Setúbal
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City, capital of the district of the same name, located 32km South of the Portuguese Capital, Lisbon. Setubal is a trade, industrial and port hub that has lived an important population growth in the last decades. Nowadays, the city has more than 113,000 inhabitants. Phoenicians and Romans settled down in the northern bank of the River Sado Estuary where the city is located now. As a consequence, the city has an important cultural heritage. A significant amount of the municipality surface is part of the Natural Parks of the Arrábida and of the Estuary of Sado.Contact details
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COLAB. Collaborative laboratory in the neighbourhoods of Pescadores and Grito do Povo
The COLAB project is a territorially-based intervention that seeks to promote citizen participation and improve people’s quality of life, taking into account the educational potential of cultural activities. [...]
5th Education Conference in Setúbal
The fifth edition of Setubal's Annual Education Conference will take place on 11 September, with the theme 'Educating in the city, the city that educates'. [...]
Setúbal’s citizens celebrate the Educating Cities’ Award 2018
Mayor of Setúbal, Ms. Maria das Dores Meira, gives a copy of the Prize Diploma to neighbours taking part in the programme “Our Neighbourhood, Our City”, one of the winning projects of the 2018 Educating Cities Award. [...]
Our Neighbourhood, Our City
A model of governance that promoted the empowerment and active involvement of the citizens to set in motion collective responses to the common problems identified in the Bela Vista neighbourhood. [...]
Setúbal will host its 3rd Education Conference
Next September 16, Setúbal will host the 3rd Education Conference under the theme "The Educating City: a commitment for all". [...]