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Floridsdorf is blooming! As the project enters its final weeks, the event programme for the last months of May-July has been published. The final event of the project in Floridsdorf will be an interactive light & film installation with musical accompanyment on 02 July. Eutropian is part of PlaceCity. A project about placemaking as a Read More …

Six select Open Heritage documentaries are featured as part of the Living the City exhibition, taking place  21 May – 20 June 2021 at the  Berlin-Tempelhof Airport. Created in the form of short documentaries, the The Open Heritage series tells the comprehensive story of each unique adaptive heritage re-use site: their histories, the people behind Read More …

Join the PlaceCity symposium about the potential of placemaking as a tool for creating more inclusive, just and sustainable cities. The PlaceCity symposium spans two ONLINE days:June 10th from 14.00- 16.00 CEST (UTC+02) and June 11th from 14.30 – 16.00 CEST (UTC+02).Click here for the event page. The first session on June 10th, we will explore Read More …

Pre-register now for our OpenHeritage training program on adaptive heritage reuse! The OpenHeritage Trainings will be held every 2 weeks starting on 19th of October 2021, from 4.30pm-7pm. The trainings will be held online. Topics covered in the trainings include heritage reuse, finance, governance, community involvement and territorial impact.The five training units can be attended Read More …

The URBACT and Urban Innovative Actions programmes, through a concerted effort, have created a new platform that aims to reflect the paradigm shift with regards to questions around the right to housing in contemporary cities of Europe. It focuses on challenging the current state of (un)affordable urban housing across the continent. The right2housing.eu website serves as Read More …

Eutropian is proud partner of the Open Heritage project, which identifies and tests the best practices of adaptive heritage re-use in Europe. We lead the research on case studies and produced documentary films on select sites. Policy brief #2: Challenges and benefits of strong partnerships. The process of sustainable heritage reuse usually involves a multitude Read More …

The New European Bauhaus initiative, promoted by the European Commission, connects the European Green Deal to our living spaces. The initiative will bring citizens, experts, businesses, and institutions together and facilitate conversations about making tomorrow’s living spaces more affordable and accessible.   Eutropian has, recently, become an official partner of the New European Bauhaus. Accordingly, we Read More …

A new knowledge transfer project, CO4CITIES (2021-2022), held its kick-off meeting last week. Funded by URBACT III as part of the UIA Transfer Mechanism, CO4CITIES builds on expertise and lessons learned during a recently concluded Urban Innovative Action project, CO-CITY. CO-CITY looked at innovative ways to regenerate deprived neighbourhoods located in different areas of Turin Read More …

Cooperative Urban Futures is a new webinar series initiated through a Eutropian and EUKN partnership.  The series explores radical new ideas emerging in European urban planning, policy and development; ideas that lead to the the promotion of more green space in urban centers and fosters the creation of sustainable urban cities. Eutropian and EUKN are Read More …

The Stará Tržnica: breathing life into an old market hall The Urban Visions film festival screened the Eutropian-produced film in the official selection of its 2021 edition. The film is one of the many films produced by Eutropian for the Open Heritage project. It explores the story of the Stará Tržnica (Old Market Hall), a Read More …

CUP 4 Creativity is a recently launched UIA-funded project in the Újbuda district of Budapest (2020-2023). The project aims at developing a stronger local cultural ecosystem, a new cultural venue and a platform to nurture creativity and collaboration in the 11th District of the Hungarian capital. The partnership is led by the Municipality of Újbuda, with Read More …

  Eutropian is proud partner of the OpenHeritage project, which identifies and tests the best practices of adaptive heritage re-use in Europe. The OpenHeritage Dialogues is a series of three interactive workshops focusing on key aspects of adaptive heritage reuse while sharing and discussing OpenHeritage results with relevant stakeholders and multipliers. OpenHeritage Dialogue #3: Financing Read More …

In a world of increasingly complex problems, collaboration is pivotal in any decision-making process. The success of an intervention required multiple stakeholders to come together and actively create, in order to improve the systems and services. PUJ adopted a co-design thinking approach that involves different non-designers in various co-design activities throughout the design process. Article Read More …

Eutropian’s Yilmaz Vurucu presented examples of innovative community activation during his presentation for the design matters seminar series.  Yilmaz focused on Stara Trznica (Bratislava), Largo Residencias (Lisbon) and Sarg Fabrik (Vienna) as three of the most impressive examples he came across while producing the Open Heritage documentary series. While providing a background and brief history Read More …

The REFLOW Project is an H2020 EU project that aims to develop circular and regenerative cities by enabling active citizen involvement as well as systemic change that promotes a re-thinking of the current approach to material flows in cities. Eutropian  supports the Municipality of Milan in attaining the goals of what’s defined as Task 5.5 Read More …

Co-organized by Curing the Limbo together with Catholic Relief Services and the Greek Housing Network, The symposium focused on the issue of affordable housing and the role it plays in supporting social cohesion and improving the integration of migrants and refugees. Eutropian’s Levente Polyak participated in this informative event and moderated one of the panel discussions: Good practices Read More …

https://eutropian.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/pratourbanjungle-480.mp4 PUJ is an Urban Innovative Actions project aiming to convert urban areas into so-called urban jungles or areas of high density plants and trees to help improve the quality of air in the city, as well as the quality of life and citizen satisfaction. The proposed urban jungles will be developed with citizen involvement Read More …

EUARENAS investigates the ways in which social movements coupled with local government reform initiatives, manifest themselves in local-level experiments and create momentum for political change. The project promotes inclusive and participatory forms of governance. The project consists of universities, municipalities, think-tanks, NGOs and active civil society actors, with an  interest in exploring the mechanism of Read More …

Three days of talks and dialogues Organized and promoted by Eutropian with the patronage of ANCI, Municipio VIII and I Roma Centro, the Peace Village Conference consisted of six round tables addressing current issues through the lens of Peace and Human Rights. Over 500 hundred youngsters interacted on the six themes proposed from the Village Read More …

“Building community spaces for cultivating local ecosystems” Based on Riga’s good practice, the NGO House, the ACTive NGOs URBACT Transfer network brought together six cities to strengthen community venues and build civic ecosystems around them.  For the past two years and a half, Eutropian’s Levente Polyak has been supporting the network as a Lead Expert to help Read More …

Ravenna’s Darsena area has been a delicate spot on the city’s map. After a process of deindustrialisation and a series of attempts to regenerate the former port, the neighbourhoods along the Candiano Canal, leading to Ravenna’s seaside, are still seeking for a new identity and a revived economic dynamism. In the first article to accompany Read More …

Organized and promoted by Eutropian with the support of the city of Rome, the Peace Village Conference will consist of six round tables that address current issues through the lens of Peace and Human Rights and through a transversal and interdisciplinary approach. By participating in the debate you will be able to learn about other Read More …

Eutropian is proud partner of the Open Heritage project, which identifies and tests the best practices of adaptive heritage re-use in Europe. We lead the research on case studies and produced documentary films on select sites. The project released its first policy brief towards the end of last year. The first of five briefs, the Read More …

Living and working in times of physical distancing and – sometimes forced – digitalisation cannot always be about video meetings via Zoom, Skype or other similar platforms. Or at least, we should not limit ourselves to these kinds of interactions. The Eutropian team is constantly involved in video conferences to carry on new and ongoing Read More …

Eutropian will be co-organizing the fifth “Mosaico Roma” on Friday February 16th. Join us for the live broadcast as we discuss the future of Rome following the current crisis. The National Recovery and Resilience Plan to be discussed The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), part of The Next Generation EU, will be allocating a significant Read More …