International Seminar “Socio-Technical Aspects of the Circular and Collaborative Economy”
The International Interdisciplinary Seminar “Socio-Technical Aspects of the Circular and Collaborative Economy” is taking place at University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) on 16th March 2018. This Seminar is organised in collaboration with the COST Action “From sharing to caring”.
The aim of the seminar is to open parallel discussion sessions on hottest topics of collaborative and circular economy (tourism, mobility, co-working) combined with news trends (collaborative housing), forms (crowdfunding) and technologies (blockchain), while linking related academics and stakeholders.
The draft Program and other useful information is already available at http://housing.urv.cat/2018-2/international-seminar-cost-colaborativeeconomy/ . The website is continuously being updated and registration will be available soon at http://housing.urv.cat/registration-2/ .
The Call for papers in now open. We welcome papers related to the Seminar’s topics from any discipline, including technology, social and legal studies. Papers are welcome to be presented during the parallel sessions in the Seminar. Interested participants should send an abstract of max 400 words by 31st January 2018 to the specific workshop coordinator. Contacts are available here.
The authors of selected papers will be invited to produce extended versions of the papers (max. 5,000 words) for inclusion in the Seminar’s Proceedings. We have a preliminary approval for the inclusion of the Proceedings in the EUSSET Digital Library with an own DOI.
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