Best practices ARCHIVE

The celebration of the first online meeting on last September 16 marked the launch of this new research group of the Kircher Network's HEST programme. This HEST cluster was established as part of the second phase of the programme. It will seek to develop research on the phenomenon of...

We are glad to announce the pilot phase of the Inter-Institutional Online Courses Project for the Fall Semester 2021-2022. The Inter-Institutional Online Courses Project allows students from the Kircher Network to enrol in online courses on Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies offered by...

From 9 to 13 July, delegates from eight universities and Faculties of Theology of the Kircher Network met in Warsaw – Falenica for the III Theological Symposium and the Colloquium of the HEST Cluster on Christian and Muslim Relation. The themes of the Theological Symposium were “The Trinity and...

Deusto University´s Ignatian Year Website Deusto University has created a fantastic Web Page to celebrate the Ignatian Year. Among the features offered by the site, readers can find a video synthesizing and commemorating St. Ignatius's spiritual experience and a diagram of the different...

There will also be additional features, such as a Jubilee tribute of professor emeritus Stanislaw Ziemianski SJ., in October 2021, several short movies about St. Ignatius life published on FB (starting on May 2021), a New Ignatianum University Catalogue for the Jubilee Year, the production of a...

This Symposium represented a valuable synthesis of theoretical and practical points of view by recognized experts in the field and presented nearly 50 consolidated experiences on peacebuilding and reconciliation, in territories or with specific communities around the world, carried out by...

Human enhancement is closely linked to the rise of the transhumanist movement (Humanity+), which actively propagates radical techno-transformation of humanity. It frequently utilizes tropes known from mythology, utopian visions of a hedonistic paradise or a morally perfect utopia, and sometimes...

20 May, at 18:00h CET  The worldwide celebration will start with a Eucaristichic presided by Archbishop Francisco Peréz Gonzales and concelebrated by Father General Arturo Sosa, SJ, at Pamplona Cathedral. Pamplona,  the emblematic site of Ignatius' process of conversion, Follow the mass  23...

The International Association of Jesuit Universities has published the first edition of the "IAJU Best Practices in Jesuit Higher Education". You will find a selection of good practices in Ignatian Pedagogy and Pedagogical Innovation developed by faculty members from different Jesuit...

The Kircher Online Lecture Series offers a unique opportunity to listen and discuss with guest scholars from our institutions, facilitating a cross-cultural and comparative perspective on theological and philosophical topics. The lecture on "Human Enhancement: Myth, Ideology and Utopia" will be...

The celebration of the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola will on May 20th. The Ignatian Year is a call and an opportunity to each of us and our Jesuit institutions to deepen our conversion and intimate relationship with Jesus, the Lord. An intimacy, says the Superior...

The new Diploma will be offered by the Faculty of Canon Law, and it will aim to give a more specific formation for those who seek to work in the courts and already have a license or doctorate in canon law. The program will be very innovative, both in terms of the topics covered and the...

For the first time, the senior international relation officers of 17 Kircher universities and centres met online on April 26th. The event is part of a series of online meetings to facilitate networking, and explain the network´s Strategic Plan and projects to the international officers. The...

Dr Francisco Ramirez Fueyo, S.J., will be the new Dean of Theology and Canon Law (Comillas CIHS). He will take office next Wednesday, May 5, in a ceremony presided over by the Rector, Julio Martinez, S.J., the Provincial of the Jesuits in Spain, Antonio José España S.J., and the outgoing Dean,...

The Newman Institute in Uppsala has been ranked the most climate-friendly university in Sweden, sharing first place in the Climate Action Ranking 2021. In line with the Paris Agreement, the ranking aims to follow up the governmental resolution to increase universities' commitment to promoting...

Last April 20th, the Kircher Network´s HEST Cluster on Christian - Muslim Relations celebrated a Democracy and Religious Traditions webinar. The HEST Cluster´s coordinators (professors Tobias Specker, Michaela Neulinger and Gonzalo Villagrán) invited two keynoted speakers. Professor Wolfgang...

This is the first time a pontifical university offers a licentiate in Judaic studies, a new category of canonical License established by the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Holy See in October 2020. The Licentiate offers clergy members and laypersons a solid preparation in Judaism,...