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  • Creating sustainable and just cities through Urban Arenas

    (15 February 2019)-: A new European research project, UrbanA – Arenas for sustainable and just cities, was launched by ECOLISE and partners in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany last month. The Urban Arenas will be co-creative spaces designed to generate convincing, specific, and actionable solutions towards sustainable cities that foster deep forms of democracy and citizen […]

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  • ECOLISE is hiring a Network and Outreach Coordinator

    (13 Feb 2019):- Since 2017 ECOLISE has had in place a small paid staff of part-time coordinators in areas of key strategic importance, working as a virtual team, meeting in person once or twice per year. We are now seeking to recruit an additional coordinator to the team, with a central role in membership liaison […]

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  • ECOLISE’s system change facilitators initiative receives FundAction grant

    (11 February 2019) :- An ECOLISE initiative to build a community of practice (CoP) of system change facilitators has been chosen by the online assembly of FundAction to receive one of its Rethink grants. Thanks to the grant facilitators from different countries will be enabled to support each other in activating and synergising the potential […]

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  • ECOLISE’s low-carbon open meeting series continues in 2019 – see you online!

    (20 December 2018):- The ECOLISE online meeting series, which aims to seed collaborative developments in raising awareness of community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, sharing and co-creating knowledge, and influencing policy makers, continues in 2019. The series of monthly meetings began in June 2018. The meetings take place online on Zoom from 14h30 to […]

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  • COP24 yields a mix bag of results

    (17 December 2018) – Robert Hall was one of ECOLISE’s representatives at the recent UN climate meeting in Poland. Here he shares his thoughts on the fortnight-long meeting: “I am on my long train ride home from the COP 24 in Katowice, Poland. It was a mixed bag of results. A thick Paris Rulebook was […]

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