In the twilight of the PhD that I supervised a paper for almost one and a half years at the University of Deusto titled "Social Interaction Spaces for Entrepreneurship at the MicroUrbanism level: Basque City-Region Diagnostic Mapping case study". As an outcome of this, this...
On the 12th September, the Tourism Living Lab of the Zumaia coastal village in the Basque Country (Spain) was kicked-off. The action research intervention project is called #ZumaiaLab....
Following up with the Oresund City-Region and trying to empirically compare the Basque Country and the Oresund City-Region as a dissemination activity of the Future of City-Region <> Comparative Territorial Benchmarking project, Fredrik Björk and myself arranged a Methodological Social Innovation Workshop driven by Action...
As a former member of the Gipuzkoa Sarean research project funded by the Gipuzkoa Province Council and St Sebastian City Council, a group of academics from the University of Oxford, Mondragon, Deusto and so on, and non-academics, were gathered at the University of Oxford (UK)...
On 30–31 October 2025, Prof. Igor Calzada participated in the 2nd International Conference on Digital Sovereignty (ICDS 2025), held at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Oslo, Norway. Acting both as session chair and presenter of two papers, Calzada contributed to a high-level dialogue...
On 27 October 2025, Prof. Igor Calzada delivered an invited talk at the Global Innovation Coop Summit (GICS) 2025, held in Torres Vedras, Portugal, within Workshop 2.3 dedicated to “Building a Global Cooperative Network in the Age of AI.” His presentation, titled: “Building a Global Cooperative...
🌐 Call for Abstracts: AAG 2026 Annual Meeting – San Francisco, California Session: Anticipatory AI Governance in Public Administrations Worldwide: Digital Inclusion, Territorial Innovation, and Datafied Democracies📅 Deadline: October 25, 2025📍 Event: AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA (17–21 March 2026)🔗 AAG2026 Organizers & Chairs: Prof. Igor Calzada,...
On 24 September 2025, Professor Igor Calzada contributed to the Cross-Party Group on Cooperatives and Mutuals at the Senedd Research, Welsh Parliament in Cardiff. Senedd10 This intervention followed a productive morning at Cardiff University’s Social Science Research Park (SPARK/SBARC), where he worked with colleagues from WISERD and...
Prof Calzada directed the international UIK 2025 Summer School titled ‘Digital Inclusion & Generative Artificial Intelligence,’ held on July 15–16 at the Miramar Palace in Donostia/San Sebastián. The event was organized in collaboration with the Presidency Department of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa. 📍Gipuzkoa as a...
