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Horizon Europe Pump-Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners 2026

Ignacia Perugorría and Camilo Tamayo Gómez (University of Huddersfield, UK) have been awarded a grant funded by the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, as part of a call launched by The British Academy, with the support of The Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, investing in researchers and projects across the UK and overseas.

The aim of this call is to “pump prime” international collaborations led by UK-based institutions, in consortium with researchers from European Union and Associated Countries, in order to lay the groundwork for future competitive proposals within the Horizon Europe framework. The call is open to all disciplines, including engineering, natural sciences, medical and health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

The title of the project submitted by Ignacia and Camilo is: Bodies, Memories, and Technologies of Justice (BMTJ): Citizen-Led Transmedia and Forensic Strategies for Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Colombia, the US/Mexico Border and the Basque Country.

DELIAH Democratic Literacy and Humor

Objective:

Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the multifaceted role of humour in artistic forms, cultural spaces, and online and offline fora, identifying how humour can either support or undermine democratic participation and processes in Europe.

DELIAH has two main goals:

(1) To transform existing research on the adverse effects of anti-democratic speech, which is particularly prevalent in ‘humorous’ forms in online platforms, into actionable policies, toolkits, and educational resources to mitigate the negative consequences of such anti-democratic speech. Such practical approaches will in turn enhance what we call ‘democratic literacy’: i.e. the capacity among EU citizens and regulators to discern the anti-democratic implications of certain forms of hateful speech or disparaging humour .

(2) To conduct fundamental research into humorous ‘counter-speech,’ which will allow DELIAH to develop and promote humour strategies that confront anti-democratic rhetoric, hate speech, and discriminatory content, thus establishing ‘best practices’ for using humour as a tool to counteract anti-democratic speech and thereby foster broader and more meaningful participation in democratic processes.

DELIAH therefore recognizes humour’s dual potential. First, DELIAH investigates how humour can be misused to support anti-democratic agendas and, in response, offers strategies to boost awareness, regulate content, and mitigate harm. Second, and simultaneously, DELIAH harnesses humour’s positive role in countering such rhetoric, advocating for practices that encourage active and healthy democratic engagement.

In sum, DELIAH is dedicated to exploring and establishing the delicate balance between humour’s potential to harm and its capacity to heal in a democratic context, aiming to cultivate a more informed, resilient, and participatory democratic society in Europe.

HarilkAI Prototyping AI uses in Communication and Social Science Research

Objective:

HarilkAI is a project framed within the UPV/EHU Call for Collaborative Research Projects (2024). Its aim is to develop a pilot program to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in research in communication and the social sciences. Through the prototyping of tools based on AI language models, the project seeks to analyze the opportunities, tensions, and challenges posed by their integration in these fields.

The project is based on the development of open-source digital infrastructures to ensure the university’s technological sovereignty, as well as on the creation of a collaborative space within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication. Innovative methodologies will be explored to move beyond traditional frameworks in social and communication research, addressing key issues such as ethics, bias, authorship, and traceability.

HarilkAI will also pay special attention to the adaptation of AI tools for use in the Basque language, promoting their integration into university research and teaching. To this end, it relies on the collaboration of the IXA Taldea, a leading group in the development of language technologies for Basque.

The project is led by the InnoKLab research group, with the participation of Bitartez, Parte Hartuz, NOR Ikerketa Taldea, GAIT-CEIC, ADI, and the Ikuspegi Observatory, in addition to the technical support of the IXA Taldea.

Pizti Bat Again

  • Tipo: Película documental
  • Duración: 70 min
  • Adscripción: GAIT

Este cuento documental explora escenas de amor y muerte, control y cuidado, fascinación y ensueño que emergen de la convivencia con el lobo en los límites del País Vasco. Así, las diferentes fases del rodaje se llevaron a cabo tanto en Valle de Carranza como en la comarca y el puerto de Garazi, durante estancias que las directoras realizaron en diferentes épocas del año.

La cineasta Ainhoa Gutiérrez del Pozo y la antropóloga Olatz González Abrisketa son autoras de la película, con el apoyo de las productoras Maluta* Films y Azaroa Films.

Sinopsis

Un tiro quebranta el atardecer. Cazadores con pantallas GPS siguen a sus perros hasta el bosque, y les atrapa la noche. En otro lugar, Maina cuenta a diario sus ovejas. Se ha visto el lobo cerca. Adán, fascinado por esta aparición, sale a buscarlo con su cámara aprovechando la luna llena. Cada uno se relaciona con el animal a su manera, pero concuerdan con él en algo: todos quieren ver sin ser vistos.

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Ambas directoras se trasladaron de la ciudad al campo hace ya algunos años, y esto les ha generado más dudas que certezas. Lo que es comprendido como conflicto no es más que un cruce entre el deseo dominante del ser humano y las condiciones del ecosistema que se le contraponen. Tan simple y, a su vez, complejo. En el intento de búsqueda de soluciones, no hay desenlace mágico.

Bajo esta premisa, la película propone una mirada; dedicar un espacio de tiempo a las elecciones vitales que suponen convivir en estrecha relación con los animales. Presentan el audiovisual como un intento de adentrarse en ese mundo, como una apertura a la observación de una realidad determinada.

Olatz González Abrisketa inició su carrera hacia la película desde la antropología, mientras que Ainhoa Gutiérrez del Pozo lo hizo desde el área de las Bellas Artes y el audiovisual. Han dirigido la película a cuatro manos.

La escritura del guion corre a cargo de Gutiérrez del Pozo, que también ha trabajado como directora de fotografía. González Abrisketa, por su parte, ha colaborado con Adriana Rolloso Hermosa en la elaboración sonora. La catalana Pilar Monsell ha sido la encargada de la edición, y la música es obra de la tolosarra Verde Prato (Ana Arsuaga).

La película está producida por Ritxi Lizartza y Maria Vallejo, en representación de las productoras Maluta* Films y Azaroa Films. Asimismo, el proyecto ha contado con el apoyo de la Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia y el Gobierno Vasco.

Condición de extranjería. Escritoras latinoamericanas, entre América y Europa, en el siglo XXI

Resumen: Nos encontramos en un momento fundacional en la literatura escrita en español, que utiliza esta lengua como signo de identidad y clave de resistencia en su diaspórico devenir global, tanto en Estados Unidos como en Europa. La diáspora latinoamericana ha producido un fenómeno literario, que no constituye todavía un canon, ni conforma una literatura hegemónica, pero que conforma, a pesar de ello, la literatura que mayor interés despierta en la academia y el mercado editorial: la emergente literatura latinoamericana en español en EEUU y en Europa.

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Construyendo la sociedad sostenible. Movilización, participación y gestión de prácticas socio-ecológicas

Resumen: El proyecto aborda el análisis de actividades de producción y consumo que se pueden englobar bajo el concepto de prácticas socio- ecológicas y que se caracterizan por tener arraigo ecológico (ecological embeddedness). Aunque las raíces de este concepto se encuentren en la sociología económica, aquí se amplía su significado para sugerir que otras prácticas de consumo de alimentos, de movilidad, de formas de habitar, de elección entre bienes básicos de consumo básico y firmas de relacionarse también puede considerarse cada vez más arraigadas en los procesos naturales o ecológicos. Con ello intentamos señalar cómo el concepto de inserción ecológica podría operacionalizarse en la práctica de la investigación como medio para explorar las dimensiones ecológicas de muchas actividades y prácticas de la vida cotidiana.

Nuestra investigación pretende contribuir a la literatura académica y al actual debate público con el desarrollo de las dimensiones sociales de prácticas cotidianas que están enclavadas en la lógica del ecological embeddedness.

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Collaborative Consumption Project

Collaborative practices have been present in society throughout history. Several historical works and anthropological and social researches have shown their existence in different geographical and cultural contexts. In the last decades and, with greater intensity, in the 21st century, relevant changes have been taking place among consumers. In recent years there have been relevant transformations, many of them due to ICTs and other contextual factors such as the generalization of the use of online platforms and network-based consumption.

Team: Benjamín Tejerina and Irune Ruiz.

Desapariciones Project

The Desapariciones (Disappearances) project seeks to understand the ways in which the category of “desaparecido” (disappeared) circulates transnationally and contributes to manage, inhabitat and analyze different situations marked by catastrophe and loss.

This effort is concretized in two directions. On the one hand, the project seeks to understand the logic behind the transnational circulation of the category “desaparecido” and its present ubiquity in the management and population of situations of suffering. These situations exceed those that since the 2006 UN Convention have fallen the umbrella of the “forced disappearance of persons” legal type. 

On the other hand, Disappearances seeks to elaborate strategies to analyze social life when it is traversed by catastrophe and loss, and when the the tools we have inherited to apprehend and manage identity, agency and meaning have exhausted their explanatory power. The team’s objective is to utilize the category of disappeared as a tool for the theoretical and methodological analysis of universes marked by strong processes of destructuring, deinstitutionalization and, in general, breakdown of meaning.

Disappearances is a project with a comparative, transdisciplinary (sociology, anthropology, philology, political science, law, social psychology), and multi-situated vocation. It is based on a qualitative research strategy, and tackles different cases among which are the disappeared in Colombia, undocumented in Mexico, stolen babies in Spain, seasonal workers in Spain, the trafficking in human beings, Schengen border, etc.

Sharing Society Project

The Sharing Society research project sets out to analyze the characteristics, trajectory and impact of collaborative collective actions (CCA) in a context of erosion of the welfare state and crisis of the social bond in Europe and America.

We define collaborative collective action (CCA) as the group of practices and formal and informal interactions that take place among individuals, collectives or associations that share a sense of belonging or common interests, that collaborate and are in conflict with others, and have the intent of producing or precluding social change through the mobilization of certain social sectors (Tejerina 2010).

We utilize a multi-methods approach, comprising the analysis of secondary sources, case studies, surveys, in-depth interviews and focus groups. Our case studies come from the areas of work-production, consumption, integration-solidarity, culture-art, education-science, social/civic/political participation-activism.

The project is directed by Professor Benjamín Tejerina, and the research team is formed by members of 6 Spanish universities and 8 foreign academic institutions (Argentina, Canada, Chile, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom).

The project is hosted by the Collective Identity Research Center (Department of Sociology II, University of the Basque Country), and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Mineco CSO2016-78107-R).