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25.11.2009
Urban Forum

Vital & Vibrant Town Centres Conference 2009

Business Improvement Districts Scotland (BIDS) is hosting the Vital & Vibrant Town Centres Conference entitled “Town Centres: The Fight Back”, which is the major event in Scotland for ...
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16.11.2009
Urban Forum

International Conference on Artistic Residencies and Eastern European Res Artis Meeting

The a-i-r laboratory programme at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle is organising a Re-tooling Residencies conference. Being a host for the first Eastern European Res Artis Meeting Re-tooling Residencies enta...
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19.10.2009
Future City Game

Future City Game pilot under the OPENCities project

Together with the Centre for European Refugees, Migration and Ethnic Studies (CERMES), the British Council Bulgaria will organise a series of interactive workshops with university students pursuing de...
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16.10.2009
Future City Game

The Future City Game has encouraged changes in Kaunas

The Future City Game has helped improve the quality of life in Kaunus, Lithuania’s second biggest city. The ideas generated by the twenty-four participants in Kaunas and eighteen in London were ...
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06.10.2009
Urban Forum

Open Days 2009

The British Council has over 75 years of experience of building trust and understanding worldwide, promoting the sharing of knowledge and ideas for the benefit of all. We work in partnership with city...
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03.10.2009
Urban Forum

How cities can mobilise creativity and knowledge to tackle compelling social challenges

3 October at 16.00, Bruxelles Congres Station - Gare du Congres Blvd Pacheco, Brussels We invite you to LNDBRU, a multidisciplinary exhibition with emerging artists from London and Brussels, explori...
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15.09.2009
Creativity in the City

Wiersze w Metrze

15 September - 11 October, Warsaw Wiersze w Metrze 2009 is here! This year, the Warsaw underground is exhibiting contemporary European poetry from fifteen countries; and the city is hosting the 5th ed...
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13.07.2009
Urban Forum

Civil Society Forum

16-18 September, Bratislava The Civil Society Forum, organised by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe,  is designed to encourage discussion, reflection and diagnosis, as wel...
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10.07.2009
Urban Forum

Interview with the Young Foundation

Brief Poland is the first marketing magazine in Poland addressed to professionals working the area of: marketing and sales, media, advertising, media and research agencies. Brief Poland has recently i...
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29.06.2009
Urban Ideas Bakery

Creative Cities on the Citisense conference

As part of the Citisense conference 2009 and as the start of the Urban Ideas Bakery process in Sandefjord, we organised a workshop that examined some of the challenges the city is facing and what the ...
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18.06.2009
Urban Forum

Breakthrough Cities Launch in Norway

22-23 June To celebrate the publication of the Breakthrough Cities report in Norway, the British Council is partnering with Citisense conference to deliver a stimulating workshop that addresses the c...
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18.06.2009
Creativity in the City

The Future City Game Exhibition

17 June – 17 July, Mšťanska beseda, Pilsen We played several Future City Games in individual Pilsen districts. The games focused on the European Capital of Culture bid, and addressed ke...
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17.06.2009
Urban Ideas Bakery

Become an Urban Ideas Baker

We are now recruiting emerging practitioners and change makers who are active in the field of social innovation and creativity in cities to join the Urban Ideas Bakery.The Urban Ideas Bakery is organi...
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17.06.2009
Urban Forum

Breakthrough Cities Launch in Poland

Breakthrough Cities, a report on how cities can mobilise creativity and knowledge to tackle compelling social challenges, will be launched at the Creative Industries – Business, Culture and Inno...
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11.06.2009
Urban Forum

The Breakthrough cities report launched

The Breakthrough Cities report was formally launched in Prague on Thursday 11th June. The event took place under the auspices of the Lord Mayor of Prague, Doctor Pavel Bem at his official residence. T...
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13.05.2009
Urban Ideas Bakery

Call for urban social innovation case studies to build a web resource

Are you a social innovator engaged in projects to improve your city and based in one of the following countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukrai...
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07.04.2009
Future City Game

Future City Games to appear in the Hungarian Television series Our Little Town

British Council Hungary is organizing a series of eight Future City Games and producing a television series that is based on this games. The series, Our Little Town, will air on Sundays, starting on 2...
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06.04.2009
Urban Forum

Nigel Bellingham, Project Director Creative Cities, presenting at the Future Cities Forum

The future development of towns, cities, regions and neighborhoods must be addressed at international, national and local level. The Future Cities Forum international conference will therefore bring t...
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17.03.2009
Future City Game

The mayor of Budaors establishes a student cabinet

The Future City Game brought together public officials, students, and young and senior professionals, enabling an exchange of ideas and opinions on the future of the city. The mayor was so impressed b...
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17.03.2009
Future City Game

The winning ideas to be presented at the Core Cities Summit

The Core Cities group is a network of England's major regional cities: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. The game was played as the main component...
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17.03.2009
Future City Game

The Mayor implements the idea of regular meetings with residents

One of the teams in the Future City Game was lucky to have the Mayor of Kaunas among them. They decided that such cooperation could be a start for the long-term exchange of ideas. They came up with th...
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17.03.2009
Future City Game

Eco-Piotrkowska incorporated into the official development strategy

The first Future City Game in Poland has brought together representatives of the city authorities, academics, the local community, business and various creative industries to work out the best solutio...
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17.03.2009
Future City Game

The Duke of Edinburgh meets Future City Game players in Slovenia

The first Future City Game in Slovenia took place in Ljubljana. The participating teams were challenged to come up with ideas that in ten year’s time would make Ljubljana a better place to live ...
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06.03.2009
Urban Forum

Public Avatar

A new artistic project by media artist Martin Bricelj and Martin Wheeler which will bring to the streets of Slovenian city Novo mesto a real avatar! On 6th March from 2 till 7 pm you will be able ...
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