Tag: Urban Education Live
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Urban Education Live final symposium and UEL Network Formation event 14 – 15 December 2020
UEL is happy to announce the Urban Education Live Final Symposium 2020. We kindly invite everyone to join our event on 14th and 15th of December 2020, to exchange our thoughts on the advancements of the consortium, on the current state of live education and to give a start for the new UEL working group…
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UEL:TAMP presents: we.city
We.City is a mobile application that has its aim to help communities to group up, to realize local initiatives and to find expert help. The idea for it was largely developed within the UEL Tampere team, but now it is being developed independently by the group of volunteers and enthusiasts from different fields. This…
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UEL:TAMP presents: Play Salo
A video that goes more in detail with the PlaySalo game where University students would join high school students on the ground in Finnish city of Salo.
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UEL:TAMP presents: Play Salo Context
A video that describes the practical and theoretical background for both the UEL project and more specifically the project of the Tampere Team: PlaySalo.
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Urban Education Live: How changing the role of universities can enhance urban equality
Shafayet Choudhury from JPI interviews Panu Lehtovuori from Urban Education Live team Tampere about the project: ”More people than ever before obtain a university education, but certain communities, such as the working class and ethnic minorities, are sometimes underrepresented in the university system. Ideally, universities should serve the needs of all members of society. However, universities shouldn’t…
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A Pedagogy of the Urban — Article published in the EUCANET eBook: City Agencies Working Papers
The Tamp team in collaboration with Swetha Rao Dhananka responded to a call for papers as part of the EUCANET project that looks into “City Agencies” Read the full article — from page 88 here Abstract While a common urban agenda at the supranational EU-level, as foreseen by the Amsterdam pact has been established, there are…
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UEL at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
Representatives from Urban Education Live partners were presenting current research work and themes associated with the project at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington, DC in early April 2019. The panel was session was co-organised by Panu Lehtovuori,Tatjana Schneider and Gruia Badescu, the latter also chairing the UEL session. While it is…
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Sheffield Live Works: the UK’s first permanent University-funded ‘Urban Room’
Live Works is an innovative cross-cutting initiative that delivers excellence in live teaching, graduate employment, civic engagement & participatory action research, working at a local level to create & disseminate knowledge that has national and international relevance. It is the UK’s first permanent University-funded ‘Urban Room’, a space in the city centre where local people can…
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A new Social mapping for housing in Ljubljana
Housing cooperative Zadrugator from Ljubljana presented a new case of Social mapping. It is an interesting collaboration between public housing fund, a cooperative and students of various faculties with a focus on a particular (and infamous) housing neighbourhood Rakova Jelša in Ljubljana, Slovenia. SOCIOLOŠKO-URBANISTIČNA ANALIZA RAKOVE JELŠE In the study (click here), they wanted to find out, what public infrastructure…
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The first Focus Group Discussion with community groups in Sheffield
We had a fantastic kick-start of a series of focus group discussions with Sheffield community groups and grassroots organisations. Together with Adam Yusuf and Robin Forsyth from Israac Somali Community Association and Patrick Meleady from Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, we explored some issues surrounding the background of their organisations, the activities they create with local communities, the views on…