a little something
about me
It may sound a little formal, but it is a great honor and joy for me to be able to work and build in areas where my passions, my ways of thinking, the skills and the goals I have shaped for myself meet.
Creativity, systemic thinking, strategic projection and modeling, transformative innovation, artistic, visual or textual discourse, the joy of working with people are my best-trained tools. Tools that I throw into play when it comes to projects in which we think about systems, structure them, develop them and ensure their continuity.
professional objective
My professional objective is to conceptualize and develop theoretically and practically the EPID model: Ecosystem-based Participatory Innovation and Development.
Principles of the EPID model
1. The Principle of Ecosystem Integration
- The fundamental objective of a project consists of the process of organic integration into an ecosystem of a knowledge and action strategy.
2. The Principle of Funding Autonomy
- Funding is an important resource, but it is only an operational objective. Funding should not be the purpose and paradigm of the project. The funding context should not fundamentally determine and modify the strategic culture of a project.
3. The Principle of Systemic Integration
- A project represents a system in the context of systems of systems, which represents the functional meaning of ecosystems. A project must be thought of as a synergy between its systemic autonomy and its ecosystem integration.
4. The Principle of Value Alignment
- A project must align with the values of the ecosystem in which it is integrated and must constitute itself as a system of added value within this ecosystem.
Short Presentation
My name is Codrin Dinu Vasiliu.
I am a researcher in the social and human sciences, with concerns in the area of knowledge ecosystems (systems development and anthropology of knowledge).
My main affiliation is with the Romanian Academy and its Iași branch. This is my main institutional home. But, from a practical point of view, I am not institutionally regimented. I rather recommend myself as being part of three very important communities for the actions and strategies to which I am aligned.
Thus, I have contributed to the construction and development of the following communities, in which I currently work
- Cesar Center of Excellence. Cesar is a research, innovation and development community, which is based on a consortium of 10 organizations from Romania. The Cesar Center of Excellence is under evaluation in a national funding competition. But for the construction of the Cesar ecosystem, we applied a new methodology, ensuring capacity building actions in the pre-implementation period. Thus, Cesar is a very dynamic alliance, in which an interdisciplinary community operates with interests in interdisciplinary research and collaborative development in almost all fields. From a structural point of view, Cesar is an innovation and development center, with 4 hubs, in which 25 laboratories (Living labs) operate. The Cesar Alliance is based on 10 organizations, but its community has expanded rapidly due to working methodologies and has reached an informal group with over 30 European organizations involved in the production and knowledge transfer processes. Website: www.cesar2030.eu
- CLIPP Logistics Center. CLIPP is a capacity building community in European projects and programmes. CLIPP is an informal alliance, operating on the basis of open, inclusive, organic collaborative principles. CLIPP’s mission is to develop high-performance tools for conceptualising, structuring, modelling and implementing ideas through projects and knowledge systems and participatory governance. CLIPP develops and centralises seminars, methodologies, concepts, partnerships, information and communication tools. Access is open to anyone.Website: www.clipp.cesar2030.eu
- ARCC Strategy. ARCC is a framework for action and a strategic community, centralized on a set of development strategies, established in the time horizon 2035. The collaboration infrastructure within the ARCC community is dynamic, and can be expanded at any time. Collaborations take place, aiming at knowledge and development effects in the strategic direction proposed by the Cesar and CLIPP communities. ARCC is organized under 4 entities (ARFI, RDRP, Cesar, CLIPP), but actions take place under the same principles of collaborative decentralization, also applied in Cesar and CLIPP. Link: www.cesar2030.rdrp.org/arcc
My primary academic training is based on philosophy, with a particular interest in the theory of interpretation, knowledge theory, knowledge ecosystems, systems thinking, and digital culture. I have also been concerned with practical philosophy and possible applications of speculative discourses in contemporary anthropology (visual, digital, rural anthropology, and knowledge transfer).
About Codrin from Codrin Dinu Vasiliu
I was born in Iași, but I spent my childhood in Piatra-Neamț and the surrounding mountains. I wanted to be a speleologist or a philosopher, even before I wanted to be an aviator.
When I went to Copou, in the city of Iasi, in 94, I hit the jackpot. And the faculty of philosophy came out of the hat. That faculty where Teodor Dima and Ștefan Afloroaei were my spiritual teachers. One taught me to think, and the other challenged me to try to understand the ways in which I think. And I think that this is precisely the gain that the university in Iași gave me: to value my ways of thinking even before weighing my ways of being.
In the new millennium, with the famous year 2000, I moved to the Academy, also in Copou. Where I met some of the most beautiful people in my life. From whom I learned that my ways of thinking must be connected to my ways of doing. The Academy is the one that taught me how knowledge and action represent two sides of my ways of being. Giving meaning to my ways of thinking through my ways of getting things done is what the Academy in Copou taught me best.
Instead of becoming a caver or an aviator, it seems that I have come to value my thoughts and their ways of being and doing the reality I live in. Is this an effect of philosophy? Is it a sign of my teachers? Is it a result of the fact that I feel at the Academy as I feel at home? Somehow each of these realities compose my world in which I try to give my ways of thinking the value of my ways of doing.
Blog Center
A few links to the blogs where I express myself.
Cesar Argument
Cesar the Blog / Fragment
And so Cesar the Idea was born. Which, then, would play all the roles of systemic integration, taking, one by one, the most exotic forms: Cesar the Book, Cesar the Cat, Cesar the Castle, Cesar the Library, Cesar the Iceberg. And many others waiting to appear. And, because any idea is initially fixed in its metadata, Cesar assumed its first role as a vector and promoter of the Food2030 strategy, with a special emphasis on the idea of resilience, sustainability in knowledge and action, sustainability at the strategic level and integrated dynamics, given by the systemic approach.
9th of February 2024
after all,
this is just a personal presentation project,
but there are other projects too
Texte și alte vuvuzele
Aceasta este platforma proiectelor mele textuale. Povești, narațiuni, expresii și alte inchipuiri ale modurilor mele de autoficționalizare și autofascinare.
ARGUMENTE / Blogul Conceptelor
Aceasta este platforma în care îmi pun la încercare, în mod speculativ, modurile mele de a gândi și de a înțelege.
www.CodrinDinuVasiliu.ro
Figments
Social COMMs
- +4 0753 594 610
- CodrinDinuVasiliu@gmail.com
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