Six researchers have received grants to develop their projects at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), the humanities and social sciences research center at the University of Navarra. One grant is from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), another from the Ramón y Cajal foundation, two Juan de la Cierva grants from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, one from the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, and the last one from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

3ie has awarded $USD 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 empirical, evidence-based development policies and programs in low and middle-income countries. One of its main sources of funding is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

David Thunder, a researcher for ICS’s Religion and Civil Society project, is the beneficiary of the Ramón y Cajal grant, which totals 208,600 euros. With it, he will analyze a new paradigm of social order and self-government called associative pluralism. This proposal seeks to reach effective representation for the different associations present in society and to delegate many governing tasks to the local level.

For their part, Javier García Manglano, from ICS, and Anna Piata, from the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (University of Geneva), have obtained Juan de la Cierva grants, each totaling 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 ICS’s Navarra Center for International Development, he will analyze youth unemployment in the last decades and relate it to indicators linked to young people’s family and social situations.

For her part, Piata will join the Creatime research project— within ICS’s Public Discourse program— to understand human creativity by analyzing how it imagines and represents time in conversation, film and literature.

Collaboration with the Spanish Person Project (Proyecto Hombre España)

In addition, the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has awarded 42,683 euros to a project on “Addiction, personality and frustration tolerance: A neuropsychological study on subjects in Proyecto Hombre.” The project, which will last three years, is led by Francisco Güell of ICS’s Mind-Brain group. Together with Proyecto Hombre España, it will study if frustration and personality are related to the rates at which people abandon drug addiction programs.¡

Lastly, José Miguel Carrasco, from the ATLANTES Program, received the José Castillejo grant for mobility abroad, which was awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and totals 19,745 euros. With this grant, he will travel to the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom) and undertake a research stay with Professor David Clark, where he will develop a project on “The palliative care message: From global declarations to local contexts.”