Nueva dirección del Blog/Blog´s new address

Estoy intentando cambiarme a Wordpress.
This will be my new blog site.

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Hiriko in Ecuador, Amsterdam and Singapore

Last week we had the opportunity to present the Hiriko Driving Mobility Project in Ecuador. The Minister for the Environment, Marcela Aguiñaga (spotted in the picture) offered us a warm welcome, setting up a meeting with Fabian Zapata, the President of the Galapagos Island Government Council. It was the first contact but they are very interested in becoming an active member of Mobility on Demand Global Program. We also had the opportunity to meet with Carlos Paez the Director of Mobility in Quito and several other university and senior public officials. Recently, Hiriko has also been presented at SOCAP in Amsterdam and directly to Penny Low, the leading social innovation force in Singapore.

Paco en el Bulli

Esta es una foto que ha publicado The Guardian en un reportaje sobre los últimos días de El Bulli antes de su transformación en un centro de I+D. El que más controla de la cocina, (el segundo de la parte inferior izquierda) es nuestro super cuñado Paco Mesa. Después de conquistar el Santuario de Arantzazu, Arzak y The Fat Duck ahora le toca al Bulli.

The Global Innovation Academy

The Young Foundation has published this newsletter about the "Global Innovation Academy". All the communications and case studies presented at the first Bilbao pathfinder workshop are included.

Elkarrizketa Argia aldizkarian

Hau da Argia aldizakarirako egin dudan elkarrizketa. Eskerrik asko "Pluja Seca" dokumentalaren proiekzio guztietara joan zaretenoi.

Saiatu en el Diario Vasco

El Diario Vasco ha publicado un extenso artículo sobre el proyecto Saiatu. Esperemos que sirva para darlo a conocer y que pueda pasar de la fase piloto a la de consolidación. Zorionak!

"Dying for a change" en castellano

Muriendo por un cambio

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Hiriko in Silicon Valley

Thanks to our wonderful partners in San Francisco, Fariba Rezvani (Far Link, llc) and Miguel Valls (BSP), Hiriko was able to discuss with San Francisco top officials the posibility of incorporating this vibrant city into the Mobility on Demand Global project. We also had the privilege to present the project to Steve Westley, one of the top venture capitalists at Silicon Valley. Apart from being the former California Chief Financial Officer and an advisor to Obama, Steve has been one of the key investors at TESLA.

Saiatu Euskadi Irratian

Bidean diren proiektu berriek izan dute mintzagai osteguneko "Mezularia"n. Saiaturen zatia 22garren minutuan aurkitu daiteke. Zorionak talde osoari!

Lessons in social enterprise from the Basque country

Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian´s Social Affairs Editor has recently published this article about Hiriko and Bilbao´s Social Innovation Park. This newspaper was the first one to write about this project in 2009.

Global Thanks!

We have had the privilege to host during the last few days the Inaugural Pathfinder seminar of the Global Innovation Academy. I want to say thank you to the Young Foundation team (Andrea Coleman, Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali, Chynthia Shanmugalingam, Louise Pulford and Robert Patrick), to the amazing guest speakers: Charlie Leadbeater, Bryan Boyer, Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Will Lark, Antonio Cancelo and specially to the participants: Sacha Van Togeren, Sabine Wildevuur, Daniela Deuber, Eva Engquist, Girish Muzumdar, Frank Boystin, Jacqueline Loh, Jacob Urup Nielsen, Jussi Sorsimo, Peter Fredriksson, Karl Mallin, Laura Bunt, Ricard Valls, Miquel Miró, Javier Martin Cavanna, Juho-Kusti Kahander, Andrew Barnett, Roberto Nuño, Naiara Artaza, Alfonso Martinez Cearra and Ziortza Etxabe.

Your comments and proposals will make our projects stronger. I really hope it was also interesting and useful for all of you.

The Global Innovation Academy in Bilbao

The Global Innovation Academy is a new and pioneering initiative of the Young Foundation developed in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation and many others around the world in the social innovation field. Its mission is to provide unique learning experiences to public servants, NGOs, foundations and businesses, in order to support the spread of effective social innovation methods that can tackle the most pressing global issues we face. The programme will be co-hosted by DenokInn, the Basque centre for innovation, entrepreneurship and new business development.

During an intensive three-day programme, participants will be immersed in a highly collaborative learning journey, designed to enable you to adapt and implement cutting-edge methods of social innovation in your respective contexts.

The programme will explore:

• How are practitioners and policy makers around the world applying promising new ideas to tackle ageing and care?
• How can we design policy so that social impact bonds can be applied in different contexts and to different problems?
• Where are the trends in social innovation now – and in the future?

Programme faculty include Geoff Mulgan—former head of policy to Prime Minister Tony Blair and Director of the Young Foundation; and Charlie Leadbeater— a leading authority on innovation and creativity.

Global Innovation Academy, SIX and the City

Saiatu. Cuidados Paliativos en el domicilio

Este es el folleto que explica las características del nuevo servicio gratuito de cuidados paliativos en el domicilio promovido desde el proyecto Saiatu.

Saiatu. Cuidados Paliativos en el domicilio

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Greg is the best!

Aquí está nuestro compañero Greg (en la parte izquierda de la primera fila) codeándose con las más altas autoridades de Bizkaia y talentos de todo el mundo reunidos en torno al programa Bizkaia Xede. Además de coordinar el Fab Lab, está todos los jueves en la sala de inmersión de Eutokia.

Hiriko updated presentation

Hiriko presentation 2 11

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Naomi presenta el proyecto Saiatu

Julio habla de comunicación

Jesús explica los cuidados paliativos

Hiriko in San Francisco

A delegation from Hiriko led by MIT-Media Lab professor Kent Larson will present Hiriko at "Green Global Cities" conference organized by The London School of Economics tomorrow, 24 February 2011. The Mayor of San Francisco, Calgary, San José, Incheon Metropolitan City (Korea) and the Deputy Major of Paris among others will have the opportunity to know more about the first self folding electric vehicle. Thanks to MIT Industrial Liaison Program and local friends like Miguel Valls and Fariba Rezvani, we are also meeting with Google and San Francisco Metropolitan authorities.

Elisabet´s question

Hi, Elisabet Nilsson at MEDEA here. Many thanks for a very inspiring and well organized study visit. Since we are in the middle of the process of building a fabrication lab/living lab called Fabriken, here I especially appreciated the visit to Bermeo Fab Lab. Rather than an idea (that you asked us to post, Gorka) I would like to post a question addressing challenges that we face when setting up spaces like Fabriken and Bermeo Fab Lab.

In our lab space Fabriken “sustainability” is one of the guiding principles for all activities that are to take place in the space. When it comes to sustainability on a social level it is pretty clear that an open lab space can contribute to such a progress. But what about the ecological aspects? How can we inform users about the costs of the material they are using, about life cycles of products, and the importance of having these aspects in mind – without choking their lust for experimentation with material, and resources?

To be frank, if we really look into e.g. how much a machine costs in terms of energy and material, you might be losing your lust for experimentation. Do you get my point and concern? The question is: how do we implement awareness, and foster a culture of conscious use of material and technology without limiting creativity and experimentation? Or, maybe limitations and awareness are not working against creativity (that is a least what some say), but where do we then put the levels?

Best wishes from Malmö

This is Social Innovation. Video sum up.

Pluja Seca

Empresas que inspiran futuro.

El Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa de la UPV / EHU y el Instituto de Innovación Social de ESADE, juntamente con BBVA, se complacen en invitarle al siguiente acto:

“Empresas que inspiran futuro”

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Presentación del Proyecto Momentum

¿A qué nos referimos cuando hablamos de emprendimientos sociales? ¿Cuál es su papel en la economía y en la sociedad? ¿Qué podemos hacer para aumentar su impacto social?

El libro “Empresas que inspiran futuros” presenta ocho casos de emprendimientos sociales españoles que han sido modelos de éxito durante los últimos años.

El objetivo del Proyecto Momentum es seleccionar 10 emprendimientos sociales de España y Portugal que tengan una idea clara de cómo escalar su impacto en la sociedad, ofreciéndoles formación, consultoría y acompañamiento para la elaboración de un Plan de Desarrollo así como la presentación del mismo a potenciales financiadores.

En la presentación participará la UPV / EHU como anfitrión, ESADE como impulsor del proyecto y BBVA como principal promotor.

La agenda del acto será la siguiente:

• Presentación del Acto – José Luis Retolaza, Investigador del Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa de la UPV
• Presentación del Libro “Empresas que inspiran futuro” – Alfred Vernis, Director de Programas Universitarios de ESADE, miembro del Instituto de Innovación Social de ESADE y co-autor del libro
• Proyección del Documental “Empresas que inspiran futuro”
• Presentación del Programa Momentum
• Diálogo con los asistentes

Fecha: Jueves 17 de febrero de 2011

Hora: 19.00h

Lugar: Universidad del País Vasco, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales (Sarriko), Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa Zubiria Etxea - Salón de Grados, Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre 83 (Bilbao)

Confirmaciones: La conferencia está abierta al público en general. Plazas limitadas. Se ruega confirmar la asistencia: joseluis.retolaza@ehu.es / 946017023

Se regalará un ejemplar del libro a todos los asistentes.

Visit from Malmo and Lisbon

Our colleagues from Malmo (City Council and Medea) and Lisbon (TESE) were visiting the Social Innovation Park recently. These are some of their kind comments about their stay in Bilbao. Thank you.

"This is Social Innovation" workshop programme

This is the program for the workshop on Social Innovation that DenokInn will be hosting this week. The participants have been selected following a highly competitive process monitored by the European Commission.

This is social innovation workshop programme

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Ética de la Innovación

Este es un nuevo curso de Baketik sobre Ética de la Innovación.

Etica de la innovación

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Intelligent City Forum

MIT-Media Lab, The London School of Economics Enterprise, InnoZ, DenokInn and Afypaida have met in Hiriko headquarters this week with the purpose of launching the Intelligent City Forum.

Recognising the need to promote and catalyse research-led, applied solutions for future sustainable cities, the partners have resolved this week to create this new tool as a global network of research collaboration, applied technology transfer and knowledge-exchange. ICC endeavours to jointly promote knowledge-exchange, policy development, technology piloting and research collaboration with regard to sustainable urban development, in particular with regard to sustainable mobility, urban renewable energy, and energy-efficient housing.

Carbon Care Asia, Fundación Metropoli, Idom, and many others are also exploring the possibility to become international partners of ICF.This is a picture of the meeting taken by Professor Kent Larson.

Saiatu y los cuidados paliativos

Intelligent Cities Consortium

This is the agenda of the ICC meeting that will be celebrated in the Basque region next week.

Intelligent Cities Consortium

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