, conferences, workshops and congresses, among other initiatives.

In this framework joint cooperation is already planned to be carried out congress on crusades and military orders quinquennial, organized by The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE) , which will be hosted by the University of Porto at the end of June 2026. Also, in October of the same year, the congress Annual of the Spanish Society of Medieval programs of study (SEEM) , promoted by the University of Navarra and with the partnership from the University of Barcelona, the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) and the file Royal and General of Navarre (Government of Navarre).