IDEAS Foundation for progress
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The Fundación Ideas para el Progreso (Ideas Foundation for Progress) is also known as the Fundación IDEAS (IDEAS Foundation), is a Spanish think tank
that works on political ideas and proposals for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
(PSOE). In this regard, it integrates the foundations previously created and tied to the PSOE.
"IDEAS" is an acronym which stands for Igualdad (equality), Derecho [rights), Ecología (ecology), Acción (action) y Solidaridad (solidarity), concepts of reference to the social democratic ideology of this think tank.
Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
presides over the Foundation as its honorary President although the highest authority in the foundation is its Executive Vice President Jesús Caldera
.
announced the name of the new think tank that would unite the smaller foundations tied to the PSOE:
The IDEAS Foundation’s Board of Trustees serves as the governing body and representation foundation. The board members are: José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero
; Jesús Caldera
; Manuel Chaves
; José Blanco López
; Marcelino Iglesias; Elena Valenciano
; Cristina Narbona
; Pedro Zerolo
; María González Veracruz; Antonio Hernando; Cándida Martínez; Octavio Granado; Hugo Morán; Soledad Pérez; Soledad Cabezón; Xoan Cornide; José Andrés Torres Mora; Ludolfo Paramio; and Lentxu Rubial.
Further, the Scientific Committee serves in an advisory capacity to the foundation on which direction to take in terms of priorities in investigation and other activities. It’s members are: Pedro Alonso; Helen Caldicott
; Torben Iversen; George Lakoff
; Wolfgang Merkel; María Teresa Miras; Dominique Mollard; Loretta Napoleoni
; Guillermo O´Donnell; Emilio Ontiveros; Philip Pettit
; Joseph Stiglitz; Jeremy Rifkin
; María Joao Rodrigues; Jeffrey Sachs
; Nicholas Stern
; André Sapir; Vandana Shiva
; Aminata Traoré
; Torsten Wiesel
; Kemal Derviş
; and Pippa Norris
.
Think tank
A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...
that works on political ideas and proposals for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...
(PSOE). In this regard, it integrates the foundations previously created and tied to the PSOE.
"IDEAS" is an acronym which stands for Igualdad (equality), Derecho [rights), Ecología (ecology), Acción (action) y Solidaridad (solidarity), concepts of reference to the social democratic ideology of this think tank.
Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he will not stand for re-election in 2012...
presides over the Foundation as its honorary President although the highest authority in the foundation is its Executive Vice President Jesús Caldera
Jesús Caldera
Jesús Caldera Sánchez-Capitán is a Spanish socialist politician. He holds degrees in political science and sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid and a law degree from UNED.He was Minister of Labor during the VIII legislature of the Spanish government.- Biography :Born in Béjar in...
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Origin
After Jesús Caldera left the Ministry of Labor in April 2008, it was announced that his new challenge was to create, put in motion and preside over a large think tank. In July of that same year, during the XXXVII Federal Congress of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Secretary General of the party and President of SpainPresident of Spain
Today, Spain is a constitutional monarchy. King Juan Carlos I, the current monarch, is Head of State. The Head of Government has the official title of President of the Government....
announced the name of the new think tank that would unite the smaller foundations tied to the PSOE:
- Pablo IglesiasPablo IglesiasPaulino Iglesias Posse , better known as Pablo Iglesias, was a Spanish socialist and labour leader...
Institute: design, drive and execute international cooperation programs in the area of strengthening institutions, especially in Latin America and Africa. - Ramón Rubial Institute: promotes and defends the rights of Spanish citizens living abroad and of foreign people residing in Spain.
- Jaime VeraJaime VeraJaime Andrés Vera Rodríguez is a former Chilean footballer and currently works as a head coach of Universidad de Concepción.-Club career:...
Institute: is charged with training staff and elected officials in the areas of leadership and political communication as well as topics such as economics, equality, policy and social rights. - Council on Global Progress: An advisory body of the foundation for international questions led by Felipe GonzálezFelipe GonzálezFelipe González Márquez is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. To date, he remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain, after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996.-Early life:Felipe was...
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The IDEAS Foundation’s Board of Trustees serves as the governing body and representation foundation. The board members are: José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he will not stand for re-election in 2012...
; Jesús Caldera
Jesús Caldera
Jesús Caldera Sánchez-Capitán is a Spanish socialist politician. He holds degrees in political science and sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid and a law degree from UNED.He was Minister of Labor during the VIII legislature of the Spanish government.- Biography :Born in Béjar in...
; Manuel Chaves
Manuel Chaves
Manuel Chaves may refer to:* Manuel Antonio Chaves , figure in U.S.-Navajo and U.S. Civil War history* Manuel Chaves González , Second Vice President of the Spanish Government* Manuel Chaves Nogales, Spanish journalist...
; José Blanco López
José Blanco López
José Blanco López , also known as Pepe Blanco, is a Spanish socialist politician. He is currently the deputy general of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Minister of Public Works and Transport. He began his political career in 1986 when he was elected to the Spanish Senate...
; Marcelino Iglesias; Elena Valenciano
Elena Valenciano
María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists...
; Cristina Narbona
Cristina Narbona
Cristina Narbona, born 29 July 1951, is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician. Since 18 April 2004, she has been the Minister of Environment in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is a trustee of the , Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.-Biography:Narbona was born in Madrid...
; Pedro Zerolo
Pedro Zerolo
Pedro González Zerolo is a Spanish lawyer and politician, currently a town councilman of the city of Madrid, and a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE where he holds the position of Secretary for Social Movements and Relations with NGOs...
; María González Veracruz; Antonio Hernando; Cándida Martínez; Octavio Granado; Hugo Morán; Soledad Pérez; Soledad Cabezón; Xoan Cornide; José Andrés Torres Mora; Ludolfo Paramio; and Lentxu Rubial.
Further, the Scientific Committee serves in an advisory capacity to the foundation on which direction to take in terms of priorities in investigation and other activities. It’s members are: Pedro Alonso; Helen Caldicott
Helen Caldicott
Helen Mary Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general. She hosts a...
; Torben Iversen; George Lakoff
George Lakoff
George P. Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972...
; Wolfgang Merkel; María Teresa Miras; Dominique Mollard; Loretta Napoleoni
Loretta Napoleoni
Loretta Napoleoni is an Italian economist, author, journalist and political analyst. She is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is well known internationally for having calculated the size of the terror economy.-Life and career:...
; Guillermo O´Donnell; Emilio Ontiveros; Philip Pettit
Philip Pettit
Philip Noel Pettit is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University...
; Joseph Stiglitz; Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin is an American economist, writer, public speaker, political advisor and activist. He is the founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends...
; María Joao Rodrigues; Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the...
; Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Kt, FBA is a British economist and academic. He is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics , and 2010 Professor of Collège de...
; André Sapir; Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva , is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D...
; Aminata Traoré
Aminata Traoré
Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She served as the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mali from 1997 to 2000 and is a former coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme...
; Torsten Wiesel
Torsten Wiesel
Torsten Nils Wiesel was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W...
; Kemal Derviş
Kemal Dervis
Kemal Derviş is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the...
; and Pippa Norris
Pippa Norris
Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government at the University of Sydney...
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Working areas
The foundation acts as a laboratory of ideas, developing working papers and reports in the following areas:- Economy and sustainability: reports about a new energy model for Spain, taxes on international financial transactions, about improving financial markets and economic priorities for Europe.
- International and Cooperation: studies about the Lisbon treaty, discrimination and the creation of an “ATILA” space (transatlantic integrated area for greater liberty).
- Politics, citizenship and equality: documents about citizen participation, social democracy and the new social agenda.