Leuven – 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.

7 Feb, 202419 Sep, 2024 si4sdmadrid news, projects

It’s a date: SI4SD PhD Public Defence on 15 March 2024

The last step to complete the SI4SD PhD is set. Do you want to join?

27 May, 202219 Apr, 2023 si4sdmadrid courses, events, initiatives, inspirations, news, projects, publications

Research in times of Corona (epilogue): the INSIST Cahier 5 “Governance innovation and Leuven’s Food Strategy”

Celebrating the end of the "Research in Times of Corona" series with the launch of a new INSIST cahier reflecting on the LeuvenGymkhana experience.

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.

22 Feb, 202215 Feb, 2022 si4sdmadrid courses, events, initiatives, inspirations, legislation, organizations, publications

Research in times of Corona (part 7): the IASP Leuven Gymkhana 3.0

Extending action research in Leuven during the Fall Semester 2021 with a new group of IASP students.

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.

4 Dec, 20217 Feb, 2022 si4sdmadrid events, news

Conferencia Internacional en Urbanismo y Planeamiento Agroecológico

Don't miss this online event where I presented the SI4SD project.

15 Jun, 20218 Feb, 2022 si4sdmadrid events, initiatives, inspirations, legislation, news, organizations, publications

Research in times of Corona (part 5): the IMSDP Leuven Gymkhana 2.0

Action research in Leuven during the Spring Semester combining our PhD research, taking up the work advanced with IASP with a new group of researchers.

4 Feb, 20215 Feb, 2021 si4sdmadrid events, inspirations, other, publications

Research in times of Corona (part 3): the IASP Leuven Gymkhana

Action research in Leuven during the Fall Semester combining our PhD research, with a master thesis, the IASP course and stakeholder's interests and concerns.

24 Feb, 202030 Mar, 2020 si4sdmadrid initiatives, legislation, programmes

Gent en Garde

An innovative process to codesign and implement a food policy and programme towards a more sustianable, resilient and just food system in Gent.

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.

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.