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European Awards for Urban Public Space
The European Awards for Urban Public Space are a biannual recognition, created by the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) in the year 2000, in order to recognize and promote the public nature of urban spaces as well as their capacity of social cohesion. Unlike other contests, it aims to recognize urban surgery interventions,…
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Sustraiak Habitat Design, regenerating habitats and ecosystems
Sustraiak Habitat Design is a Basque cooperative whose mission is to design, coordinate and implement multidisciplinary services on the territory and facilitate processes of comprehensive regeneration of habitats and ecosystems. Sustraiak Habitat Design works around four areas: The Design and Implementation of Habitat Regeneration Projects; the Implementation of Environmental Management Solutions; the Accompaniment of Community…
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Partnering with nature to decontaminate the soil
Neiker-Tecnalia, the University of the Basque Country and the Vitoria-Gasteiz Center for Environmental Studies participate in the European project PhytoSUDOE, which seeks to advance the use of phytoremediation as a solution to recover soil biodiversity contaminated. Phytoremediation consists of the use of fungi and plants, and by extension the ecosystems that contain these plants, for…
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Video: Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016
The technology trends that promise to transform our world, according to a panel of experts assembled by the World Economic Forum.
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A new residential neighborhood where cars do not pass
In the German city of Mannheim, a former US military base will be transformed into a new residential neighborhood where there will be no roads between homes for cars to circulate, but rather a network of fully pedestrianized spaces: including playgrounds, streets and paths with fruit trees, and orchards attached to the houses. Funari Project,…
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The Basque Country stands out on the innovation map
The Basque Country is the only autonomous community in Spain classified as a region of high innovation (Strong Innovator) in the recent Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) published on July 14 by the European Commission, which was echoed by Innobasque. In the RIS or Regional Innovation Table, which measures innovation performance in 220 territorial units of…
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The model of the big brands, challenged by emerging
Large multinationals in the food industry, which own some of the world’s most recognizable brands, are being challenged by smaller brands, according to a recent article by The Economist . The competitive advantages afforded by their large size, access to a large business network, and the monetary power to invest in television advertising are still…
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A crowdfunding campaign returns a New Zealand beach to the public
A crowdfunding or crowdfunding campaign has managed to return a New Zealand beach to public use. Nearly 40,000 people have contributed up to €1.3 million to buy the pristine Awaroa beach from a private owner, and its seven hectares will become part of the Abel Tasman National Park. The transfer to public hands has taken…
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The Helsinki plan so that it is not necessary to have a car
In less than a decade, the citizens of Helsinki will see the need to own a car as private property eliminated, if the Finnish capital meets the ambitious target it has set for itself. The plan to achieve this involves building an integrated public transport system and private, rather than maintaining systems of buses, trains,…
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Basque companies lead European aid for innovation
Basque companies and entities have obtained 192.8 million euros in aid for innovation in the European Framework Program Horizon 2020 for the promotion of R&D and competitiveness, with the Basque Country standing only behind Catalonia (28%) and Madrid (24%) in absolute terms, but in the lead in relative terms. In the data corresponding to the…