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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

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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

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Call: Innovative Implementation of the Partnership Principle in Cohesion Policy

Call for expression of interest. For the second time, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG-REGIO) is seeking proposals by public authorities and civil society organizations, interested in implementing innovative citizen participation practices in cohesion policy. Are you from a public authority and would you like to step-up citizen participation beyond information ... Call: Innovative Implementation of the Partnership Principle in Cohesion Policy

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Resources from Voedsel Anders

I recently attended the 2022 Voedsel Anders conference held at Wageningen University on 10 – 11 June. This particular University is a fitting place for such a gathering as it is home to Wageningen Food and Biobased Research institution, where ‘with our clients and partners, we can create economical viable and sustainable solutions to contribute ... Resources from Voedsel Anders

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Responsible Smart Mobility: una Citizens’ Jury per raccogliere le opinioni dei cittadini

Grazie al progetto EU H2020 TRANSFORM l’11 giugno si svolgerà la prima giornata della Giuria di Cittadine e Cittadini su mobilità intelligente e responsabile in Lombardia. Il progetto EU H2020 TRANSFORM, di cui Fondazione Giannino Bassetti è ente coordinatore, è entrato nel suo terzo e ultimo anno di attività. Dopo l’intenso lavoro preparatorio del 2020 ... Responsible Smart Mobility: una Citizens’ Jury per raccogliere le opinioni dei cittadini

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Stickydot are looking for a citizen science Project Assistant

The Project Assistant will work closely with the co-founders of the company on citizen science and public engagement projects. This is a great opportunity to take part in a variety of projects with leaders in the European citizen science community and to gain experience in a dynamic and socially relevant field. If you have experience ... Stickydot are looking for a citizen science Project Assistant

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The IT University of Copenhagen invites candidates to apply for a PhD position

The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) invites highly motivated candidates to apply for a PhD position starting in Summer 2022 or soon thereafter. There are a number of funded positions available and the applicants are encouraged to align themselves with a proposed research project. One of these projects is: Infrastructuring open data commons: Exploring the ... The IT University of Copenhagen invites candidates to apply for a PhD position

Infoday, gemellaggi e reti di città

AICCRE Associazione Italiana per il Consiglio dei Comuni e delle Regioni d’Europa FEDERAZIONE LOMBARDA Presentazione del bando di finanziamento europeo Programma Cittadini, Uguaglianza, Diritti e Valori Giovedì 24 febbraio 2022 – ore 15 – 18 – via WebEx Il programma Cittadini, Uguaglianza, Diritti e Valori ha pubblicato il nuovo bando per Gemellaggi e Reti di ... Infoday, gemellaggi e reti di città

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Collective food procurement as responsible innovation

Collective food procurement is an emerging phenomenon at multiple levels, well beyond purchasing: for example through foraging and self-production; short food chains and direct sales; or food governance through local institutions, but also through networks of NGOs. The Food Citizens? project has comparatively investigated in the cities of Gdańsk (Poland), Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Turin ... Collective food procurement as responsible innovation

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OECD Conference on Technology in and for Society, December 2021

In this post I would like to offer some take-aways and personal thoughts on the recent OECD Conference on Technology in and for Society, held on the 6th and 7th of December 2021. Innovating Well for Inclusive Transitions The conference rationale was Innovating Well for Inclusive Transitions, based upon the supposition that the world faces ... OECD Conference on Technology in and for Society, December 2021

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TRANSFORM at the 19th European Week of Regions and Cities. A Review.

Bruxelles, 11 – 14 October, 2021. The European Week of Regions and Cities is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy. It brings together regions and cities from all over Europe, including politicians, administrators, experts and academics in a four-day event that boasts several interesting formats (the opening session was run following a ... TRANSFORM at the 19th European Week of Regions and Cities. A Review.

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Responsibility-by-design – Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly

On 26 October 2021 the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) published the CWA 17796 Responsibility-by-design – Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly. CEN is an association that brings together the National Standardization Bodies of 34 European countries, providing a platform for the development of European Standards and other technical documents in relation ... Responsibility-by-design – Guidelines to develop long-term strategies (roadmaps) to innovate responsibly

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