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EDU-CITY

The Erasmus plus project Edu-City promotes field educational experiences to fragile adults in disadvantaged urban contexts.

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URBEX II

Urbex II is an Erasmus plus project aimed at developing urban exploration as tool to engage and empower youths at risk of exclusion.  It will achieve its aims firstly by promoting the active participation and engagement of five local groups of young people and providing them with non-formal learning opportunities of exploration and appreciation of the […]

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Cities engaging in the right to housing

Cities engaging in the right to housing is a EU funded capitalisation project of the EU programmes URBACT and UIA .  The initiative explores how cities can deliver practical solutions to implement the right to housing, collecting stories and concrete examples from European cities already implementing the right to housing that others can take inspiration from. Three questions are leading […]

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TESSERAE DIALOGUES

Ten years of Tesserae in ten conversations (+1) To celebrate ten years of Tesserae, and to look forward into the next decade of our work, we are launching the ‘Tesserae Dialogues’ web series. Starting in December 2021, Tesserae will host a series of monthly online conversations with ten activists, researchers and policy experts who have […]

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IN-HABIT

Inclusive Health and Well being in Small and Medium Cities IN-HABIT is an Horizon 2020 project led by the University of Cordoba. The overall objective of IN-HABIT is to foster Inclusive Health and Wellbeing in peripheral small and medium size cities by means of mobilizing resources around a core topic  and galvanize them through solutions that […]

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UPPER

UPPER aims at transforming misused and abandoned green and concrete areas of Latina (Italy) into Productive Parks devoted to research, technological development and self-production of innovative nature-based solutions to tackle environmental, socio-economic and governance challenges.

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Co-Creation

EU Marie Curie RISE project led by Oxford Brooks University addressing urban disadvantage and territorial stigmatization.

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Regenerating commons – Civic E-State

This project is the result of an Ad Hoc expertise commissioned by the City of Naples to Lorenzo Tripodi, in the framework of the URBACT Transfer network Civic e-State. This network aims at guaranteeing the collective enjoyment as well as collective management of urban essential facilities conceived as urban commons. It promotes a public-community governance approach to secure their […]

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Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen

Remembrance in transition - Show me your Hohenschönhausen! (Erinnerung im Wandel - Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen!) is a short visual storytelling project done in the Hohenschönhausen - neighborhood in the north-east of Berlin.

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From the sea to the city

‘From the Sea to the City’ aims to join forces to reimagine the European stance on migration with cities and human rights at the center. With this vision we want to send a strong signal to the European institutions that we want to pursue a welcoming and human-rights based migration and refugee policy. Welcoming refugees […]

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Moving Cities Map

Cities as a Driving Force for the Transformation of European Migration Policy The project “The Moving Cities Map” is the first part of a three-part strategy that was developed in a European networking process within the framework of the Palermo Charter Platform and in which 20 different European initiatives were involved. The overall strategy aims […]

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CALICO

CALICO (Care and Living in Community) is a three-year project of UIA (Urban Innovative Actions) in Brussels, developed from the intersection of three societal challenges. The project consists of 34 apartments in cohabitation. It combines different generations and people with different backgrounds and is therefore a diverse community. The aim of this project was to […]

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CoMMA

CoMMA (Collaborative Multi Media Atlas) is a platform for the co-production of digital atlases.

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COMENSI

Comensi is an Erasmus plus EU project working with five deprived urban neighbourhoods across Europe to understand and address adult citizens' lack of participation.

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(im)possible complicities

Conference. Berlin, May 23-24, 2019. (Im)possible Complicities looks for ideas that come from practice and concrete engagement in distressed territorial contexts. We want to discuss the potential and pitfalls of co-creative projects with activists, artists and academics who share a constructive as much as critical view on the topic.

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Open CCCP

From Open Educational Resources to Open Educational Practice for Commons Community and Culture Projects

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UrbInclusion

Combating poverty in deprived urban areas. URBACT Implementation Network

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Right to the City 1968-2018

Right to the City 1968-2018 is a video archive of voices debating uses and adaptations of the Lefebvrian concept across the multiplication of struggles and transformations of the planetary urban landscape.

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B-MINCOME Urban Innovative Actions

Combining guaranteed minimum income and active social policies in deprived urban areas

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URBEX

Urban exploration as educational tool. Erasmus + Key Action 2 - Exchange of good practices in the field of youth

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Learning from Context

The Learning from Context conference took place in Berlin on 22-23 September 2017 presenting the participatory toolsets developed by the EULER project in four European cities. It was aimed at enhancing reflection, sharing and dissemination of the produced knowledge in a profitable confrontation with similar experiences of urban education, knowledge exchange and capacity building.

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Switch On Mehringplatz – EULER

Erasmus+ EU training program supporting skills and competences deriving from informal and voluntary engagement in community initiatives. EULER develops activities in Antwerp, Barcelona, Berlin and London.

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CARITALENTS

Caritalents is a training program developed by he University of Florence, Department of Architecture, Italy (UNIFI/DIDA) and the University of the West Indies, Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, Barbados (UWI/EBCCI). The spirit of CARITALENTS proposal is to help to growth the human capital thanks to new instruments for the recognition and enhancement of the territorial heritage. In […]

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Exercises in Urban Reconnaissance

Exercises in Urban Reconnaissance is a methodological toolset developed by the ogino:knauss collective for the holistic exploration of urban territories.

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ReCentering Periphery

Re>centering Periphery is a project exploring the urban space produced by the modernist ideology and the everyday life practice and struggles that transform urban peripheries. Conceived and initiated by the ogino:knauss collective, Tesserae develops production and scientific research of the project.

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ReGeneration

URBACT III Implementation Network

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Urban development in the EU

50 projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund during the 2007-2013 period. A report prepared by AEIDL. Main authors: Laura COLINI (Tesserae, Berlin) and Peter RAMSDEN (Freiss, London).

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Inter Municipal Cooperation in EU

Study visit prepared and conducted in June 2010 by Laura Colini with the collaboration of Lorenzo Tripodi in the frame of the Project Brazil Municipios.

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Manufatto in Situ

MANUFATTO IN SITU is an artistic residency and summer school conceived by Via Industriae in Foligno

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