JONATHAN HANKINS
Author, Speaker
Workshop: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
On Wednesday 12 November 2025, the Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness Workshop was held at Utrecht University and online. The workshop launched the Follow the Food Signature Project which critically examines if and how GIs can be used as tools for promoting fairness and sustainability in the global food system. In his introduction ... Workshop: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
2025 15mn
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Circular Neighbourhoods: Heston in the Loop
On 23–24 October I attended the End-of-Year 1 Meeting of the Place Based Circular Society Innovations project. The event included project partners, the Advisory Board, and members of the broader Knowledge Action Network, bringing a very interesting and open-minded group together. I participated as a member of the Advisory board, wearing both my hat as responsible ... Circular Neighbourhoods: Heston in the Loop
2025 6mn
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Development Aid and Geographical Indications
On Wednesday 11 September 2025, Martijn Huysmans’ (Utrecht University, School of Economics) presented From Champagne to Kampot pepper: EU development aid to export the idea of Geographical Indications, as part of the Utrecht University Applied Economics seminar series. The speaker is Principal Investigator of the Utrecht University ‘Follow the food: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability ... Development Aid and Geographical Indications
2025 4mn
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Follow the food: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
The Bassetti Foundation is pleased to announce its involvement in the Utrecht University ‘𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝: 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬’ Pathways to Sustainability Signature Project. The project aims to challenge the globalized, unsustainable and unfair agri-food system (especially for smallholders and subsistence farmers) by studying and enhancing the potential of Geographical Indications ... Follow the food: Leveraging Geographical Indications for Sustainability and Fairness
2025 3mn
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Artificial Intelligence in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
To celebrate the release of the Bassetti Foundation White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, Jonathan Hankins reviews several recent Journal of Responsible Innovation articles that address the topic of AI from different perspectives and points of view. In A systemic perspective on bridging the principles to-practice gap in creating ethical artificial intelligence solutions – a critique of ... Artificial Intelligence in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
2025 6mn
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Collaboration with the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation
Between February and May (2025) the Bassetti Foundation collaborated with the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation to bring discussion about responsibility in innovation to secondary schools within the region of Lombardy. I partnered Forum member and long-time Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni on a tour of five schools, while Foundation staff member Tommaso Correale Santacroce joined ... Collaboration with the Lombardy Regional Forum for Innovation
2025 3mn
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Focus on Reflexivity in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
One of the central aims of responsible innovation is to promote reflexivity, and in this post I would like to shine some light on recent Journal of Responsible Innovation articles that dive a little deeper into this ‘pillar’ of RI practices. In the recently published (2025) The roles of responsible innovation researchers in research projects, ... Focus on Reflexivity in the Journal of Responsible Innovation
2025 5mn
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Lund University Research on Food Sharing
On 27 March 2025, I and Mirjam Scholtens (Municipality of Utrecht) took a group of researchers from Lund University for a guided tour of the Utrecht city garden Food For Good and its neighbouring Eilandsteede city farm. As readers might know, Food For Good is a regular port of call for university groups from across ... Lund University Research on Food Sharing
2025 3mn
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Place Based Circular Society Innovations
In October of 2024, I was invited to join the Advisory Board and attend the launch of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project Place-based circular society innovations (CSI) in Manchester, UK. I was excited to join, not only because long term friend of the Bassetti Foundation Sally Randles is part of ... Place Based Circular Society Innovations
2025 3mn
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Pathways to Sustainability
On 28 November I attended the Utrecht University Pathways to Sustainability Conference 2024 in the beautiful surroundings of the Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht. The title of the conference was At Home?, and the conference focused upon a premise: A just and sustainable future can only be reached with a feeling of HOME for all. All ... Pathways to Sustainability
2025 3mn
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Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review
The e-book Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity is one of the outcomes of A Just Transition to the Circular Economy (JUST2CE). This European Union Horizon 2020 funded project concluded this summer (2024), its aim being to understand the implications of the transition to a circular economy on the environment, economy ... Circular Economy for Social Transformation: Multiple Paths to Achieve Circularity – a book review
2024 7mn
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Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference
Conference Theme: Making and doing transformations In July I attended the quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). This (the 11th quadrennial joint conference) was hosted by the Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). EASST is the European Association for ... Thoughts from the EASST 4s Conference
2024 7mn
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