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Design and implementation of an Innovation Check Program. The NAIDER team has been informed of the award of an initiative from the Basque Government to encourage innovative activities in Basque companies. We are going to provide technical support specifically to the Delegation of the Basque Country in Brussels for the design and implementation of a…
Strategic Environmental Assessment of a Special Urban Planning Plan. Naider’s team is working on the preparation of the Strategic Environmental Document for a Special Urban Planning Plan in the municipality of Amorebieta-Etxano (Bizkaia). It is an urban operation in an industrial estate of the municipality. The work includes carrying out an environmental and physical diagnosis…
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…
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. 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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.