Projects
Consilience has been actively involved in diverse innovation, research, and knowledge dissemination projects since its inception in 2019.
CONSILIENCE Series
The members of the Consilience Institute are pleased to present the "Consilience Series" book collection published by Octaedro Publishing. As coordinators, we, along with several of our collaborators—university professors—as an Editorial Committee, aim to publish manuals and reference books in various disciplines.
We inaugurate this series with the manual (in Spanish) "Designing Social Projects from a Strategic Perspective."
We are grateful for the iconic cover image used by our collaborator Estrella Fáges.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Through funding from a national R&D&I project, research into the effects of implementing the StressLess-Take my paws innovation project is being conducted.
CONSILIENCE members are participating in the project, along with other professionals from different fields (some of whom are Consilience collaborators).A useful summary of the research can be found in the report made by the television programme Tesis https://www.canalsur.es/television/programas/tesis/noticia/2026297.html​
Members of Consilience along with our esteemed collaborator, Professor Miguel C. Botella. Library of the Faculty of Educational Sciences
Project dissemination within the framework of the International Conference on Canine Education, Health, and Therapies: Evidence, Innovation, and Experience (June 23–July 4, 2025)
Laboratory analysis process of saliva samples taken from students to know their cortisol levels
Members of Consilience along with our esteemed collaborator, Professor Miguel C. Botella. Library of the Faculty of Educational Sciences
RESEARCH TOPIC
Consilience members and our collaborator, Prof. María Marta Camacho, promoted and managed a research topic in the journal Frontiers in Education. This topic, on interactions and intersections in the educational context, seeks to comprehensively compile new practices and models of relationships (interactions) between students and teachers, as well as between students, teachers, and new technologies that have been applied in this context in recent years.
INNOVATION PROJECT
CONSILIENCE is collaborating on the Stress-Less innovation project, which focuses on reducing academic stress in trainee teachers at the Faculty of Educational Sciences (University of Granada) through the use of Dog Assisted Therapy.
Project logo. A drawing of Estrella Fages Gálvez.
Student-dog interaction session in the Faculty of Education library.
Visit to the CIBIS of the University of AlmerÃa to learn first-hand about its activity in collaboration with the «Club canino Ciudad de AlmerÃa»
Project logo. A drawing of Estrella Fages Gálvez.
BOOK EDITION
CONSILIENCE is collaborating with the University of Granada on a project focusing on the teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution among teachers. This project includes the publication of the book "Después de El origen de las especies. La teoría darwiniana, paradigma de hoy" (After The Origin of Species. Darwinian theory, today's paradigm) by Editorial University of Granada. Esteemed authors such as Francisco J. Ayala, Camilo J. Cela Conde, Leandro Sequeiros, and Miguel C. Botella López have contributed to this book.
INNOVATION PROJECT
CONSILIENCE collaborated on the Health Waste Management (HWM) project funded by EuropeAid through the 'Supporting Civil Society Dialogue Between EU and Turkey Grant Scheme (CSD-V).' The collaboration involved working with the Athisa Foundation (Spain) and GEKSANDER (Turkey) to define professional qualifications in Turkey, aligned with the European Qualifications Framework within the field of HWM
EDUCATIVE AND SOCIAL PROJECT
CONSILIENCE is actively collaborating in 'The Mercury, Education, and Health' project, initiated by the University of Costa Rica, aimed at mitigating the use of mercury in industry and mining due to its significant environmental impact. Additionally, CONSILIENCE is engaged in the release of videos for the International Conference of Mercury and is participating in the training course titled 'Environmental Health Education to Control Mercury Contamination, Exposure, and Health Risk'. More information can be found here.
IN PRESS
CONSILIENCE collaborates with the CHTI-HAM (SEJ 658) research group of UGR in an Erasmus+ project on the development of employability skills in higher education TASTstrategy. In the framework of this project, was developed an online training course to include soft skills in the initial teacher training at the faculties of Education in Greece, Romania, France, and Spain.
COMING SOON
CONSILIENCE is currently promoting upcoming discussions that will explore the present and future of human-animal-machine interaction in education. These debates will delve into various aspects, including robots, AI, learning machines, teacher-student interaction, and Assisted Dog Therapy.