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The #BasqueCircularSummit, the largest #CircularEconomy event in southern Europe, will be held again next year in #Bilbao

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Part 2 of the Lighthouse Reports investigation in collaboration with El Pais, Unbias The News and Financial Times ran last week, leading with people, not numbers. A deep dive into the failure of Spain’s degree recognition program exposes why migrant doctors are blocked from working in their specialised fields despite Spain’s looming doctor shortage. https://lnkd.in/gVvmM8Ft A character-driven explainer in Sweden describes a sweeping failure to integrate migrants with advanced degrees into the professional workforce. https://lnkd.in/ga6vtKeT If Part 1 utilized startling visualizations and huge numbers to convey the sheer scale and scope of brain waste across Europe in the Financial Times explainer and the El Pais expose, Round 2 stories intentionally tell quieter, more nuanced stories. For Part 2, I’m sharing some reflections on centering the stories of impacted communities. This was the starting point for our approach. “We are not doing nearly enough narratives — we are seeing data used as an end in itself, rather than a jumping-off point for strong journalism,” said Sarah Cohen. “I’m a judge [for data journalism awards,] and I can tell you we throw out 90% of the submissions because they are great data exercises, but not great journalism. We get to do both — but if we forget to do the part that we’re good at as journalists, then what’s the point?” https://lnkd.in/g3taHxPQ The first thing we learned was we needed data-savvy journalists who are great storytellers for a data story to become strong journalism. With Beatriz Ramalho da Silva from the Lighthouse Team and Justin Yarga, a data journalist from Burkina Faso living in Sweden reporting for Unbias The News, we had a lead reporters passionate about both finding the nuances in the data and the characters who are most representative of the trends surfaced by the data. Trust was essential for the characters featured in the story to share their experiences.  Reporters went through the data findings with everyone in the story to help them both understand that they would not be exploited for a sensationalist headline and they are emblematic of the multiple barriers locking migrants out of good jobs. Our team believed that if the reader feels emotionally invested in the characters, they will make it through the complexities of the story. Exhaustive storyboarding ensured a smooth narrative flow as we transitioned from the stories of victims of brain waste, to the data findings they represent, to the experts who explained the structural barriers behind the lived experiences and data. The storyboarding also served as a strategy to get buy-in from busy editors skeptical of their audience's appetite for a long-form piece on the migrant experience. 

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IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO LEARN FROM YOUR OWN BAD EXPERIENCES, BUT IT IS EVEN BETTER TO LEARN FROM THE BAD EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS! 🤟🏻🤟🏼🤟🏽🤟🏾🤟🏿 This principle applies perfectly to the recent EP election results. Political parties and candidates can gain valuable insights by analyzing where others went wrong, understanding voter dissatisfaction, and avoiding similar mistakes. By learning from the challenges faced by others, they can better strategize, address key issues, and connect more effectively with the electorate, ultimately improving their chances in future elections.

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And then… our rights are in geopardy with the new political trend in Europe

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Dr. eva llopis, head of the Radiology service at Hospital de La Ribera talks about the incorporation of our software at her center: "This acquisition is a significant step in the fight against this disease, which, currently, is still prevalent in the male population." We would like to thank her for the confidence in our technology, especially after noting that #MRI acceleration sequences, together with QP-Prostate, offer significant benefits in improving diagnostic accuracy, operational efficiency, and quality of #PatientCare, resulting in better clinical outcomes and a better patient experience.    You can read the full article here 👉 https://bit.ly/3z7PZLk #QPProstate

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Hildegart Gonzalez Profa. Universidad Comunicación salud and her research team published important work: "The image of nurses in the media: analysis of the situation and improvement actions" in the Nephrological Nursing Journal published by SEDEN Enfermería https://lnkd.in/dRPHUs4F It sheds light on the topic of the portrayal of nursing in the media and the importance of dispelling the negative stereotypes of nurses as critical steps in investing in nursing to improve health globally. #nursesinmedia #truthinmedia #investinnursing #globalhealth #SDG

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📩 The new issue of our monthly international #newsletter focuses on strategic foresight, a crucial aspect for governments to be able to anticipate potential long-term trends or scenarios and to develop policies that contribute to the wellbeing of citizens. 🔹Ane Izulain Alejos presented the Euskadi 2040 initiative as an example of good practice at the Strategic Foresight for Regions event organised by the Flemish region. The aim of the meeting was to bring together experts and policymakers from various European regions to exchange experiences and learnings on strategic foresight. 🔹Euskadi 2040 is a research project that Orkestra is carrying out with the Basque Government to identify the competitiveness challenges of the Basque Country and how they are changing, with the aim of building sustainable and inclusive wellbeing for the next generation. The project has generated a series of lessons that may be relevant for other territories that intend to carry out similar regional foresight processes. These lessons have served as the basis for the first Orkestra Policy Brief, a new type of publication aimed at policymakers. 🔗https://labur.eus/Ug8Uz Deusto Research

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In an increasingly interconnected world, biggest challenges are found in our #cities. From the metropolis of #Barcelona we cooperate with cities that are part of the great metropolises in the world. In this new mandate #International and #Cooperation Vicepresidency of Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) has taken #digitalpolicies #diplomacy as a new responsibility. This year we also have been aligning main goals of International and Development Cooperation policies in order to achieve a greater impact of our actions. About Cooperation field, in 1970 many countries agreed to give at least 0.7% of their gross national income. This is given by governments and other agencies to support the economic, environmental, social policies of other countries with specific needs. One of our big achievements we are very proud of is to consolidate this commitment year by year! We always work: ✅With local organizations in the territory ✅Through #Technical Cooperation of mutual learning ✅Applying transversal principles as #gender perspective #cooperation #metropolitan #metropolises #Barcelona #GreatBarcelona Maria Peix Oriol Illa Carlota Roses Dr. Clelia Colombo

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🎙️ARE WE AT RISK OF POLARIZATION❓ (Audio in 🇪🇸) (Subtitles in 🇬🇧) #ParlamentoEuropeo #UEelecciones2024 #EleccionesEuropeas #UniónEuropea #radio #media #periodismo #periodismopolítico #madrid #Valencia #COPE #useyourvote #abetterworldispossible #europe #lecturer #professor #eupolitics #eulaw #eueconomics Cadena COPE 🇪🇺

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Started today, officially, the Fic-fighters Project, with kick-off meeting in Seville, Spain. During four years 28 entities from 9 european countries will be working together on the topic of valorization and transformation of dangerous materials.The Municipality of Barreiro will be one of the 7 case studies, along with six other countries – Croatia, Belgium, Serbia, Poland, North Macedonia and Italy, which will, in addition to providing the material and its characterization, validate and test the methodologies and technologies to be developed under this important European research project, for the recovery of environmental liabilities and the recovery and transformation of hazardous waste for use as raw material in other industries, thus, also, promoting the circular economy. #ficfighters #h2020 #europeancommission #kickoffmeeting #seville #municipalityofbarreiro

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🚀 Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) in Valencia is an excellent example of collaboration between the two large Valencian universities, the Valencian government and the Valencia city council. Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), a benchmark for training in technology-based innovation and entrepreneurship, inaugurated a year ago in Valencia its first headquarters outside of Germany with one of the most competitive study programs. ➡️ The admission rate, less than 5%, defines a selection process that constitutes the success of this model inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which everything that is learned can be applied to real problems. Designed as a space for coexistence, the 25 students selected for each class – two a year – go on to the “innovation cycle”, three courses where you learn to use the tools to innovate, based on real company projects, in different phases, from the study of trends to the launch of a prototype and strategic consulting. Thank you Ferran Pla Cardona, Carla Pregel Hoderlein, M. Esther Gómez-Martín, Rosa María Donat y Salvador Coll Universitat de València innovacioUV - Universitat de València Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) València Activa Las Naves Published in Diario EL PAÍS

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Large photographs of one of the AVE Madrid-Valencia trains and a wind farm in Denmark decorate the spacious ninth floor of the European Investment Bank (EIB) headquarters, where its president, Nadia Calviño, has her office. Both projects reflect the most well-known aspect of its activities: large infrastructure projects. But as many citizens are discovering, often in Calviño's weekly videos, the EIB's actions "affect very specific aspects of citizens' daily lives," from urban transportation to housing, innovation, and, in the future, more intensely, defense. "The current geopolitical context requires Europe to mobilize all possible instruments to invest and make the twin green and digital transitions a success, while also strengthening the continent's capacity to ensure peace and security," Nadia Calviño explains in an interview with La Vanguardia in Luxembourg. Check it out to learn more about the latest on the European Tecn Champions Initiative, the first Spanish fund for start-ups (the 'megafondo') and the support to the European Defense industry.

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➡ Discover here the agenda of this edition of the Premios Quirino #TFC

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