Information Bulletin 22

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The good practices are the Human Library, an innovative method that promotes the fight against prejudices and the mutual understanding by lending “Human books” and the Happy Learning Centre of the Hospital of Andong which organize activities that that improve the emotional and physical welfare of the in-patients, families and visitors of the hospital.

Submission of experiences for the 14th IAEC Congress

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We invite member cities to send experiences for the workshops and the speakers’ corners of the congress through the online submission tool at the 14th IAEC congress portal (http://congresoaice2016.gob.ar/site/submission-of-experiences/?lang=en). The deadline of presentation of experiences is November 15th. The thematic axes that will guide the presentation of experiences and good practices are: The challenges of […]

Rosario hosts a Precongress session

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Among the differents activities of the Precongress, it is worth mentioning a roundtable on “Educating Cities, concepts and strategies, a second one on “How to read cities”, a study visit a Lab of building of Cities in the city Garden children and last but not least a presentation of the 14th Congress. More information at […]

Godoy Cruz 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 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! […]