Examinando por Autor "Icaran, Claudia"

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    Action research for the simultaneous transformation of governments and their territorial governance
    (Springer, 2025-05-09) Estensoro García, Miren; Icaran, Claudia; Larrea Aranguren, Miren
    Given the complex eco-social challenges humanity faces, deep transformations in policy and politics are needed to support necessary transitions. A key aspect is reshaping how governments interact with territorial actors when addressing complex challenges —an outward change that also requires inward transformation within governments. While action research (AR) offers frameworks for organisational change (e.g., Coghlan and Brannick 2001; Greenwood and Levin 2007), the Action Research for Territorial Development (ARTD) approach focuses on transforming inter-organisational relationships within a territory. However, all these contributions often overlook the need to integrate both inward and outward transformations. This paper draws on the case of Bilbao Next Lab— a policy laboratory to foster urban competitiveness through ARTD—to contribute to the AR literature and propose a new framework for simultaneously addressing government and territorial transformation. The analysis is focused on a year-long process involving seven reflection–action cycles within two dialogue spaces with policymakers from Bilbao Ekintza, the economic development agency of Bilbao City Council. These spaces involved both technical staff and senior policymakers. The findings highlight the importance of addressing both territorial and organisational complexity in action research processes aimed at fostering inward and outward transformations. More open, horizontal, and participatory forms of interaction within governments can promote the joint participation of members of higher and lower positions in collaborative governance spaces, thereby strengthening territorial praxis by bridging reflection and decision-making with action. Furthermore, when these different profiles engage in territorial spaces, the effectiveness of collaborative governance tends to increase.
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    Departing from self-inquiry to facilitate co-creation of local public policies with young people: a strategy for young researchers to avoid putting the cart before the horse
    (Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2025) Icaran, Claudia
    By taking part in a process of Participatory Action Research (PAR) with young people in the UPLIFT project and, at the same time, in reflection spaces at Orkestra, where I am a predoctoral researcher, I was able to explore the following question: What does the inclusion of a young researcher in a process with these characteristics mean for the empowerment of the young people involved? To do this, I will first describe what the project and the reflections paces (three in total) consisted of and then discuss how the reflection process influenced the empowerment of the young participants in the project. Also, based on this reflection, I highlight the value of combining processes of self-reflection, i.e., first-person action research,with processes in which the researcher involves third parties, in this case, young people, in research processes (known as third-person action research).
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    Generating facilitation capabilities for territorial development among young researchers: the case of Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness
    (Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2025) Eguia Aguirre, Ibone; Begiristain Etxezarreta, Naia; Gaztañaga Cinto, Mikel; Icaran, Claudia; Izulain Alejos, Ane; Sánchez Cambra, Eva
    ”Facilitative actors” have emerged as key participants in complex territorial development processes. It has been argued that they have the potential to transform a territory. However, very little has been said about facilitative actors’ own transformation. Furthermore, little work has been done on the training of facilitative actors and even less so within research centres. This chapter aims to address this gap by analysing the case of Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness, a research centre that has created a process for training young researchers as facilitative actors. Our analysis identifies the factors that have been essential for the emergence, configuration, and consolidation of this training space and proposes a framework forsuccessfully training young facilitative actors of territorial development.