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Innovative initiatives in local development: local currencies

Would the so-called social or local currencies be an example of local development policies?

Pol Solà

September 2019 0 min read

Publication of the Financing Guide – Diputació de Barcelona

Funding is a critical issue in any project. In local development, there are alternatives beyond public financing and traditional private…

u·trans

April 2019 One min read

New members in U·Trans team

This year we added three new members to the website of the U·Trans team: Laura Rubio as executive assistant, Jordi…

u·trans

April 2019 One min read

The goals of sustainable development at local scale

Periodically, international organizations, created by states to achieve certain goals globally, make multiannual programs to achieve them. This is…

Francesc Quintana

December 2018 3 min read

Urban Innovative Actions, ERDF instrument to test new solutions

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?

Pol Solà

January 2018 5 min read

Open Innovation & Local Development

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!

Pol Solà

January 2018 7 min read

Public participation (II): how do we apply it?

U·TRANS collaborates with Milgrams in order to elaborate those technologies, particularly Apps, that allow to improve public participation processes.

Pol Solà

November 2017 5 min read

Public participation: justification and process (I)

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?

Pol Solà

November 2017 4 min read

How to encourage R&D in companies? Policies to support innovation in the private sector

Private agents are who support most of the investment in R&D. This post is to analyze the role of policies who encourage investment in R&D in companies.

Pol Solà

September 2017 0 min read