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COMBATING FRAGILITY

DESIGNING THE FUTURE

WE TACKLE URBAN POVERTY

Through the CAPACITyES project, the city of Bergamo sets out to tackle urban poverty, focusing in particular on the housing shortage, educational poverty and spatial segregation.

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30 August 2023

CAPACITyES closes up with a celebration

The renovation works are done, the activities against educational poverty continue! It’s been a beautiful 3-year adventure, for a richer and more supportive Bergamo. This year we had a series….

12 July 2023

HUB for KIDS, a month full of ideas

Creative workshops and playing spaces for the kids, meetings for grown ups: at the HUB for KIDS this first month of activity has been very intense, with our HUB for….

31 May 2023

Hub for Kids starts off with Hub for Summer!

A great summer kicks off at the Hub for Kids! Cascina Serassi is ready to host a summer camp full of creativity and fun: the building is completely restored after….

3 April 2023

Altolà: here comes our photo contest!

What happens when sports conquer the city? We ask this to girls and boys born in 2009, 2010 and 2011: tell it with a photo! Sports in the urban context….

15 February 2023

Calling supportive neighbours for the Co-Housing

We’re looking for supportive neighbours for the adventure of our CAPACITyES Co-Housing! We’ve recently opened the new facility, in the pavilion 8 of ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, restored by CAPACITyES….

4 February 2023

Co-Housing: the new apartments are open!

The pavilion 8 in the ASST center on Borgo Palazzo starts a new life. Today, after more than two years of work, the City of Bergamo has inaugurated the new….

23 June 2023

HUB for KIDS, the opening

Bergamo, 16 June 2023 - It’s a busy year for CAPACITyES - Children Against Poverty Awake the city Education System, the project funded by the Urban Innovative Actions program. On….

CHILD-CENTRED

They will be the project’s true protagonists and will share in deciding the activities to be organised. It will draw on their talents and creativity to transform urban spaces and guide the artists in the creative workshops.