The Euskoiker Foundation serves as a liaison agency between the University of the Basque Country – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea and the Basque society, principally developing research and carrying out training activities.
Last summer, we devoted an issue of our newsletter to discussing the types of knowledge transfer work done in the Faculty of Fine Arts. In this issue, we are focusing our attention on the School of Architecture of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), based in Donostia/San Sebastian. Architecture is a field with a huge and, above all, very obvious impact on society.Within the School there is a Department of Architecture, with nearly a hundred professors and researchers, along...
In the darkness we sense the figures of the five performers who appear to be sitting on a beach and making small movements under the rising sun. The lighting suggests the slow awakening of the day, yet this quietness is in contrast with what is about to come. The performance will move between very...
Gema Varona es a permanent researcher in the Basque Institute of Criminology (IVAC-KREI) As anyone who works in social sciences knows only too well, the activities of human beings are difficult to measure and assess, as they are subject to so many variables that it is often harder to determine the causes and effects than in other fields of science. Gema Varona works as a permanent research fellow at the...
The Faculty of Fine Arts at UPV/EHU works within a cultural environment which is connected with the interests of society as a whole. Art is, perhaps, the most universal human language. Through the Euskoiker Foundation, lecturers from the Faculty of Fine Arts share their knowledge with society through different types of projects. In this edition of the newsletter, we fill you in with some examples of how these projects and collaborations have taken shape. Courses
Almost two months have passed since the 8 March demonstrations, when a collection of women from very different backgrounds came together across Spain to raise their voices against issues such as the gender pay gap, the uneven distribution of domestic work, the unpaid and unacknowledged work that some women undertake, gender-based violence and sexual assault, among other topics. In Euskadi, in the Basque capitals alone
With the project name “Lactatus”, the Control and Systems Integration Research Group (GCIS) from the Advanced School of Engineering of Bilbao and the Physiology Department of the University of the Basque Country are working together with the company Grupo Campus to develop a...