The Institute for Culture and Society will host the annual European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres (ECHIC) conference, which brings together research institutes, faculties and humanities center from across Europe.

The conference will take place on March 25, 26 and 27, 2015 at the University of Navarra Museum. In previous years, the conference has been held in Porto (Portugal), Nottingham (UK), Utrecht (Netherlands) and Dublin (Ireland).

The European Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (ECHIC) aims at three ends. First, it aims to act as a loud speaker for its members in dialogue with the ESF, the EU and other funding sources and policy makers to express funding needs in humanities research; it also speaks for the humanities and develops a language for positioning humanities institutes in European universities.

At the same time, it organizes the annual humanities meeting in one of the member institutions, involving all key partners, funders and politicians at the national and European levels.

It also seeks to establish a network across the EU that serves as a lobbying group for the humanities in Europe; it prepares collaborative projects and activities and establishes an effective work system with other international networks in the humanities, such as the CHCI.