Collaborating groups and entities

Research groups

Of the more than 400 research groups that exist at the UAB, only a few work in the areas of research linked to questions of university cooperation and education for development:
 

• Research centred on studies in poorer countries in any discipline.
• Research focused on the strategies, policies and actors in cooperation and development.
• Research interested in the conception and theories of development.
• Research focused on conflict analysis and peace building
• Research into educational methodologies for the promotion of critical citizens
• Research linked to processes of public participation and the study of social movements etc.

Below is a list of the UAB research groups that are active in the area of applied research on development:
 

• Agriculture, Farming and Food in the Globalised World Research Group - ARAG
• Latin America and Latin Africa Research Group - GRAAL
• Anthropology and History of the Construction of Social and Political Identities Research Group – AHCISP (SGR)
• Archaeology of Social and Territorial Resource Management Research Group – AGREST (SGR)
• Conservation, Ethnoecology and Global Change Research Group (SGR)
• Ecological Economics Research Group – ECONECOL (SGR)
• Education for Sustainability, School and Community Research Group
• Immigration and Ethnic Minorities Research Group – GEDIME (SGR)
• Globalisation, Education and political Science Research Group - GEPS
• Ethnoecology Laboratory Research Group
• Observatory for Conflict Cover Research Group
• Migrations, Education and Childhood Research Group - EMIGRA 
• Innovation in the Social Sciences Curriculum Research group - GRICCSO
• Patterns of Learning and Research Training at University Research Group - PAFIU
• Educational Processes and Anthropology Applied in Education Research Group - MOSSA
• Special Food Technology Plant Research Group (SGR)
• Social Science Teaching Research Group - GREDICS
• Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Prevention and Study of Traditional Prejudicial Practices - GIPE/ PTP
• Interdisciplinary Research Group on Historical, Environmental and Cultural Research - GIRHAC
• Intercultural and Social marginalisation Research Group - GRIM
• Research Group Seminar on Prehistoric Archaeology of the Middle East - SAPPO
• Sustainability and Environmental Prevention Research Group – SosteniPrA (SGR)
• Study Group on Energy, Territory and Society - GURB (SGR)

Centres and institutes
 

• School for the Culture of Peace
• Institute of Environmental Science and Technology - ICTA
• Institute of Government and Public Policy - IGOP
• Mediterranean Communication Observatory - OMEC

Groups and organisations

The UAB campus has a broad and diverse associations network with many groups and organisations linked to questions of cooperation for development, international solidarity and human rights. Some of the groups are limited to the UAB while others form part of Catalan or Spanish associations or movements which have created active groups at the UAB.  

• Ambient Crític
• Amnesty International - UAB
• Arab Student Group (CEA)
• L’Hortet de l’Autònoma
• UNANIMUM
• Vet without Borders – UAB

For more information:
Directory of groups at the UAB