Next May 5th will be held the «Wales & Basque Cooperation (From Transdisciplinary Social Sciences) Online Workshop». Principal Research Fellow, Dr Igor Calzada has been awarded a Learned Society of Wales grant to take forward his transdisciplinary social sciences research on Wales and Basque Country cooperation.
The event, framed under the the institutional framework of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Welsh and Basque Governments was founded funded by The Learned Society of Wales and it presents three goals.
1. To gather key stakeholders from Wales and the Basque Country
2. To establish a strategic network that may remain over the time.
3. To ultimately outline a potential policy/research agenda on Transdisciplinary Social Sciences stemming from current developments in both small nations through three intertwined territorial scales:
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- MACRO (Devolution): By jointly reflecting on current challenges around territorial political economy.
- MESO (Urban Transformations): By learning from each other on current developments in Cardiff and Bilbao through SPARK and AS FABRIK flagship urban projects.
- MICRO (Grassroots Innovations): By identifying grassroots innovations in the territorial ecosystems of both small nations, particularly focusing on digital foundation economy and (data/platform) cooperativism driven by grassroots innovations.
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CONFIRMED PROGRAMME
- 10:00-10:05 Introduction: Prof Ian Rees Jones, Director, WISERD, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
- 10:05-10:10: Welsh & Basque Cooperation: A Joint Framework for Transdisciplinary Social Sciences, Dr Igor Calzada, Principal Research Fellow, WISERD, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
- 10:10-10:50: MACRO: Devolution
- 10:10-10:25: The Death of Devolution, Prof Kevin Morgan, Professor of Governance and Development, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University
- 10:25-10:40: Brief Perspective on the Basque Economic Agreement, Prof Joseba Agirreazkuenaga, Professor in Contemporary History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, University of the Basque Country
- 10:40-10:50: Open Discussion/Q&A
- 10:50-11:30 MESO: Social Innovations in Urban Spaces
- 10:50-11:05: SPARK: Cardiff, Professor Rick Delbridge, Professor of Organizational Analysis, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
- 11:05-11:20: AS FABRIK: Bilbao, Dr Nagore Ipiña, Dean of Humanities and Education Sciences, Digital Global Humanities, Mondragon University
- 11:20-11:30: Open Discussion/Q&A
- 11:30-12:10: MICRO: Grassroots Innovations
- 11:30-11:45: Grassroots Innovations’ Ecosystem in Wales, Mr Mark Hooper, www.banccambria.cymru, Wales
- 11:45-12:00: Cooperatives’ Ecosystem in the Basque Country, Mr Beñat Irasuegi,www.talaios.coop, Basque Country
- 12:00-12:10: Open Discussion/Q&A:
- 12:10-12:15 NEXT STEPS, Dr Igor Calzada, Principal Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, WISERD, Cardiff University
The workshop will be held on the zoom platform:
- https://cardiff.zoom.us/j/82717288345?pwd=ZENENVk1WVgwRTlVY0NqRjhzZWJpdz09
- Meeting ID: 827 1728 8345
- Password: 120675
Registration available here.