Themes and topics

THEME 1: TERRITORY, GLOBALIZATION, AND NEW WAYS OF GOVERNING

1. The concepts of "Territory", "Governance", "Partnership" and "Innovation" in territorial multi-scalability.
2. The tension generated by globalization in the intervention of the State and territorial communities.
3. New challenges for critical thinking. Environment, natural resources, and collective action. A place for proposals.
4. New ways of governing. The construction of custom-made Agendas specific to a territory.

THEME 2: TERRITORIAL INTELLIGENCE, TRANSFORMATION, AND SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION

1. Current points of view on the crisis, development and sustainability.  Global social justice, global cognitive justice, global environmental justice.
2. Transformation of subjects and territories. Culture, identity, communication, and education.
3. Practices of democratization of the production and distribution of knowledge and technology.

THEME 3: PROJECT ANALYSIS, INITIATIVES AND PRACTICES IN TERRITORIES AND COMMUNITIES

1. Analysis and interpretation of projects in micro, meso and macro-scales.
2. Application of methods, techniques and tools in practical projects.
3. Microscale transformations. Types of transformation and new practices.
4. Action-research practices in different socio-territorial environments. Interdisciplinarity and new methodological approaches.
5. Scientific and institutional-community network of networks proposals.