---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicole LEONARD <nicole.leon...@sciencespo.fr> Date: Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:17 PM Subject: Cooperative City magazine; book on community finance; working with local communities, cities and EU institutions To: commonswa...@lists.p2pfoundation.net
Hi all, I’m passing along information and updates from the Eutropian Cooperative City project! Begin forwarded message: *From: *Eutropian Research & Action <i...@eutropian.org> *Subject: **[eca.contact] Cooperative City magazine; book on community finance; working with local communities, cities and EU institutions * *Date: *June 14, 2017 at 6:22:57 AM GMT+2 *To: *<cont...@europeancommonsassembly.eu> *Reply-To: *Eutropian Research & Action <i...@eutropian.org> <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=658a186234&e=7ee3706af0> <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=fb767bacca&e=7ee3706af0> <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=4ce7990044&e=7ee3706af0> *EUTROPIAN*Research & Action <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=5f27487e01&e=7ee3706af0> Welcome to the Cooperative City! *#1 Upcoming#2 Past Events#3 Publications#4 Opportunities from Network* *#5 Meet our team* <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=a3dd858eb3&e=7ee3706af0> C <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=bfc4576951&e=7ee3706af0>OOPERATIVE CITY MAGAZINE <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=c36f64b03c&e=7ee3706af0> We are launching a new online magazine that collects stories, interviews, testimonies and analyses from our partners, highlighting innovative practices from municipalities, citizen initiatives, cooperations across Europe. You can explore our articles and audiovisual features at cooperativecity.org <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=9b78e67c82&e=7ee3706af0> and at our YouTube video channel <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=a338184d81&e=7ee3706af0> . <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=492dddd6ac&e=7ee3706af0> <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=7f78a7f7da&e=7ee3706af0> *NEW BOOK! FUNDING THE COOPERATIVE CITY: COMMUNITY FINANCE AND THE ECONOMY OF CIVIC SPACES * <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=1e2b473577&e=7ee3706af0> In the coming weeks, we will be publishing a new book <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=b80645ddac&e=7ee3706af0> based on the Funding the Cooperative City workshop and interview series <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=c31cd3d267&e=7ee3706af0>. The book explores practices, strategies, organisational forms, legal mechanisms and urban policies to create, develop, reuse, maintain or purchase buildings that accommodate civic spaces. In the Autumn, we will organise a series of book launch events and will launch a call for co-organisers. *SUPPORTING EU INSTITUTIONS* In the past months, we have been working along with various EU institutions to support cities in creating more integrated, sustainable and inclusive policies and in using better existing financial resources. We were present at the European Commission / DG Regio’s Urban Development Network <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=0ca11af3f0&e=7ee3706af0>meeting in Ghent and moderated a Dialogue event of the European Investment Bank’s Jaspers <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=1f2f3f0415&e=7ee3706af0> programme in Vienna. *COUNSELING CITIES* We have been helping municipalities in experimenting with new programmes and modalities of cooperation with civic stakeholders. In Split and Dubrovnik, in the frame of the Approaches to Participatory Governance of Cultural Institutions <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=dd95928aeb&e=7ee3706af0> project, we met municipal officers and cultural producers who work on new models of innovative cultural institutions based on the principles of participatory governance. In Murcia, we joined forces with the experimental network Urbelac <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=848470af1a&e=7ee3706af0>, connecting European and Latin American cities around innovative policies. With the Interactive Cities <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=772a795ebe&e=7ee3706af0>Urbact Action Planning Network, we organised a study visit to Helsinki and co-designed a transnational meeting in Tartu. *WORKING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES* Eutropian is rooted in the communities where its members live. In Rome, we joined forces with the neighbourhood committee of Casal Bertone, to accelerate the completion of the neighbourhood’s unfinished market hall. We participated at several occasions at the night programmes of Radio Impegno <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=86b2bd71f8&e=7ee3706af0>, broadcasting from the social housing complex of Corviale. Together with the circular economy initiative OZ - Officine Zero <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=c3b16fd607&e=7ee3706af0>, we have elaborated plans to collectively purchase, renovate and maintain a large industrial complex OZ uses. Internationally, we participated at the Citizens Lab <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=d214c801d0&e=7ee3706af0> meeting in Brussels and began to work on Network Navigator with other citizen initiatives across Europe. *PRESENTATIONS* In the past months, we have been touring European cities to present and discuss our work. In Paris <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=63bf9c8a32&e=7ee3706af0>, we gave a keynote lecture about the contemporary urban visions of Budapest, while at the Leggere la Città <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=db5e31bc0d&e=7ee3706af0>festival in Pistoia (Tuscany) we spoke about civic initiatives and economic stability. In Rome, we hosted a delegation of ministry officers and planners from Congo, we presented the Cooperative City platform at the Time for Impact <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=c817e5de39&e=7ee3706af0> event in the Casa dell’Architettura, and participated at roundtable discussions at the Forum Pubbliche Amministrazioni <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=fe562b1a7d&e=7ee3706af0> and the Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=3620e613e9&e=7ee3706af0> . <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=9d5d842b82&e=7ee3706af0> *PHD DEFENSE* Our colleague Levente Polyák successfully defended <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=748df945cc&e=7ee3706af0> his PhD dissertation at the Central European University, in a university under attack by the Hungarian government. In the meanwhile, Daniela Patti will defend her PhD at the TU Wien in July. <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=d826db172a&e=7ee3706af0> *TRANSPORT, CULTURE, CENTRAL EUROPE* Our articles appeared in the journal Trasporti e Cultura <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=abc6334fb0&e=7ee3706af0>, published by the Politecnico di Torino, and in the book Understanding Central Europe <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=6f41dd79e5&e=7ee3706af0>, published by Routledge. <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=35c8650954&e=7ee3706af0> HOSTWRITER PRIZE <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=77e5220f37&e=7ee3706af0> The hostwriter prize is awarded annually to collaborative journalism pieces as well as promising story pitches. There are two hostwriter prize categories. The story prize is for collaborative pieces researched and published by 31 July. The pitch prize is open to journalists with an excellent idea for a story that would be realised with at least one other colleague. *Apply by 31 July.* Read more <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=11679b3d62&e=7ee3706af0> <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=24d8e9db0f&e=7ee3706af0> TANDEM EUROPE <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=4727bb7a05&e=7ee3706af0> Tandem Europe – Social Innovation is a cross-border learning and doing programme. During their Tandem year, cultural-social initiators from all over Europe kick-start long-term collaboration with a partner from abroad. Tandem Europe - Social Innovation is now open for applications again! You can submit your expression of interest *by 30 June 2017*. <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=bed50a1f3e&e=7ee3706af0> <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=dd24f93fbc&e=7ee3706af0> *Share your stories and ideas with us! * i...@eutropian.org <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=4aa2401180&e=7ee3706af0> *“When he enters the territory of which Eutropia is the capital, the traveler sees not one city but many, of equal size and not unlike one another, scattered over a vast, rolling plateau.” * >From *Invisible Cities* by Italo Calvino <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=74696ba657&e=7ee3706af0> <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=cc82864feb&e=7ee3706af0> <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=9a8457e4b3&e=7ee3706af0> *Further information * i...@eutropian.org or www.eutropian.org *Want to change how you receive these emails?* You can update your preferences <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/profile?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=414e0b2bd0&e=7ee3706af0> or unsubscribe from this list <http://eutropian.us11.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=6f5f07da1cb2d216de1367202&id=414e0b2bd0&e=7ee3706af0&c=6cd831fbaa> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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