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ALCK designs Social Innovation Platforms to tackle complex societal challenges

We promote Social
Innovation processes

Our approach based on listening, connects community networks,
public institutions and companies
Our approach based on listening, connects community networks, public institutions and companies
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K Factor
Community transformation through Social Innovation Platforms based on culture as a driver of change 
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K Factor
The key element is the integration of culture, narratives and values from each community toward a holistic vision of Sustainable Human Development
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Deep Listening
Empowering movement building, greater equality and new forms of democracy
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Deep Listening
ALCk seeks to break with the traditional division between analysis and action with a permanent listening system,  generating information in real-time about communities' perceptions, while responding to ongoing initiatives
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Systemic Approach
Interconnecting agents and actions on the basis of shared objectives and methodologies, in order to bring about systemic impact
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Systemic Approach
This approach ultimately contributes to align disconnected initiatives and to enhance their impact into 5 levels of impact, cohesion and visibility
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People Powered Portfolios
Embracing challenges, empowering choices, enabling change
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People Powered Portfolios
Our interventions focus on collective intelligence transfer in order for the ecosystem to acquire endogenus transformation capabilities
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Developmental Evaluation
Analysis, monitoring and reflection with teams in order to understand what is enabling or impeding the desired change
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Developmental Evaluation
Monitoring and evaluation for social innovation requires identifying the factors that enable positive change towards goals as well as the barriers to the desired change
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Our approach
COPOLAD III

Social innovation laboratories on drug policies
Gipuzkoa Deep Demo

Food, Mobility, Sustainable Development, Social Cohesion
K Magazine

Encouraging the transformation of the Basque society

Design, implementation and evaluation 
of Social Innovation Platforms

Experimentation

Act to Transform
Research

Research to Innovate
Transfer

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ALCK all over the world

We support territorial transformation processes in more than 10 countries in collaboration with leading institutions
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Colombia
Social Innovation Platform - Drug policies

Personas
Luz
Camila
Sebastián
Alexander
Gloria
Iván
Darío
Daniela
Pablo
Eli
Bea
Javiera
Cristian
Mauricio
Cecilia
Thematic areas
Art and culture
Governance
Gastronomy
Citizen security
Social inclusion
Public health
Poverty reduction
8956 Social Innovation Platform - Drug policies
Basque Country
Gipuzkoa Deep Demo

Led by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, involving social and economic agents of Gipuzkoa and the Basque Country. It has the collaboration of ALC and the international support of the OECD's OPSI Anticipatory Governance Observatory and Climate-KIC.

Thematic areas
Urban Transformation
Food Systems and Gastronomy Transformation
Governance
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2246 Gipuzkoa Deep Demo Led by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, involving social and economic agents of Gipuzkoa and the Basque Country. It has the collaboration of ALC and the international support of the OECD's OPSI Anticipatory Governance Observatory and Climate-KIC.
Spain
Open Innovation Platform of Lada and Velilla Del Río Carrión

Promoted by Iberdrola in collaboration with the itdUPM and Agirre Lehendakaria Center (ALC K ).

Personas
Jorge
Carlos
Ana
Begoña
Celia
Luis
Belén
José Manuel
Thematic areas
Cooperativism
Just Transitions
Climate Emergency
2243 Open Innovation Platform of Lada and Velilla Del Río Carrión Promoted by Iberdrola in collaboration with the itdUPM and Agirre Lehendakaria Center (ALC K ).
Spain
Social Innovation Platform in Sant Lluís, Menorca

ALC k in collaboration with the municipality of Sant Lluís (Menorca) and various strategic agents.

Personas
Judit
Andrea
Carla
Antonio
Marc
Thematic areas
Urban Transformation
2240 Social Innovation Platform in Sant Lluís, Menorca ALC k in collaboration with the municipality of Sant Lluís (Menorca) and various strategic agents.
Kosovo
Social Innovation Platform - Prishtina, Kosovo

Agirre Lehendakaria Center in collaboration with UNDP's Europe and Central Asia's City Experiment Fund (funded by the Slovak Ministry of Finance) and Mayor's for Economic Growth

Personas
Era
Bekim
Uratë
Endrit
Jeta
Blerta
Thematic areas
Urban Transformation
2237 Social Innovation Platform - Prishtina, Kosovo Agirre Lehendakaria Center in collaboration with UNDP's Europe and Central Asia's City Experiment Fund (funded by the Slovak Ministry of Finance) and Mayor's for Economic Growth
Armenia
Social Innovation Platform - Stepanavan, Armenia

Agirre Lehendakaria Center in collaboration with UNDPs Europe and Central Asia's City Experiment Fund (funded by the Slovak Ministry of Finance) and Mayor's for Economic Growth

Personas
Yervant
Yeva
Anoush
Vahe
Darlita
Thematic areas
Urban Transformation
2234 Social Innovation Platform - Stepanavan, Armenia Agirre Lehendakaria Center in collaboration with UNDPs Europe and Central Asia's City Experiment Fund (funded by the Slovak Ministry of Finance) and Mayor's for Economic Growth
Bangladesh
Thematic Platform on Future of Work - Dhaka, Bangladesh

Agirre Lehendakaria Center, in collaboration with a2i (Aspire to Innovate), UNDP Bangladesh and UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub for Asia Pacific, SDG Integration team.

Personas
Abdulah
Mohammed
Fatma
Sadia
Thematic areas
Digitization
Equality of Employment, Gender and Inclusion
2231 Thematic Platform on Future of Work - Dhaka, Bangladesh Agirre Lehendakaria Center, in collaboration with a2i (Aspire to Innovate), UNDP Bangladesh and UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub for Asia Pacific, SDG Integration team.
Thailand
Thematic Platform on Air Pollution - Chiang Rai, Thailand

ALC k in collaboration with UNDP Thailand and UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub for Asia Pacific, SDG Integration team.

Personas
Chaisai
Lawan
Arisa
Atid
Manon
Chapaka
Thematic areas
Climate Emergency
2228 Thematic Platform on Air Pollution - Chiang Rai, Thailand ALC k in collaboration with UNDP Thailand and UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub for Asia Pacific, SDG Integration team.
Laos
Thematic Platform on Air Pollution - Vientiane, Laos

Agirre Lehendakaria Center in collaboration with UNDP LAO PDR and UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub for Asia Pacific, and SDG Integration.

Personas
Halelgha
Kahoku
Kale
Nita
Noy
Kaloni
Thematic areas
Climate Emergency
2225 Thematic Platform on Air Pollution - Vientiane, Laos Agirre Lehendakaria Center in collaboration with UNDP LAO PDR and UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub for Asia Pacific, and SDG Integration.
Thailand
Social Innovation Platform - Southern Thailand

ALC k in collaboration with UNDP Thailand.

Personas
Aminah
Somchai
Sobri
Sofia
Sudarat
Ahmad
Abdul
Aadam
Suhaime
Pattamon
Achara
Thematic areas
Food Systems and Gastronomy Transformation
2222 Social Innovation Platform - Southern Thailand ALC k in collaboration with UNDP Thailand.
Indonesia
Social Innovation Platform - Gorontalo, Indonesia

ALC k in collaboration with UNDP Indonesia, UNDP Regional Hub for Asia Pacific local governance and SDG localization, and Ministry of Villages.

Personas
Akili
Harun
Soraya
Fitri
Anissa
Irfan
Abdul
Ismiyati
2219 Social Innovation Platform - Gorontalo, Indonesia ALC k in collaboration with UNDP Indonesia, UNDP Regional Hub for Asia Pacific local governance and SDG localization, and Ministry of Villages.
Indonesia
Social Innovation Platform - West Java, Indonesia

Agirre Lehendakaria Canter in collaboration with UNDP Indonesia, UNDP Regional Hub for Asia Pacific local governance and SDG localization, and Ministry of Villages.

Personas
Ujang
Irfan
Ahmad
Nurul
Rahmat
Naneng
Arief
Kirana
Thematic areas
Urban Transformation
Food Systems and Gastronomy Transformation
2216 Social Innovation Platform - West Java, Indonesia Agirre Lehendakaria Canter in collaboration with UNDP Indonesia, UNDP Regional Hub for Asia Pacific local governance and SDG localization, and Ministry of Villages.
The Maldives
Thematic Platform on Future of Work - The Maldives

Agirre Lehendakaria Center, in collaboration with UNDP Maldives and UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub for Asia Pacific, SDG Integration.

Personas
Hilal
Kulsum
Bagir
Adam
Fathimath
Shadiya
Aisha
Thematic areas
Equality of Employment, Gender and Inclusion
2213 Thematic Platform on Future of Work - The Maldives Agirre Lehendakaria Center, in collaboration with UNDP Maldives and UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub for Asia Pacific, SDG Integration.
Mozambique
People-Powered Portfolio - Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

ALC in partnership with UNDP Mozambique to coordinate and implement a portfolio approach in the province of Cabo Delgado.

Personas
Abudu
Armando
Liana
Maria
Zaina
Eliana
Pedro
2210 People-Powered Portfolio - Cabo Delgado, Mozambique ALC in partnership with UNDP Mozambique to coordinate and implement a portfolio approach in the province of Cabo Delgado.
Uruguay
Uruguay Deep Demo

Personas
Luis
Carlos
Lucía
Mary
Marcelo
Natalia
Pedro
Sabrina
Thematic areas
Cooperativism
Food Systems and Gastronomy Transformation
Recovery of Culture and Language
2207 Uruguay Deep Demo
Colombia
Aguabonita Platform

ALC k in a collaborative work with the Manigua Corporation and the Institute of Intercultural Studies (IEI) - Pontifical Javeriana University of Cali.

Personas
César
Wilfredo
Nidia
Juan Pablo
Nixon Armando
Wendy
Jenny
Robin
Thematic areas
Food Systems and Gastronomy Transformation
Peacebuilding
2204 Aguabonita Platform ALC k in a collaborative work with the Manigua Corporation and the Institute of Intercultural Studies (IEI) - Pontifical Javeriana University of Cali.
Pakistan
Social Innovation Platform - Hushe Valley, Pakistan

Agirre Lehendakaria Center (ALC K) in collaboration with UNDP Pakistan, UNDP Regional HUB for Asia Pacific and Baltistan Foundation.

Personas
Zehra
Ali
Rashida
Ahmed
Asma
Ghulam
Fatima
Hassan
Amida
Mehdi
Thematic areas
Urban Transformation
Food Systems and Gastronomy Transformation
1041 Social Innovation Platform - Hushe Valley, Pakistan Agirre Lehendakaria Center (ALC K) in collaboration with UNDP Pakistan, UNDP Regional HUB for Asia Pacific and Baltistan Foundation.

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Interview in Euskadi Irratia about the K magazine (26.06.2024): "The magazine has a double objective: it aims to lay on the table the future challenges of Basque society from a critical perspective and to encourage citizen participation"
Promoting community coordination through the co-creation of the first “lokarriak” table in the Compassionate Community of Getxo
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