NEWS
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The difficult economic environment that we experienced in the past two years has put on the table the need to change some models and to promote new initiatives to revive the economy at different levels. Some of these initiatives have citizens as the new center and hub for innovation.
This is achieving increasing importance of new forms of social and economic reorganization, virtual social networks aimed at knowledge production with a high value due to the possibility of applying different fields of activity, or entrepreneurship with a strong anchoring in territorial issues.
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The growing popularity of virtual social networks (RSV), both from the more professionalized, as in the leisure and entertainment, is based on a social reorganization process on an unprecedented scale. The RSV are not only emerging as one of the most popular tracks in Internet use in the most varied fields of activity, but which, in turn, are an endless source of innovation processes related to new social and economic models.
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Researchers, educators and experts from around the world will meet from the 7th to the 9th of July to participate in the first conference on Personal Learning Environments (PLE), a current educational trend over future prospects, in which the students shape their own learning process. The PLE Conference 2010 aims to create a space where researchers and teachers can exchange experiences, reflections and research on the development and implementation of PLE, including their changing technological, sociological and pedagogical implications and its effectiveness as learning spaces.
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A project of Citilab retells the public recognition by other institutions. Yesterday we reported that we had won the Award for Excellence given by the Urban Land Institute to the best European urban project. Now we let you know that SeniorLab project has been selected as candidate by the German Chamber of Commerce to compete for the Hispano-German Prize for Innovation.
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Citilab has been awarded the Excellence Award for projects in Europe, Middle East and Africa which gives the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The jury's decision became known on the 28th of June in the Europe Trends Conference, held in London.
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The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop has been awarded the annual international Linden Prize 2010, a virtual space in which Citilab has made innovative contributions highly appreciated both by the San Jose Museum and the organizers of the competition.
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UrbanLabs, the project led since 2008 by CitiLab, has been selected among 16 other national and international exhibitions for the exhibition 'Habitar' for the Expanded Media Library of the Centro LABoral, a journey through new emerging urban settings will be exhibited until the end of the year in the center of art and industrial creation of Gijón.
Redrawing the urban fabric
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What kind of information networks are growing in the city today? How is it affecting the urban area, in turn, the informational layer? Next june, the 18th, Urbanlabs, CitiLab's pioneering initiative around urban innovation, proposes a walkshop to discover it and reflect on it.
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The map of experts and successful experiences in the social field is a tool consulting the service of professionals and social services that let people find experts and success stories in different social issues, in Catalonia and in the world, and view them on a map interface.
It is aimed primarily at professionals working for social services. This they can can see, quickly and safely, information on experts and successful experiences in different social issues.
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The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop has been awarded the annual international Linden Prize 2010, a virtual space in which Expolab Citilab has made innovative contributions highly valued by both the San Jose museum itself and the organizers of the competition.
