TRAMEVIC (Transnational War-time Memories in East Asian Visual Culture) examines the creation of wartime transnational memories in East Asia through visual culture. The processes of visual remembrance of war-related issues as fluid and changing phenomena that constantly adopt new meaning. The topic is particularly relevant today as it includes unresolved issues that keep conditioning international relations today and regularly cause diplomatic tensions in the region. The project proposes an original transnational and transdisciplinary approach that focuses on how the extensive new usage of images (including films, tv dramas, animation, photos, and other visual material) has allow the representation of a new kind of memory based on often traumatic experiences that expand beyond national boundaries.

TRADIASIA (Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia) seeks to challenge Eurocentric approaches in higher education by expanding the current offering of East Asian Studies at the UV, betting on decolonizing the curriculum through critical theories and postcolonial studies focused on this region, promoting new ways of thinking about the world from the societies and cultures of East Asia. Tradiasia traces the complexity of East Asian cultures and histories, proposing new approaches that examine their diversity and cross-cultural elements. It aims to examine interactions in the region that go beyond national borders.

The COMETA educational innovation project aims to promote the acquisition of professional teaching skills with the use of active methodologies in the initial training of teachers. It is designed to bring the training that students receive at the university closer to the real demands of the educational system, society and the labor market, promoting collaboration with other educational-cultural and social entities.

The line of research is to continuously use procedures to think reflectively and creatively and turn them into a way of facing diverse situations, a culture of thought in action. Committing to transdisciplinary research (frameworks, tools and strategies) promoting civic engagement with the aim of empowering future education professionals.

This project aims to develop a multimedia notebook in digital format with useful information on qualitative research techniques, focusing on in-depth interviews and documentary research. Qualitative methodology is part of the research processes in the knowledge society, since contemporary problems require incorporating the qualitative perspective to deepen the understanding and interpretation of complex social phenomena.

Second Round is a consolidated innovation project (linked to the Consolidated Group GCID23_2584190) focused on promoting artistic education in the world of Secondary Education. During the 2023-2024 academic year we want to continue with the “Second Round: Art and Struggle in Secondary” Project, after 8 consecutive editions, focusing on museums as allied institutions, promoting alliances with inclusive and sustainable museums.

One of the main objectives of the small luthiers is to provide students and teachers with creative autonomy, involving them in processes of contemporary artistic creation. On the one hand, the construction of the tools within a DIY philosophy will bring us closer to a craft concept that will reinforce the idea of an authentic artistic work that fights against the vision of precooked solutions as a recipe that ends up homogenizing learning and nullifying the true value artistic thought.

The line of research is to continuously use procedures to think reflectively and creatively and turn them into a way of dealing with diverse situations, a culture of thought in action. Betting on transdisciplinary research (frameworks, tools and strategies) promoting civic engagement with the aim of empowering future education professionals.

This project recognizes the relevance and need to value and promote creative thinking in adolescents. We propose a boost in the creative level of our adolescent students who attend secondary school, incorporating for this a highly relevant resource such as museums, powerful informal education environments that can help us improve the secondary educational scenario, generating synergies with educational centers. For this we propose to promote the encounter with the educational potential that museums offer us, activating mediation efforts between secondary schools and museums. Facing and approaching the challenge in advance will help to better understand the situation, emphasize the strengths that our students have and detect the points that can be improved around creative thinking.