Cluj-Napoca will host the second meeting of the Candidate Cities Network, on May the 4th and the 5th, 2018. Cities and experts across Europe committed to mobilising culture for social and urban transformation are invited to join the meeting and contribute to the development of the network. The network was founded in 2017 by ten […]
Representatives of the cultural sectors from Eleusis (Greece), Aveiro, Braga and Guimaraes (Portugal), Klaipeda and Plunge (Lithuania), Košice (Slovakia), Leeds (UK) and Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Târgu Mureș, Baia Mare, Alba Iulia and Sfântu Gheorghe (Romania) met in Cluj-Napoca to set up a European network around the topic of culture for urban development. „Cluj-Napoca acknowledges the role
INVITATION TO CLUJ-NAPOCA The city of Cluj-Napoca invites all current and former bidding cities to become its partners in founding a Network of Candidate Cities. The network aims to become a platform supporting a sustainable approach to ECoC planning with the view to facilitate and encourage ECoC programme implementation regardless of the competition results. Cluj-Napoca
INVITATION Cluj Cultural Centre and the Cultural Hall of Cluj-Napoca Municipality invites you to participate to the Conference of the Candidate Cities Network held on September 22-23, 2017 in Cluj-Napoca, in the Great Hall of Matei Corvin House. The aim of this conference is to lay the foundation of the international network of current and
TRANSYLVANIA MYTHS EUROPE is a regional project that positions Cluj as the gate to Transylvania. Ten authentic Transylvanian communities create a common cultural, touristic and regional development network that hosts economic, touristic, gastronomical and artistic projects. In 2017 we create the traditional cultural calendar of Cluj county and initiate discussions to develop a regional development
THE SOCIAL CREATIVITY PLATFORM fosters the energies of grassroots social processes in the urban space of Cluj-Napoca supporting and piloting alternative institutional models, circular economy initiatives, and a catalysing environment for social business and makers’ culture, along with artistic explorations of these topics. The platform supports in 2017 circular economy projects AlterMall and Repair Cafe,
THE INTERGALACTIC ETHNOGRAPHY PARK is an extension of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania towards the reportedly haunted Hoia-Baciu forest. The park, unique in the world, will host “portals” for augumented reality and works of art that imagines new ethnographies, and also events who bring together ethnography, sciences, sci-fi and creativity enthusiasts in order to debate
INCLUJIUNE syncrhonizes the audience and diaspora policies on tge 12 Universities in Cluj-Napoca, with the aim to build a community of students, alumni and teachers. These Universities gather 80.000 students every year, almost a quarter of the population in Cluj. In 2017, the universities synchronize calendars to welcome the new students. The common program includes presentations,
CULTURAL INNOVATION FUND is a suport mechanism for cultural interventions that have an impact to the development of the city. The Fund serve the city Cluj Napoca and the metropolitan area and operate as a partnership between local goverment institutions and the private sector. In 2017, The Cultural Innovation Fund aims to draw up a
INTEGRAM builds on the rich cultural diversity of Cluj-Napoca and Europe, and contributes to making interculturality an everyday and lived experience. At its core, the project has a scalable Community Game that connects citizens, by featuring a diverse agenda of cultural activities that the public can either attens as spectators, or experience as game participants.