Partnerships
HERMES collaborates with social movement organizations, artists, designers, and cultural institutions to ensure our research is co-created, contextually grounded, and impactful beyond academia.
These collaborations take various forms:
- Co-designing narratives and interventions
- Co-designing and testing research tools (e.g., VR, surveys) in real-world settings
- Hosting field experiments within exhibitions and festivals
- Integrating artistic and activist perspectives into our methodology
- Disseminating findings to communities and practitioners Our partners include the following organisations and individuals.
SOS Racism
SOS Racism works in fighting all forms of racism and in defense of human rights by offering legal and social support, exerting institutional pressure to promote public policies, and promoting change through awareness campaigns and training actions.
Refugee Today
Refugee Today brings attention to refugees in our world today through visual journalism and personal stories, capturing the nuance in their everyday lives and the reality they live in.
Red acoge
Red acoge is a federation of social entities specializing in supporting migrants and refugees in Spain, committed to building a diverse and intercultural society.
Moviltik
Moviltik works for human rights, social inclusion and cohesion, the eradication of social marginalisation and discrimination, and respect for diversity and coexistence in equality — through participatory creation processes of narratives and digital projects. Moviltik also contributes as an artistic and digital creation partner.
Jokin Esnaola
Partner
Social educator and integration worker with experience in mediation, cultural management, and production projects in Gipuzkoa. He has worked on initiatives related to diversity, equality, and human rights at organizations such as Gehitu and Kutxa Ekogunea, and has collaborated on coexistence, memory, and audiovisual management tasks with the Argituz Association and the Gogora Institute. In the field of festivals, he has regularly worked in production, logistics, and venue management at events such as Dock of the Bay, Atlantikaldia, Labo XL, Zinegoak, and the Sebastiane Award during the Zinemaldia. He is currently part of the Hermés project at the UPV/EHU, where he provides support in mediation and in the audiovisual and technical production of interviews.