Academy

We promote the sciences, the arts and the letters

Jakiunde is a forum for reflection on the contemporary challenges facing society, based on scientific rigour and knowledge, and seeks to promote the exchange of knowledge between the sciences, arts and literature.

Academy

Jakiunde was founded on 25 October 2007 on the initiative of Eusko Ikaskuntza/Sociedad de Estudios Vascos, with the support of the Universities located in Euskal Herria, the territorial area in which the Basque language and culture are based.

Since 2009 Jakiunde has been an independent entity and was recognised as a public utility entity in 2019.

Jakiunde's greatest asset is its members. Its aim is to share its joint reflection with society in order to find appropriate solutions to contemporary problems.

Under the current presidency of Ana Zubiaga, Professor of Genetics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), and the Honorary Presidency of Pedro Miguel Etxenike, President of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), the Academy brings together personalities of great prestige in their respective fields.

The members of the Academy are publicly recognised for their work in scientific disciplines, artistic and literary creation and critical thought, and have been distinguished with prestigious national and international awards, such as the Euskadi Research Award, the Prince of Viana Award, the Eusko Ikaskuntza Award and the Prince of Asturias Award, among others.

Mission

To promote and disseminate the Sciences, the Arts and the Letters, with special emphasis on quality and the quest for excellence, constituting a forum of reflexion, analysis, diagnosis and counselling on the great challenges of the scientific, artistic and literary communities and of society as a whole.

Vision

Jakiunde aspires to be an internationally prestigious institution that impulses the society of knowledge

  • Evaluating the state of our educational, cultural and research systems.
  • Leading initiatives that contribute to designing policies in the fields of the Sciences, the Arts and the Letters.
  • Being a referent for society in these matters and advising those agents who require advise.

Values

  • The excellence of its members and the quality of the activities it promotes.
  • The balance in its composition, impulsing the exchange of knowledge on the Sciences, the Arts and the Letters.
  • The promotion and defence of the freedom of research and creation.
  • The promotion of knowledge as the tractor of social progress.
  • Universality, incorporating diversity without renouncing to our cultural heritage.
  • The promotion of equal opportunities.
  • A scrupulous respect for ethical values.
  • Independence of political power and economical or professional groups.

Events

In consonance with such values, the activities of the Academy will be:

  • of an exclusively intellectual and academic character,
  • subjected to the demands of truthfulness and quality,
  • guided by innovation and a critical spirit,
  • based on a quiet reflection, that transcends circumstantial pressures and tendencies,
  • multilingual, with special attention being paid to the promotion and use of the Basque language.

Events

Jakin-Mina

Jakin-Mina is a programme for young people consisting of a series of cycles of lectures in a variety of disciplines, given by leading experts in their respective fields, with the aim of expanding young people's horizons of knowledge, sparking their curiosity and encouraging them to seek out the unknown.

Hotsak/Sonidos

Music is in the arts, it is in the sciences, in religion... and in so many other aspects of human life, for in reality it is not alien to them. Hotsak/Sonidos is a programme consisting of a series of cycles of conferences and dialogues, the aim of which is to show the relationship between music and other disciplines. The programme takes place in the General and Royal Archive of Navarre in Pamplona. Hotsak/Sonidos is sponsored and supported by Laboral Kutxa and the Government of Navarre.

Colloquia

Solasaldiak-Coloquia is a programme open to the general public in which experts from different disciplines come together at a round table to reflect on a central theme from their specific fields of knowledge. The debates are held in collaboration with entities such as the San Telmo Museum (Erronkak/Desafíos, Donostia/San Sebastián) and the Caja Navarra Foundation (Perspectivas, Civican, Pamplona). Solasaldiak-Coloquia are sponsored by the San Telmo Museum, the Caja Navarra Foundation, the Basque Government and the Government of Navarre.

Ujué summer courses

The foundations of what was to be the first university in Navarre, founded by Charles II in 1376, are located next to the church-fortress of Ujué. Taking advantage of this circumstance and coinciding with the 640th anniversary of this event, the professor of the Public University of Navarre (UPNA/NUP) and member of JAKIUNDE, Humberto Bustince, started in August 2016, within the offer of summer courses of the Public University of Navarre, a series of free courses open to the general public, which have been held annually in Ujué since then. The Ujué summer courses are organised with the collaboration of the Public University of Navarra, sponsored by the Government of Navarra and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and University of the Spanish Government, as well as with the collaboration of the Ujué Town Council.

Publications

The Academy has several lines as far as publications are concerned: JAKITERA, the Statements by the Academy, and a collaboration with the RIEV-International Journal of Basque Studies of Eusko Ikaskuntza-Sociedad de Estudios Vascos, whose winter issue is entirely designed by Jakiunde. Likewise, since 2022 it publishes the Jakiunde Calendar, to showcase the members of the Academy.

Publications

The Academy’s value rests in its members

Schedule

Jakin-Mina

For ju bustana: XVII. mendeko euskaldunak islandiarrekin hizketan

Gidor Bilbao

Bizkaia Aretoa

Jakin-Mina

La influencia de los algoritmos de inteligencia artificial en nuestras decisiones diarias

Mª Ujué Agudo Díaz

Auditorio CIVICAN-Fundación Caja Navarra

Jakin-Mina

Riesgos en Internet

Esther Calvete

Deustuko Unibertsitatea-DBS (Segundo piso, aula 26. Gela, bigarren solairua)

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