28 February 2020
Bilbao Campus
The University of Deusto has achieved for the first time two Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship projects in the 2019 call. This European programme is aimed at training and hiring experienced researchers to carry out individual projects of 12 to 36 months in an international and intersectoral framework.
In the case of the University of Deusto, two female researchers have been selected in the Global Fellowship modality, which implies a research stay in an institution outside Europe with a final phase at the home institution.
Ana Vidú, researcher at the Faculty of Law and member of the Interdisciplinary Research Platform Gender, has been selected with the project “UniswithHeart: Student networks leading the struggle for universities free of sexual violence: mechanisms to support survivors, inspiring institutional changes for violence prevention”. During 36 months, this novel and interdisciplinary project will combine the social perspective with the legal one for researching mechanisms to overcome gender-based violence in universities through support networks, with the aim of achieving social, legislative and institutional changes for more scientific and human universities and societies. Ana will be hosted by the University of California Berkeley (United States) during the first two years of the project.
Idoia Quintana will work at the Centre for Applied Ethics of the University of Deusto on the project “FORGIVESQ A forgiveness-based approach: an analysis of forgiveness and its uses in the Basque Conflict”. The project aims to study the uses of forgiveness in the Basque conflict. Firstly, a theoretical framework will be developed by adopting a transdisciplinary philosophical approach. Secondly, a diachronic study of forgiveness in the Basque context will be carried out to explain how forgiveness has been present in the Basque conflict and how it has evolved over time. Idoia will carry out her research at the University of California-Riverside (United States) during the first year of the project.
