Regions & cities are the place where knowledge society nodes are found. There, the interaction between production, creativity, knowledge, social demands and innovative solution takes place. Therefore, cities and regions should adopt that perspective when thinking about its own future and global positioning in order to stay ahead of the game.
There are new opportunities around collective empowerment, creativity, smart social citizen, urban ecology, sustainable mobility or advanced retailing
Read moreHaving a shared horizon in the medium term enables us to deploy transformative projects & create dynamic cross-cutting work
Read moreMaking the importance of our place clear requires tools of attractiveness, global positioning and branding strategies (place branding)
Read moreBoosting the Quadruple Helix in your city or region is the best way to generate a productive specialisation strategy
Read moreListening and involving the citizenship as the best solution to generate innovative public policies. Civic participation is the key!
Read moreThe rise of the creative class at the local level means attraction of talent in the long run. Try the “City Spark Pool of Talent” method.
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How can we rethink the way public administration taps and promotes talent in order to make it more flexible and more efficient, through a system of human resources encouraging and responding to public service vocations?
The ERDF program for Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) seeks to promote disruptive projects in urban areas. Would you like to know more about present and future calls?
Public authorities, enterprises and experts are taking a chance on circular economy as a solution to some of the environmental and economic challenges in the upcoming future.
The local development concept has had to readapt itself to the current paradigms, such as the Open Innovation concept. Let us know this concept & take a look at some concrete examples!
U·TRANS collaborates with Milgrams in order to elaborate those technologies, particularly Apps, that allow to improve public participation processes.
All suspicions to public participation decay if we apply ICT tools that can easily open it to all kind of citizens. Do you agree with us?