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  • Nagusi Intelligence Center, boost to the silver economy

    The island of Zorrotzaurre will host the Nagusi Intelligence Center project, a center for innovation in the field of aging that aims to be a world benchmark in the so-called “silver economy” or “silver economy”. The project, promoted by the Bilbao City Council and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, has incorporated Mondragon Unibertsitatea and the…

  • The Global Cities with the Most Wooded Area

    To make the world’s cities greener, and to make urban planning more accessible to the public, MIT and the World Economic Forum created Treepedia< /a>, an interactive map web tool that shows the tree density of the main cities of the world. The researchers use the aerial imagery available on Google Street View to determine…

  • Performance of the innobasque r&d leading indicator

    Performance of the Innobasque R&D Leading Indicator. Innobasque has once again trusted Naider to update the R&D leading indicator in 2019 and 2020. Our team Last year, it supported the Innobasque technicians in the methodological development that allowed, with a very high degree of precision, to estimate the level and evolution of investment in R&D…

  • Support Workshop for Municipalities on their way to sustainability

    Many times, it is difficult for us to have a complete picture of all the variables that contribute to sustainability and it is really difficult for us to assess where we are in the process. Are we making progress? Are we doing it right? Are other municipalities similar to mine doing better? What type of…

  • New version available: capitalism 2.0

    When you step back and look at a problem from a distance, it’s easier to focus on it and understand the reasons and catalysts for the problem. If we want to achieve a more sustainable development, the economy must be seen in its own perspective as a sub-system of a larger and more important parent…

  • Protected areas: solution or problem?

    Protected areas are the main conservation tool used in most countries around the world. These areas contain some of the most incredible landscapes, the most biodiverse places, and provide us with vital services for our survival and well-being. The origin of protected areas – whose first opening was the Yellowstone National Park in the USA…

  • Euskadi, European benchmark for innovation in manufacturing

    Aernnova, ITP Aero, and Mondragon, together with the groups of technology centers IK4 and Tecnalia, lead the constitution of the southwest European node of the manufacturing innovation network EIT Manufacturing. The network, financed by the European Commission with 80 million euros per year and in which 50 entities from 17 countries collaborate, has the mission…

  • Sustainability Ranking of Province Capitals

    The Sustainability Observatory (OS) and AIS Group evaluated the 52 provincial capitals in the ranking of Most Sustainable Cities of 2018. To do so, they used 59 indicators, consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, divided into 26 themes and four large blocks: economic , social, environmental and transparency and cooperation.

  • Sustainable urban planning arrives in the basque country

    On January 23, the Basque Government invited us to present the New Urban Agenda for the Basque Country (BULTZATU2050). This is the transposition to the Basque reality of the New Urban Agenda (NAU) approved in 2016 in Quito (Ecuador) during the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III). The Goal…

  • Video: Kamikatsu, the zero waste town

    The small Japanese rural town of Kamikatsu, population 1,700, can be considered a world leader in waste disposal, with up to 34 recycling categories. All organic waste is handled within each home and is 100% reused, and the rest of the waste is taken by each person to the local collection center, there are no…