Davide Consoli publishes a blog post on VoxEU based on his ongoing collaborative research on Green Skills.
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David Barberá receives a prize for the best article on entrepreneurship
Alejandra Boni will participate on february 23, 24, 25 in the seminar "La cooperación al desarrollo: retos de futuro", organized by the Girona, Pompeu Fabra and Rovira y Virgili universities, with three conferences about "Agenda post 2015: escenarios de futuro".
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Climate-KIC offered an eight day coached sustainability transitions course for experienced environment and water management professionals, held in Valencia (Spain) from 22nd until 29th November 2014. It was designed to provide the key competencies and capabilities to be an innovator in the broad sense of this term.
Sergio Belda and Alejandra Boni, researchers at INGENIO, presented and illustrated the potential and interest of the idea of grassroots social innovation for rethinking climate change at the course "Green skills for boosting transitions", offered by Climate KIC.
Alejandra Boni participes in Milan at the Second International Symposium: Four ways to feed the planet. It's possible a different future from EXPO?. This activity is part of the preparatory activities for EXPO MILANO 2015: LAB EXPO Academy.
More information: http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it/laboratorio-expo/ii-colloquium-internazionale/ospiti/
In a recent paper published in Research Policy, Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo fleshes out important limitations in the ‘one-size-fits-all’ framework that is commonly used to study University missions, i.e. Teaching, Research and Social Engagement.Her study on the Spanish Higher Education system shows that the three missions stand to one another in relations of substitution and complementarity that had barely been considered before.
Working on the challenges we face and how to overcome them, Climate-KIC offers a coached 8 day programme for experienced environment and water management professionals, held in Valencia, Spain, from 22 to 29 November 2014.
More information: Innovator Catalyst
Alejandra Boni & Sergio Belda, Award for best paper presented at the "II Congreso Internacional de Estudios de Desarrollo", for their research:
"Las relaciones en la cooperación solidaria como procesos informales de aprendizaje para la construcción de ciudadanía: Elementos para repensar la Educación para el Desarrollo desde una perspectiva política".
Alejandra Boni will participate in the "XVIII JORNADES DE COOPERACIÓ INTERNACIONAL I SOLIDARITAT: Energies renovables i desenvolupament humà" at the Universitat JAUME I de Castellón, giving the inaugural lecture on:
"L'Enfocament de les capacitats com a marc per a les intervencions de desenvolupament amb base tecnològica. Benestar, agència i desenvolupament humà".
Open New Edition More information: http://www.posgradodivulgacion.org/
Ismael Rafols invited to Tokyo for the ICSTI 2014 Annual Conference (International Council for Science and Technology Information)
http://www.prime-pco.com/icsti/icsti_2/images/flyer.pdf
Alejandra Boni, Ingenio (CSIC-UPV), has published two new articles:
1. Exploring accountability discourses and practices in the Spanish aid system
Journal of International Development, Vol. 26, Issue 4, May 2014,pages 541-555
Authors: Alejandra Boni, Jordi Peris, Rosemary McGee, Míriam Acebillo-Baqué and Andrés Hueso
ABSTRACT
Paul Benneworth is a senior researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
More information:
http://www.utwente.nl/mb/cheps/The%20Cheps%20Team/Staff/Academic%20Staff/BenneworthCV2011.pdf
Melanie Walker is Chair in Higher Education and Human Development; Senior Research Professor; Director of Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development (CRHED), University of the Free Sate, South Africa.
More information:
http://checar.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?uid=1
Maureen McKelvey es Profesora de Organización Industrial, University of Gothenburg, desde otoño del pasado 2007 hasta la actualidad y Directora de Investigación y Responsable Académico de Educación Avanzada en el Institute
for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Más información
http://gu.se/english/about_the_university/staff/?languageId=100001&userId=xmckma