Metropolitan Region Collaboration Time. July24

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The Catalonia Laboratory, an initiative promoted by the Government of Catalonia and the i2CAT Foundation, organizes the conference "Time for collaborations: Promoting digital social innovation at the local level", which will take place at the Social Hub of the Bofill Foundation in Barcelona, on Thursday 4 July from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., with the support of the Metropolitan Strategic Plan.

For the first time, the conference brings together social innovation agents from the metropolitan region of Barcelona with the aim of connecting them and sharing success stories of projects at the local level and facilitating joint work to respond to social challenges. With this meeting, the aim is to articulate a space for debate and co-creation that will allow a new collaboration to be promoted in the metropolitan region.

The Time of Collaborations cycle was born from the desire of the Directorate General for Digital Society of the Generalitat de Catalunya to bring digital social innovation closer to society, and its quadruple helix, to apply digital technologies effectively, improve their management, promote citizen participation and foster local development and inter-institutional collaboration.

Programme of the session

09:00 to 09:30 h – Reception of attendees

09:30 to 9:50 h – Welcome to the conference

09:50 to 10:05 h – Institutional speeches

• Mr. Daniel Ferrer, Director of Development and Alliances of the Bofill Foundation

• Elisenda Alamany, Vice President International and Digital Metropolis in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• Liliana Arroyo i Moliner, Director General of Digital Society of the Government of Catalonia

10:05 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. – Presentation of the Catalonia

• Laboratory Artur Serra, Deputy Director of the i2CAT Foundation

10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. – Open Circle: Scores of innovation, methodologies that bring us closer to change

• Nadala Fernández, production director and head of institutional relations. La Fura dels Baus Epic Foundation

• Bárbara Outeiro, Head of Open Innovation at Suara Cooperativa

• Bàrbara Mitats, Head of Training and Research Programs at Mental Health Catalonia

Moderated by Carlota Zabaco, coordinator of the Barcelona Aging and Longevity Lab (BALL) of the Pere Virgili Health Park

11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Open Circle: Rhythms and chords of innovative success. Projects and experiences for digital social transformation. 

• Toni Codina, general director of the iSocial Foundation

• Mª Luisa García Castellano, technologist at the Ciutat Viladecans Foundation

• Albert Gonzalez, co-founder of VTools

• Eurídice Cabañes, co-director of ArsGame

Moderated by Gerard Sentís, coordinator of the m4Social project of the Board of Entities of the Third Social Sector of Catalonia

12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Rest, coffee and dynamics

1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Participatory spaces

• How do you want to set up a laboratory in the metropolitan region? – facilitated by the Catalonia Laboratory team

• The challenges of access to housing: what can we contribute from the ecosystem of social and digital innovators? – facilitated by the Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan (PEMB) team

• Young people and social and digital innovation – facilitated by the V-Tools team

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Networking lunch

3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Conclusions and acknowledgments

4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Visits to 3 leading spaces in Digital Social Innovation in the Metropolitan Region

• Citilab, in Cornellà de Llobregat

• Canòdrom, in Barcelona

• SuaraLAB, in Barcelona