<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Budapest Degrowth Conference 2016</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@budapest.degrowth.org">contact@budapest.degrowth.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:06 PM<br>Subject: Budapest 2016: Call for Degrowth Week events and activities<br>To: <a href="mailto:contact@budapest.degrowth.org">contact@budapest.degrowth.org</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://budapest.degrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/week.jpg?d0605e" rel="attachment wp-att-574" style="font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:25px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(51,175,73);font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:none;text-align:left" target="_blank"><img src="http://budapest.degrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/week-300x298.jpg?d0605e" alt="Budapest degrowth week " width="188" height="187" style="border:0px;display:inline;float:left;margin-right:0px"></a></div><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Between 30 August and 3 September 2016, Budapest will host two parallel, yet complementary events. The 5</span><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">th</span><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> International Degrowth Conference will foster discussion between scholars, researchers, civil society and practitioners about their degrowth-related research and activities. Simultaneously, across Budapest, Degrowth Week will bring discussions, public panels, artistic performances and exhibitions, practical workshops and conviviality events into public space. This open platform for degrowth dialogue, practice, networking and expression will introduce Degrowth to Budapest and its inhabitants, and also to the scholars, researchers, civil society and practitioners being present at the conference.</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">If you wish to share your thoughts, experiences or artistic expressions with Budapest and global degrowth communities, the time is now. The call for Degrowth Week events is officially open. You can suggest events and activities </span><b>until midnight on May 1st</b><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The organisers will do their best to fit as many proposed activities in the programme. But as the current requests for participation in the Degrowth Week show, we will have to go through a selection process (see below). But don’t worry, we will invite the non-selected proposals to relocalize and self-organize their activities individually. A following call for such decentralized activities all around the world will be published later in the spring.</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Please, register your event here: </span><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:none"><a href="https://co-munity.net/degrowth/ic/2016/content/degrowth-week-submission" style="border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(51,175,73);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://co-munity.net/degrowth/ic/2016/content/degrowth-week-submission</a></span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px">Please join our <a href="http://budapest.degrowth.org" target="_blank">Degrowth Week page</a> and feel free to share your ideas and projects.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px">All the best,</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><b><i>Budapest Degrowth Conference Team<br><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://budapest.degrowth.org" target="_blank">http://budapest.degrowth.org</a><br></span></i></b><b><i><a href="mailto:contact@budapest.degrowth.org" target="_blank">contact@budapest.degrowth.org</a></i></b></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><br></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">IMPORTANT NOTES:</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">* </span><b>Openness and Red Line:</b><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> The organisers have the right to reject a proposed event if it does not comply with the principles of the conference (see here </span><a href="http://budapest.degrowth.org/?page_id=407" style="border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(51,175,73);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">http://budapest.degrowth.org/?page_id=407</span></a><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">).</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">* </span><b>Selection process:</b><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> A selection committee, composed of members from varied backgrounds, will review all the received proposals for activities and select the best according to several criteria </span><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">(thematic relevance, clarity, originality and creativity, appeal, disciplinary cohesion, quality).</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">* </span><b>Budget:</b><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> The organisers cannot take the responsibility to finance any of the suggested activities. We will only help to coordinate, find suitable locations and communicate activities. The Degrowth Week is organized based on self-organizing/funding principles and we invite each applicant to prepare a budget and indicate a suggested donation for each event.</span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:'Merriweather Sans';font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 0.625em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);line-height:25px"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Should you have any questions, please first check the Q&A section of the website: </span><a href="http://budapest.degrowth.org/?page_id=329" style="border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(51,175,73);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">http://budapest.degrowth.org/?page_id=329</span></a><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">. If your questions are not answered yet, please, feel welcome to send them to us at </span><a href="mailto:conviviality@budapest.degrowth.org" style="border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(51,175,73);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(64,64,64);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">conviviality@budapest.degrowth.org</span></a><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></div></div>
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