FIDEL MOLINA-LUQUE

Professor of Sociology of the University of Lleida. Dean of the Faculty of Education Science (1998-2001 and 2001-2004). Director of the Institute of Education Science – Continuous Training Centre (ICE-CFC, 2011-2015). Director of the Institute of Research in Social Science and Humanities, INDEST (Institute of Social and Territorial development). President of the Catalan Association of Sociology (ACS, 2015-2017) and member of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES). He has published different articles, books and chapters on issues concerning the Sociology of Education and Intercultural Education, inter-generational relationships, Mediation and the Resolution of Conflicts, and also on Leisure and sport and Human resource management. The following publications should be noted: Sociología de la Educación Intercultural: Vías alternativas de investigación y debate (2002, Buenos Aires, Ed. Lumen), Els Recursos Humans a la Universitat: Estudi Sociològic sobre el PAS de la UdL (2008, Edicions Universitat de Lleida), Alternativas en Educación Intercultural (2008, deParís), El Ágora Compartida. Democracia y asociacionismo de inmigrantes (2011, Ed. Milenio), Educación, Salud y Calidad de Vida (2017, Ed. Graó), among others.

Initiator and coordinator of the Consolidated Research Group GESEC (Group of Society, Education and Culture Studies) and of the RINEIB (International network of Research in Intercultural Education and Intercultural Bilingual Education). Initiator and principal researcher of the “Laboratory of Mediation and Resolution of Conflicts”. He is a member of the Official Association of Holders of Doctoral and Bachelor's Degrees in Political Science and Sociology of Catalonia of the Spanish Federation of Sociology and the AEISAD (Spanish association of research applied to sport). He has also formed part of the committee of experts in the training of human resources of the Generalitat de Catalunya (University section, 2000-2009). He graduated in Mediation and Resolution of conflicts and is a teacher trainer in Intercultural Education.

Guest of the FRA (Fundamental Rights Agency) of the European Union, as a consultant for Research Methodology (Research-Active Participation) for a project the integration of the gypsy community in Europe (Vienna, 3 of May, 2012).

He received the prize (collective) “Grundtvig Award 2005” for the best European project in adult Education (“Telling Europe”) and the prize (collective) for the project TOY (“Together Old and Young”, coordinator. Dra. Margaret Kernan, ICDI, Netherlands) for the “Lifelong Learning Platform, Brussels” (October, 2016), to recognize his creativity, inclusion and innovation in Adult Education (Active Ageing, Lifelong Learning).

SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT OF THIS PROJECT:

Conference Papers:

Molina-Luque, F.; García, M.; Torres-González, T. y Samper, L. (2018). “Envejecimiento y mejora de la calidad de vida a través de actividades creativas”. Encuentro intercongresual del Comité de Investigación de Sociología de la salud. Federación Española de Sociología, Universidad de Alicante (Junio, 2018).

Molina-Luque, F. (2020). “Sociología y Educación: Mitos y Evidencias Científicas”. Jornada INDEST, Dia Mundial de la Educación (UNESCO). Lleida, 11-03-2020.

Coordinador de Jornada Científica del INDEST (Instituto de Desarrollo Social y Territorial): “La interdisciplinariedad en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades”. Presentador y moderador Conferencia de la Dra. Maria Elena Fabregat Cabrera (Universidad de Alicante): “Envejecimiento y Sociedad” (Universidad de Lleida, 8-11-2019).

Conference Keynot Speaker:

Congreso CIMIE sobre “Educación: la puerta para toda mejora social”, 4-5 Julio de 2019 (Lleida). VIII Congreso Internacional Multidisciplinar de Investigación Educativa. Molina-Luque, F. Conferencia Inaugural: “Profiguración, Educación Intergeneracional y Mejora Social” (4-07-2019)

Journal Articles:

Molina-Luque, F., Casado-Gual, N. y Sanvicén-Torné, P. (2018). “Mujeres mayores también activas, creativas y fuertes: modelos para romper estereotipos”. Revista Prisma Social, 21: 43-74. 

Molina-Luque, F. (2019): “Profiguración, acción creativa intercultural e innovación social: renovarse o morir en Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua/ Easter Island)”, en Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad (RELACES), 29: 71-81.

SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT IN PARALLEL WITH THE PROJECT AND DIRECTLY RELATED TO ITS MAIN TOPIC:

Molina-Luque, Fidel, Ieva Stončikaitė, Teresa Torres-González, and Paquita Sanvicen-Torné. 2022. "Profiguration, Active Ageing, and Creativity: Keys for Quality of Life and Overcoming Ageism" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 3: 1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031564

MOLINA-LUQUE, F. (2020): “The Art of Living as a Community: Profiguration, Sustainability, and Social Development in Rapa Nui”, in Sustainability, 12 (17): 6798. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176798 (JCR: Q2, Impact Factor 2,576).