{"id":8487,"date":"2020-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/digital-social-innovation-in-catalonia-the-collaboratori-cat-sud-experience\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:50:05","slug":"digital-social-innovation-in-catalonia-the-collaboratori-cat-sud-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/ca\/digital-social-innovation-in-catalonia-the-collaboratori-cat-sud-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Social Innovation in Catalonia: The Col\u00b7laboratori Cat Sud experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are collaboratories? What is the purpose of a universal digital innovation ecosystem? How can citizens take part in such a transformation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The i2CAT Foundation<\/strong> is working to accelerate the adoption of universal <\/b>innovation<\/b> ecosystems<\/b> through the Digital Citizenship Lab project<\/strong><\/a>, an initiative by the Ministry for Digital Policy and Public Administration of the Government of Catalonia which aims at deploying functional labs and collaboratories in Catalonia. These structures will grant d<\/strong>igital c<\/b>itizen<\/b> s<\/strong>overeignty <\/b>and create new rights and responsibilities <\/b>for a new era, promoting innovation throughout entire territories and reaching citizens beyond cities.<\/p>\n

The Cat Sud Collaboratory<\/strong><\/a> is the first pilot program put in place to test the definition and construction of new structures<\/strong> for digital social innovation<\/strong>. On June 11th<\/strong>, the promoters and participants of Col\u00b7laboratori Cat Sud presented the work and results of this first experience<\/strong> in an online event<\/strong>. Attendees learned about this pilot collaboratory, its activities, the work of labs, and about real experiences of cooperation.<\/p>\n

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Noem\u00ed Llaurad\u00f3 Sans<\/strong>, President of the Diputaci\u00f3 de Tarragona; <\/span>Maria Jos\u00e9 Figueras<\/strong>, Rector of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and <\/span>Jordi Puigner\u00f3<\/strong>, Minister for Digital Policy and Public Administration of the Government of Catalonia and president of the i2CAT Foundation welcomed attendees to the session. Mr. Puigner\u00f3 stressed that:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Catalonia needs to become an innovation lab and a digital country, including the whole territory in this innovation scheme”<\/span><\/h5>\n

Artur Serra<\/strong>, i2CAT’s deputy director, and Sergi Figuerola<\/strong>, its CTIO<\/a>, represented the center in the event. Mr. Serra explained the concept of labs and collaboratories, its history and impact, and highlighted digital social innovation as a tool to create new structures<\/strong> that will reach citizens throughout Catalonia. Mr. Figuerola, for his part, reminded attendees that research in innovative digital technologies needs to change<\/strong> and adapt to the needs of societies. Projects like the Digital Citizenship Lab<\/a> <\/strong>and the Cat Sud Col\u00b7laboratory<\/strong><\/a> are the means to reach these goals.<\/p>\n

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This event has been co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the framework of the Programa Operatiu FEDER<\/span> de Catalunya 2014-2020 and under the\u00a0\u201cImpuls de la Transformaci\u00f3 Digital i Mobile\u201d project (<\/span>GO10-010783)<\/p>\n

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