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Codrin Dinu Vasiliu 

Cesar2030 Coordinator

Email address

codrindinuvasiliu ( @ ) gmail.com 

Affiliation
  • Romanian Academy Iasi Branch
  • Cities2030 Project
  • RURALITIES Project
  • Food for Iasi Living Lab
  • RoRuralia Living & Policy Lab

Ecosystem Short Presentation

Cesar

CLIPP

ARCC

  • Cesar Center of Excellence. Cesar is a research, innovation and development community, which is based on a consortium of 10 organizations from Romania. The Cesar Center of Excellence is under evaluation in a national funding competition. But for the construction of the Cesar ecosystem, we applied a new methodology, ensuring capacity building actions in the pre-implementation period. Thus, Cesar is a very dynamic alliance, in which an interdisciplinary community operates with interests in interdisciplinary research and collaborative development in almost all fields. From a structural point of view, Cesar is an innovation and development center, with 4 hubs, in which 25 laboratories (Living labs) operate. The Cesar Alliance is based on 10 organizations, but its community has expanded rapidly due to working methodologies and has reached an informal group with over 30 European organizations involved in the production and knowledge transfer processes. Website:  www.cesar2030.eu 

 

  • CLIPP Logistics Center. CLIPP is a capacity building community in European projects and programmes. CLIPP is an informal alliance, operating on the basis of open, inclusive, organic collaborative principles. CLIPP’s mission is to develop high-performance tools for conceptualising, structuring, modelling and implementing ideas through projects and knowledge systems and participatory governance. CLIPP develops and centralises seminars, methodologies, concepts, partnerships, information and communication tools. Access is open to anyone.Website: www.clipp.cesar2030.eu 

 

  • ARCC Strategy. ARCC is a framework for action and a strategic community, centralized on a set of development strategies, established in the time horizon 2035. The collaboration infrastructure within the ARCC community is dynamic, and can be expanded at any time. Collaborations take place, aiming at knowledge and development effects in the strategic direction proposed by the Cesar and CLIPP communities. ARCC is organized under 4 entities (ARFI, RDRP, Cesar, CLIPP), but actions take place under the same principles of collaborative decentralization, also applied in Cesar and CLIPP. Link: www.cesar2030.rdrp.org/arcc

Collaboration actions within Cesar and CLIPP

Collaborations in the Cesar and CLIPP communities are carried out taking into account the following coordinates:

  • The alliance operates on the principles of bottom-up action, emphasizing collaborative communities.
  • Institutions are very important from a structural and functional point of view. But the fundamental values ​​of collaboration start from individuals and working groups.
  • There are no centralization poles except for long-term strategic decisions. Dynamic collaborations are encouraged, with a high degree of autonomy and decision. From this point of view, Cesar and CLIPP represent support platforms, not decision-making centers. That is why we encourage the construction and development of laboratories (living labs), with a high degree of dynamism and autonomy. Laboratories do not have legal personality, do not enter procedural chains and belong to working teams, not to co-organizing institutions. Any laboratory is free to develop even independently of Cesar or CLIPP, with the full support of these centers.
  • Centralized management occurs only at the level of organizing resources and working tools.
  • Any research, education, innovation and development action is encouraged, as long as the basic principles of European humanism are respected: respect for life, open access to knowledge, inclusive and collaborative development, organic growth of knowledge ecosystems, multiculturalism.
  • All tools developed by Cesar and CLIPP are open access resources, free of charge. We believe that knowledge production must be financed, but the results of knowledge must be free and have open access.

Synergies with Cesar, CLIPP or ARCC

Roles of potential beneficiaries

Collaborative actions in the Cesar, CLIPP and ARCC communities are open to anyone, within the framework of collaboration aligned with the values ​​of these communities. To more simply describe different possibilities of interaction, we have defined a series of roles of potential beneficiaries.

  • Direct beneficiaries of the results

    A person can participate as a direct beneficiary of knowledge, education or development actions. A person can also be a direct beneficiary as a representative of an organization.

    Indirect beneficiaries

    Indirect beneficiaries are generally the individuals and organizations for whom the impact of the results of Cesar and CLIPP actions is planned. 

    Facilitator

    Persons or organizations that are involved in communication or development actions in Cesar or CLIPP, with or without the objective of being an entity affiliated with them.

    Collaborator

    A person or organization that participates in knowledge, innovation, education and development actions, based on a formal or informal framework: work plan, project, strategy.

    Permanent members of work teams

    Collaborators may decide to develop permanent actions within research, education or development teams.

    Members of strategic groups

    People who want to get involved in the organizational development actions of the Cesar and CLIPP communities.

    Coordinators

    People who assume coordination for actions, infrastructures, or projects within the Cesar, CLIPP or ARCC systems.

    Collaborative Actions

    Individuals or entities can strategically engage in Cesar or CLIPP communities by coordinating specific actions or by collaborating in the working groups of these actions when they have already been defined within the Cesar and CLIPP communities. The main types of activities can be:

    • Seminars
    • Courses
    • Workshops
    • Conferences
    • Research projects
    • Articles, studies, volumes
    • Living Lab or Policy Lab
    • Strategic reports
    • Multimedia deliverables

     

EXAMPLE: If I am interested in developing multiple types of actions, I can:

  • request involvement in an already established living lab or research project
  • propose the coordination of a new project, conference, living lab or any other type of deliverable
  • propose the development of a project proposal in a program funded by national or European organizations

 

Cesar and CLIPP offer, openly, transparently, and free of charge, all support for actions that develop in these communities, as long as the actions align with the values ​​promoted by Cesar and CLIPP.

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MISSION: Building and developing the Cesar2030 Center of Excellence as an innovative knowledge ecosystem, based on the Cesar2030 network of 22 living labs dedicated to scientific research, participatory governance, knowledge transfer and co-creation for sustainable and resilient urban, rural and regional food systems. 

Concept and Development: Codrin Dinu Vasiliu

 

In memory of my father, Eugen.