In addition to the two universities participating in this doctorate, the ULPGC and the ULL, the following collaborations have been promoted.
Collaborations
The Strategic Research Plan (PEI) establishes the ULPGC's challenge of being a benchmark in Africa and Latin America. In this line, the positioning of the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme Territory and Society. Historical evolution of a tricontinental space (Africa, America and Europe) has an excellent starting point thanks to the different framework agreements signed between the ULPGC and the ULL with a wide range of universities in Europe, Africa and America, which will facilitate the mobility of students and researchers.
Many of the researchers who make up this proposal are part of national and international work teams, which can facilitate the increase of contacts, the creation of new synergies and the establishment of other liaison strategies that will join the existing ones. In this sense, the PDI will take advantage of this existing network of collaborations to support a series of activities of the doctoral program such as inviting external researchers to give specific seminars, participate in mentoring actions of research work carried out by doctoral students and serve as external evaluators of those activities carried out by students and that require the independent assessment of a researcher of recognized international prestige. This will promote a flow of senior researchers and researchers in training that will provide great dynamism to our proposal. Although not all agreements have been formalized yet, there is a commitment from centers and researchers to collaborate in the training of doctors, hosting students in their centers of origin and participating in the lines of research proposed within the framework of the program. The following are examples of these collaborations, which guarantee the international relations of the Program:
North and West Africa:
The African continent, which geographically includes the Canary Islands, is a privileged meeting place for researchers from the Doctoral Programme and other colleagues from various institutions located in both Europe and Africa. The list of projects in which some of them participate serves as an example.
Morocco, due to its proximity, is one of the countries where most actions are recorded. Thus, a team led by María Dolores Cámalich has carried out the project "Mzora. Megalithism and shared history (Research, conservation and the development of archaeological heritage in the 3rd millennium BC in northwestern Morocco)», II.A/5834/06″ (financed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAAEE-AECI). Another project in which María del Cristo González participates, aimed at enhancing the value of archaeological heritage, is also being developed in this space: «Master Plan for the management of archaeological heritage in the Ued Nun basin. Inventory of assets and formulation» (financed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs). The project led by María Victoria Marzol «Preliminary study for the implementation of fog water collection systems for sustainable development in the Boutmezguida valley (Morocco)» (financed by the General Directorate of Relations with Africa) is part of this line of cooperation. Miguel Suárez has directed the project «Network for governance and sustainable management» of water resources in continental and semi-arid insular Africa (European-Mac projects) (financed by the European Community/Government of the Canary Islands).
Regarding Cape Verde, Germán Santana has organized the project "Promoting the recovery of historical sources to foster relations between the Canary Islands and Cape Verde" (financed by the Government of the Canary Islands).
In Senegal, Maria Victoria Marzol has directed the project: "Evaluation of a "Low Cost Irrigation" system and agricultural training of a disadvantaged rural community in Senegal" (funded by the General Directorate for Relations with Africa)
In Tanzania, Carolina Mallol is part of an international project: «The Olduvai Paleoanthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPP)»
In Egypt, Miguel Ángel Molinero has been developing various research projects for more than two decades. In the last five years he has directed the Project 209 (financed by the University of La Laguna) for the study and restoration of TT 209 in Luxor. He is also the epigrapher of the South Asasif Conservation Project, an Egyptian-American mission that studies and restores the tombs of Karakhamani, Karabasken and Irtieru, located in Luxor (financed by the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities, the University of Arizona and the American Research Center in Egypt in the United States of America). Until 2009 he also collaborated, as deputy director, with the Italian Archaeological Mission in Luxor, which excavates and restores the tombs of Harwa (TT37), Akhimenru (TT404) and Pabasa (TT279) in Luxor (financed by the Fondazione San Paolo in Turin and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
The Mediterranean area:
Carolina Mallol Duque is the Principal Investigator of an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to carry out microscopic and molecular research on organic matter from Neanderthal hearths (ERC-CoG-2014-PALEOCHAR: «Insights into the Neanderthals and their demise from the study of microscopic and molecular charred matter in Middle Palaeolithic sediments»). In addition, she studies specific sites such as Roche à Pierrot (Saint Césaire), Mandrin, as well as Lusakert, from the Armenian Middle Palaeolithic. In addition, she is Principal Investigator of an experimental archaeology project funded by the Leakey Foundation. She also collaborates in the studies of the Holocene site of El Toro cave (Antequera, Málaga).
Bertila Galván Santos is also the Principal Investigator of a project on the disappearance of Neanderthal groups in the central Mediterranean region. It is based on the systematic excavations of the sites of Salt and Abric del Pastor, within the framework of the R&D&I Project The disappearance of Neanderthal groups in the central region of the Iberian Mediterranean. A methodological proposal for an approach to the historical process and the paleoenvironmental framework, HAR2012-32703.
Amelia Rodríguez participates in several research projects whose framework covers various environments of the Mediterranean in Recent Prehistory, both in its eastern and western areas. Specifically, she has been a member of the projects: «ERC-2008-AdG230561 AGRIWESTMED. Origins and spread of agriculture in the Western Mediterraneum» (Funded by the European Research Council); «PTDC/HAH/645548/2006 The last hunter-gatherers and the first communities in the South of the Iberian peninsula and the North of Morocco: a socio-economic approach through the management of production instruments and exploitation of domestic resources» (funded by the EU and the Fundaçao para a Ciência ea tecnologia-FCT- (Portugal). This researcher and Javier Velasco are participating in projects in Syria and Lebanon: «Archaeological prospecting to the west of the city of Homs, Syria» (funded by the Ministry of Culture (IPHE). Also in Syria, Javier Velasco Vázquez is participating in an international project: «HUM2007-66128-C02-01/HIST The Neolithic in the Upper Orontes Valley (Syria-Lebanon). Study of the sites of Tell Labwe and Tell Ezou (funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology).
Dimas Martín Socas has been the Director of the General Research Project: The Neolithic in the Antequera region, approved and funded by the Junta de Andalucía, with the study of the El Toro cave, which is currently continuing with the R&D&i Project HAR2011-29068, of which he is the Principal Investigator. He is also the Director of the General Research Project The first food producing societies in western Andalusia (PRADO), approved and funded by the Junta de Andalucía, and focused on the study of the open-air settlement of La Dehesa (Lucena del Puerto, Huelva).
María Dolores Camalich Massieu has been the Director of the General Research Project: The beginnings of metallurgy in the lower basin of the Almanzora River, approved and funded by the Junta de Andalucía, with the study of the Almería sites of Campos, Zájara (Cuevas del Almanzora), Cabecicos Negros and Pajarraco (Vera) and Las Pilas (Mojácar), which is currently continuing with the R&D&i Project HAR2012-38857, of which she is the Principal Investigator. She is also the Director of the General Research Project The first food-producing societies in the Lowlands of the south-east of the peninsula, approved by the Junta de Andalucía, and focused on the study of the open-air settlements of Zájara (Cuevas del Almanzora) and La Loma del Campo (Mojácar).
The ULL, within the framework agreement with the Pluralism and Coexistence Foundation (Ministry of Justice, Madrid), has developed various research contracts for the study of religious diversity both in the Canary Islands (focusing on religious minorities) and in Spain in general (dedicated to the study of Buddhism, Orthodox Christianity, the implementation of multi-confessional spaces, the management of religious diversity at the municipal level, etc.).
The Atlantic
The research group "Castilla and the Sea in the Late Middle Ages" is part of the Atlantic Network of Medieval Maritime Studies, which organizes various meetings and publications, coordinating professors from Cantabria and La Rochelle.
Latin America
In Mexico, Gerardo Delgado has directed the project "Diagnosis of resources and infrastructure for the design of guidelines and directives for sustainable tourism development in the State of Oaxaca (Mexico)" (financed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAAEE-AECI)
Francisco Díez de Velasco is a member of the academic committee of the EIR (Ibero-American Encyclopedia of Religions), an international research and publication project between Spain and various countries in Latin America.
In Panama, Matilde Arnay de la Rosa participates in a research project funded by SENACYT entitled: El Caño Archaeological Project, under the direction of Julia Mayo Torne.
In Argentina, Matilde Arnay collaborates with the National University of Cuyo (Mendoza) in the mentoring of students on CONICET postdoctoral scholarships, under the direction of Horacio Chiavazza.
Below is a list of international support for the DOCTESO programme (commitment to participate in the Programme by various researchers, hosting PhD students and with the possibility of giving seminars or co-directing research work) which constitutes a first advance of the network of contacts that is intended to be created:
Laurent Vidal – Deputy Director of the Center de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Stlantique, University of La Rochelle and the University of Nantes, France
Michele Bochaca – from the Faculty of Letters, Languages, Arts and Human Sciences of the University of La Rochelle, France
Denis Menjot – from the Laboratory of History, Archaeology, Literatures of the Medieval Christian and Muslim Worlds of the Universitat Lumère-Lyon 2, France
Jean-Phillipe Brugal – CNRS UMR Unit 7269 and Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique, Aix-Marseille University, France
Maxense Bailly – UMR Unit 6636 of the CNRS and Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe Afrique, Aix-Marseille University, France
Fernando Campos - Lusóphone University of Humanities and Technologies of Lisbon, Portugal
Albano Figueiredo – Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Marcos Martinón Torres – Institute of Archeology, University College London, United Kingdom
Christopher Gerard – Department of Archeology, University of Durham, United Kingdom
Bernd Zolitschka – Geopolar Institute for Geographie. University of Bremen, Germany
Jörg Lindstädter – Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology. University of Cologne, Germany
Eduardo Devés-Valdés- Institute of Advanced Studies, IDEA, University of Santiago de Chile, Chile
Ana Luz Ramos Soto – School of Accounting and Administration. Benito Juárez University of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Marilsa Miranda de Souza – Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil
Nazira C. Camely – Department of Economics, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
Flávio Gonçalves dos Santos – Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences, State University of Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Horacio Daniel Chiavazza – Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National University of Cuyo, Argentina
Silvia T. Alvarez – National University of the South, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Jonathan Edmonson – Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Canada
Daniel Adler – Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut. USA
Ibra Sene – Department of History & International Relations Program. The College of Wooster, Ohio, USA
Tovi Fenster – Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Thilo Rehnen – University College London, Qatar
Humberto Lima – Cultural Heritage Institute, Cape Verde
In addition, there is a framework agreement between the CSIC and the EDULPGC aimed at organizing the collaboration of this institution with the School's doctoral programs and a framework agreement between the ULL and the ENAH (Mexico).