Action Applied for Help and Care for Social Transformation, APLICA-TS, is a group of basic, interdisciplinary and applied research in social sciences, linked to the "multiculturalism and social integration". It asks about the techno-scientific impact on the structural functioning (social, political and cultural) of the help and social work systems of the knowledge society in Spain, Latin America, Europe and the Northern Mediterranean, in order to understand how to promote welfare initiatives, value traditions and feminized aid practices, and community and group territorial development.