31 Dec Critical Social Innovation in the Smart City era for a City-Regional Horizon 2020
On 30th December, 2013, the article titled "Critical Social Innovation in the Smart City era for a City-Regional European Horizon 2020" was published by P3T....
10 Nov Do Social Networks provoke Civilian Transformation? Iceland case > Civilian Statutory Parliament > University of Navarra (Spain)
On 7th November 2013, I gave a conference about technology, politics and democracy. The title of the conference was "Do Social Networks provoke Civilian Transformation?" I pointed out the case of Iceland as the one that I had recently been collecting data about....
04 Jul 4th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise > Lieje (Belgium)
From 1st to 4th July I took part in the 4th EMES Congress (Lieje, Belgium), presenting the International Handbook on Social Innovation by Edward Elgar into the Programme of the event. Attached here is the presentation of the paper I presented....
17 Jun In-Context > Supportive Environments for Sustainable Living > Berlin (Germany)
On 6th and 7th July, 2013, Dr Igor Calzada and Fredrik Björk presented a paper accepted in the EU InContext Project Final Conference & Informed Cities Forum 2013 entitled: How to create space for change? Rediscovering the power of community...
28 Apr Social Innovation Methodological Workshop > Basque & Oresund Connection in San Telmo Museum (St Sebastian – Basque, Spain)
Following up with the Oresund City-Region and trying to empirically compare the Basque Country and the Oresund City-Region as a dissemination activity of the Future of City-Region <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking project, Fredrik Björk and myself arranged a Methodological Social Innovation Workshop driven by Action...
29 Mar Social Interaction Spaces for Entrepreneurship at the MicroUrbanism level > Basque City-Region Diagnostic mapping case study
In the twilight of the PhD that I supervised a paper for almost one and a half years at the University of Deusto titled "Social Interaction Spaces for Entrepreneurship at the MicroUrbanism level: Basque City-Region Diagnostic Mapping case study". As an outcome of this, this...
17 Mar Mondragon case from the Social Innovation perspective > International Handbook of Social Innovation, Edward Elgar publishing
Here is the chapter which I contributed within the International Handbook of Social Innovation published by Edward Elgar and coordinated by Frank Moulaert....
11 Jan Will Social Innovation Save Spain ? > Hub Islington – London
As a consequence, to be invited to take part in the roundtable titled "Will Social Innovation Save Spain?" that took place in the Hub of Islington (London) on 12th November 2012, the participants were mentioned in the article published in the The Guardian on the...
06 Jun Towards Future of City-Regions? University of Oxford (UK)
On 23rd May, 2012, I delivered a seminar at the Potluck Seminar series for the Future of Cities Programme which I am member of. The session was attended by Steve Rayner, Idalina Baptista and Ebru Soytemel, among other participants....