Interidentity
The name of this project is Identity in interaction: Ontological and normative aspects of biological, cognitive and social individuality. This project is funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) of the Government of Spain.
D-CENT PRoject
The Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies project is a Europe-wide project bringing together citizen-led organisations that have transformed democracy in the past years, and helping them in developing the next generation of open source, distributed, and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.
Digital Participation
This project is about the digital participation platform decidim.barcelona, of the Barcelona City Council. It intends to host all the participatory processes for the next 3 years using the same user base. It currently started with the Municipal Action Plan (PAM), a strategic planning tool to determine the main actions for the city during this mandate.
COST Action IS1402 on Ageism
Ageism (i.e., the complex and often negative social construction of old age) is highly prevalent. There is unequivocal evidence concerning the negative consequences associated with ageism at the individual, familial, and societal levels. The long term goal of this Action is to challenge the practice of ageism and allow older people to realize their full potential. This project is funded by the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST).
ACT Project
The ACT Project broadly encompasses the concepts of Ageing + Communication + Technologies. This project addresses the transformation of the experiences of ageing with the proliferation of new forms of mediated communications in networked societies.
Balzan Project
The formal title of this project is The cultural and social dimensions of the economic crisis 2008-2014: Financial cultures, human suffering, and social protests. With the rise of global revolts back in 2011, this project aims to conduct an in depth analysis of two networked social movements: 15M in Spain and Occupy Wall Street in the US. This research project is funded by the Balzan Prize for Sociology awarded to Manuel Castells in 2013.