July 1, 2024 | Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain).
OPEND DAY: Pablo de Olavide University hosts the first Global Meeting of the INCASI Network to address social inequalities.
Experts and researchers from Europe and Latin America gather under a European project that develops new measures to reduce socioeconomic inequality.
The Pablo de Olavide University hosts today the first Global Meeting of the INCASI network (International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities), a university project funded by the European Commission aimed at creating and consolidating a research and training network between Europe and Latin America on inequalities in these territories, with the goal of reducing them.
Coordinated by the Institute of Labor Studies (IET) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with principal investigator Pedro López-Roldán, the sub-coordination is led by Sandra Fachelli, professor in the Sociology Department at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.
This meeting brings together principal investigators from the 29 organizations comprising the INCASI network, which includes 14 European universities from 6 countries (Spain, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Finland, and Great Britain), 11 universities from Latin America and the Caribbean from 7 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, and Mexico), and 4 non-academic organizations (Latinobarómetro, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean –CEPAL–, Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean –INTAL–, and Latin American Public Opinion Project –LAPOP–).
“Hosting this international network is an excellent opportunity to showcase our university and project ourselves to all the countries from which the researchers come,” states Professor Sandra Fachelli. Created in 2015 and after 4 years of work, INCASI is now in a second phase that will conclude in October 2027. “Over the next 4 years, we will be able to deepen the research already initiated, innovatively creating comprehensive measures to address inequality,” explains the UPO professor.
The new project, under the Horizon Europe program, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Staff Exchange (GA101130456), is titled 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, migrations, and public policies.
The Global Meeting was closed by Amapola Povedano Díaz, Vice-Rector for Students, Employability, and Entrepreneurship at UPO.
Source: Pablo de Olavide University News.