PhD life – 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?

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.

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.

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.