Research Manager - Digital Societies Technologies

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.

Who we are:

The i2CAT Foundation is a non-profit research and innovation center that promotes mission-driven R&D activities on advanced Internet architectures, applications, and services. More than 15 years of international research define our expertise in the fields of 5G, IoT,  VR,  and  Immersive  Technologies,  Cybersecurity,  Blockchain,  AI,  and  Digital  Social Innovation. The  center  partners  with  companies,  public  administration,  academia,  and  end-users   to leverage   this   knowledge   in   order   to   meet   real   social   and   business   challenges.

The greatest value of i2CAT is the talent of the people who make up our human team. We enjoy a team of people from more than 13 different nationalities and work every day to create and foster a work environment where we all feel comfortable creating, innovating and growing.

Want to know more? Visit our webpage! www.i2cat.net

What do we offer?

• Work from our offices or from home, whichever works best for you. We ask for two days in person at the office to coordinate with the rest of the team.
• This is a full time vacancy
• You will have a flexible work schedule so that you can reconcile your personal life with the professional one.
• Intensive hours every Friday of the year and every day in July and August
• Fix + variable salary
• Possibility of receiving part of your remuneration in kind (restaurant, transport, nursery or medical insurance)
• 25 working days of annual leave (the common 22 + 3 additional ones)
• You can access the UPC gym at a reduced price
• We have fruit in the office to promote a healthy lifestyle
• If you are interested, you can participate in events of your sector.
• You will work with a laptop. You can choose your work environment, Mac, Linux or Windows.
• You can ask us for training of your interest.
• We will work so that you have a career plan to promote your growth and development.

Where will you do it?

At i2CAT we already have an established telework policy for some time. You can work from home or from the office, whichever suits you best. We ask that you attend the office two days per week, one to stay connected with the team and the other one to establish relations.

If you decide to come to the office, we are located in Zona Universitària, next to the Campus Nord of the UPC, within a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment. It is a very well connected area (metro, tram, bus) with bars and restaurants around.

Our offices are designed with an open-office concept where everything is light and transparency (we do not have opaque rooms). We have a variety of workspaces so that you don't have to be at the same table all day.

i2CAT is an organization committed to equal opportunities. That is why we seek to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented, and therefore explicitly encourage the female collective to apply.

i2CAT is an organization committed to diversity and we seek to increase the number of people with disabilities in our team.

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