First Global Meeting, Sevilla 2024

INCASI 2 Network team at the session on 30 June in Seville

OPEN DAY, 1 July 2024 at the UPO

The Pablo de Olavide University hosts the first Global Meeting of the INCASI Network to tackle social inequalities

Experts from Europe and Latin America meet as part of a European project to develop new measures to reduce socio-economic inequality.

El encuentro se celebra a lo largo de todo el día de hoy en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide.

The meeting is being held today at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.

Today, the Pablo de Olavide University is hosting the first Global Meeting of the INCASI network (International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities), a university project financed by the European Commission that aims to create and consolidate a research and training network between Europe and Latin America on inequalities in these territories, with the objective of reducing them.

De izquierda a derecha, Pedro López-Roldán y Sandra Fachelli.
From left to right, Pedro López-Roldán and Sandra Fachelli.

Coordinated by the Institute of Labour Studies (IET) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with Pedro López-Roldán as principal researcher of the network, and Sandra Fachelli, lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, as sub-coordinator.

The main researchers of the 29 organisations that make up the INCASI network, composed of 14 European universities from 6 countries (Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Finland and Great Britain), 11 Latin American and Caribbean universities from 7 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil and Mexico), and 4 non-academic organisations (Latinobarómetro, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean -CEPAL-, Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean -INTAL- and Laboratorio Opinión Pública de América Latina -LAPOP-) are taking part in this meeting.

De izquierda a derecha, Pedro López-Roldán y José Saturnino Martínez García.
De izquierda a derecha, Pedro López-Roldán y José Saturnino Martínez García.

‘Welcoming this international network is an excellent opportunity to make our university known and to be able to project ourselves to all the countries where our researchers come from’, says Professor Sandra Fachelli. Created in 2015 and after 4 years of work, INCASI is now in a second stage that will end in October 2027. ‘Over the next four years, we will be able to deepen the research initiated, innovatively creating comprehensive measures to address inequality,’ explains the UPO professor.

De izquierda a derecha, Sandra Fachelli, Amapola Povedano, Antonio Martín Artiles (UAB), Xavier Mancero (Comisión Económica para América Latina, CEPAL) y Pedro Lopez-Roldán.
De izquierda a derecha, Sandra Fachelli, Amapola Povedano, Antonio Martín Artiles (UAB), Xavier Mancero (Comisión Económica para América Latina, CEPAL) y Pedro Lopez-Roldán.

The new project, under the Horizon Europe, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Staff Exchange (GA101130456) programme, is entitled A New Measure of Socioeconomic Inequalities for International Comparison (INCASI2) and aims to build a new analytical model of socioeconomic inequalities, related to 6 lines of research: work, education, gender, social stratification and mobility, migration and public policies.

The Global Meeting has been closed by the Vice-Rector for Students, Employability and Entrepreneurship of the UPO Amapola Povedano Díaz.

Source: Dissemination Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 1 July on page.