PhD in Atlantic Islands. History, Heritage and Institutional Legal Framework (interuniversity)

Participating entities

List of collaborations with agreement

  • University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of the Antilles and Guyana, University of the Azores, University of La Laguna, University of Madeira, University of Reunion.
  • University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of Palermo (Argentina) and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Universities of Mexico and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Universities of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Uruguay and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of Valencia, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Alem Mar History Centre (New University of Lisbon and University of the Azores), Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Culture and Societies of the University of Evora, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of Guadalajara, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of Cape Verde, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of Madeira, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of La Laguna, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of La Laguna, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities
  • Jaume I University, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of La Plata (Argentina) and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • UNED, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • King Juan Carlos University, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Universities of Chile and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • University of Mendoza (Argentina) and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Other collaborations

Collaboration agreements

The doctoral programme ATLANTIC ISLANDS: History, Heritage and Legal and Institutional Framework aims to create a network of collaborations that will allow future doctoral students to be integrated into the programmes and activities of other institutions that act as partners of the programme. This strategy, which covers everything from the research groups that form part of the programme to the departments and individual researchers, will translate, in accordance with the ULPGC Strategic Plan (PEI), into a network of knowledge in which future doctoral students will be integrated, thus facilitating their mobility and participation in workshops, conferences and other events, both national and international.

The basic collaborations include, firstly, the Universities of La Laguna, the Azores and Madeira, with which there is a framework agreement for collaboration, together with the agreement of the Unamuno Network of Universities and now a specific agreement is added with these Universities to propose to the competent educational authorities and subsequently organize, jointly between the participating institutions and with full equality of rights and obligations, the Doctoral Program ATLANTIC ISLANDS. HISTORY, HERITAGE AND INSTITUTIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK.

The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria signed a collaboration agreement with the University of Madeira under the European Union's Interreg 3 Programme (agreement attached), within which the Interreg IIIB.MAC 4.5/C14 ATLÁNTICA project "Sugar and culture in the Atlantic Islands" was developed. It was coordinated by Santiago de Luxán Meléndez from the ULPGC (Programme Proposal Coordinator) and included the participation of the Centro de Estudos de Historia do Atlántico de Madeira, which is also a collaborator in this Programme (document of a collaborating partner in other collaborations is attached), and the University of La Laguna, whose coordinator is also part of this Doctoral Project.

In the Unamuno University Network, the professor of this Program (line 3) Victor Cuesta López is participating in the Network's Scientific and Technological Cooperation Project with code Mac/3/M126, approved by the Mac Transnational Cooperation Program 2007-2013. The Proposal for our program also has a framework collaboration agreement between the University of Cape Verde and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (document attached) and the commitment of the Higher Institute of Legal and Social Sciences of Cape Verde (document attached in other collaborations).

The University of Las Palmas has also signed a cooperation agreement with the Universitat Jaume I, through which the research group History, Political Cultures and Social Movements and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, through the G9 History, Economy and Society group coordinated by the Professor of History and Economic Institutions Santiago de Luxán Méndez, establish an environment of collaboration in training activities, scientific research and knowledge transfer within the framework of their respective areas of specialization, by establishing specific agreements for specific projects. This agreement includes scientific collaboration in the doctoral program Atlantic Islands: History, Heritage and Legal and Institutional Framework.

Likewise, agreements have been signed linking this Program with various American Universities, including the University of Guadalajara (Mexico), with which there is a framework agreement (attached). There is a very close collaboration with this last University, which translates into the presence of four Mexican researchers in our program (document attached in other collaborations).

With the University of La Plata (Argentina), our University has a framework agreement for collaboration to promote the mobility of professors and students (the agreement is attached). Within this framework, the letter of collaboration is included (attached).

The Rector of the ULPGC and these centres have signed a collaboration agreement with the Centre for the History of Além Mar (CHAM) of the New University of Lisbon, the University of the Azores and the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Culture and Societies (CIDEHUS) of the University of Évora on behalf of a research group that is part of this Doctoral Programme and that supports one of the research lines of this Doctorate with one of its projects, with the aim of establishing a permanent Seminar on the History of Tobacco that has been holding regular meetings since 2010 and that will contribute to the participation of the students of this programme in the activities of these centres (agreement attached). The general coordination of this agreement was carried out on the Spanish side by Santiago de Luxán Meléndez, coordinator of this programme.

Particularly noteworthy is the collaboration provided by two figures of recognised national and international prestige who will be part of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme, Professor Rafael Puyol Antolín (Professor of Human Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid, former Rector of said University and Vice-President of the Instituto de Empresa Foundation) and Professor José Antonio Escudero (Professor of History of Law at the UNED, Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Full Member of the Royal Academy of History and who could constitute an ideal link between the different subjects that make up this interdisciplinary doctoral programme).

Likewise, the ULPGC has signed a framework agreement for collaboration with the UNED, which includes the documents of collaborating partners (listed in Other collaborations). Likewise, a similar relationship links us with the University of Valencia and the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. As for student mobility agreements, the most notable are those signed with various universities in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.

In the section on "Other collaborations", the documents provided indicate the unequivocal willingness of the aforementioned institutions to support the mobility and training of our PhD students, by making available to them their infrastructure, their relationship with national archives, libraries and documentation centres, their programmes, equipment, laboratories and workshops, or the possibility of participating in the national and international scientific meetings they organise (see the list of these institutions in "Other collaborations"):

  • University of Franche-Comté. Department of Hispanic Studies.
  • Center for Historical Studies of the Atlantic of Madeira.
  • Alem Mar History Center of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Universidade de Açores
  • Interdisciplinary Center for History, Culture and Societies (CIDEHUS) of the University of Évora.
  • Heritage Languages Area, School of Linguistics, University of San Diego (California).
  • University Centre for Art, Architecture and Design. Centre for Environmental Research and Territorial Planning.
  • University of Guadalajara (Mexico).
  • University of La Plata (Argentina).
  • Higher Institute of Legal and Social Sciences of the University of Cape Verde.
  • Centro de Studi di Relazioni Industriali dell Úniversità di Cagliari.
  • Universitá degli Studi di Messina. Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche e Storia delle Istituzioni.
  • Diritto Romano, Dipartimento de Giurisprudenza Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy).
  • International Research Group for Conflict, Borderlands and Minorities:
  • CoTraLis (Corpus, Translation Studies, Linguistics and Society) research group of the Faculty of Languages of the University of Artois (France)
  • School of Hispanic-American Studies of Seville.
  • Institute for the History of Intolerance (Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation).
  • Center for Phoenician and Punic Studies (Madrid).
  • Veritas Association for the study of History, Law and Institutions.
  • José Antonio Escudero, Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation and History.
  • Rafael Puyol Antolín, Professor of Human Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid.
  • Latin American History Department of Colegio de América, Center for Advanced Studies for Latin America and the Caribbean of Pablo de Olavide University.
  • Cultural Heritage Delegation of the Bishopric of Tenerife.
  • Higher Institute of Theology of the Canary Islands.
  • Diocesan Historical Archive of San Cristóbal de La Laguna-Tenerife.
  • Institute of Canarian Studies affiliated with the CSIC.
  • Institute of Military History and Culture of the Canary Islands.
  • Archaeological Museum of Tenerife (OAMC. Island Council of Tenerife).
  • Canarian Institute of Bioanthropology (OAMC. Island Council of Tenerife).
  • General Gutiérrez Mellado University Institute.
  • Canarian Museum of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
  • Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Gran Canaria.
  • Yearbook of Atlantic Studies.
  • Columbus House. Gran Canaria Council.
  • Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of La Laguna.
  • Prehistory Area of the Department of History and Philosophy of the University of Alcalá de Henares.
  • Department of Private Law. Seminar on the History of Law and Institutions (University of Cantabria).
  • Department of Public International Law and International Relations (Complutense University of Madrid).
  • Chair of History of Law and Institutions (University of Coruña).
  • Chair of Constitutional Law (University of Jaén).
  • UNED (Madrid).
  • Chair of Public International Law and International Relations at the University of La Rioja.
  • Leandro Martínez Peñas, Corresponding Academic of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, and professor of History of Law at the Rey Juan Carlos University.
  • Department of Historical and Legal Sciences of the Rey Juan Carlos I University (Madrid).
  • Department of Public International Law and International Relations of the University of Salamanca.
  • Department of Roman Law at the University of Valencia.
  • Department of Art History. University of Santiago de Compostela.