Living University

of The Blue

Economy

at El Hierro

of The Blue Economy

at El Hierro

November, 2021

21, 22, 23and24

El Hierro - Canary Islands, Spain

This event in El Hierro offers you the opportunity to understand how a small group of committed people turned the future of their 10,000 citizen strong island around.

You will understand their reasoning, the financing mechanisms, the time lost and the projects that gained traction.

This unique meeting limited to 40 people.
The cost is limited to €950*.

(* This price includes all conferences, all coffee breaks and lunches during the event, as well as transportation to some of the visits and some dinners. It does NOT include plane tickets, accommodation and breakfasts)

These four days offer an exceptional insight on how the island can now plan its next leap steadily gaining social and economic cloud it had with 14,000 citizens it enjoyed a century ago.

Living University

of The Blue
Economy
at El Hierro

congress + workshops + conferences

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“El Hierro is the prime European example of local

economic development using what is locally available,

responding to local needs and building resilience

while generating jobs.”

Gunter Pauli

CONGRESS

WORKSHOP

CONFERENCES

EVENTS

The Place: Rayuela House.

Meet the people who can make the next phase of local development in El Hierro happen

Who

will

join?

  • The key persons who transformed El Hierro

  • The Blue Economy team that accompanied over years

  • The urban designers who envision how to replicate

  • The local economic development planners

  • The systemic thinkers and do-ers

  • The educators who inspire the children

  • The movers and shakers who want to mainstream this

  • The new generation of islanders who envision the next phase of

    sustainability on El Hierro

What will we discuss

How did it start?

How was it financed?

What is the next step
(happening already)?

Chairs of the Event

GunterPauli

Gunter Pauli

The Blue Economy
JavierMorales

Javier Morales

El Hierro

Agenda

mapa el hierro

1.  Banana eco
Water management

2. Biodiversity
Eco-tourism
Winery

3.  Ren. Energy
GORONA

4. Cheese
Factory

5. Marine Reserv.
SkySails

Schedule

  • Informal welcome and opening

November 21st

  • Roundtable of all Participants

November 22nd

  • The Achievements to Date

November 22nd – told by the people who did it

  • Schedule and Plans for the Next Decade

November 23rd – told by the people who can do it

  • Visit and Discuss on site energy, fish, banana, milk, …

November 22nd to 24th

Calendar

Session one

  • Everyone introduces why

Describing the reasons for
participating, the experiences brought
to the table, the expectations.

  • El Hierro and the Blue Economy

Javier Morales and Gunter Pauli share how
they met, what they wanted to achieve, how
the work progressed and the problems that
had to be overcome.

Session two

  • Meeting the Challenges

Young people saw no future, water remained scarce, no new jobs
generated, the economic model taught prescribed competing on cost.
The end of the island’s population was planned.

  • Design an Ambitious Future

The elaboration of a portfolio of opportunities with a clear focus on the
needs of the communities triggered a series of economic activities – and
faced with lack of water and power with an out of date infrastructure
offered a chance of a lifetime: turn the island into an sustainable one,
self-sufficient in water, power and food!

  • Design, Beauty and Greenhouses

A new actual initiative. How to transform the banana greenhouses of
El Hierro and the Canary Islands into new designs full of beauty and
made with bamboo.

Session three

  • Visit the site of water and power

The design was made by the local engineers. Sons
and grandsons of those who emigrated returned to
take the leadership in a design that had never been
done and even secured a few patents.

  • The Island’s Food Cluster

How the island went from a net importer of all
food to one that generates jobs, quality food and
income with what can be locally produced – even
organically.

Events / trips

  • Visit to the future cluster of fishing, drinking
    water, skysails and hydrogen

  • Visit to the water and wind cluster based on
    renewable energy

  • Visit to the food clusters and the cooperatives
    producing organic bananas, grapes and wine,
    goat milk and cheese

  • Visit to sustainable tourism initiatives based
    on ethnography and biodiversity

  • Optional visit by sailing boat to the
    UNESCO Biosphere female brooding site

Design Workshop
for IAAC Students

weak signals in the wild
& bamboo eco-greenhouses

 

IAAC

Fab-Academy

Fab-Lab

Urban Sciences Lab

Tomás
Diez

Mariana
Quintero

Mariana

IAAC

Fab-Academy

Urban Sciences Lab

Mauricio
Cárdenas

Mauricio Cardenas

Willy
Müller