Huelva 2007 blog

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.

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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, 15^th.

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.

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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

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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

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 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.

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15 papers were presented within this workshop moderated by Dr. Mª José ASENSIO COTO. The room was full this morning. In order to give space for the debate, the Chair asked participants to share four hours instead of two that were initially planned. Papers were organised in two sections. Each one was introduced by a lecture, followed by a report by Mª José ASENSIO of every paper, who gave time to authors to make remarks and comments. After that authors and other participants had time for debate and discussion.First two hours were assigned to papers presenting Action-Research examples with specific case studies. All of them were closely related to territory and focused on development. Conference introducing them was related to the demographic aspects and their impacts in Hungarian region. Issues discussed in the debate were related to industry interweaved in territory, methodology of observation for territorial dynamics, key territorial productive sectors among others.Second part of the session was devoted to papers conceptualising any aspect of Sustainable Development. Framework lecture was focused to the concept of territory introducing the evolution of socioeconomic context determining territorial evolution. Papers discussed had to do with governance within Sustainable Development, factors of competitiveness, and operationalisation of SD at project level proposing a check list, and migrations. Really interesting issues!!!

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The morning of the last day of the conference was held in six different Seminar Rooms with their respectives debates. The groups have discussed the following topics: Territorial Intelligence Approaches, Sustainable Territorial Development Studies, General Issues about Participation and Governance, Territorial Analysis Tools, Reflection on Research Action and Experiences of Participation and Governance.

Dr . Dolores Redondo has moderate the Seminar Room: Participation and Governance General Issues) where there have been two exhibitions. The first on a draft of District 5, held by Valdocco. In the second, participants came from France have submitted a project for SMEs. On both projects was carried out a debate. The coordinator of the seminar room did a story on five separate communications from the university sector in general.

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This morning, when Blanca Miedes, Conference Coordinator, spoke at the inauguration she invited the participants to intervene and debate about the questions that would arise during the conference. It was established that it would cover two fundamental aspects, on the one hand, the relationship between universities and territorial actors and on the other hand the ethical problems and organisational problems posed by new technologies in the context of Research-Action. This afternoon she tried to encourage this debate by directing the subject to “Letter of Quality of Research- Action”.

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The Huelva University building which is hosting the event, has made available its resources and facilities. It is a stately building, an old hospital, refurbished to be a centre of learning. The structure emphasizes its two symmetrical atriums which the University has kindly made available to us. In one of them an exhibition of CAENTI posters has been arranged, which allows not only the participants but also the students to understand what the event encompasses. The other atrium has been used for breaks and lunch similar to that offered yesterday by Valdocco.

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Maria Teresa: “What are your expectations of this conference?

D. Tomás Rodríguez Villasante: “I have come to learn, that is to say, I have come to see the solid developments being made here in Huelva, in certain neighbourhoods, they have told me of District V and others; also of the other international experiences, which type of concrete plans they have for working between cities and others, to learn, I am already a researcher, and can contribute that methodology to what we are doing. To see other experiences and to cross some methodologies with others to see what possibilities there are that could benefit from university knowledge, many of those methods are being used by CAENTI in neighbourhoods and countries, and the rest we are doing elsewhere.”

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