featured – SI4SD Social Innovation for Sustainable Development

18 Sep, 202419 Sep, 2024 si4sdmadrid events, initiatives, inspirations, projects, projects, publications

What was all this about? The summary of my PhD Thesis

Almost five years of research summarized in 2.000 words.

17 Mar, 2022 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, news, organizations, projects, publications

New Publication: The Leuven Gymkhana: Transdisciplinary Action Research Questioning Socially Innovative Multi-Actor Collaborations in COVID Times

Presenting a new article written by Clara Medina García with Master Students Sharmada Najarayan and Pieter Van den Broeck published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

1 Feb, 2022 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, legislation, news, organizations, programmes, publications

New Publication: Innovative Multi-actor Collaborations as Collective Actors and Institutionalized Spaces. The case of Food Governance Transformation in Leuven (Belgium)

Introducing the new article written by Clara Medina García with Master Students Sharmada Najarayan and Lariza Castillo, Erik Béatse and Pieter Van den Broeck published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

26 Feb, 202126 Feb, 2021 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, organizations, projects

Research in times of Corona (part 4): ONE year of online welcoming in Acogida Supercoop!

We take the first anniversary of the Welcoming (Acogida) group to reflect about the advancements in Supercoop in the last six months under the light of the action research conducted online by the SI4SD project.

18 Jan, 202126 Feb, 2021 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, legislation, news, organizations, programmes, projects, publications

New Publication: Exploring the Emergence of Innovative Multi-Actor Collaborations toward a Progressive Urban Regime in Madrid (2015–2019)

Introducing the new article written by Clara Medina García with her promotors Rosa de la Fuente and Pieter Van den Broeck published in Sustainability.

28 Dec, 201810 Jan, 2019 si4sdmadrid courses, inspirations

Master in Human Settlements (MaHS)

The Advanced Master in Human Settlements followed by the author in 2017-2018 where the research on Social innovation and the contemporary Madrid started, triggering the research project SI4SD.

28 Dec, 201810 Jan, 2019 si4sdmadrid initiatives, projects

Mares Madrid

A socio-public co-managed initiative for Urban Regeneration through SSE in Madrid funded by the EU as an Urban Innovative Action.

What is SI4SD?

SI4SD | The Role and performance of socially innovative multi-actor collaborations is the research project started by Clara Medina G in September 2018, aimed at understanding and promoting Social Innovation to achieve Sustainable Development, focusing on the role that different urban actors, including local administrations, can play in this process and how they collaborate to achieve it.

In November 2019 the project officially evolved into a joint PhD hosted at KU Leuven and UCM Universities, funded as an FWO Fellowship awarded to Clara.

About the author

Clara Medina G is a Madrilian researcher and urban facilitator with a transdisciplinary background in architecture, urbanism, planning and innovation passionate about sustainable development, participatory design and the social dimension of the built environment. She is convinced that only by innovating in relations and synergies among urban actors will societies be able to tackle present and future challenges.

Learn more about her professional profile and projects here.