Research Manager of the Digital Societies Technologies area

Our Digital Societies Technologies area is looking for a social research technologist to lead the research and innovation program of this new area. Since the beginning, the i2cat Foundation was designed a new kind of col·laborative lab to promote Internet research and innovation in Catalonia. Since then the center has developed a long set of projects related with the design of open and collaborative labs as new structures of the digital societies: living labs, citizen labs, digital social innovation lab, and more recently labs related with citizen rights and responsibilities in the digital society. These projects  has complemented  the Internet research program of the institution. Times has come to establish this new area of tecnologies of the digital society (DST) oriented to the co-creation and co-design of new digital societies as collaboratories, new digital social estructures and values of the knowledge era.

The main responsibilities of the successful candidate are:

-To help to establish the new field of tecnologies of digital societies and its connection with digital social innovation, social innovation and theories about what digital societies can be.

-To foster the collaboration with other International research groups and institutions working in the same direction, particularly the European Network of Living Labs, the European School of Social Innovation, the Bristol Digital Future Society, and the Digital Future Society fòrum.

-To participate in all the innovation projects, particularly in Catalonia, oriented to validate the hypothesis of our research program. Research and innovation in this field are completely interconnected and work in a peer to peer relationship.

-To work closely with the Catalan public administrations, companies, research bodies and civil society of all the Catalan territories in order to co-created research and innovation públic policies for the digital era.

-To promote the education and learning activities as part of the research and innovation activities in this field.

This person will participate in all kind of projectes related with social innovation, digital social innovation and its related fields.

The researcher will be part of the Digital Societies Technologies group at i2CAT. More information can be found here: https://www.i2cat.net

Who we are:

i2CAT Foundation is a non-profit research and innovation centre that promotes mission oriented R&D activities on advanced Internet architectures, applications and services. The centre stands for a new open innovation framework, fostering the collaboration between companies, public administration, the academic environment and end-users.

i2CAT’s activities span the areas of Research, playing a key role in the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation; Strategic Projects, leading local initiatives that strengthen the digital policies of public administration, and Technology Transfer, fostering R&D collaboration with companies to develop innovative market-oriented solutions.

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What do we offer:

• You will be part of a multicultural team. We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.
• Be in contact and work with cutting-edge technology
• Work in challenging R&D projects
• Fix + variable salary
• Option of flexible retribution (restaurant card, transport card, medical insurance, kindergarten)
• Flexible working schedule - We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way
• Fridays afternoon off
• Intensive work schedule in July & August
• Home-office option
• Open space office in Barcelona
• Free fruit every week
• Discounted Gym-access
• 25 vacation days per year
• Casual dress code
• Let us know which trainings you need
• You will have the opportunity to attend tech conferences and events.

The i2CAT Foundation seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and, therefore explicitly, encourages women to apply.

The i2CAT Foundation seeks to increase the number of persons with disabilities among its workforce, and therefore explicitly encourages this collective to apply.