Con esta afirmación comenzó Ricardo García Mira, profesor de Psicología Social y Ambiental de la Universidad de A Coruña y el presidente del IAPS (International Association for People-Medio ambiente Estudios), en su intervención en la mesa redonda sobre el papel de la educación ambiental en la gestión de residuos urbanos y que se enmarca en el curso promovido por la UIMP y desarrollado en Ourense. Así, el pasado 03 de Julio, Ricardo García Mira, contribuyeron con su conocimiento y experiencia enla materia. En su discurso, hizo especial énfasis en la formación ambiental como clave para promover la conducta ecológica responsable, la mejora y el desarrollo de habilidades para capacitar a los ciudadanos críticos y capaces de analizar los problemas.

También hizo mención especial de dos proyectos europeos de relevancia: LOCAW, cuyo objetivo es identificar las barreras y mejorar la conducta sostenible en el lugar de trabajo; y el glamour, que explora en las condiciones que influyen en la transición hacia formas de vida y la transformación sostenible hacia una economía verde.

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TRANSIT (TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory) is developing a theory of transformative social innovation: a process through which social innovation contributes to transformative change. After the first phase of in-depth empirical work has now come to its end, TRANSIT shares its first materials. Over the past year, TRANSIT researchers have interacted with and studied 12 transnational networks – for each network they focused on the network level as well as on 2-3 local manifestations.

Photo by Pedro Larios Garcia (IHS)

‘Constant comparison’ between emergent theory and data required.

The case study reports and synthesis report that are now publicly available on the website form part of the overall iterative set-up of the project in which a ‘constant comparison’ between emergent theory and data is required and will take up to the end of 2017.

Networks engaging in many dimensions of social innovation.

The first results suggest that the social innovations that the networks engage in are broad and cover examples of all the dimensions of social innovation mentioned in our working-definition of ‘social innovation’: new social practices, new ideas, new models, new rules, new social relations and new products. Most of the social innovations are combined innovations, for example combining a practice and idea (i.e. design thinking) and applies it to other kinds of questions (i.e. societal challenges).

Many cases are offering a physical place in which social innovation can take place, i.e. where new social relations and practices can be experimented with or created. The provision of these physical places and/or mental spaces constitutes itself a social innovation and is referred to as incubation, ecosystem for innovation, or lab. Within these spaces/places, social innovation by others can take place, such as networks facilitating co-working spaces where start-ups might be working on innovative solutions. Only a small number of networks explicitly relate to the term social innovation. In other cases there is scepticism and resistance towards the term “social innovation”.

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