Among the objectives of the new commission it is also included to promote dialogue between the research community and society, to support the activities of communication and dissemination of research and scientific culture of universities, as well as to promote strategies that favour the responsible innovation and research (RRI)

The commission for dissemination and scientific culture was created during the R&D Sectoral Commission of Crue Universidades Españolas that took place in Universidad Complutense de Madrid on 4th July. The session was chaired by Icíar Astiasarán, vice-principal for Research at the Universidad de Navarra.

According to what Crue Universidades Españolas has expressed, the commission is made up by five chairs for the next two years. These are chaired by José Manuel López Nicolás (Universidad de Murcia), Pino Quintana (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Montserrat Capellas (Universidad de Vic), Soledat Rubio (Universitat de València) and Elena Lázaro (Universidad de Córdoba), who was elected the group’s coordinator.

Five working subgroups were also created: Unit for the assessment of the dissemination activities in the researcher’s curriculum (coordinated by Juan Ignacio Pérez, director of the Chair of Scientific Culture of Universidad del País Vasco); Unit for designing a catalogue of dissemination and promotion of the scientific culture activities, which is led by Marga Becerra, coordinator of the UCC+i of the Universitat de Barcelona; and the Unit for scheduling joint activities, which is coordinated by Isabel Ruiz de la Peña, director of the Unit for dissemination and promotion of research of the Universidad de Oviedo.

In the meeting of the R&D Sectoral Commission of Crue Universidades Españolas it was also created the group of institutional relations with other Crue groups, which is chaired by Ana Isabel García, director of the UCC+i of the Universidad de Granada, and the group of research on scientific dissemination in Spain, which is coordinated by Jordi Rovira, the delegate of the Principal for communication, scientific dissemination and fundraising of the Universidad de Burgos.