Green Skills for Boosting Transitions in Water Management

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Valencia, 22nd -29 th Novembre

Course on GREEN SKILLS for BOOSTING

TRANSITIONS in WATER MANAGEMENT

The course is an initiative of Climate-KIC which fits within the

innovation catalyst training program

Climate KIC promotes transformative innovation to address the

challenge of climate change and for that it relies on transformers. That is, people who can spark and lead the innovation process

C-Kic enables the training of these transformers by means of different programs aimed to doctors, graduates, etc.

Catalyst program is intended to experienced practicioners

who works in companies or authorities and thrilled at driving organizational change and system innovation

“Green skills for boosting transitions in water mangement ”… What the hell do they mean?

Transition Skills Water

A course as a jigsaw of three

concentric cricles

Water Transition Skills

WATER MANAGEMENT

Water management provides the background scenario

Gives us the context where we are going to work

Cases, problems, disciussion topics will rely on

water issues

Water cycle, water system, interdependence, new business models,

resource management… some of the topics to be addressed

We are going to work on water issues but: How? …That is a different question

TRANSITION MANAGEMENT

Transition management perspective provides

the approach for the whole course

Gives us the way how we are expected to face

the problems set out in the course, around water

based on the idea of co-evolutionary socio-technical systems

Multiple levels can be recognized in these systems:

niches (experiments), regime (market/society), landscape (broader context)

Changes in niches can drive evolution in the whole system

affecting regime and landscape in the long run

Technology is not enough for the system to change

Processes of change comprehend technological, social,

organizational actions involving multiple actors.

Lead those tansitions, tackle sustainability problems with

this approach requires new knowledge and skills

Then transition will have been sparked

GREEN SKILLS

Finally we get to the very heart of the course , the so called

Green Skills

The goal of the course is to gain and put in place those skills to

boost transition in systems (experiment-market-society-landscape)

We are talking about creative thinking, visioning, dealing with stakeholder, networking, presuasion, problem solving…

In summary We will learn new skills to drive

socio-technical changes in systems by putting them in place

in water management issues Water Transition Skills

That sounds nice, but

How are we supposed to learn and

put in place those green skills?

Cases Experts Activities

EXPERTS

International and regional experts will give participants

grounding in transitions , systems innovation or water management

by providing in-depth knowledge and context

They will join course activities

in a very horizontal way

International experts more focused on theory,

proccesses and methods underneath their examples

Regional experts providing specific examples in which

some methods and approaches has been applied

Experienced coaches will facilitate the performance of

practical exercises on Transition innovation

STUDY CASES

Main vehicle to learn and apply green skills by

working on them thoughouth the course activities

Sources: (1) Climate-KIC experiences (2) Experts (3) Participants

C-KIC and experts´ cases will give us the

opportunity to know how to tackle sustainabilty

issues from the transition perspective…

They will provide the basics to understand

transition approacvh and to learn new skills

They will offer the unique opportunity to working together with the problem owners, envisioning new solutions

Participants´ cases will set up the bottom line where

to start working with the learnt skills by providing a set of

challenges to face and in which to apply those skills

ACTIVITIES

Lectures: Brief lectures will be delivered on transition

thinking and transitio innovation

Breakfast coffee: 1 international expert, 10 participants: a brief

lecture with sketchnoting and a subsequent “project discussion”

Lunch controversies: 2 regional experts, 12 participants: 2

round tables coupled with sketchnoting and its presentation

Group assignments: Coaches, all participants. Transition

activities on participants´cases and counting on experts´inputs (both

knowledge and cases). It comes to putting in practice methods and skills

Feed-back and reflection: Coaches, all participants. After

main activities a time to ref lect will be open up. It comes to digging deeper into the learning process

Outside: 2 regional experts, all participants: 2 guided visits to

Natural Protected Areas envisaged to see problems in real contexts

In a nutshell We will run a set of transition activities, working on study cases provided by

participants, and counting on inputs

from experts and C-KIC examples

In-site On-line On-line

ON-LINE PERIOD

The ten foregoing days to the in-site week, an e-learning platform will be open up for the participants

It will allow access experts´papers, networking, run one more wenbinar and, totally essential:

to upload your own cases as well as read others´

8 DAYS IN-SITE

Detailed program available on www.climate-kic.org

Valencia, 22nd – 29th of November, 8 intensive days

Day 1: Networking, making groups

Day 2: Setting the scene, the basics on transition

Day 3: Narrowing down the problem

Day 4: Dealing with stakeholders + outside visit

Day 5: Visioning and process management

Day 6: Long term systemic strategy

Day 7: Business solution + outside visit

Day 8: Presenting the solution + evaluation

ON-LINE PERIOD

Conclusions and material drawn up during the course will be available on the same e-learning platform

More opportunities to network, give feedback, share experiences and gained knowledge

In-site On-line On-line

Experts Cases Activit.

Transition Skills Water

Are you interested in joining us?

Just Click on the link!

Javier de V icente: jadevicen@gmail.com

Credits by Dmitry Baranovskiy from the Noun Project

by P.J. Onori from the Noun Project

by Michael Zenaty from the Noun Project

by Ivan Colic from the Noun Project

by Gianni - Dolce Merda from the Noun Project

by Márcio Duarte from the Noun Project

by Michael Thompson from the Noun Project

by Mister Pixel from the Noun Project

by Chris Robinson from the Noun Project

by Mister Pixel from the Noun Project

by Parmelyn from the Noun Project

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