Dr Calzada will be the keynote speaker on the Summer School EIT Digital entitled 'Predictive analytics, big data, mobility and open platforms for an efficient and participative city' that will take place in Rennes in Britanny (France)....

Dr Igor Calzada will deliver a paper entitled 'Comparing Cross-Bordering City-Regional Strategies Beyond Nation-States in Oresund and the Basque Country' in the 15th Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) Conference 'Cities, States and Borders: From the Local to the Global' in Hamburg (Germany) and Sonderborg (Denmark)...

Here is the article that will be published in the RSA Regions Quarterly Magazine: Calzada, I. (2015), Benchmarking Cross-Border City-Regions: Basque and Oresund Comparative Territorial Connection, Regions Quarterly Magazine, In Depth, pp. 4-6. Regions no 297. Issue 1. Spring 2015....

It was Robert Putnam, the key author observing the social phenomenon that meant the foundation of the concept, Social Capital. His interesting experiment observing the bowling rooms, provided us an interesting perspective from which to compare, connect, or even benchmark the social diverse context and...