During the 2014-2015 academic year, the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), the University of Navarra´s Humanities and Social Sciences research center, welcomes 72 collaborators from 19 countries, including: Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, USA, Spain, Philippines, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Mali, Poland, Portugal, Russia and the UK.

This academic year, 2014-2015, the ICS will sponsor the third edition of the Ethics & Society Forum, which consists in a series of academic gatherings that are open to the entire campus and that seek to address issues related to improving community life and society. In addition, ICS's Fourth Annual Meeting will be held on November 20; this year's theme is Technology and Society. On March 13, the philosopher Ernest Sosa of Rutgers University (USA) will give ICS's second annual Lecture on Humanities and Social Sciences. During the course of the academic year, ICS's research projects have also scheduled a variety of international conferences, meetings, workshops, and inter-project seminars for doctoral and master's students.

Furthermore, the ICS will host the 2015 annual European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres (ECHIC) conference in March, which brings together research institutes, faculties and humanities centers in Europe. Previous meetings have been held in Porto (Portugal), Nottingham (UK) Utrecht (Netherlands) and Dublin (Ireland).

In other news, ICS has launched two new research groups that bring together experts from around Navarra's campus— both ICS collaborators and professors from the various faculties— to investigate interdisciplinary issues in great depth. Last year the Consumption and Lifestyles group was created; this year, the ICS adds the Philosophy and Palliative Care and Civic Humanism groups. These research efforts seek to produce results aimed at both specialized audiences and at the general public.