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  • Eureka. A new 1 million Erasmus+ Project has been financed

    From January 2021 Elena Ostanel will be involved in another international Project 'Eureka. European Urban REgenerators Knowledge Alliance'. Cities across Europe are facing the challenge of regenerating abandoned or decaying, public or private, urban spaces. Public administrations, businesses and non-profit organizations are all engaged with the transformation of these spaces and a professional profile stands out: the Urban Innovator (UI), able to use social innovation tools to develop urban regeneration processes. Urban innovators are in high demand in the job market, however they still lack a clear recognition in terms of professional role and training at EU level. The 3-years and 1-million Project is a Knowledge Alliance that addresses this need by promoting and formalizing the urban innovator profile for the public and private sector through the creation on a multidisciplinary curriculum, designed by universities, enterprises, public administrations, cooperating jointly.
    03 January 2021

  • Closing Conference: Making Room. Social Innovation in Urban Planning

    After 3 years, the NEIGHBOURCHANGE Project has come to an end. The closing conference ‘Making Room. Social Innovation in Urban Planning’ is aimed at discussing the main research findings with…

    03 October 2020

  • A new book chapter on institutional learning

    A new publication is now available. A book chapter ‘Can social innovation transform local governments? The experience of Naples’ in the Book ‘Social movements and public policies in Southern European…

    03 September 2020

  • New book chapter in Open Access

    The new chapter ‘Community-based responses to exclusionary processes of neighbourhood change in Parkdale, Toronto’ is now Open Access. Published in the book edited by Susan Moore, Nicola Livingstone, Susannah Bunce…

    02 August 2020

  • Open seminars in the Community Planning Course

    In the framework of the Community Planning Course by Elena Ostanel, a set of open seminars are organized. These seminars are streamed on line or accessible on Teams Platform to…

    02 May 2020

  • Elena Ostanel has been awarded the ALDA Martini Scholarship

    The NEIGBOURCHANGE Project has been awareded the Scholarship Martini of ALDA- The European Association of Local Democracy Agencies. Despite a general increase in well-being, social inequalities have increased significantly in…

    02 September 2019

  • My interview for Rai Television

    After my participation to Biennale Democrazia, a major international conference on democracy in Italy, RAI Television has released an interview where I present my book ‘Spazi Fuori dal Comune. Rigenerare,…

    28 August 2019

  • The Annual AESOP Conference at Iuav of Venice

    Contemporary cities and territories face significant challenges – natural disasters due to climate change impacts, ecological crises, growing socio-economic unrest, global migration, political rifts including a rise of right wing…

    02 July 2019

  • A new book chapter is free for Open Access

    The aim of this work is to explore applications of the intercultural and multicultural paradigms to urban fabrics. My intention is to contribute to the ongoing academic debate, taking into…

    02 July 2019

  • A new publication discussing ‘Self-organization practices in cities’

    As a result of the Conference Cities and Self-organization (Rome, 11-13 December 2018) a new publication has been released. With the colleague Giovanni Attili, I’ve worked at the introduction of the…

    08 January 2019