The Educating Cities attentive to the new challenges arising from the Syrian crisis

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The Charter of Educating Cities explicitly mentions the concern for the newly arrived and the refugees and cities evidence of empathy and solidarity with the Syrian refugees. Local governments are at the forefront of managing integration and diversity, as they are laboratories of policy innovation and they make an important contribution to social cohesion through […]

Pergamino receives the IAEC Latin American Exhibition

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Through the exhibition, the Delegation for Latin America proposes examples of the principles of the Charter of Educating Cities in order to encourage local governments to make visible its bet for the education in its broadest sense. The exhibition is composed by experiences of 17 member cities of the Latin American region (Argentina: Esquel, Godoy […]

The Northern Europe member cities met in Helsinki

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During the meeting,there was a welcoming speech by the Deputy Mayor of Helsinki, Ms. Ritva Vijanen, and a Introductory Plenary Speech by the Director of Youth Affairs of the City of Helsinki, Mr. Tommi Laitio, under the title “Cities are learning environments of (young) people”. Later on, there was a session of exchange of experiences […]

Open letter of Ms. Mónica Fein, Mayor of Rosario

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As Mayor of the city of Rosario, Argentina, I am pleased to inform you that our city will host the 14th International Congress of Educating Cities organized by the Municipality of Rosario and the International Association of Educating Cities (IAEC), next June 1-4 2016. Rosario joined the IAEC in 1996, when we embraced the principles […]

Focus Experience #21

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Through Focus Experience we bring you one of the more than 1.000 BIDCE’s experiences from different issues such as citizenship participation, leisure, lifelong learning, community development, sustainable development, intergenerational relationship, etc. The previous editions of the section Focus Experience are available here. We invite you to forward good practices of your city to the BIDCE! […]

Esquel (Argentina) receives the IAEC Latin American Exhibition

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Through the exhibition, the Delegation for Latin America proposes examples of the principles of the Charter of Educating Cities in order to encourage local governments to make visible its bet for the education in its broadest sense. The exhibition is composed by experiences of 17 member cities of the Latin American region (Argentina: Esquel, Godoy […]

News from the 14th IAEC Congress

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Dates Submission of experiences: Since September 7 to November 15  – 2015 Early registration: Since October 1 2015 to February 19  2016 Regular registration: Since February 20 to May 20 2016 Deadline of communication of selected experiences: February 4 2016 Preliminary Program Day 1 Opening Ceremony Opening Plenary Session Day 2 IAEC General AssemblyDialogue “Politics […]

Braga hosts a new meeting of the Portuguese Network

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The Mayor of Braga, Mr. Ricardo Río, opened the sessions welcoming the attending and pointing out the role of Braga as an Educating City aiming at transforming the local educational communities and all the areas and municipal departments into spaces of active participation. Moreover, stressed that the Meeting was a learning opportunity and of exchange […]