Interview with Eduardo Chávez Molina: “Today, Argentina is the realm of the ‘big fish.’ That’s why poverty and inequality are on the rise.”

January 12, 2025 | Chile. Academic Dose, Journalistic Dose, Great Transformations By Emmanuelle Barozet and Juan Andrés Guzmán In his fight against inflation, Javier Milei has made Argentina poor and economically unequal, as Chile was in the 1980s. He has also lowered customs tariffs, threatening to undermine local industry and turn the country into a producer of raw materials. […]

News in Corriere della Calabria: Unical, the Sssap hosts an important international conference

May 22, 2025 | University of Calabria (Rende, Italy). The participants in the initiative will reflect collectively on the specific theme of innovation. On 21 and 22 May, an important international conference titled “Innovation, policies and Reforms of Public Administrations in Europe and Latin America” will take place at the Higher School of Public Administration Sciences (SSSAP) […]

Participation in several scientific events by Dr María Celeste Gómez, Dr Cecilia Jiménez, and Dr Facundo Quiroga

In October 2025, within the framework of postdoctoral research stays, professors María Celeste Gómez and Cecilia Jiménez, and professor Facundo Quiroga actively participated in various scientific events. Prof. Cecilia Jiménez participated in the XI Congreso de Migraciones 2025, organized by the RETYDES Research Group (Territorial Restructuring and Social Inequalities) of the Sociology Department at the University of Murcia, held in Murcia (Spain), from October […]

France does not want become Argentina

October 13, 2025 | National University of San Martín (Buenos Aires, Argentina). In some way, today’s French society resembles Argentina’s. And it is due to the effect of economic policies that seem obsessed with fiscal austerity but actually implement their strategic plan: channeling capital from public coffers to the private sphere. Social movements, unions, workers […]

The Prodetur Chair begins its activities analysing and studying university employability in Seville

October 7, 2025 | Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain) The ‘Dialogues: Higher Education and Employment‘ sessions have commenced this morning with the public activities of the Prodetur Chair in Socioeconomic Development of the Province of Seville. María Ángeles Huete and Rafael Merinero, co-directors of the Chair, together with Laura López de la Cruz, Vice-Rector for […]

Research stay of Dr Martín-Criado at the National University of Córdoba (UNC)

In July 2025, the National University of Córdoba (UNC) received a visit from Professor Enrique Martín Criado from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO). His stay took place within the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme and through a specific agreement between both institutions. A broad and interdisciplinary group of professors from various academic units at the UNC collaborated in […]

CLACSO joins the INCASI network

The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) formalized its incorporation into the INCASI network, an organization leading a research project funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe program, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Staff Exchange, called “A New Measure of Socioeconomic Inequalities for International Comparison”. The main objective is to develop a new analytical framework […]

Why PISA’s ‘one-year effect’ does not really measure what is learned in a school year

September 3, 2024 | Madrid, Spain. By José Saturnino Martínez García. What does the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA, by its English acronym) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) measure? Its creators define it as the literacy (literal translation of alfabetización) of 15-year-old students in various subjects. This “literacy” can be understood as the ability […]

López Menchón’s working meeting with specialists from employment-related institutions in Cuba

July 10, 2024 | University of La Habana (La Habana, Cuba). On July 10, 2024, the aforementioned meeting on employability took place at the University of Havana, with the participation of 25 people, including municipal deputy directors of labor, methodologists from CELASS (Center for Studies of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security), specialists from […]

Pedro López-Roldán (UAB) and Sandra Fachelli (UPO) successfully conclude their research stay at UMSS (Bolivia)

January 31, 2024 | Major University of San Simón (Cochabamba, Bolivia). The stay of Dr. Pedro López-Roldán (UAB) and Dr. Sandra Fachelli (UPO) at the Major University of San Simón in Bolivia concluded with highly productive work. During January 2024, various activities and collaborative efforts were carried out to strengthen networked research between Europe and […]

Protocolary visit to UMSS Rector (Bolivia)

January 19, 2024 | Major University of San Simón (Cochabamba, Bolivia). Authorities and researchers from the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Bolivia welcomed Dr. Pedro López-Roldán (UAB) and Dr. Sandra Fachelli (UPO) during January 2024 to discuss the INCASI 2 project and future work prospects.