Round table on Jiu Valley and Țara Făgărașului in Comparative Perspective: Past Conditions, Present Circumstances, Future Prospects

August 11, 2022 Regions English pll_62faa16c90ebd Comments are off for this post

August 11, 2022, 16.00-19.30 (Romanian time, hybrid, in English) Comparing these disparate regions opens a window into many dimensions of the contemporary Romanian problematic, if not of post-communist societies more generally. Both the Jiu Valley coal region and Țara Făgărașului, with extensive chemical factories, experienced intense industrialization during communist times...

Continue reading

Round table on Jiu Valley and Țara Făgărașului in Comparative Perspective: Past Conditions, Present Circumstances, Future Prospects

July 8, 2022 English pll_62c89a35b0b02 Courses DAPP Comments are off for this post

August 11, 2022, 16.00-19.30 (Romanian time, hybrid, in English) Comparing these disparate regions opens a window into many dimensions of the contemporary Romanian problematic, if not of post-communist societies more generally. Both the Jiu Valley coal region and Țara Făgărașului, with extensive chemical factories, experienced intense industrialization during communist times...

Continue reading

Urban Safety Policies – Integrating Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Developing Safer Cities

July 23, 2020 English pll_5f19d506ddc78 Courses Comments are off for this post

Online (Zoom), August 6, 2020, 10.00-12.00 (Romanian time, in English) Urban Safety becomes an increasingly important topic as concern for the development of safe and sustainable cities amounts throughout society. This is evident also in the fact that one of the SDGs (Goal nr. 11) is aimed at making cities...

Continue reading

Exploring the Potențial of Industrial Heritage in Țara Făgărașului

August 14, 2023 English pll_648d97925c16a Courses Comments are off for this post

August 14, 14.00 – 17.00 (Romanian time, in English, hybrid format) Țara Făgărașului experienced intense industrialization during communist times and a difficult transition after 1989, that brought economic decay and accentuated depopulation. Today the region re-emerges through new economic and cultural initiatives. The aim of the roundtable is to explore...

Continue reading

Urban Safety Lab in Cluj-Napoca

April 12, 2023 Philanthropy and Community Development English pll_6436f03b8a60c Comments are off for this post

SDG 11 aims for safer settlements. However, safe cities are not only those that “proactively reduce urban crime such as antisocial behavior, street robbery and burglaries through a mixture of policing, technology deployment, and offender management” (IFSEC Global) but also those that recognize the decisive role of the urban landscape...

Continue reading

Safecity App

January 20, 2022 Sustainable Development Goals English pll_61e9c8c422dc7 Comments are off for this post

Safe City aims to create safer spaces in cities, especially for women, and be a crowd-sourced alternative to sexual violence data. The application works in pilot mode for Romania, and is already adopted in other parts of the world, such as India, Brazil, but also in Europe, in Croatia. We...

Continue reading