Migrant Voices, an R&D grantee of the 2017 Idea Camp 'Moving Communities', shares some insights on her work in Slovenia.
Read More#RDgrantee World Recipe Exchange: "All continents bar Antarctica!"
We talk to Marta Slawinska on her idea 'World Recipe Exchange', which grows into a great cultural project in Limerick, Ireland and beyond.
Read More#RDgrantee Migrationlab: Social Impact report 2016
Idea Camp R&D grantee Laura Pana's Migrationlab social impact 2016 report is now available online. You can find out how they improved the social relationships between migrant, refugee and local communities in The Netherlands; what were the challenges they faced and what they learned along the way.
Read MoreFeatured People: #RDgrantee Federico Brivio
"Although it’s true that xenophobia is spreading in some countries, and politicians are trying to take advantage of it, it’s also impressive to see the spontaneous informal groups that appeared in our cities and started working on the migrants' issues, learning complex laws to offer legal support, finding solutions for housing, building networks, deciding sometime to act beside legality in respect of their belief and to what they think that Europe should be." We talk with Federico Brivio about his idea: QX1 Migrants.
Read MoreFeatured People: Izabela Zalewska-Kantek
Warsaw-based landscape architect Izabela Zalewska-Kantek from the foundation Virid’OR took part in ECF's first Idea Camp in Marseille in 2014. She presented, GERMINATION FOR THE FUTURE - Education gardens for children in small and medium cities in Poland, a project that was subsequently awarded an ECF Research and Development grant. We caught up with Izabela and her project partner Kamila and captured their thoughts and experiences from the grant period on video. Watch now.
Read MoreFeatured people: #RDgrantee Gerry Proctor
Gerry Proctor of EngageLiverpool was in Amsterdam to part take in the Public Space meetup series. The 2015 ECF R&D grantee spoke about the ‘Liverpool Air Project’ and ensuing ‘VENT! Liverpool Air Quality Festival’ which took place in Spring 2016. We took this opportunity to catch up with Gerry on his projects.
Read MoreFeatured People: #RDgrantee Paul Currion
We talk to Paul Currion about the right to housing, living and working in Serbia, on new finance models for communities and how the R&D grant has impacted on the development of his idea.
Read MoreFeatured People: #RDgrantee Reem Khedr
Reem Khedr took part in the 2015 Idea Camp with an idea called “City Castles / Invisible Shadows”, with which she proposed tackling two challenges: using unused and sometimes decaying buildings as platforms for young artists to practice and perform their art. We took the opportunity to catch up with Reem when she was in Amsterdam in June to take part in a public discussion on How to keep the public space public? In this featured people, Reem tells us about her work in Egypt, on the prototype toolkit for organising community art projects and on her memories on the Idea Camp.
Read MoreInstagram Takeover: Ana Gonçalves
R&D grantee Ana Gonçalves, project leader of The Ageless City: Intergenerational Spaces for Culturally Diverse Neighborhoods, is taking over ECF's Instagram account between 8 and 16 July.
Read MoreFeatured People: #RDgrantee Bea Varnai
Throughout the summer we accompany the launch of our new Idea Camp call with highlights on the works of former Idea Camp participants showing the depth and breadth of our grantees’ networks (you can apply for the 2017 Idea Camp until 20 September 2016). We now talk to Bea Varnai, from UrbaMonde in France.
Read MoreFeatured People: #RDgrantee 140journos
Last year, we featured Engin Önder, 2014 Idea Camp participant and R&D Grantee. He told us about the origins of his citizen journalism initiative 140Journos. In this piece, Engin follows-up on our last conversation, highlighting the transformative power of new media, how the network has been growing across the country, the role the R&D grant played in this endeavour and tells us about a new exciting partnership with Twitter.
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