Raúl Olivan

General Director of Open Government and Social Innovation in the Government of Aragon, where he promotes projects such as LAAAB (Open Government Laboratory), Social Impact Academy, Co-dsieño de Servicios Públicos, Gobierno Fácil or CVOL (A digital platform for volunteering). Before that, he spent almost 10 years directing Zaragoza Activa, an entrepreneurship and social innovation ecosystem in a rehabilitated sugar factory, where almost 500 business projects were promoted thanks to programs such as La Colaboradora, Semillero de Ideas, Made in Zaragoza, ZAC network or Remolacha Hacklab. . He was a mentor of the Citizen Innovation program organized by the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), from where he has promoted new community development methodologies at the intersection of the public, the private and the social, in the so-called fourth sector, through laboratories of government and citizen innovation laboratories. In 2019 he participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program of the US Department of State. Graduated in Advertising, Diploma in Social Work, he is a specialist in Citizen Participation Techniques (UZ) and Urban Strategic Development (CIDEU), currently studying the Master of Philosophy of Contemporary Challenges (UOC). In the face of the coronavirus crisis, Raúl Oliván has stood out by launching the Frena la Curva platform, which has been extended and articulated collaboratively throughout Spain and some twenty countries, with the aim of channeling social energy and generating projects of entrepreneurship and social innovation, both for direct incidence during the crisis and for the recovery process, within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.