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'''Nova - Center for Social Innovation''', promotes [[social innovation]] with [[public participation|popular participation]] and intercultural dialogue to help to generate alternative socioeconomic models to [[globalization]], a culture of peace based on civil alternatives of defense and a more sustainable and participatory society.
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The '''Nova Center for Social Innovation''' is an organization that aims to promote [[social innovation]] to help generate alternative socioeconomic models to [[globalization]]. The center's objectives also include creating a culture of peace and a more [[Sustainability|sustainable]] and participatory society.


Nova collaborates with organizations and institutions interested in starting projects that promote [[social innovation]] and provide participative tools and services that allow citizens to become actively involved in these processes, including dialogue between cultures wherever possible.
Nova works with organizations and institutions interested in starting projects that promote [[social innovation]], and provides services that help citizens become actively involved in these processes.


The Nova association was born in the year 2000, but the team behind it has the experience of having taken active part in the Centre d'Estudis Joan Bardina (1983 - 1991) and in EcoConcern (1992-1999), from which it organised the Catalan Forum for Rethinking Society (1996 - 2001) within the framework of the Alliance for a responsible, plural and united world (1995 - 2001). Since 2003, Nova is a member organization of [[Nonviolent Peaceforce]] and through the NoViolenciaActiva Team (called "Forces de Pau Noviolentes" till 2006) it promotes activities on culture of peace and nonviolence trying to implement systems of nonviolent intervention and civilian resistance.
The Nova association was founded in 2000. Prior to then, the team behind the center took part in the Centre d'Estudis Joan Bardina (1983–1991) and EcoConcern (1992–1999), where it organized the Catalan Forum for Rethinking Society (1996–2001) within the framework of the Alliance for a responsible, plural and united world (1995–2001). Since 2003, Nova has been a member of [[Nonviolent Peaceforce]], and through its 'NoViolenciaActiva' Team (known as "Forces de Pau Noviolentes" until 2006) it promotes activities on the culture of peace and nonviolence, attempting to implement systems of nonviolent intervention and civilian resistance in conflict areas.


From December 2008, Nova started the [[Barcelona Consensus]] project, for a creation of Intercultural Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization.
Since 2008, Nova has worked on the project [[Barcelona]] Consensus: Intercultural Alternatives to Neo-liberal Globalization.


==External links==
* {{URL|http://www.nova.cat}}


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== External links ==
[[Category:Social change]]
http://www.nova.cat/
[[Category:Anti-globalization organizations]]

http://www.barcelonaconsensus.org/

Latest revision as of 07:11, 26 June 2024

The Nova Center for Social Innovation is an organization that aims to promote social innovation to help generate alternative socioeconomic models to globalization. The center's objectives also include creating a culture of peace and a more sustainable and participatory society.

Nova works with organizations and institutions interested in starting projects that promote social innovation, and provides services that help citizens become actively involved in these processes.

The Nova association was founded in 2000. Prior to then, the team behind the center took part in the Centre d'Estudis Joan Bardina (1983–1991) and EcoConcern (1992–1999), where it organized the Catalan Forum for Rethinking Society (1996–2001) within the framework of the Alliance for a responsible, plural and united world (1995–2001). Since 2003, Nova has been a member of Nonviolent Peaceforce, and through its 'NoViolenciaActiva' Team (known as "Forces de Pau Noviolentes" until 2006) it promotes activities on the culture of peace and nonviolence, attempting to implement systems of nonviolent intervention and civilian resistance in conflict areas.

Since 2008, Nova has worked on the project Barcelona Consensus: Intercultural Alternatives to Neo-liberal Globalization.

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