29-09-2010

01-10-2010

Italy, Trieste
The Stazione Marittima Congress Centre, Molo Bersaglieri 3, I-34124 Trieste

Posted by: anita-baschant

Category: Conference/Symposium

Field: Other

Source http://www.nece.eu

This year's NECE conference proposes to discuss the dramatic changes in European cities in recent decades. Migration and mobility reduce the cohesion within many urban communities. Many cities have become complex entities in which ethnically, socially and culturally segregated communities have developed. Extended leeways for individual life designs and collective ways of living are often linked with growing disparity and conflicts of identity and self-assertion.

At the same time, cities develop the breeding ground for new, mostly cultural expressions of civic participation in order to create new forms of public spheres or civic involvement. The city mirrors social challenges and becomes a laboratory of cultural and social developments in the context of which issues of economy and work, of social belonging and recognition, of cultural self-perception and external perception, of political participation and justice are renegotiated.

Charles Landry, founder of COMEDIA (UK) a network of collaborators, who share thinking, ideas, projects and initiatives concerned with city life, culture and creativity, and Phil Wood (UK) a leading expert in cultural diversity and urban development (Intercultural Cities) as well as Paul Scheffer from the University of Amsterdam and Wolfgang Kaschuba from the Humboldt University Berlin, are four of the main speakers.

Cultural and citizenship education have to reposition themselves, since forms of participation and development opportunities become vital issues in cities. Bringing experts, architects, sociologists, multipliers and practitioners in cultural and citizenship education together, this European conference will search for creative stimulations for urban cultural and citizenship education.

Also, a call for projects is launched. We are looking for your outstanding and innovative examples of working models, concepts and good projects of cultural and citizenship education in the context of the development of cities and urban spaces. The best projects from all over Europe will be invited to Trieste. Please feel free to apply. The application form you can find at www.nece.eu

The current conference programme and more information about the NECE initiative, promoted by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Germany), you can find at: www.nece.eu

There is no participation fee! Places are limited. So we encourage you to register as soon as possible at: nece-trieste@lab-concepts.de
The conference language is English without interpreting.

You will have to pay for your travel and accommodation. The conference team will assist you finding a hotel.

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