MSCA CORAL-ITN Final Conference
11-13 of November 2024
Romantso Creative Hub, Athens, Greece
Anaxagora 3-5, 105 52
The conference marks the end of the CORAL – ITN project whose mission is to understand the role and impact of collaborative workspaces (CWS) in rural and peripheral areas of Europe. During the two day conference, early stage researchers, invited speakers from CWS industry and policy making will meet to discuss CWS in relation to global economic trends, regional development, communities and individuals from the perspective of various disciplines. The purpose is to focus on the phenomenon of CWS (i.e. coworking spaces, makerspaces, fablabs, creative and innovation hubs etc.) that are located primarily in rural or peripheral and remote areas. Research on this topic is emerging in recent years from numerous disciplines such as regional development and planning, rural studies, geography, business and management, sociology, architecture, design and economics.
DAY 1, Monday, 11th November 2024
18:00-19:00 (Time in EEST)
Registration
19:00-19:15
Welcome
Prof. Vasilis Avdikos, CORAL-ITN Coordinator, Vice Rector for Research, Panteion University
19:15-20:15
Keynote speech:
EU support to the culture and creative sectors: the role of creative hubs in rural and peripheral areas’ development
Marta Jiménez Pumares, Policy Officer– Cultural policy, Regions, Statistics, European Commission
20:30-21:30
Wine reception
BIOS, Pireos 84, Athens 104 35
DAY 2, Tuesday, 12th November 2024
09:30-10:00
Registration
10:00-11:30
Paper session 1: Labour, remote work and precarity
- The role of collaborative workspaces in supporting creative professionals in peripheral areas
Francesca Ciccarelli, Politechnico di Milano - “Bringing work back in“ – On Work in Coworking Studies
Janet Merkel, TU Berlin - Building bonds in precarity: Everyday care and worker agency in rural collaborative workspaces
Nikos Gatsinos, University of Graz - Navigating the New Normal: An Overview of Remote Working Policies Across Europe
Dimitris Manoukas, Panteion University, Athens
Ilaria Mariotti, Politechnico di Milano
Federica Rossi, Politechnico di Milano
11:30-12:00
Coffee break
12:00-13:00
Keynote speech:
Rural work, rural workers or working in the rural?
Prof. Gary Bosworth, Northumbria University, UK
13:00-14:30
Light lunch
14:30-16:00
Paper sessions 2 & 3: Parallel sessions
Session 2: Entrepreneurship in rural CWS
- Rural creative hubs as innovators of sustainable entrepreneurship: transforming the existing, helping to imagine and building the new
Eleonora Psenner, KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe - Successful rural coworking spaces: an economic analysis
Cathleen Müller, Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs and Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
- Mismatch or Intangible? Prominent Entrepreneurial Resources Through Collaborative Workspaces for Social Entrepreneurs
Chen Gao, Leibniz Institute for Society and Space IRS
- Levering commercial counter-urbanisation: How Coworking Spaces help migrant entrepreneurs embed locally
Mikel Oleaga, Impact Hub Global and University of Vienna - Identity, cross-innovation and legitimacy: a study of the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems affected by grand challenges and their implications for ecosystem orchestrators
Juan Diaz, Ecole Polytechnique
Session 3: CWS, rural development and spatial imaginaries
- Collaborative spaces as actors in regional development and their role in regional development policies
Vera Fabinyi, Panteion University, Athens - Coworking from (and for) which rural? Spatial imaginaries within the project “Spazi Generativi” in Western Piedmont, Italy
Samantha Cenere, University of Turin - Entrepreneurial learning in the university coworking space
Harro Prins, University of Groningen - Spatializing digitally mediated work and workplaces: Unpacking coworking on/offline through multimodal visual-textual analysis
Yue Mao, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography IfL, Leipzig
16:00-16:30
Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Roundtable discussion: Technology vs Rurality, the Role of FabLabs/Makerspaces in Innovating Local Traditional Economies
Moderator: Federica Ammaturo
Luc Hanneuse (AgriLab, UniLaSalle Institut Polytechnique, Beauvais, France)
Matei Gheorghiu (Coordinator of the RFFLab Scientific Commitee, France)
Martin Wachsmuth (Oar Mountains, Germany)
Ignacio Marquez (Co-Founder of Rural Hackers, Anceu Coliving Team, Spain)
Olivia Kotsifa (Founder of SYN Fab Lab, Greece)
18:00-18:15
Short break
18:15-19:15
CORAL-ITN Documentary Premiere
20:00
Dinner at Salero Wine Restaurant
Valtetsiou 51 , Athens 1 06 81
DAY 3, Wednesday, 13th November 2024
09:30-10:00
Registration
10:00-11:30
Paper sessions 4 & 5: Parallel sessions
Session 4: Rural CWS – Geography and Environment
- The environmental impacts of Collaborative Workspaces in Europe: reuse of vacant buildings, renewable energy, and electricity consumption
Lorenzo Marmo, Panteion University of Athens - Work Spaces beyond coworking and creative spaces: types, usage models and organization
Lena Schartmüller, TU Wien - Coworking as a driver for flexible work in Sweden
Anna Rex, Remote lab, Sweden
Session 5: Rural CWS – Social Innovation, gender & alternative development
- Valuation in Rural Social Innovation Processes-Analysing Micro-Impact of a Collaborative Community in Southern Italy
Federica Ammaturo, Leibniz Institute for Society and Space IRS - Collaborative Workspaces in non-urban areas: more than just workplaces for women? Evidence from Austria and Greece
Alexandra Wrbka, Panteion University, Athens - Is making alternative? Rethinking development in Germany’s makerspaces
Danai Liodaki, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography IfL, Leipzig
- Open Cooperativism and Diverse and Community Economies
Vangelis Papadimitropoulos, Panteion University, Athens - Transformative social innovation and CWS assemblages as a means of prefiguring community economies: Learnings from Austria and Greece
Colm Stockdale, Panteion University & ECHN, Athens
11:30-12:00
Coffee break
12:00-13:00
Keynote speech:
Turning research into action: How impact Hub learns from CORAL
Christine Moser, Impact Measurement & Management Lead, Impact Hub Global, Austria
13:00-14:30
Light lunch
14:30-16:00
Roundtable discussion: Labour, volunteer work and community economy practices in and around CWS
Moderator: Colm Stockdale
Martin Hollinetz (Otelo eGen, Austria)
Tobias Keye (Rothenklempenow, Germany)
Maria do Ceu Bastos (Rural Move, Portugal)
Sotiris Tsoukarelis (Tzoumakers & High Mountains, Greece)
16:00-16:30
Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Policy co-creation and training session
Moderator: Vera Fabinyi
Everybody
18:00-19:00
Closing ceremony
