Research projects

The research group Practical Ethics and Democracy at the Universitat Jaume I is currently undertaking four research projects.

Project directed by Dr. Domingo García-Marzá and funded by the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of Generalitat Valenciana, titled “Applied ethics and artificial intelligence: digitised democracy” [PROMETEO CIPROM/2021/072] (2022-2025) is part of the project coordinated between the Universitat Jaume I and the University of Valencia. The main objective of the project is to design a proposal for Digital Dialogic Ethics that, as applied ethics, is capable of reconstructing and managing the moral knowledge that underlies the development and technological application of Artificial Intelligence in the different institutions that make up the democratic system, both in the political sphere and in civil society. The aim is to define and apply the discursive and hermeneutic-critical ethical model that, under the direction of Professor Adela Cortina, our research group has been developing over the years. A proposal for applied ethics capable of generating, as has been the case, a transfer of knowledge, both in the field of digital development companies and in the responsibility of scientific and technological research in universities and research centres.

CORDIAL BIOETHICS AND ALGORITHMIC DEMOCRACY FOR A HYPERDIGITALISED SOCIETY

The second project, led by Dr. Patrici Calvo Cabezas and Dr. Elsa González Esteban and funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, titled “Cordial bioethics and algorithmic democracy for a hyperdigitalised society [BIOCORDIAL] (2023-2026) and is part of the coordinated project “Discursive Ethics and Democracy in the face of the challenges of artificial intelligence” between the Universitat Jaume and the Universitat de València. This project focuses on two functional areas of the hyperdigital society: health and democracy. Each of them has a general objective. Firstly, from a dialogical and cordial ethics, to offer a frame of reference and the corresponding ethical guidelines to orientate and adapt the principles of bioethics to the digital context, as well as to the design, application and use of artificial intelligence in bioethical contexts. Secondly, from a critical and deliberative proposal of democracy, guidelines will be proposed to address a digital transformation of democracy that recovers, guarantees and/or increases the participation of civil society in the different democratic processes (decision-making, conflict resolution, construction of public opinion, election of representatives, development of public policies, etc.) and avoids the loss of responsibility of algorithmic contexts.

Project led by Ramón A. Feenstra, and funded by the European Union (HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01), titled “CATALISI – Catalysation of institutional transformations of higher education institutions through the adoption of acceleration services” (2023-2025). This European project aim to help and support Higher Education Institutions to successfully implement strategies and individual pathways for institutional transformation through the adoption of acceleration services. These are designed to facilitate and accelerate institutional transformations in the field of Research and Innovation which will strengthen European Universities collaborations and alliances as lighthouses of European values. The areas of intervention being worked on by the Universitat Jaume I are: evaluation of research activity, gender equality, open science, public engagement and citizen science.

Project led by José Luis López González and funded by the Universitat Jaume I (UJI-2024-25), titled “Ethics and Resonance for Social Practices in a Context of Acceleration” [Ética y resonancia para prácticas sociales en un contexto de aceleración] (2025-2027). The ERA project aims to: (1) understand the ethical dimensions involved in social acceleration; (2) discuss the criteria on which the critique of acceleration is grounded, as well as the radical and ethical proposals that offer guidance for addressing it; and (3) reflect, from the standpoint of practical ethics, on the transformative projection of the critique of acceleration that Hartmut Rosa develops around the concept of resonance.

Research projects conducted in recent years:

• Applied ethics and trustworthiness for Artificial Intelligence (2020-2022).
• ETHNA SYSTEM: Ethics governance system for RRI in higher education, funding and research centres (2020-2022).
• Moral Neuroeducation for Applied Ethics (2017-2019).
• Politics, business and education from applied neuroethics (2014-2016).
• Ethics of democracy: crisis of politics and new forms of civil society participation (2014-2016).
• Contribution of neuroeconomics to the ethical dimension of institutional design (2011-2013).
• The Ethical Dimension of Institutional Design (2008-2010).
• The social responsibility of organisations in a global framework: ethical-philosophical keys to a cosmopolitan governance (2008-2010).
• Euroethos. Exploring the Scope for a Shared European Pluralistic Ethos (2007-2008).
• Development, Dialogue and Corporate Responsibility (2005-2007).
• Economic and Business Ethics from the Perspective of a New Discourse Ethics (2001-2004).
• Ethics, Values and values conflicts (2000-2002).
• Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility (2000-2002).
• Economic and Business Ethics (1998-2000).
• Discourse Ethics as the Core of Applied Ethics (1998-2001).
• Economic and Business Ethics (1998-2000).
• The Social Balance Sheet of the Company: Ethical and Accounting Aspects (1995-1997).
• The transformation of economic rationality. Economic and business ethics (1993-1994).

The knowledge transfer projects undertaken in recent years:

• Identification of the expectations of UMIVALE stakeholders (2021).
• Training in ethical leadership and good governance for managers and technicians of care homes for the elderly and day centres (LARES) (2021).
• An analysis of the ethical values present or desirable in relations with Suara’s core stakeholders (2021).
• Training of trainers and design of contents for the implementation of the code of ethics and the ethical line of the Port Authority of Castellón (2021).
• Ethics and University Social Responsibility: review and update of the materiality and its integration in the Universitat Jaume I’s RSU Report (2021).
• Training of trainers and updating in bioethics and professional deontology for healthcare professionals (2020).
• Definition of the ethical code [Suara Cooperativa] (2020-2021).
• Code of Ethics and Conduct of the Port Authority of Castellón (2019).
• UCE GRI Report (2019).
• I University Responsibility Report of the Universitat Jaume I (2018).
• UCE Non-Financial Report (2018).
• Code of Ethics of the Universitat Jaume I (2017).
• Promotion and encouragement of ethical and responsible tourism among Valencian tourism agents (Agència Valenciana de Turisme) (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019).
• Jabones Beltrán S.L. Code of Ethics (2016).
• Materiality of the impacts on Ethics and CSR in Unión de Mutuas (2015).
• Implementation of Ethics and compliance programme at UBE (2015).
• Identification and ranking of stakeholders in Unión de Mutuas (2014).
• Institutional design for the management of ethics in UBE Europe and Latin America (2013).
• BBVA advice on transparent, clear and responsible communication TCR (2010).
• Training and Communication Plan for the Code of Ethics and Conduct of Unión de Mutuas (2003 and 2006).
• Atos Origin Code of Ethics (2008).
• Unión de Mutuas’ Social Responsibility Report (2006, 2007 and 2008).
• Unión de Mutuas Code of Good Health Practice (2004).
• Intercoop’s Ethical Intervention Plan (2004).
• Code of Ethics and Conduct of Unión de Mutuas (2002 and revision 2017).
• Network of experts for the evaluation of corporate social responsibility for the UGT (2002).
• Corporate Social Responsibility Assessment System for UGT (2001)..
• Elaboration of a Stakeholder Map for the Andorra-Teruel Thermal Power Plant (2001-2003)
  Conflict policy for ACERALIA (2000).

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