Though they may seem like unlikely companions, both Iceland and the Basque Country undertook unique democratic regenerations following the 2008 global economic crisis....
On 23rd September Dr Calzada attended the STEEP EU project no. 314277 'Systems Thinking for Comprehensive City Efficient Energy Planning' in Bristol as a member of the Advisory Board. The project aims to design a Smart City Director Plan after the cross-learning process of three...
The UK and Spain are not depicted as having the same nation-state DNA with regard to their respective histories and political-cultural traditions. Hence, can we find any remarkable differences between EU nation-states such as the UK and Spain? Indeed, I think there are plenty of...
"PostIndependence: Comparing city-regional devolution strategic scenarios in Scotland, Catalonia and the BasqueCountry" paper has been accepted and will be presented at Policy & Politics 2014 Conference at the University of Bristol in September 17th (just the day before the Scottish #indyref)....
On 7th July, I will deliver a seminar and give a paper regarding lessons from the renowned Mondragon Cooperative experience while addressing some necessary key ideas in order to put into practice what the author called Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy-Making....
On 23rd and 26th June, Dr Igor Calzada will present his new book entitled PostIndependentzia > #HanIzanikHonaGara (PostIndependence > #BeingThereWeAreHere) in ELKAR bookshop in St. Sebastian published by TransLoKal Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making. The book gathers some of the most relevant conclusions of his...
As a summary of the on-going comparative case studies between the Basque Country City-Region and the Oresund City-Region, myself and Fredrik Björk will disseminate it in a paper titled: Cross Border City-Regions Beyond Nation-States: Basque & Oresund Comparative Cases. ...
On 30th December, 2013, the article titled "Critical Social Innovation in the Smart City era for a City-Regional European Horizon 2020" was published by P3T....
On 7th November 2013, I gave a conference about technology, politics and democracy. The title of the conference was "Do Social Networks provoke Civilian Transformation?" I pointed out the case of Iceland as the one that I had recently been collecting data about....
