Trying to connect LEINNers' (LEINN students) projects with San Francisco Bay Area reality....
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)...
Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D., Lecturer & Researcher at the University of Mondragon and Associate Researcher at the Center for Basque Studies-University of Nevada, Reno (CBS-UNR) read yesterday his dissertation Thesis in Oñati titled "Towards the Basque City? Approached from the Social...
One month after departing to the USA, to start writing my dissertation in March 2008 I received some very important news: My Doctoral research project about the Basque City-Region (Euskal Hiria / Ciudad-Región Vasca) had been awarded. On May 28th, I received the research award...
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...
Nearly one year ago, I watched the "AmerikanUak" film at the St. Sebastian International Film Festival. It reminded me of many things: Moments and landscapes in which I lived for a year and a half around the Western USA. For sure, it is a really...
On 2nd December 2008, I gave a Faculty Seminar at the Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno NV (USA). I introduced the preliminary ideas of my work-in-progress PhD dissertation on the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria....
This is the presentation made in St. Sebastian as the first event to announce the city as the Candidate for the Cultural Capital City 2016. Two notions are mixed into: the Creative City and Connected City, and their implementation strategies....
Shortly before the 2008 crisis, the continental European countries and regions such as the Basque Country started facing an incredible paradox: while public policies encouraged youngsters and the unemployed to run an entrepreneurial idea, politicians, civil servants and fixed employees did not favour it...
