21 Jun Welcome to the Basque City-Region > Club of Rome Basque Group > Bilbao (Spain)
The Club of Rome has a group in the Basque Country organizing seminars systematically. I was invited to talk about "Welcome to the Basque City-Region" in order to explain the future scenarios and strategic challenges of the Basque Country becoming a policentric City-Region. The seminar...
21 Jun How could we activate Cultural Citizenship in Europe? > University of Deusto (Bilbao – Spain)
Kindly invited by the European Studies Institute, Euroculture Programme of the University of Deusto (the university where I graduated and obtained my MBA), on 20th June 2012, I gave a paper titled: "How could we activate Cultural Citizenship across City-Regions in Europe? Spaces for Interaction...
09 May Digital Citizenship International Congress (Donostia-St. Sebastian)
On 9th May, 2012, I gave a conference at the Digital Citizenship Congress in my hometown St. Sebastian. The title of the paper was: Technology, Social Capital & Territory....
29 Sep New Political Culture for Renewing the Social Capital > Hertie School of Governance (Berlin – Germany)
As a consequence of the Networked Gipuzkoa project funded by Gipuzkoa Province Council and St Sebastian City Council, I presented an accepted paper at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, at The Governance of Large-Scale Projects International Symposium that took place on 2nd October...
02 Aug Social Innovation? Same Questions & Different Locations > University of Malmö (Sweden)
On 22nd August 2011, just after arriving from a Gothenburg talk and Copenhagen Conference, I gave a Lecture Seminar about "Social Innovation? Same Questions & Different Locations" chaired by Fredrik Björk. I consider this was the first time I started considering introducing Oresund into my...
02 Aug Think Space (Copenhagen-Denmark)
From August the 18th to the 20th in 2011, I attended a highly interesting conference that took place at Prags Boulevard 43 in Copenhagen. The conference addressed issues such as: City Development & Empty Buildings. It gave me a good chance to carry out field...
02 Aug The Power of Local (Ennistymon, Ireland)
In August 2008, I was invited by Ennistymon's (West of Ireland, Co. Clare) Arts and Cultural Festival 2011 as a guest speaker to give a talk about "The Power of Local". I mainly talked about two concepts that could be applied to territories such...
07 Apr Principles for Political Innovation
Invited by the Basque nationalist political parties coalition in Navarra (Spain), in April 2011 I participated with Prof Daniel Innerarity and Antoni Gutierrez-Rubí in an event about Principles for Political Innovation that was organized in Pamplona (Spain)....