The Ricardo Echepare Lectures

Lectures on knowledge transfer and the social impact of scientific and technological research.

Thanks to the Basque Government's Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation, an initiative named after Ricardo Echepare was launched during the UPV/EHU Summer Courses 2024.

Ricardo Echepare (Irún, 1948) was a professor at the University of the Basque Country and Director of the Donostia-San Sebastián School of Technical Engineering. He was Mayor of Irún and Gipuzkoa Provincial Councillor for Culture. In the early 1980s, Echepare was the driving force behind the setting up of the UPV/EHU Summer Courses with the goal of taking the recently founded university to Basque Society. He directed the UPV/EHU Summer Courses between 1981 and 2008 and successfully made them into an event not to be missed for the leading academics, intellectuals, artists and politicians of the time.

An annual conference will be given to perpetuate Ricardo Echepare's commitment to education and the dissemination of knowledge. The lectures will address themes such as knowledge transfer and the social impact of scientific and technological research on higher education overall; they will also consider areas related to engineering dual training and first-rate university management, to name a few.

The Ricardo Echepare Lecture will be held in the Royal Dining Room at the Miramar Palace in Donostia-San Sebastián, where a plaque dedicated to the contribution of Echepare has been unveiled.

First Ricardo Echepare Lecture

Held on 30 September 2024, the first lecture was special and had a broad programme:

Act of tribute to Ricardo Echepare.
Speech by Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias, Basque Minister for Science, Universities and Research.
Lecture by Professor Pedro Miguel Echenique. Ricardo Echepare: Thought and Action.
Speech by Eva Ferreira García, Rector of the UPV/EHU.