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Other collaborations
The research teams that make up this doctoral programme have a very significant international activity, with various European or global projects undertaken in recent years, and with stable collaborations with groups of very diverse origins.
We can take as an example the Pescatur Research Group, currently coordinated by Dr. José J. Pascual Fernández. Several leading international researchers have been systematically collaborating with this group since the beginning of the 2000s, in a process that has recently intensified. We can mention for example Ratana Chuenpagdee (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) and Svein Jentoft (Univ. of Tromso, Norway), leaders in global research on fisheries governance. Katia Frangoudes is a leader in research on gender in small-scale fisheries. Maarten Bavinck, director of the MARE Centre, a joint centre of the Universities of Amsterdam and Wageningen, has collaborated with us on multiple publications and research projects, being a leader in research on governance and legal pluralism. We are currently involved in We have also worked with Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee on the project “Fundamentals of participatory integrated management: values, images and principles”, awarded by the SSHRC of Canada in 2011. We have also participated in a Partnership Grants project led by the same researcher entitled “Too Big To Ignore: Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research” -TBTI-, in which Universities and Research Centres from all continents are involved with a budget of 5 million CAD (2.5 requested from the SSHRC). Jose Pascual is the coordinator for Europe, together with Maarten Bavinck, of this proposal. Previous collaborations are currently allowing two Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Networks (ETNs) for the training of doctoral students to be in the proposal evaluation phase. The first is being carried out by the Universities of Amsterdam, Wageningen (NL), Aalborg (DK), Tromso (NO, Coordinating U) and La Laguna, on the topic of marine governance in the context of the European strategy for Blue GrowthThis European initiative presents specific governance challenges - for example, in the governance of marine tourism - for which the training of doctoral students in this ETN is designed. The second ETN is organised around the challenges presented by research on small-scale fishing in Europe, which receives special attention in the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, both of which have been recently approved by the European authorities. One of the tasks undertaken in the TBTI project mentioned above has been to detect the research deficiencies on this subject, and this ETN would solve some of them from an interdisciplinary perspective. This ETN is organised by the University of Aberdeen and has the participation of the University of Santiago de Compostela, the Scottish Association for Marine Science, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, the Technological Centre of the Sea (Galicia), the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece). The possibilities of doctoral student exchanges between the Universities and Research Centres linked as promoters of these ETNs, as well as with the remaining institutions that appear as level 2 partners, offer very interesting facilities for the exchange of experiences and the training of doctoral students. Regarding these ETN initiatives, work is being done on preparing agreements with several of the universities involved, which will facilitate the exchange of doctoral students and collaboration in the supervision of their research even in the event that they are not successful in the selection process. Important collaboration ties are also maintained with the University of Seville, with Dr. Jose Pascual regularly participating in the Erasmus Mundus Master's degree, which is managed by a consortium coordinated by the University of Venice.
In other areas of the Social Sciences linked to this programme, close academic and scientific contacts are maintained with Latin American professors and universities. For example, Professor Rodríguez Guerra is responsible for the Cooperation Agreements with the National University of Luján and the National University of San Luis in Argentina. He is a visiting professor at the former, where he teaches a course in the Master's Degree in Education Policy and Management. At the latter, he has taught various postgraduate seminars. He is currently directing Master's Theses at both universities. Professors from both universities, in turn, have carried out research stays with this professor at the ULL. He is also directing the Doctoral Thesis of a professor from the Autonomous University of Querétaro (Mexico) and is proposed as a professor in one of its Master's Degrees.
Professor Castilla Vallejo has collaborated with various universities in Mexico such as the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (Guadalajara), the Universidad Autónoma de México (Querétaro) and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México (Mexico City). The contact between the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) and the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ) has meant an intense collaboration in teaching matters. Mexican third-cycle students, at least three professors from the UAQ, have completed their doctorate in the Canary Islands and have developed lines of research in Mexico associated with professors from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the ULL. He has advised several undergraduate and master's students in Mexico, and this professor has been a referee for some tribunal.
This year we have had a student on a 4-month stay as an advisor from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Monterey Campus. In the same sense, by bringing together members of the Pescatur, TuriLab and Reinventur research groups, under the coordination of Dr. Agustín Santana Talavera, the creation of the Ibero-American Network for the responsible tourist use of natural resources (RITA) was carried out, financed through a Complementary Action, 2010 call, from the Ministry of Science and Innovation. This Network currently has 93 members from 34 institutions and 12 countries in Europe and America, with multiple lines that guide the relationships between researchers. Some of the fruits of this work include, among others, the promotion of the creation of a multidisciplinary network platform for institutional strengthening and training of human resources in tourism, heritage and sustainability (Project approved by FOMIX, Government of the State of Yucatan-CONACyt, 2012-2015, led by Dr. Julia Fraga of CINVESTAV, Mexico), the project “Tourism: theoretical and methodological contributions” with the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz – UESC (Brazil) (2012-2014, led by Dr. Roque Pinto, Brazil) and the agreement for collaboration in research, teaching and publications with the Instituto Superior de Maia (Portugal). This agreement has led, as a final milestone to be considered, to the joint preparation and celebration of the III International Conference on Tourism. Governance and Tourism ISMAI, Maia (Portugal), November 21-22, 2013). With this background, the research project “Design of optimal scenarios for tourism governance in biosphere reserves” (2013-2015. National R&D+I Plan 2008-2011 Basic Research Subprogram) was proposed and approved. It includes among its members researchers from different disciplines from three Spanish and two Portuguese universities, in addition to the expressions of interest from several companies, Biosphere Reserves and the Government of Uruguay. Thanks to these international relations, several doctoral students from other countries have prepared their thesis at the University of La Laguna, within the Tourism Doctorate program, such as the Professor of the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Mr. Xerardo Periro Perez, who read his Doctoral Thesis in 2014. The same was done by the professor of the State University of Santa Cruz – Brazil, Mr. Roque Pinto, who read his Doctoral Thesis in 2010, just before the Doctorate in Tourism came into force. (2011). As regards the line of legal research, it is worth highlighting, first of all, the signing in February 2014 of a specific collaboration agreement between the University of La Laguna and the Scuola di Giurisprudenza of the University of Bologna, which has among its fundamental objectives the exchange of students and academic and scientific staff within the framework of postgraduate and doctoral programmes. This agreement is accompanied by a Specific Annex in accordance with the project prepared by Prof. Elena Sánchez Jordán (professor endorser of the Law research line) and Prof. Cesare Maioli (from the University of Bologna), in order to institutionalise the collaboration and exchange relationships initiated in 2008, when, under the auspices of a grant for stays abroad from the Ministry of Science and Research, Prof. Sánchez Jordán carried out a six-month stay at the University of Bologna. Following this, the aforementioned professor has been invited as a visiting professor to the University of Bologna on five occasions, where she has had the opportunity to participate as a teacher in the doctoral program in Law and New Technologies. The Annex to the cooperation agreement aims to establish a stable link in the exchange of professors and students of Master's and Doctorate degrees in the subjects of territorial information, forensic computing and electronic government, which fit perfectly into the Law research line. In addition, Professor Sánchez Jordán has taught doctoral classes at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, in her capacity as co-director of the doctoral thesis of Valentina Rossi (who carried out a six-month predoctoral stay at the ULL -January to June 2013-), as a result of which she has been invited by the professors of said University to participate in a Marie Curie European Joint Doctorates project, under the H2020 program. On the other hand, the stable collaboration with the University of Bologna is also reflected in the participation of professors from the Italian institution in two research projects of which Professor Sánchez Jordán is the PI ("The Property Registry as a backbone instrument for territorial information; spatial data, metadata and the INSPIRE Directive" and "The Property Registry as a backbone instrument for territorial information; spatial data, metadata and the INSPIRE Directive (II)", and in which one of the leading European experts on intellectual property of geographic databases, Prof. Matthias Leistner, Professor of Intellectual Property at the University of Bonn, also participates. Precisely under the auspices of the aforementioned projects, the PhD student and participant in both research projects, Lda. Estefanía Hernández Torres, has carried out a three-month research stay at the University of Bologna. In addition, during 2010-2011, the professors of the consolidated research group on Administrative Law, Francisco Villar Rojas, Francisco Hernández González (both guarantors of the Law research line) and Andrés Gonzáles Sanfiel participated in an R&D project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation on “The legal status of energy grids in Europe”, directed by Prof. Díaz Lema (Univ. of Valladolid), with the collaboration of Profs. Pielow (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Giovanni Caruso (Univ. of Calabria) and Benôit Delaunay (Univ. Paris Descartes); the results are published in Energy grids in Europe (Aranzadi, 2012). This international collaboration has been continued in a new R&D project on “The impact of the crisis on public procurement”, this time directed by Prof. Hernández González, funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (DER 2012-32911), in which Profs. Villar Rojas and Glez are participating again. Sanfiel, Caruso and Delaunay. Profs. Danilo Pappano (University of Calabria) and Antoine Claeys (University of Poitiers) have also joined this new project. As a result of this international collaboration, which is already consolidated, and as a result of the efforts made by Prof. Hernández González, in the 2012-2013 academic year, three Agreements were signed between the University of La Laguna and the Universities of Bochum (Germany), Calabria (Italy) and Paris II (France), to develop joint lines of research and facilitate the exchange of professors, researchers and students of the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels. The most recent manifestation of this collaboration has been the participation of Profs. Giovanni Caruso, Benôit Delaunay, Danilo Pappano and Antoine Claeys at an international seminar held at the University of La Laguna in December 2013. In addition, under the Socrates-Erasmus programme, the Faculty of Law has up to 17 places for doctoral student exchanges with the following universities: Heidelberg (one place); Paris Descartes (one place); Athens (up to six places); Messina (four places); Foggia (one place); Padua (one place); Bologna (two places); Wroclaw (one place).
From the field of economics and business, Professor Gustavo A. Marrero Díaz from the ULL co-directs a European research project and has maintained an academic relationship since 2013 with the network created for the application and execution of the ViREG (Virtual Resource Efficiency Gateway) project of the LLP call of the European Commission. This is a network of 8 European Universities (U. Islas Baleares, U. Politécnica de Madrid, U. Palermo in Italy, U. Frederick in Cyprus, U. Madeira in Portugal, among others).
One of the major aspects to be addressed in this project is the efficiency of resource use in the tourism sector. This project will lead to exchanges of professors and PhD students between the network of participating universities. Gustavo Marrero also has a close collaboration with two important research groups at the Complutense University of Madrid, the one directed by Professor Alfonso Novales Cinca on Macroeconomic Policies and Quantitative Methods applied to Finance, and the one coordinated by Professor Rafael Salas de Mármol, on Inequality, Well-being and Public Policies, and the one coordinated by Professor Luis A. Puch on Dynamic Macroeconomics. He maintains an intense collaboration with both groups, as demonstrated by the fact that he has participated with them in more than five research projects in the last fifteen years and in the collaboration of a very important number of co-authorships in publications indexed in JCR (more than fifteen). Professor Gustavo Marrero, after his stay at the World Bank in the second quarter of 2012, has also started several research projects with researchers from that institution on debt sustainability in developing countries, inequality of opportunities in the United States and the relationship between poverty and growth. Such relationships can be extremely useful when it comes to articulating exchanges between universities linked by research ties or projects such as the ERASMUS mentioned above.
In the field of energy, professors Francisco Ramos-Real and Gustavo Marrero maintain an intense collaborative activity with the group led by Professor Yannick Pérez of the University of Paris XI, which is reflected in numerous co-authorships of scientific articles. Also in the field of energy, these professors maintain a close collaboration reflected in co-authorship of articles with the group of Professor Edmar Luis Gagundes de Almeida, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In this field there is a wide scope for co-direction of doctoral theses, student stays in international centres and stays for professors who can help with the training of doctoral students and their international theses.
Professors Raúl Hernández Martín and Moisés Simancas Cruz maintain a close connection with the INRouTe network, a network of academic researchers and technicians from statistical offices on the five continents, dependent on the World Tourism Organization, with the task of developing international standards for tourism statistics at subregional level over the next few years. This network is an important source of contacts with international universities and research centres, such as the CISET International Center of Studies on Tourist Economy, in Venice, which plays a central role in this network. All these contacts will be very useful for promoting exchanges and research stays.
Professors Raúl Hernández Martín, Agustín Santana and Eduardo Parra López maintain a close relationship with the group led by Juan Gabriel Brida at the Free University of Bolzano, having participated in the 3 international seminars held by a group of tourism researchers from a network of European universities led by Juan Gabriel Brida, with researchers in tourism economics from more than a dozen Italian, Spanish and Austrian universities. This network has facilitated academic and training visits by master's and doctoral students at the University of La Laguna, as well as the participation in 2013 of doctoral students in tourism from the University of La Laguna in workshops organized by the University of Bolzano.
Professor Raúl Hernández Martín is a member of the International Association for Tourism Economics and has participated in the scientific committee of said event. He maintains a close academic relationship with the last two presidents of said association, Professors Larry Dwyer from the University of New South Wales in Australia and Adam Blake from Bournemouth University, both dedicated to the study of the economic impacts of tourism and who have made research visits to the University of La Laguna to collaborate with the training of doctoral and master's students. Since 2011, Professor Francisco J. García Rodríguez, together with Carmen Inés Ruiz de la Rosa and Esperanza Gil Soto, have maintained an intense academic relationship with a research group at the Université de Gaston Berger (Saint Louis, Senegal), led by Dr. Papa Mamour Sene (Unité de recherche des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion), linked to the analysis of entrepreneurial activity and the design and evaluation of entrepreneurship promotion programs in Senegal and Spain. This relationship is articulated through the design and implementation of the project "Collaboration Network for the Development of Entrepreneurship and R&D&I Promotion Activities among Students and Graduates from the Canary Islands and Senegal," funded by the European Union and ERDF, within the framework of the Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands Cross-Border Cooperation Program. This project has resulted in several research stays at the Université de Gaston Berger by various members of our university's research team, which may lead to co-supervision of doctoral theses. Professor Eduardo Parra currently collaborates with the Lab of Tourism Technology at Bournemouth University, led by Professor Dimitris Buhalis. This center is considered the first center for tourism technology in Europe. In turn, this group of tourism researchers is closely linked to the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism, a network that can promote academic exchanges, guest lecturers and co-direction of doctoral theses.