Levente Polyak

We participated at a talk about the creative sector in the Visegrad Region, read the articles or watch the interviews at http://www.aspeninstitutece.org/en/news/creative-visegrad-city-culture-and-public-space-2016-05-25/

In Brussels on 31st May various stakeholders of the Seismic network met to share experiences on the emerging economic models in our cities. How can all this feed into to European policy making? Further information here.

Communities working on co-housing or social enterprises often face difficulty accessing finance, but some succeeded in raising money within the community. The dilemmas seem to focus on creating balance between individual energy and profits, communal needs and returns. Further information available at https://dezwijger.nl/day-4-we-connect/community-finance

We organised together with Pakhuis de Zwijger, URBACT and Committee of the Regions an occasion for Cities and Makers to discuss about the Urban Agenda, providing the perspective of who works on the ground to the ongoing Partnership working groups. Report soon available. More information at https://dezwijger.nl/invitation-we-make-europe/

The workshop in Rotterdam presented cases of emerging community-led real estate development projects from various cities of Europe by bringing together experiences from Lisbon, Berlin, Belgrade, Rome, Budapest and various Dutch cities. Soon the publication will be available!

The event is part of the Funding the Cooperative City in Central Europe series that explores, promotes and assists experiments in organising and establishing new community spaces and services in Central European cities. By focusing on Central European cities with emerging entrepreneurial skills and a maturing civil society, the project aims at positioning Central European initiatives in the wider European context and at acting as a platform for knowledge exchange. The Prague event brings together „city makers” and protagonists of the new social economy from various cities in order to help shaping a new Central European culture of urban development based on community-driven initiatives, civic economic models and cooperative ownership.

Planned schedule
13:45 Meeting at Vítězné náměstí 1 (by KFC)
14:00 Visit to Šesťák – newly open public space in Prague 6
14.30 Visit to Jatka78
15.30 Visit to the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague
16.30 Visit to Paralelní Polis
17.00 Public event at Paralelní Polis, Dělnická 43, Praha 7

More information: http://eutropian.org/funding-the-cooperative-city-prague/
Registration: rsvp@aspeninstitute.cz (by June 12)
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1769640493271308/
More about Funding the Cooperative City: http://eutropian.org/about-funding-the-cooperative-city/

Supported by the International Visegrad Fund

The event is part of the Funding the Cooperative City in Central Europe series that explores, promotes and assists experiments in organising and establishing new community spaces and services in Central European cities. By focusing on Central European cities with emerging entrepreneurial skills and a maturing civil society, the project aims at positioning Central European initiatives in the wider European context and at acting as a platform for knowledge exchange. The Bratislava event brings together „city makers” and protagonists of the new social economy from various cities in order to help shaping a new Central European culture of urban development based on community-driven initiatives, civic economic models and cooperative ownership.

Planned schedule
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Visit to Cvernovka
16.15 Visit to Obchodna ulica
17.30 Visit to Stara trznica
19.00 Public event at Lab

More information at http://eutropian.org/funding-the-cooperative-city-bratislava/
Contact: jan@staratrznica.sk
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1181349848556034/
More about Funding the Cooperative City: http://eutropian.org/about-funding-the-cooperative-city/

Supported by the International Visegrad Fund

Eutropian will be joining the “Connecting communities through urban design” discussion by presenting the work on Markets in Rome.

This is the first event of the new series Public Space. At this event we will focus on the ways public spaces connect the physical and social layers of the city. We will discuss the role of urban design in connecting the physical neighbourhoods in the city and social interventions that connect communities. Examples from European cities will be presented.

More information here.

On Sunday 29 May from 14.00 – 16.30 hs as part of the New Europe City Makers Summit, URBACT, Eutropian, Agora Europe and Pakhuis de Zwijger jointly organise, in cooperation with the European Committee of the Regions the unique dialogue We Make Europe: Cities and City Makers enhancing the (Im)Pact of Amsterdam at FabCity.

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Partners from the Smarticipate project visited Rome and worked on use cases for the development of an open data-based participatory platforms. The Smarticipate project aims to use open data to give citizens the information needed to shape their city. By making data accessible and understandable, citizens are empowered to shape new public services and solutions to urban problems.