Socially committed research
The Ramon Llull University develops its public service project through higher education, research and transfer from social initiative. These three elements are fully integrated in the mission of the University and are addressed with the commitment to society and always from an ethical point of view.
The URL promotes quality research aimed at responding to the main challenges of our society. For this reason, its research groups are in constant contact with the social, political, economic and cultural agents of our environment in order to know the current challenges and to be able to offer answers that contribute value to society, help economic growth and the expansion of knowledge.
URL RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE
Ramon Llull University has a Research Ethics Committee (CER-URL) which allows all its centres to consult, seek advice and decide on the research projects they wish to pursue.
CER-URL is a collegiate and independent body which evaluates and rates research projects with ethical implications due to the nature of their objectives and methodology. Special emphasis is given to competitive projects in which the call for proposals specifically requires CER-URL’s approval.
CER-URL carries out its mission with full transparency. It also takes into account other national and/or international norms and reference documents on the matter. Its functions are to prepare and approve reports, proposals, recommendations and other documents.
CER-URL consists of the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation and a representative from each of URL’s federated institutions. In addition, other CER-URL members include a representative from the Ramon Llull Ethos Chair and a representative chosen by URL PhD candidates.
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URL CHAIRS IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- ETHOS-URL Chair
- Chair of Responsible Tourism and Hospitality-URL
- Chair of Social and Restorative Justice-URL
- Chair of Religious Freedom and Conscience-URL
- UNESCO-URL Chair
URL, FOUNDING MEMBER OF SACRU NETWORK
The Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities (SACRU) is an international network of eight world-leading Catholic universities dedicated to research and teaching excellence and to internationalization and mobility, with a strong social commitment.
In terms of research activity, the alliance focuses on transdisciplinary topics with high impact on society and academic reputation. SACRU promotes, facilitates and fosters research collaboration among its member universities.
SACRU has five Working Groups in which universities work collaboratively to respond to different societal challenges. These Working Groups are:
- Responding through Research and Teaching to a Vulnerable World: this group focuses its activity on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and aims to reflect on what this crisis has entailed globally and how future challenges can be addressed.
- Catholic Identity and Laudato Si’: the Common Home and Social Justice: its thirteen members work on issues related to the Catholic identity of all universities in the alliance. Thus, the group supports integrating Catholicism as an integral part of the teaching, research and university life of SACRU members.
- Internationalization and the inter-university digital campus: its role is to advise the SACRU Executive on internationalization and to report on key global issues in higher education. It aims to develop initiatives that enable active and ongoing student and staff between member universities, in a context of low international mobility due to the pandemic.
- Family Life: the group's lines of work and research include the strengthening of family relationships, the social value of the family, support for couples in crisis and separation, and international custody and adoption.
- Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Human Person: the group will address the nature of artificial intelligence and all the ethical challenges related to it.
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN THE URL RESEARCH GROUPS
The research activity of the URL is based on 50 research groups, the principal investigators (PI) of which have shown in the following search engine how their research contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The results show that the three SDGs most represented in the URL's research activity are objectives 3-Good health and well-being, with 23 groups, and 4-Quality Education and 5-Gender Equality, with 16 groups each. In contrast, the only SDG that has not been linked to the university's research activity is 15-Life on Land.
In the following search engines, you can search through the URL centers or through the SDGs themselves.