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 | SUPPORTING EU INSTITUTIONS
In the past months, we have been working along with various EU institutions to support cities in creating more integrated, sustainable and inclusive policies and in using better existing financial resources. We were present at the European Commission / DG Regio’s Urban Development Networkmeeting in Ghent and moderated a Dialogue event of the European Investment Bank’s Jaspers programme in Vienna. |
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 | COUNSELING CITIES
We have been helping municipalities in experimenting with new programmes and modalities of cooperation with civic stakeholders. In Split and Dubrovnik, in the frame of the Approaches to Participatory Governance of Cultural Institutions project, we met municipal officers and cultural producers who work on new models of innovative cultural institutions based on the principles of participatory governance. In Murcia, we joined forces with the experimental network Urbelac, connecting European and Latin American cities around innovative policies. With the Interactive CitiesUrbact Action Planning Network, we organised a study visit to Helsinki and co-designed a transnational meeting in Tartu. |
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 | WORKING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Eutropian is rooted in the communities where its members live. In Rome, we joined forces with the neighbourhood committee of Casal Bertone, to accelerate the completion of the neighbourhood’s unfinished market hall. We participated at several occasions at the night programmes of Radio Impegno, broadcasting from the social housing complex of Corviale. Together with the circular economy initiative OZ - Officine Zero, we have elaborated plans to collectively purchase, renovate and maintain a large industrial complex OZ uses. Internationally, we participated at the Citizens Lab meeting in Brussels and began to work on Network Navigator with other citizen initiatives across Europe. |
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 | PRESENTATIONS
In the past months, we have been touring European cities to present and discuss our work. In Paris, we gave a keynote lecture about the contemporary urban visions of Budapest, while at the Leggere la Cittàfestival in Pistoia (Tuscany) we spoke about civic initiatives and economic stability. In Rome, we hosted a delegation of ministry officers and planners from Congo, we presented the Cooperative City platform at the Time for Impact event in the Casa dell’Architettura, and participated at roundtable discussions at the Forum Pubbliche Amministrazioni and the Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico. |
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 | PHD DEFENSE
Our colleague Levente Polyák successfully defended his PhD dissertation at the Central European University, in a university under attack by the Hungarian government. In the meanwhile, Daniela Patti will defend her PhD at the TU Wien in July. |
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HOSTWRITER PRIZE
The hostwriter prize is awarded annually to collaborative journalism pieces as well as promising story pitches. There are two hostwriter prize categories. The story prize is for collaborative pieces researched and published by 31 July. The pitch prize is open to journalists with an excellent idea for a story that would be realised with at least one other colleague. Apply by 31 July. Read more |
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TANDEM EUROPE
Tandem Europe – Social Innovation is a cross-border learning and doing programme. During their Tandem year, cultural-social initiators from all over Europe kick-start long-term collaboration with a partner from abroad. Tandem Europe - Social Innovation is now open for applications again! You can submit your expression of interest by 30 June 2017. |
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“When he enters the territory of which Eutropia is the capital, the traveler sees not one city but many, of equal size and not unlike one another, scattered over a vast, rolling plateau.”
From Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino |
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