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Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review
The e-book Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity is one of the outcomes of A Just Transition to the Circular Economy (JUST2CE). This European Union Horizon 2020 funded project concluded this summer (2024), its aim being to understand the implications of the transition to a circular economy on the environment, economy ... Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review
08/11
2024 7min
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2024 7min
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Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series
Thanks to an Incubator grant, Utrecht University (NL) is hosting the Follow the Food seminar series. The project is led by Martijn Huysmans (Utrecht School of Economics) and aims to trace the workings of the global food system by following several products with a so-called Geographical Indication (GI). In Follow the Cheese, the first of ... Future Food: Cristina Grasseni Kicks Off the Follow the Food Seminar Series
29/10
2024 8min
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2024 8min
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Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning
On 14 May 2024 I had the pleasure of showing Tiago Sá Gomes and Bárbara Arita from the Lisbon-based NGO Upfarming, and Jean-marc Louvin of ICLEI around the Utrecht city garden Food For Good. Upfarming promotes food literacy, community development, participatory ecology and well-being in cities through implementing holistic urban agriculture projects. Their approach combines ... Responsible Innovation Networks and Local Food Provisioning
06/06
2024 5min
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2024 5min
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Looking back on 2023
2023 was our busiest and most exciting year to date. It saw the launch of the new Fondazione Bassetti website, the development of a host of new and long-established collaborations, the culmination of our participation in one major EU funded project and the start of a new and exciting research and innovation support project, and ... Looking back on 2023
19/01
2024 7min
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2024 7min
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La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 4/4
Event: La realizzazione dell’improbabile – Trent’anni di Fondazione Giannino Bassetti Date: 2023 12 18 Time: 45:35 min. Place: MEET Digital Culture Center – Milano. Language: Italiano. Part: 4/4 url Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/897412948 Photos: Album in Flickr. Podcast: la singola parte 4 di 4, la versione integrale e la playlist (in Spotify) Post: La realizzazione dell’improbabile. Contents: ... La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 4/4
18/12
2023 2min
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2023 2min
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La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 3/4
Event: La realizzazione dell’improbabile – Trent’anni di Fondazione Giannino Bassetti Date: 2023 12 18 Time: 35:11 min. Place: MEET Digital Culture Center – Milano. Language: Italiano. Part: 3/4 url Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/897411968 Photos: Album in Flickr. Podcast: la singola parte 3 di 4, la versione integrale e la playlist (in Spotify) Post: La realizzazione dell’improbabile. Contents: ... La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 3/4
18/12
2023 1min
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2023 1min
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La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 2/4
Event: La realizzazione dell’improbabile – Trent’anni di Fondazione Giannino Bassetti Date: 2023 12 18 Time: 27:44 min. Place: MEET Digital Culture Center – Milano. Language: Italiano. Part: 2/4 url Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/897411298 Photos: Album in Flickr. Podcast: la singola parte 2 di 4, la versione integrale e la playlist (in Spotify) Post: La realizzazione dell’improbabile. Contents: ... La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 2/4
18/12
2023 1min
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2023 1min
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La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 1/4
Event: La realizzazione dell’improbabile – Trent’anni di Fondazione Giannino Bassetti Date: 2023 12 18 Time: 41:32 min. Place: MEET Digital Culture Center – Milano. Language: Italiano. Part: 1/4 url Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/897409902 Photos: Album in Flickr. Podcast: la singola parte 1 di 4, la versione integrale e la playlist (in Spotify) Post: La realizzazione dell’improbabile. Contents: ... La realizzazione dell’improbabile – 1/4
18/12
2023 1min
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2023 1min
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Food For Good
On 4 April 2023 Jonathan Hankins and Cristina Grasseni showed a group of students from Nottingham Trent university (UK) round the community garden Food For Good in Utrecht (NL).As regular readers will know, both share an interest in local food production. Cristina is Principal Investigator in Food Citizens?, an ongoing EU funded project that aims ... Food For Good
21/04
2023 4min
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2023 4min
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Looking back to our 2022
2022 was one of our busiest and most productive years to date, and one in which we celebrated the successful completion of two large projects. This post offers just a snapshot of events and themes that we carry forward into 2023. Projects2022 saw the final conferences and publication of all findings and deliverables of both ... Looking back to our 2022
19/01
2023 3min
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2023 3min
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Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Future of River Basins and Deltas Seminar
The PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) held a seminar in Rotterdam on 11+12 October 2022 dedicated to the future of river basins and deltas, which I attended on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation. The specific deltas discussed were the Rheine-Meuse, Mississippi and Yangtze, with the seminar rationale being that river basins and deltas are crucial ... Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Future of River Basins and Deltas Seminar
23/11
2022 8min
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2022 8min
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Making Networks Happen: Cooperation for Sustainability Transitions
On March 1st, 2022, at the Milan seat of Confcooperative Lombardia, in the framework of POLITIKÉ, ‘the political school’ offered in collaboration with the Bassetti Foundation for Responsible Innovation, industrial biotechnologist Maurizio Bettiga and cultural anthropologist Cristina Grasseni jointly led a workshopping session involving 25 leading operators from the cooperative world (presidents, heads of service ... Making Networks Happen: Cooperation for Sustainability Transitions
15/03
2022 3min
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2022 3min
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