Scientifical Paper accepted and introduced in #Berlin in a World Congress about #Political #Governance: Talking about: #BasqueCity #EuskalHiria #Basque Y high-speed-train #Berlin #Sttutgart21 #Governance(e) #Politics #Large-scale #Projects #Chindia #Sustainment #Design(thinking) #ActionResearch #Democracy #CivilianParticipation #PoliticalParties #Activism #Competitiveness #Sustainability #Innovation(Social) #Transformation #Sovereignity #Territory #City-Region

1. Basque Case:
Challenge&Oportunity.
New Political Culture
for Renewing the Social Capital.
“Networking Gipuzkoa”
Action Research Project.
Towards the #Basque City?
BRIEFING
The
Governance
of
Large-­‐Scale
Projects
#Poli8cal
#Governance,
Berlin
(Germany)
1st
October
2011.
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

2. #Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

3. Cross-Border European Territory
Basque City-Region
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

4. 0.3.- About Myself: My Context
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

5. Basque Country/Region/Area could be caracterized worldwide due to:
1. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao City: Urban Renewal Succesful Process (!?).
2. Athletic of Bilbao: Football team.
3. Gastronomy (MCC’s Basque Culinary Center, International Research Hub)
4. (Political)Violence.
5. Basque language: Euskara.
è 5 Basque City-Region “Brands”
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

6. 2.1- MCC-MONDRAGON EXPERIENCE:
Mondragon: As a Entrepreneurial Collective Experience.
Mondragon Co-operative Corporation http://www.mcc.es
University of Mondragon http://www.mondragon.edu
2.2.- ST. SEBASTIAN CITY:
2016 European Capital City
http://www.dss2016.eu
2.3.- BASQUE CASE/COUNTRY:
Basque Country/Region/Area in Spain and also in France.
“Towards a Basque City-Region?” My Ph.D.
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

7. 2.1.- Mondragon
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

8. 2.2.- SS 2016 EU Cultural Capital City
http://www.sansebastian2016.eu
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

9. 2.2.- SS 2016 EU Cultural Capital City
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

10. 2.3.- Basque Case/Country:
Basque City-Region.
1.
Big social&communitarian energy and entrepreneurial attitude.
2. A place where Social Innovation is happening.
3. Strong identity&pride: language & own culture.
4. 3Mill. Citizen: Urban&Rural merging process.
5. Postindustrial City-Region: Passing from industrial big power to a postindustrial.
6. New Economical Sectors: Aging, Health, Biotechnologies, Nanotechnologies,…
7. Lots of similarities with European Welfare State & Nordic Countries model.
8. Broad Network of Small Firms, really global brands.
9. Great Challenge&Opportunity: Peace & redirecting energies.
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

11. 2.4.- Challenge&Opportunity from the
Political Governance perspective.
10. TIME for Political Governance.
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

12. 3 General Principles about City-Region Territorial Entities:
1. ·Nation-States are not enough to explain the
nfluence of Physical/Digital/Social Connectivity on the Territories.
2. ·City-Region considered as a whole System Hubs&Periphery.
3. ·City-Region linked as complementary unity of the Urban&Rural.
4. · Implicitly, we are assuming that some Territories could deal better than
others through certain level of Sovereignty.
5. · At this stage, we could start considering the Territorial New Entity
alled City-Region. And work on its Governance Own Model.
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

13. 4.- Applied Research Output.
Project: Networking Gipuzkoa.
RESEARCH PROJECT
IN PROCESS…
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.

14. Danke
Thanks
a
lot
Eskerrik
asko
Muchas
gracias
#Political #Governance, Berlin.
30th-1st October 2011. Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.