Dr. Adela Cortina, Professor Emeritus in Moral Philosophy and Politics at the University of Valencia, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Education by the University of Barcelona on the 25th of May at the Faculty of Education. Dr. Cortina was sponsored by Dr. Miquel Martínez, member of the Research Group in Moral Education, which Dr. Maria Buxarrais coordinates.
Dr. Cortina was the first woman accepted as a fellow fo the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 2008. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Lovain-la-Neuve, Amsterdam, Notre-dame and Cambridge. At the University of Frankfurt she worked with Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas, whose Ethics of Discourse she is recognized for introducing in the Spanish and Iberoamerican academic world. She is the Director of the Inter-university Research Group “Applied Ethics and Democracy”. She is the Director of ÉTNOR Foundation for Ethics in Organizations since 1991. She has received prestigious awards such as the Ernest Lluch Award to Thinking (2003), the Marcos García Journalism Award (2004) or the Jovellanos International Essay Award. She has published over twenty books, among others the following: Ética mínima, Ética sin moral y Ética aplicada y democracia radical.
During the ceremony it was highlighted the fact that her work shows “a defence and active promotion of the values of freedom, democracy, justice, equality and solidarity”, as well as her collaboration with the University of Barcelona and the Catalan context in “studies, research and actions related to education in active citizenship and participation in democratic and inclusive societies”.
Dr. Maria Rosa Buxarrais and Dr. Teresa Anguera going to the ceremony
The GREM research group with Dr. Cortina. From left to right, back row: Francisco Esteban, Miquel Martínez, Josep M. Puig, Carlos Miralda, Mónica Gijón, Fàtima Avilés, Adela Cortina, Xus Martín, Amèlia Tey, Maria Rosa Buxarrais and Jaume Trilla. From left to right, back row: Brenda Bär, Ferrán Crespo, Laura Fontán, Marta Esteban, Ana Maria Novella, Elena Noguera, Ana Maria Ayuste and Montserrat Payà.