On 29 September – 1 October, the NECE (Networking European Citizenship Education) conference will discuss the challenges of cultural and citizenship education within the development of cities and urban spaces. The conference will address in particular the changes that migration and mobility brought to European cities, by undermining the social cohesion in many urban societies.

Developments within cities and in urban spaces provide a variety of starting points for new ways of cultural and citizenship education which are being discovered only slowly. Artistic and cultural ways of action and interventions may inform and activate the public, new participative ways of urban development may mobilise the citizens’ political and creative potential and support the voices of civil society. Which opportunities and tasks for cultural and citizenship education do result from these new forms and ways of action? May they lead to a reconsideration of previous assumptions and interventions in cultural and citizenship education?

The NECE conference in Trieste can be understood as a laboratory, think tank and project market for different disciplines, methodologies and practitioners, bringing together the variety of 'urban' discourses and practices in the cities of Europe in order to look for new approaches to cooperation and projects.

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