To complete the construction of European citizenship, it is first of all necessary to build closeness, sharing of experiences, belonging. But what are the tools to consolidate these paths?
The Europlanning Guide podcast that gives voice to the best practices of Europe’s communities.
This and other questions are answered by European , podcast series of the Guide to Europlanning
Produced by Chora Media and conducted by Vitalba Azzollini, a jurist and columnist who is an expert on community issues, European tells about the communities of Europe, and how they cooperate in building their identity and citizenship through European Union projects and funds. Four episodes, of about 20 minutes each, for 4 best practices that tell the story of how citizens of Europe can actively contribute to the construction of community identity, thanks in part to access to European funds and the tools provided by the Europlanning Guide.
Europlanning Guide podcast episodes.
Each episode is devoted to a place, a city, local, neighborhood dimension, and its journey to fit into the larger European context starting with common needs and innovative ways to cope with them.
It begins with a trip to Porta Palazzo, in the multi-ethnic heart of Turin. Here, Vitalba meets Antonio Damasco, anthropologist, actor and director of the Italian Popular Culture Network, a social promotion organization that aims to reinvent forms of sociability from the needs of neighborhoods and their inhabitants. These include Community Gatekeepers, urban garrisons of listening and caring for the territory that carry on the legacy of the European project Specially Unknown, a project funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.
In the second episode Vitalba meets Marta, a teacher in a small town in the Valencian Community in Spain. A difficult context, where social exclusion, isolation and school dropout are part of everyday life. Marta tells how a big hand came to her from a small town in the province of Cuneo, Ceva, and its innovative early guidance project funded by the Erasmus+ program.
The third episode moves to Palermo, a beautiful city, but also the busiest city in Italy. The protagonist is Domenico Schillaci, an engineer, who founded MUV, a small but revolutionary company dedicated to sustainable mobility, which has spread its method throughout Europe–by playing. A project funded by the European Horizon program.
Can science and theater be combined? Definitely yes, according to Andrea Brunello, physicist, actor and founder of Arditodesìo. A small cultural enterprise based in Trent, seeking connections between theater and science, between popularization and art. The second installment explores how art and science can often go hand in hand as both are pillars that hold our society together. The project is funded by the Creative Europe program.
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We will devote further insights regarding these projects, with a focus on aspects of Europlanning.
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