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Claustra is organized trough a network of inner investigation that, at the same time, expects to have contact with all the projects that can uplift its work. In this section we want to show how and with which objectives we maintain a relationship of collaboration and work with them.
On the first place we have to mention those projects in which researchers from the group take part. Among them are:
- The European project New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe , leaded by Sabrina Corbellini from the University of Groningen, was approved on May (code: COST-Action IS1301) and it started on September 2013. 21 countries and a high number of researchers took part on the project. The coordinator of Claustra, dr. Blanca Garí is a member of the Management Committee and the Steering Group of the project. She is also the coordinator of the relations with the non-academic stakeholders. New Communities of Interpretation proposes a new approach to religious and cultural history and the creation of a virtual centre of experts for the study of European religious culture in the last centuries of the middle ages and in the pace to the modern world. This project is a big scientific incentive for Claustra and its future projections.
- Monastic Wales is a project that has as its main goal to put the complete landscape of Welch medieval monarchism at the researchers, teachers and the general public’s disposition trough the listing and creation of a database of the monastic spaces of medieval Wales. Since 2011Claustra collaborates with this project; the coordinator of the research team Blanca Garí is part of the Advisory Council of Monastic Wales; one of the directors of the Welch project, Karen Stober, collaborates with the Catalan team of Claustra; and doctoral students of the Claustra project have done research visits in Wales, founded by the Generalitat of Catalonia and under the tutelage of the other director of the project Jane Burton.
- Two researchers from Claustra, NuriaJornet and the doctoral student Irene Brugués, are part of the Comissió d’Arxius del Servei d’Arxius de la Federació de Monges Benedictines de Catalunya(Archive Commission of the Archive Service of the Benedictin Nuns Federation of Catalonia).
- We collaborated also with the Centro de Investigación de Mujeres DUODA (Center of on Women’s Research DUODA), from the University of Barcelona.
- In addition is important to mention the web page monestirs.cat, dedicated to the listing of monasteries and especially rich in images. The author Baldiri Barat generously offers his collaboration to Claustra, contributing with images of the feminine monastic spaces.
