The ISEAK Foundation was created in 2018 as a foundation, on the initiative of the professor of economics of the Basque Country/EHU, Sara de la Rica and Lucía Gorjón , and with the invaluable collaboration of great referents of economic and social research in Spain such as Ana Revenga, Luis Miller, Lucas Gortázar, Fernando Fernández-Monge, Ainhoa ​​Vega and Paloma Úbeda .

Through the academic and research excellence of its team, it aims to position itself as a reference centre in Europe , following the example of initiatives such as the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Ireland, the Behavioural Insights Team (BiT) in the United Kingdom or the Vienna Institute of Demography (ViD).

Areas of Intervention

• Children and young people
• Children at risk of social exclusion
• People who are socially vulnerable 
• People in situations of difficulty or precarity
• Gender equality
• Migrants
• Beneficiaries of minimum income
• Poverty

Responsibilities/ Services

• Issuing of guidelines and policies for the district’s councils
• Research and development
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems