2024-2025
annual report
ICS, research in Humanities and social sciences at the service of society
The report presented here brings together the activity and achievements of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) during the 2024-25 academic year. Thanks to the effort and dedication of the team that makes up this research center, as well as the commitment and generosity of our donors and sponsors, we have been able to continue promoting pioneering, exciting and challenging projects that contribute to putting the Humanities and social sciences at the service of society.
This year, we have received four competitive grants from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, a European Erasmus+ project and a project supported by the Chanse network . We have also been supported by numerous private entities that have given us their trust and financial aid: John Templeton Foundation, Funciva, Fundación Ramón Areces, Fundación 'la Caixa', Fundación L'Ontano, Fundación Tatiana Pérez de Gúzman, Fundación Dignia, Fundación Pía Aguirreche, Fundación SOMOS, Fundación IDEA, Fondo Colibrí, Fundación Fuentes Dutor and The True Colours Trust. Our deepest thanks to all for their invaluable support, partnership and enthusiasm.
We have also achieved important milestones, such as the development of the ICS 2024-25challenge "Orientalism and Occidentalism: crossed views". Through this interdisciplinary project , we have had the opportunity to analyze and discuss the relationship between East and West from a multifaceted perspective, with researchers from 11 countries. We have also promoted a series of Atlases that portray the status of palliative care in the world, following the criteria established by the World Health Organization (WHO). Specifically, this year we have presented those dedicated to the Asia-Pacific and Europe regions, acore topic tool to raise awareness and promote improvements in this field. In addition, we have participated in the clinical essay Bohemia, a pioneering study conducted in Kenya that supports the use of ivermectin to control malaria.
The achievement of these goals would not have been possible without the researcher talent that the ICS brings together, which has been recognized in important awards and calls, such as the Ramón y Cajal and Fulbright scholarships. Both locally and internationally we have continued weaving networks and establishing partnership agreements with institutions such as the Government of Navarra and the Emirate of Sharjah, among others.
And, following the compass set by our mission statement, we have carried out activities of scientific and social impact, through conferences with experts in core topic such as health, geopolitics and Economics, training courses, and events such as Despierta by Infinity, a large-scale meeting for young people held in Guatemala.
From here, I reiterate our sincere thanks to all the people and organizations that have made it possible for our institution to continue growing with their support and trust. Thank you for continuing to support research from an innovative, creative, free and, above all, deeply human point of view.
Jaime García del Barrio
GeneralDirector
ICS
ICS Talent
84
people have been part of the ICS this year
43%
are women and 57% are men
16
scientific disciplines
20
nationalities
Professional profiles
60%
researchers
17%
predoctoral researchers
6%
research technicians
17%
administration and management
Acknowledgments
Fulbright scholarship for a postdoctoral research stay in Boston (United States)
The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities has awarded him the Ramón y Cajal scholarship , intended to recognize outstanding careers in research.
Awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, through Wheaton College, for promote open science within the field of psychology and religion.
honorary doctor from the University of Huelva.
award for best article of the year by the American Academy of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry for his work in the diagnosis of ADHD.
award to the research of the year 2024 granted by the International Center for Excellence in Emotion Focused Therapy (ICCEFT), recognizing his contribution to the extension of the Emotion Focused Couples Therapy model in Spanish-speaking countries.
award financial aid to the research on the Effectiveness of Family Therapy FEATF 2024 for the work "Online vs Presencial: comparing the effectiveness of systemic therapy (TAU) and emotion-focused therapy in Spanish-speaking couples".
They have been recognized in the VIII edition of the Open Reason Awards, in the categories of teaching and research, respectively. The awards are sponsored by the Francisco de Vitoria University and the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation.
Among the world's most influential researchers, according to the latest edition of the Ranking of the World Scientists: World's Top 2% Scientist by DataMeta Lab based on information from Elsevier.
Visiting fellows
Stays abroad
Results of research
160
published articles
90%
in indexed journals, 80% of which are in the first and second quartile.
17
books
45
chapters
budget executed
4.444.545
euros
Institutions and public agencies that support us
Foundations
- John Templeton
- Fondation L'Ontano
- Dignia Foundation
- Pía Aguirreche Foundation
- Ramón Areces Foundation
- Caja Navarra Foundation
- The True Colours Trust
- IDEA Innovation
- Citizenship and Values Foundation
- group Proeduca
- Tatiana Foundation
- La Caixa" Foundation
- Fuentes Dutor Foundation
- Somos Foundation
- Hummingbird Fund
Public institutions and organizations
Associations and other centers
ICS in media, web and social networks
Media
31
millions of media audience
45
published opinion articles
74
interviews
60
published news and 43% with external repercussion.
Web
63.082
visits
18.162
active users
Social networks
93.685
printouts
50.216
printouts
19.954
printouts
challenge ICS. "Orientalism and Occidentalism: crossed gazes". 
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from different groups of the center, in partnership with visiting researchers, has developed an intense study on how the West and the East have seen, explained and represented each other, and analyze the discourses that have been produced, especially as a result of decolonization and the consequent changes in the identity of nations. Through this challenge, the roots, structure and uses of these dialectics are analyzed at the political, historical, literary, artistic, linguistic and educational levels.
22
conferences
20
visiting researchers from 10 countries
Atlas of palliative care
This is the first global analysis of palliative care development worldwide. This year, the results of the Asia-Pacific and European regions have been published. The project, promoted by the ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care of the ICS, has counted with the partnership of consultants from each country and palliative care associations in each region. The findings allow the detection of areas for improvement in palliative care in all regions of the world with the goal of promoting its development at a global level.
+900
consultants
157
countries and areas
Malaria control
The clinicalessay BOHEMIA supports the use of ivermectin to control this disease. The study was conducted in Kenya and coordinated by Carlos Chaccour, researcher at ISGlobal and the University of Navarra. Malaria poses a major global health challenge , with 263 million cases and 597,000 deaths reported in 2023.
26%
reduction of new infections in children 5 to 15 years of age
20.000
participants
Competitive financing
Efficiency of environmental policies and preferences and decisions on sustainable goods and services of households.
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Distributive justice and cooperation
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Fractional integration and cointegration. Univariate and multivariate theoretical developments. Applications in Economics and finance and other areas with time series.
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
The memories of the Temple and the Hospital in the Crown of Aragon and Navarre (XII-XV centuries). Constructions, functions and images.
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
PROMISE
Promoting Well-Being in Preteens, Adolescents, and Young Adults - Toward Improved Social average Policies.
Funded by Chanse. Collaboration of humanities and social science in Europe.
Models for Art Spetatorship (MOAS)
ICS Internal Call
Trajectories towards an adult identity (idADULT)
Internal call ICS
Non-competitive financing
Global Palliative Care ATLANTES
Funded by "la Caixa" Foundation, the Ramón Areces Foundation and The True Colours Trust.
Chair Álvaro D'Ors
Funded by Funciva.
Infinity Platform for the dissemination of research on affectivity, sexuality and personal relationships.
Funded by Somos Foundation.
Chair IDEA of New Longevities
Funded by IDEA Foundation.
Guest lectures
GREG MILLS
The Brenthurst Foundation
TIM BESLEY
London School of Economics
DAVID EVANS
Inter-American Development development
MICHAEL GREENSTONE
Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth of the University of Chicago
KATHERINE PETTUS
International association of Palliative Care, IAHPC
GUILLERMO LASSO
Former President of Ecuador
Mª DOLORES PUGA
committee Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC)
58 research seminars
training for professionals
COURSE 'GOVERNMENT, CULTURE, HUMANISM: VIOLENCE AND SECURITY'.
COURSE 'THE ESSENTIALS IN THE PALLIATIVE APPROACH'.
TRANSFORMING Education IN PALLIATIVE CARE
Collaborations with other institutions
GOVERNMENT OF NAVARRA AND DIRIME
Family mediation
EMIRATE OF SHARJAH
training of business leaders and governmental organizations
ORELLANA CIRCLE
Empowering female talent
file ROYAL AND GENERAL OF NAVARRA
exhibition on military orders
GOVERNMENT OF NAVARRA, FITERO TOWN COUNCIL AND "LA CAIXA" FOUNDATION
III Fitero Summer School
Congresses and other activities
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Corpus of apprentices and academic corpus in Spanish and French'.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Advances in family and couples therapy research : integrating research and clinical internship '.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
'From the extremes to the centre and back again? Radicalisation, mainstreaming and reconciliation in local, national and global context'.
AWAKE BY INFINITY
II WEEK OF CARE
conference in partnership with the Museo Universidad de Navarra
1st EDITION OF THE Chair IDEA NEW LONGEVITY AWARDS
TRIBUTE TO GUSTAVO CISNEROS
LONGEVITY LAB
DEATH CAFE
training program for young researchers and young researchers
Aimed at pre-doctoral researchers of the University of Navarra.
I-COMMUNITAS - PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA (UPNA)
V Interuniversity Doctoral seminar 2025
