Publication of Huelva 2007 acts

The final version of Huelva 2007 acts is available for downloading. These acts gather the communications of the international conference of Territorial Intelligence entitled “Territorial Intelligence and Governance. Participative action-research and governance applied to territorial development”.

This conference was held in Huelva (Spain) from 24th to 27th October 2007. It mainly focused on the discussion on the topics of caENTI WP5 for year 2007 and especially on the participation potentialities and limits and on the difficulties of the implementation of the principles of multidimensionality, partnership, participation, transformation, sustainability, transparency, co-responsibility and co-learning in the framework of the territorial action-research activity.

Besançon 2008 blog

The Besancon 2008 blog will present the sixth international conference of Territorial Intelligence that will be held in Besançon on October, 16th-17th 2008. It will be the last one organised by caENTI, Coordination Action of the European Network of Terrritorial Intelligence, funded by EU. It will expose the progress of caENTI and the propects of ENTI.

> Besançon 2008 blog

> Besancon 2008 conference on the territorial intelligence portal

New non extensible deadline on next December, 15th to submit your articles

Dear participants in CAENTI- Huelva 2007 Conference,

The organization team is very thankful to all of you who have done a big effort to submit their articles on time.

These submissions will be reviewed in a per pair process.

Nevertheless, most of you have asked the organization to arrange a new deadline in order to incorporate in your articles the conference discussions, or in order to make a better translation into English.

After consultations, we could fix this the new non extensible deadline on next December, 15th.

Those of you who have senttheir works and who would like to review them and to send them to us again, of course you can. We have saved your current articles if you decide to send us a new version we will substitute them.

Best regards.

Huelva 2007 overview

The International Conference of Territorial Intelligence of Huelva “Territorial intelligence and governance. Participative research-action and governance applied to territorial development”, took place from October, the 24th to October, the 26th 2007.

This conference was mainly organised by the University of HUELVA. We thank Blanca MIEDES and the team of the Local Observatory of Employment who made this event a success, which received 130 participants from 11 countries, with 50 communications and 104 authors.

> Read more of the Territorial Intelligence Portal  editorial of November 2007

Huelva 2007 was a smashing success

A hearty thank-you to everyone who helped to make Huelva 2007 the success that it was — speakers, attendees, volunteers, UHU and VALDOCCO staff and directors. I especially want to thank our blog volunteers for the hours of work that went into this event. Many behind-the scenes tasks were also taken care of by CAENTI members.

We are already planning next year’s conference to be held in Besançon in october 2008. Stay tuned as we set the specific blog for Besançon 2008. We hope to see you there!

A big thank you goes out to all the people who made Huelva 2007 such an exciting event. Come see the Huelva 2007 teams at:
http://www.territorial-intelligence.eu/huelva2007/blog/?page_id=83

Day 26, Plenary Debate: Relationships within AR

 The debate named “Universities – Territorial Actors Relationship within the Framework of Action-Research: Potentialities and Limits” was moderated by Prof. Dr. Manuela A. De Paz Báñez. She organised the debate giving a brief speech about the conceptualisation, roles and relationships between territorial actors and university researchers within the framework of Action-Research (AR). Differences between traditional research and Durable Participative Collaborative AR have been detailed regarding to epistemological changes and different relationships between territorial actor and research actor. Some recommendations were given to improve relationships within the framework of participative AR.

Dr. De Paz provided participants with documents related to the issues treated in her speech. Few minutes were given to personal reflexion and writing notes in our papers. Debate was very animated due to the interesting contributions of participants, deeping in contents presented by the chair and coming with new ideas and aspects to be considered. Some of these contributions were related to think also in terms of the process or evolution from traditional research and participative AR. Some of the questions that arose were: How do we get to the aspects involved by AR? What are the obstacles to be overcome? Other issues were related to the importance of innovation within the process or the way policy is considered. Definition of every actor may be defined. Fears between different actors (including researchers) and financial issues were also pointed out.

Plenary debate “New Technologies and Information Treatment within the Framework of Research- Action: Ethical and Organizational Problems”, moderated by Dr. C. MASSELOT

Plenary debate “Universities – Territorial Actors Relationship within the Framework of Research- Action: Potentialities and Limits”, moderated by Prof. Dr. M. A. DE PAZ BÁÑEZ

Day 26 final program

The Second International Annual Conference is coming to the end. This afternoon will close with two Plenary Debates. Both operate within the Framework of Research-Action. The first began to hold at 15.30, content to treat deals Potentialities and Limits in the Universities- Territorial Actors Relationship. The second, and final, debate will be about Ethical and Organizational Problems of New Technologies and Information Treatment. Between the two debates is a Coffee break, almost the last chance to talk among participants because after this, the Conference will be closed.

Day 26, Workshop 6: Participation and Governance (Experiences)