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Iberian Retreat 2025 · Porto Bridging Cities, Bridging Shapers, Bridging Generations

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Once a year, the Global Shapers Hubs from across Iberia —both Spain and Portugal— come together for one of the most anticipated moments of the year: the Iberian Retreat. This gathering has become a key tradition to strengthen collaboration between Hubs, share learnings, and build partnerships that transcend borders. Each edition is an opportunity to […]

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The ride-hailing market Disruptive changes generated (and pending to discover) by this sector

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Scandals and situation Uber, in addition to relating with ease, has been associated assiduously with scandals. There have been many episodes of them: Travis Kalanick, Uber former CEO, arguing with a driver over falling fares. NYC’s ban on new Uber and Lyft cars. Waymo intellectual property leaks by Uber engineers. Etc. This leads to think

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Country for Old Men Little reminder about the situation that will explode in Spain in fewer time than some people think: pensions, education issues, etc.

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I was talking with some friends in a pub when they asked me how I saw the future. My answer: ‘Tough’. In fact, today (July 31st, 2016), I read few headers in the eldiario.es (Spanish) journal, and it made me reaffirm my thoughts. Here we can see various links (in Spanish), such as: Almost 60% of

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Job: A basis for the human? Short digression on the implications of having a job in our society

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Few days ago I ended to read José Saramago’s ‘The Cave‘, based on Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’, and it made me ponder: Which is the relevance of job in an individual’s life? The more I think about it, the more I feel the social conventions behind it. We can find some typical quotes such as

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Grandparents, parents and children Brief discussion considering whether the effort our generation is doing to achieve our goals is directly related to the reality we had to live or not

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These thoughts, which I first heard from a relative of mine, sprang to my mind a couple of days ago. This idea came back to me when I ended one of the subjects of my latest semester. In this subject, there’s a teacher that, in order to avoid having too many theoretical contents on it, makes

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