ILUSTRE COLEGIO NACIONAL DE DOCTORES Y LICENCIADOS EN CIENCIAS POLITICAS Y SOCIOLOGIA

Their core work

The Ilustre Colegio Nacional is Spain's national professional association representing doctors and graduates in Political Science and Sociology. In EU research projects, they contribute disciplinary expertise in social science research methods, policy analysis, and community engagement with professional networks across Spain. Their H2020 participation has been focused on two specific societal challenges: understanding the drivers and effects of youth mobility across European countries, and developing digital tools to support migrant integration in cities. As a professional college rather than a university, they bring practitioner legitimacy and access to networks of working social scientists and policy analysts.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first project (MOVE, 2015-2018), this organization contributed to foundational social science mapping of youth mobility — qualitative and quantitative research on why young Europeans move, where, and with what institutional effects. By their second project (MICADO, 2019-2022), the focus had shifted toward applied digital governance: using dashboards and data cockpits to help city administrations manage migrant integration in practice. This represents a move from descriptive social research toward actionable policy instrumentation, likely reflecting both funder priorities and the organization's growing interest in translating sociological insight into usable civic tools.

They appear to be moving toward the intersection of social science and civic digital infrastructure — a profile that fits well with future calls on migration governance, urban social cohesion, and evidence-based policy tools.

How they like to work

This organization has participated in both projects as a consortium partner, never as coordinator — suggesting a role as a specialist contributor rather than a project driver. They have worked with 24 distinct partners across 9 countries across only 2 projects, which implies they join broad, multi-partner consortia rather than tight research clusters. A prospective partner should expect them to deliver a defined social science or stakeholder engagement work package rather than lead technical coordination.

With 24 unique partners across 9 countries in just two projects, they have a surprisingly wide collaborative footprint for a small organization. Their network is geographically European with a clear emphasis on society-pillar consortia involving universities, NGOs, and city governments.

What sets them apart

Unlike a university research group, this is a professional guild — it represents an entire discipline's practitioners in Spain, giving it credibility as a voice of the professional social science community rather than a single research team. This makes them particularly valuable in projects requiring civil society legitimacy, national professional network access, or policy dissemination channels in Spain. For consortia building a Spanish social science presence without hiring a large university, they offer a focused and cost-efficient entry point.

Highlights from their portfolio

• MOVE
  Their largest funded project (€365,105) and an EU-wide comparative study of youth mobility — the kind of foundational social science that feeds directly into EU mobility policy.
• MICADO
  Notable for its applied digital dimension — developing dashboard tools for migrant integration monitoring in cities, representing a pivot toward data-driven social governance.