Huelva 2007 blog

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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Maria Teresa: “What are your expectations for this conference?”Carlos Berzosa: “I think that a conference like this is interesting, fundamentally for two principal reasons; the first, the subject it challenges and second the attendance of people from diverse countries that have different experiences and I think that this is very enriching. Therefore this contact and meeting of professors and researchers from diverse universities and places in the world (from Europe and also Latin America) is always rewarding. Somehow we hope these idea exist, experiences are exchanged and we will live in a richer world of ideas.

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Blanca Miedes Ugarte, you are leader of the WP5 group of CAENTI. Can you explain the objectives of this work package?

B. M.: CAENTI concept of territorial intelligence refers to all knowledge relating to the understanding of territorial structures and dynamics, as well as the tools used by public and private actors to produce, use and share this knowledge in favour of sustainable territorial development. In this way, we want to support projects when they want to ameliorate of decision making processes in the territory by public and private actors in relation to the needs of its population. From this perspective, territorial intelligence is a tool for territorial governance. Both the research groups and the actors involved in CAENTI have extensive experience in the field of action-research applied to the solving of socio-economic problems in very different contexts. We have to consider the central principles of the action-research and it was always the notion of “participation” that was in the center of our discussions. It will be the quality of the participatory collaborative what will allow better results of the action-research both from the scientific approach and from the action approach. But the quality of the participation, it’s what? How participation can to be really effective and durable in a partnership between researches and actors?

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