Schools as levers of change in urban transformation: Practical strategies to promote the sustainability of climate action educational programs

The Impact of Institutional Innovation on a Public Tender: The Case of Madrid Metropolitan Forest

“…Related to the first potential outcome, the IAD approach reveals that the experiment allowed the broadening of the profile of audiences and scope to co-create. Figure 7 classifies the profiles of the 738 participants registered, following the approach of the Quintuple Helix Innovation Model [79,80]. Here, it can be observed that almost half of the participant organizations were small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and self-employed professionals, accounting for 47% of the participants.…”

(Un)Likely Connections between (Un)Likely Actors in the Art/NBS Co-Creation Process: Application of KREBS Cycle of Creativity to the Cyborg Garden Project

“…The study has been conducted by five researchers involved in the implementation of the CG project between May 2018 and July 2019, and includes the perspectives of an external observer. The discussion has received feedback from several stakeholders from the EU's EIT Climate-KIC Madrid Deep Demonstration Platform (MDD) [4,15], amplifying the creative potential of the aforementioned case study [16]. The participants of this research project have reviewed and validated the final version of this paper.…”

“…From then on, the programme has invested more than EUR 926 million in one hundred thirty-six projects [3]: one hundred and ten NBS-related projects, seventeen GI projects and nine linked to both (Appendix A). These projects explore and validate their direct benefits such as CO 2 compensation, or regulation of urban microclimates, as well as indirect benefits such as contributing to health, well-being, and job creation, among others [4]. These projects are characterised by their ability to integrate multiple stakeholders, as well as integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines, based on local contexts [5].…”

“…Following this social trend, the New European Bauhaus (NEB) was created in September 2020 to boost the cultural dimension of the sustainable transformation of cities and towns across Europe [7]. Under the principles of sustainability, inclusion, and beauty [8], the program promotes the production of transdisciplinary and creative knowledge through co-creation processes [8] designed to strengthen social cohesion and community engagement, cultural values associated with nature, their potential for education and interpretation, as well as the capacity to co-create collective narratives to raise awareness about climate change [4,5,9].…”

“…Knowledge production has been approached through different methodological models in the scientific literature of social innovation. Elias Carayannis's model synthesizes the interaction among education, political, economic, environmental, media-based and culturebased systems in the Quintuple Helix Innovation Model (QHIM) [4,[10][11][12]; on the other hand, Ezio Manzini proposes the entanglement of two types of agents-referred to as designersproviding either expert or diffuse knowledge [13]. However, these theoretical models are based on linear knowledge transfers (synergies and complementarities), while not sufficiently depicting alternative or discontinuous knowledge flows among (un)conventional actors and organisations within the ecosystem.…”