The Canaria Scientific and Technological Park Foundation of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has opened the deadline for the Call to hire a project technician (TCP3 – MECES3) for the project European RE-PLACE.

The contract will be 37.5 hours per week, with exclusive dedication to the project being essential. 

The gross monthly remuneration will amount to €1,591.49/month

The work center will be in the facilities of the Obelisco University Campus. Calle Pérez del Toro, 1. 35003, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 

A six-month trial period will be established during which the employment relationship may be terminated at the request of either party. Situations of temporary disability, maternity, and adoption or foster care, which affect the worker during the trial period, will interrupt its calculation. 

IATEXT researchers Juan Manuel Santana Pérez and Nira Santana Montañez, members of the Documentation, Heritage Division and Historia Atlántica, have participated with a chapter titled "Men of the sea and women of the land. The fear of losing one's husband in the Canary Islands during the Old Regime" in the book Homes of the Seas. The family in maritime Spain, 16th-19th centuries, published in Ediciones TREA and edited by Francisco García González (UCLM) and Pablo Ortega del Cerro (UCA).

You can consult the following link the index of the work and the introduction.

The University Institute of Textual Analysis and Applications (IATEXT) was created by the Government Council of the Canary Islands on January 30, 2014 (BOC of 02/17/2014) and has the powers recognized by the LOSU and the Statutes of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Its headquarters are located on the Obelisco Campus of the ULPGC.

The general objective of IATEXT is to produce results in basic research and develop digital resources for both research and educational, cultural and professional fields. To this end, it focuses its interdisciplinary research on a) the editing and analysis of different types of texts from a linguistic, literary, historical, geographical or computational perspective; b) Digital Humanities, and c) Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. Thus, it is an interdisciplinary institute where researchers from the field of Humanities coexist with researchers from the area of ​​Computer Science.

The Doctor and member of the University Institute of Textual Analysis and Applications, Manuel Méndez Alonzo together with the Doctor Raúl Villagrasa Elías will teach the university extension course "Health and Hospital Institutions in Spain and New Spain (1400-1600)" from February 14 to March 13, 2024.