Five universities and over 30 academic, institutional, local, and regional partners in Europe and Latin America form the transatlantic URC network already, tightened and inspired by high-quality in situ expertise and worldwide expanding interrelationships.
Academic Partners
URC Directors: Prof. Dr. Victor A. Ferretti {Lead}, Prof. Dr. Rotraud von Kulessa & Prof. Dr. Joachim Steffen (all Romance Studies)
URC Directors: Prof. Dr. Paula Abreu {Lead}, Prof. Dr. Claudino Ferreira & Prof. Dr. Paulo Peixoto (all Sociology)
URC Directors: Prof. Dr. Rubén C. Lois González {Lead}, Prof. Dr. Miguel Pazos Otón & Prof. Dr. María José Piñeira Mantiñán (all Urban & Cultural Geography)
URC Directors: Prof. Dr. Marcela Crespo Buiturón {Lead}, Prof. Dr. Marina Guidotti & Prof. Dr. María Rosa Lojo (all Ibero-American Studies)
URC Directors: Prof. Dr. Giselle Beiguelman (Digital Culture) {Lead}, Prof. Dr. Renato Cymbalista (Urbanism) & Prof. Dr. Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago Almeida (Sociolinguistics)
Institutional Partners
University of Augsburg (UNIA)
+ ISLA Institute of Iberian and Latin American Studies {Coord.}
+ IEK Institute of European Cultural History
+ WZU Environmental Science Center
+ ZLbiB Center for Teacher Education and Interdisciplinary Educational Research
University of Coimbra (UC)
+ CES Center for Social Studies
University of El Salvador (USAL), Buenos Aires
+ IIFLEO Research Institute of Philosophy, History, Letters, and Oriental Studies
University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)
+ ANTE Territorial Analysis Research Group
+ CETUR Tourism Study and Research Center
University of São Paulo (USP)
+ ALiESP Linguistic Atlas of the State of São Paulo
+ C4AI Center for Artificial Intelligence
+ OUTROS Laboratory for Other Urbanisms
+ PÓLIS Institute
Local & Regional Expertise Partners
@Augsburg
+ Augsburg City Youth Council
+ Department of Culture, World Heritage, and Sport of the City of Augsburg
+ Fugger & Welser Museum, Augsburg
+ Goethe Institute, Munich
+ Grandhotel Cosmopolis, Augsburg
+ Regio Augsburg Tourism
+ tim State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg
+ Titus Bernhard Architects, Augsburg
@Buenos Aires
+ ACISU Civil Association
+ Department of Culture and Sports, Municipality of Quilmes
+ Engineers Without Borders Argentina
+ Fundación Comunidad Contemporánea
+ Fundación Lebensohn
+ Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
@Coimbra
+ Casa da Esquina Cultural Association
+ CREATOUR Observatory
+ JACC Cultural Association
+ O Teatrão Theatre Company
+ SMUC Science Museum of the University of Coimbra
@Santiago de Compostela
+ Ames Council
+ Museo do Pobo Galego
+ Santiago Consortium (City Council)
+ Santiago de Compostela Tourism
@São Paulo
+ Fundo FICA – Non-Profit Housing
+ Literary Museums and Literature Houses Network / Secretary of Culture and Creative Economy of the São Paulo State Government (POIESIS Cultural Management)
Advisory Board
_Prof. Dr. Gloria Chicote
Senior Researcher / CONICET National Scientific and Technical Research Council / University of La Plata, Argentina
_Charles Landry
Urbanist / Gloucester, England
_Dirk Scheelje
Director / Heinrich Böll Stiftung/SH – Kiel, Germany
URC Stakeholder Survey
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