Editorials

On January, the 31st 2007 the call for papers of the Second Annual International Conference of Territorial Intelligence entitled " Territorial Intelligence and Governance. Participatory research-action and territorial development" was published.

This conference will take place in Huelva from October, the 24th to October, the 27th. It will analyse the challenges that the territorial governance of the present democratic societies impose to the research activity on themes that are linked to the sustainable socioeconomic development.

The general reforging of the Territorial Intelligence portal started an important and deep work during the latest months. The new version of the Intra-consortium is presently available for the caENTI members. It completes the cooperative workspace.

A new version of the portal, accompanied by many services, will be put online for the scientific community and the general public, in September 2007.

The first version of the Territorial Intelligence portal was born on March, the 1st 2006 that was the caENTI (Coordination Action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence) starting date.From this moment on, the work consisted in improving the tools that compose it.

We keep working on the preparation of the second Annual International Conference of Territorial Intelligence. A meeting, which background issue is the creation of a new alliance science-society that develops the collaboration between the knowledge organizations and all the system of territorial actors, to promote Territorial Intelligence and, with it, the governance of the issues that are linked to social cohesion and territories sustainable development.

The conference will take place on October, the 25th and 26th 2007, but the caENTI members will be convoked on October, the 24th to internally work in the different constituted scientific coordination groups.

In Alba Iulia (Romania), in September 2006, the first International Conference of Territorial Intelligence took place in the caENTI framework.

From now on, the acts are available for downloading on this website.

Organized by the Universitatea “1 decembrie 1918” of Alba Iulia in Romania, the event wanted to celebrate the entry of this country in the European Union, on January, the 1st 2007. Beyond these objectives of dissemination, as the caENTI wanted, the conference played an important part in the foundation of the research activity at the national level.

The second International Annual Conference of Territorial Intelligence will be the setting for the presentation of the draft letter of quality on research-action applied to sustainable territorial development of the groups made up of researchers and territorial actors who are members of the caENTI Project.

This conference will be held at the University of Huelva (Spain) next October under the title "Territorial Intelligence and Governance. Participatory research-action and territorial development".

The starting point for the preparation of a draft letter of quality is the aim of answering the question "What is a research-action applied to quality sustainable territorial development?"

Whilst preparing the conference of Huelva, we are finalizing the drafting of our mid-term report. It is also the mid-term report that leads us to jointly think about the gone through way and the way to be gone through.

The design and drafting of the Territorial Intelligence tools, which is the caENTI main objective, progressed much. Prototypes will be shown in Huelva, in parallel with the communications that will present the research activities on the fundamental methods and on governance. The initial coordination activities already initiated many convergences on two important axes: territorial information and its uses.