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Aug 13 2020

Green Academy 2020 “The Future is Ours” (Komiža)

By GEF

About the event

The Green European Foundation and Institute for Political Ecology are organising the 10^th edition of the Green Academy.

Under the title “The Future is Ours,” this summer university will focus on cities and municipalities as the real changemakers and terrains for progressive political change.

The dynamic and interactive program is composed of workshops, debates and lectures designed to encourage participants to dive deeper into the municipalist world and seek solutions that can be the driving force for political change at the local level.

Speakers:

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin
Andreas Malm, Lund University
Tine De Moor, Utrecht University

and many more…

Programme:

FRIDAY 21^st OF AUGUST

12:00 – 14:00 ARRIVALS AND CHECK-IN IN HOTEL BIŠEVO

17:00 – 19:30 REGISTRATION

20:00 WELCOME AND OPENING

21:00 “ADA FOR MAYORS” SCREENING

22:00 WELCOME DRINK

SATURDAY 22^nd OF AUGUST

10:00 – 11:00 PROGRAM PRESENTATION

11:00 – 12:00 TOWARD GREEN INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR THE EU

-Vladimir Cvijanović

12:00 – 14:00 THE FUTURE IS OURS – MUNICIPALISTS ON THE MOVE

Success stories from municipalists and green political movements (Lyon, Ghent, Barcelona)

17:00 – 19:30 WORKSHOPS – parallel sessions

See detailed programme here

21:00 OUR RAILWAYS – Presentation of IPE’s research on the democratisation of railways

SUNDAY 23^rd OF AUGUST

10:00 – 11:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE

-Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin

TIME FOR A NEW POLITICS: WHY AFFECTIVE JUSTICE MATTER AS A SITE OF RESISTANCE TO NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM

11:00 – 12:00 HOW TO RECLAIM PUBLIC FUTURE THROUGH LAW

-Marija Bartl

12:00 – 14:00 THE FUTURE IS OURS – MUNICIAPALISTS ON THE MOVE

Cities Donuts – Introduction to the vision of sustainable and just cities (IPE)

17:00 – 19:30 WORKSHOPS – parallel sessions

See detailed programme here

MONDAY 24^th AUGUST

10:00 – 11:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE

-Andreas Malm, Lund University

CORONA, CLIMATE AND CHRONIC EMERGENCY

11:00 – 12:00 PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IN / OF ENERGY TRANSITION – EU / UK EXPERIENCES

-Andrew Cumbers

12:00 – 14:00 THE FUTURE IS OURS – MUNICIPALISTS ON THE MOVE

-Case study – Mediterranean cities

17:00 – 19:30 WORKSHOPS – parallel session

See detailed programme here

21:00 “PUSH” SCREENING

TUESDAY 25^th AUGUST

10:00 – 11:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE

-Tine De Moor, Utrecht University

COMMONS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION IN ENERGY TRANSITION

11:00 – 12:00 ESKOM TRANSFORMED: ACHIEVING A JUST TRANSITION FOR SOUTH AFRICA

-Daniel Chavez

12:00 – 14:00 THE FUTURE IS OURS – MUNICIPALISTS ON THE MOVE

-Case study – post-industrial cities

17:00 – 19:30 WORKSHOPS – parallel sessions

See detailed programme here

21:00 GREEN ACADEMY 2020 – IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE

22:00 PARTY

WEDNESDAY 26^th AUGUST

DEPARTURES

Practicalities:

The event will be in Croatian and English.

Hotel accommodation and two meals per day (breakfast and dinner) is provided by the organisers. Travel costs can be reimbursed up to €250.

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers have been meeting various challenges, therefore minor changes to the program can still occur. This call is published at short notice.

Support for maximum 12 places is offered to participants from across Europe:

3 – the Balkans, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine

3 – Central and Eastern Europe

3 – Southern Europe

3 – Western and Northern Europe

Given the short deadline, the organisers ask for a short biography in English (no longer than 1 page) and a letter of interest (maximum 2000 characters) with two reference contacts (email and phone), preferably from people who have already participated in the Green Academy in previous years. Applications should be sent to ipe(at)ipe.hr by August 18, 4:00 PM CET.

The organisers reserve the right to cancel the event last-minute in case of a COVID-19 emergency. The event follows a NO REGRETS POLICY: travel can be reimbursed only after the event has taken place and once the travel documentation was provided to the organisers (in accordance with the guidelines provided prior to the event by IPE).

The organisers will ensure basic epidemiological standards are met during the event, however also bear in mind the general COVID-19 guidelines that need to be respected outside and beyond the conference, for everybody’s safety and well-being.

Applicants will be informed about the outcome by August 19.

This event is organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of Institute for Political Ecology and with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this event.

Sep 30 2019

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Green Academy Winter Seminar – Degrowth Kaleidoscope: Real-Existing Utopia(s) (Plitvička Jezera)

By GEF

About the Event

The Green European Foundation, in cooperation with the Institute for Political Ecology, the Open Society Initiative for Europe and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung – Prague office, is organising the 3rd edition of the Green Academy Winter Seminar.

The seminar will focus on the ongoing debates around the Green New Deal and degrowth concepts and practices in the context of the climate emergency. Deeper avenues to be explored will look at the theoretical, political and practical level and identify convergencies and conflicts. The seminar will allow for exchanges to develop strategies for concrete change and policies.

Participants will be introduced to “degrowth doughnut” visualisations, underlining the cultural excesses and shortfalls in a democratic construction of a degrowth transition.

A “kaleidoscopic” perspective of the movement and various interconnections and differences will explore specific sectors where degrowth can make a fundamental difference, while also considering the significance of the emerging Green New Deal policies on both sides of the Atlantic.

Demands for a socially just and planned transition need to be articulated precisely in order to head off reactionary responses to the climate emergency. And this we shall redesign as we go, for the further Europeans slide into climate chaos without establishing a convivial sociality, the more likely we are to contend with authoritarian and inegalitarian powers to which emergency conditions often give rise.

The politics of this historical dynamic – the actors, alliances, institutions and social processes creating degrowth transitions is the subject of lively debate in Europe and beyond, shaping up right before our eyes. Given the fact that in 2020 Croatia will take over the EU Presidency, we will aim to explore ways how our thinking and actions can become turning points for Europe to be able to take another course.

Programme

FRIDAY 8th OF NOVEMBER

15:00 DEPARTURE FROM ZAGREB (ORGANISED BUS TRANSPORT – PARKING NEXT TO MAIN TRAIN STATION (ACCROSS IMPORTANE CENTRE ENTRANCE)

17:15 ARRIVAL TO HOTEL – CHECK-IN AND REGISTRATION

18:00 WELCOME NOTE AND INTRODUCTION

Vedran Horvat, IPE Zagreb, Head/Board of Directors, GEF

Nino Lejava, HBS, Head of Prague office

Jagoda Munić, FoEE, Director, Bruxelles/GA program council

Danijela Dolenec, Faculty of Political Sciences, Associate Professor,Zagreb/GA program council

Presentation of working groups: Clara Dellaire-Fortier, Nikolina Rajković, Andro Rilović, Ajda Pistotnik

EVENING CONVERSATION: ”DEGROWTH MOVEMENT, THOUGHT AND ACTION IN THE MIDST OF CLIMATE COLLAPS”

Evening conversation with Vincent Liegey, Cargonomia, Hungary/France

20:00 DINNER

SATURDAY 9TH OF NOVEMBER

09:00 MORNING LECTURE – Tiziano Distefano

”Social cohesion in the ecological transition”

10:00 MORNING PANEL

GREEN NEW DEAL AND DEGROWTH – REAL-EXISTING UTOPIAS IN ACTION

With: Sean Sweney (TUED), Pawel Wargan (DiEM25), Marija Bartl (UA), Jagoda Munić (FoEE)

Moderated by: Danijela Dolenec and Vedran Horvat

11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 WORKING GROUPS 1

LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire-Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)

13:30 LUNCH BREAK & WALK

17:30 WORKING GROUPS 2

LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)

19:30 DINNER

21:00 DONUTS AND WINE EVENING TALK ON SUSTAINABILITY ON EUROPEAN (SEMI)PERIPHERY –

Mladen Domazet
Clara Dallaire-Forter
Jenny Ufer
Branko Ančić

SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER

09:00 MORNING LECTURE

Petr Jiehlička, Open University, UK

Degrowth lessons from the European East: self-provisioning, sharing and the resilient food system

10:00 WORKING GROUPS 3

LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)

11:30 BREAK

12:00 REPORTS FROM WORKING GROUPS

12:30 Post-growth awakening for EU: positioning degrowth agenda and international cooperation on climate action within the context of EU Croatian Presidency

Moderation: Dražen Šimleša

13:15 Closing

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Departure to Zagreb

17:00 estimated arrival

This event is a cooperation between the Institute for Political Ecology, the Green European Foundation, the Open Society Initiative for Europe and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Prague office, with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.

Jul 04 2018

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Moving Beyond Fragments (Komiža)

By GEF

Context

In its 6th edition, the Green Academy aims to identify the convergences and draw on positive experiences of social movements and political actors across Europe. The will is to foster transnational European exchange on ways of moving beyond the fragments, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe and the European South, where obstacles to enact progressive politics seem most vivid. The emergence of far-right authoritarianism and the exposure to austerity should challenge us to formulate a sharp and coherent political strategy, homegrown to the European semi-periphery.

Since its establishment in 2010, the Green Academy was designed as an intensive knowledge-building and discussion program for left, green and other progressive political forces. So far, almost 1000 people from civil society, politics, academia, movements and media have participated in its work. The 6th edition of the Green Academy, grounded in intersectionality and transdisciplinary approach, encourages in-depth knowledge building, combining academic modules with political debate and activist exchanges.

Continuing its focus on three education modules, namely degrowth/sustainability, municipalism/commons and climate change/just transition, it will aim to break with disciplinary divisions and limitations, using methodologies such as critical pedagogy and new formats that encourage self-organisation, cultural expression and learning of practical political skills.

About the event

At the Green Academy GEF will organise a speciﬁc workshop under the title ‘’Degrowth & Glocal Sustainability’, that will offer relevant cutting-edge knowledge to participants (from Doughnut Economics and Eco-Sufficiency to the concept of a Good life for all) through interactive formats of learning.

The workshop will concentrate on different variations between growth, technology, work and quality of life, but also tackling specific aspects of inequality or participation. It will help to identify points of convergences where political and social alliances can be framed and strengthened while at the same time not ignoring the potential conflicts or controversial aspects that have divisive impact, with the ultimate goal of finding solutions for them. The focus of this workshop will be predominantly to frame the narrative about a deeper understanding of sustainability as an old concept, through discovering of its importance of future design of future life in and of the European Union.

The workshop ‘Degrowth & Glocal Sustainability‘ is organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of Institute for Political Ecology and with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.

Feb 23 2017

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Good City for All (Zagreb, Croatia)

By GEF

The transformative power of urban politics

How can we coordinate and strengthen civil society’s strategies to tackle urban issues and influence the political agenda positively? The ‘Good city for all’ project seeks to explore these questions in the framework of a European debate on the transformative power of urban politics in a two-fold event.

A public event will be organised in Zagreb on 6 December 2017 to gather civic and political groups to discuss innovative ideas.

Talk of the Town: Exploring the City in Europe – exclusive launch event

The event will be preceded by the launch of the newest edition of our Green European Journal with the title Talk of the Town: Exploring the City in Europe.

Regular updates can be found in the Facebook event.

Programme Winter Seminar

Prior to that, a two-day seminar with selected participants was held in the idyllic scenery of the Plitvice lakes from 24th to 26th of March.

March 24

10:15h-11:30h: Bruno de Lille, Ecolo, Groen, former state secretary and present Member of Parliament, Brussels Capital Region

11:30-12:45h: Carmen Munoz, Councillor, Equo, Bilbao

15:30-16:45h: Reb

eka Szabo, Member of Parliament, Budapest

17:15-18:30h: Nasiha Pozder, Naša stranka, Sarajevo

20:00- 22:00h: Evening talks ”Transforming power, transforming cities” with Bruno de Lille, Carmen Munoz, Rebeka Szabo, Nasiha Pozder, Laura Roth, and Tomislav Tomašević

March 25

09:00 -10:00h: Kris Giovanopulos, Komvos, Athens

10:00-11:00h: Laura Roth, BCN En Comu, Barcelona

11:20-12:30h: New municipalism debate with Tomislav Medak, Radomir Lazović, Iva Marčetić

14:00-15:00h: Christian Iaione, Laboratory for the Governance of the Commons, Rome

THE PROGRAMME OF THE PAST SEMINAR CAN ALSO BE FOUND HERE.

VIDEOS

“The Co-City – Sharing, Collaborating, Pooling in the City” with speaker – Christian Iaione from LabGov

“Good City for Everyone” with speaker Laura Roth from Barcelona en Commu

“Seven Shades of Green” with speaker Bruno de Lille from the Groen

Feb 09 2017

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“Next To Us’’ A New Narrative on Migration in Europe

By GEF Uncategorized

The project consisted of a set of events, organised by the above-mentioned institutions, aimed at identifying the main challenges in ensuring the wellbeing of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe. This report, which included the participation of the author in the 6 events organised in 5 countries between May and September 2016 in Spain (Barcelona and Madrid), Germany (Berlin and Munich), United Kingdom (Oxford) and Greece (Athens), was developed as part of this project with a twofold objective:

Firstly, it summarises the main findings from debates held within the GEF transnational migration project involving a wide range of actors, from policy-makers, civil society and refugees themselves;

Secondly, it provides an analytical view of the divergent trajectories of the debate to identify a solid common ground and to build a narrative that would precede new policy proposals offered by the Green political family.

You can read the report by accessing it below.

Jan 19 2017

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Green Academy “TIPPING POINTS” in Croatia

By GEF

Under the title ”Tipping points”, the fifth edition of this summer university provided 6 days of intensive programme for a very diverse group of 150 participants from more than 20 countries, including Latin America and U.S. For the first time City of Komiza was hosting the Green Academy, which programme was conducted in public spaces.

Programme was organised in three working modules (Commons, Degrowth and Climate Justice) and was focused on exchange of theoretical insights and practical experiences of scholars, practitioners, activists and experts. Intense exchange has taken place between European scholars and their Latin American counterparts which have demonstrated some of the most interesting lessons from previous decade. Among many relevant speakers, guests of the Green Academy were Boris Buden, Hilary Wainright, Daniel Chavez, Joan Martinez Alier, Jagoda Munić, Pablo Solon, Giacommo D’Allisa, Barb Jacobson, Edgardo Lander, Kira Vinke, Branon Andersen and Srećko Horvat. Apart from modules, participants were also involved in plenary debates where political implications of current political situations were broadly discussed.

Participants were able to take part in many cutting edge discussions which are currently relevant at European level and have a first hand experience and exchange with contributors. As a working framework was also relevant for broadening epistemic community gravitating to political ecology at European level and exchange platform between different organisations and groups. It has proven to be a very safe environment to articulate demands for more interesectionality on the Left and for feminisation of politics while at the same time offering visions that comply with ideas of internationalism, sufficiency and solidarity.

Working languages of the academy were Croatian and English.

The final programme is available here.

MORE INFO:

More information about this event available at IPE website and Facebook.

Jan 12 2017

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Urban Commons – Commoning the City

By GEF

Commons as a concept and practice entered into mainstream after Elinor Ostrom received in 2009 Nobel Award in Economics for empirically proving that communities can sustainably manage natural resources without direct influence of the state and the market. Concept of commons was extended for also human-made resources and even immaterial resources and for different contexts including the urban. More radical and critical approaches of commons emerged especially in the context of various urban social movements fighting against privatisation, commodification and commercialisation of cities. Practices of self-governance and community governance of urban resources were introduced or reintroduced in cities all around Europe. In Athens there is a network of solidarity commoning practices providing food, housing and even health service to people who are left behind after years of austerity politics. In Bologna the local government even adopted regulation so communities can engage in collaboration to produce and regenerate urban commons. In Barcelona citizen platform called “Barcelona in Common” won the local elections and is trying to establish framework for urban commons governance in different sectors.

This seminar presented examples of urban commoning in cities of Madrid, Berlin, Maribor, Belgrade and Zagreb. It provided forum for exchange on various inspirational urban commons practices as well as confrontational tactics against the enclosure of the urban commons and privatisation of the urban public goods. Seminar aimed to tackle the debate among participants on how can urban commons and self-governance models be enhanced, supported and protected in cities of the region.

PROGRAMME:

10h00 – 10h30 Introduction to theory of the commons – Tomislav Tomašević (Institute for Political Ecology)
10h30 – 11h30 Urban commons practices in Madrid and Berlin – Lucia Lois (El Patio Maravillas) and Marco Clausen (Nachbar¬schafts¬akademie)
11h30 – 12h00 Discussion
12:h0 – 12h45 Lunch
12h45 – 13h45 Commoning the city in Belgrade and Maribor – Iva Ćukić (Ministarstvo prostora) and Matic Primc (Iniciativa mestni zbor)
13h45 – 15h30 – Discussion
15h30 – 16h00 – Break
16h00 – 17h30 – How to enhance the urban commons in local context? (open roundtable) – Iva Marčetić, Mislav Žitko, Alma Midžić, Teodor Celakoski, Emina Višnić, Enes Ćerimagić, Dušica Radojčić, Nikola Zdunić, Cvjeta Bišćević, Svibor Jančić

This event is a part of our transnational project “Reclaim the Commons”, which revives the debate around the commons as a fundamental part of the Green political ideology across Europe.

This event was open to public and free of charge.

Jan 12 2017

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ECOPRO Seminar in Zagreb

By GEF

This event is a part of our transnational project ECOPRO (“Ecological Production in a Post-Growth Society”), which this year has a particular focus on the sustainable work. The seminar was entitled “Future of Work in Ecological Transition”, as it provided an analysis of impacts of the ecological transition on work, working conditions and generally transformation of labour that are generated by environmental challenges.

Transition of both economy and industry to (more) ecological, just and sustainable modes of production is already – with more or less success – taking place globally and in Europe. In some cases it takes forms of technological revolution, in other it relates to slower transformatory processes that deserve adaptation of societies, citizens, workers. As this change generates irreversible impacts on work conditions, quality of work, job security, time, education system it is also opportunity for new ecology of work that will improve quality of life, social equity and work conditions. Taking into account new impetus for industrial policy in Croatia, this seminar will aim to present different views on conditions for creating sustainable work in Croatia.

Furthermore, this event had a strong focus on exploring directions in which work conditions can be improved throughout ecological and just transition; ecologists, trade unionists, politicians and experts from different will share their insights and experiences about ways in which work conditions, quality of work and social criteria can be improved alongside with fundamental changes in the systems of production and consumption.

PROGRAMME:

11h30 – 13h00 Introduction

Vedran Horvat, Institute for Political Ecology, Zagreb
Beate Littig, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
Toni Vidan, European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels/Green Action/FoE Croatia, Zagreb
Ana Maria Boromisa, Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb
Bojana Percan, Croatian Union of Independent Trade Unions, Croatia

13h00 – 14h00 Lunch break

14h00 – 16h00 Debate

Branko Ančić, Institute for Social Research, Zagreb
Karolina Leaković, International Secretary, Socialdemocratic party of Croatia
Siniša Vinković, European Trade Union Confederation

This event was open to public and free of charge.

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