multi-actor collaborations – SI4SD Social Innovation for Sustainable Development

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.

8 Jul, 20219 Jul, 2021 si4sdmadrid events, inspirations, publications

Research in times of Corona (part 6): participating in the ICPP5 Conference

The chronicle of my first participation as speaker in an international academic congress.

6 Apr, 20217 Apr, 2021 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, legislation, organizations, Other, publications

New Publication: book chapter analyzing social innovation in Madrid between 2015-19 (in Spanish)

Introducing the new book chapter written by Clara Medina García with her promotor Rosa de la Fuente included in "Nuevos retos para las políticas urbanas" by Clemente J. Navarro Yañez (ed.), published by Tirant lo Blanch.

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.

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.

21 Jul, 202021 Jul, 2020 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, legislation, organizations, projects, publications

New Publication: Limits of municipalism. What can we learn from Operación Chamartín?

Introducing the new article written by Pieter Rondelez and Clara Medina García published in MINIM Municipalism.

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.