Focus on CAPACITyES at the ANCI national conference, to discuss together ideas and opportunities for the future of cities. In these days Bergamo is hosting the annual meeting of the National Association of Italian Municipalities, on the theme “The voice of the country”: the program also includes two appointments dedicated to the perspectives offered by […]
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Hub4Bees, the summer play schemes promote the ideas of the Hub4Kids
Hub4Bees: playing, learning and creating. In the last few weeks children and young people from Bergamo have experienced the mood of the future Hub4Kids in the play schemes operated in the city in the run-up to the opening of the facility on via Serassi, which is drawing nearer and nearer. So after the Open Day […]
Everyone loves HUB4KIDS
A day of games, music and creative workshops open to all the children and young people of the Borgo Palazzo, Sant’Anna and Celadina Summer Activities Centres to celebrate the future HUB4KIDS of the CAPACITyES project, at the former Cascina Serassi. More than 500 kids thronged the Cittadella dello Sport sports centre all day long for […]
The Migrantour guides take Ulysses to World Refugee Day
Walking in Ulysses’ footsteps for World Refugee Day. The murals created by street artist Luogo Comune in the Borgo Palazzo district are one of the locations on the tours organised by the City of Bergamo’s Immigrant Integration Project and by Cooperativa Ruah’s Migrantour to mark this day. For the occasion there are four tours on […]
Looking for supportive neighbours for the Co-housing project
Live alongside the families who will move into the new Borgo Palazzo development and be directly involved in the CAPACITyES adventure to help to build the city of tomorrow. This is the invitation the project team is extending to the city’s families, with or without children: we are looking for two households willing to take […]
The CAPACITyES Co-housing project takes shape with the families’ ideas
The co-design process to define the CAPACITyES project’s Co-housing development continues: on Saturday 12 February the families involved took part in a new design session, led by Elena Giunta, PHD in Design, Senior Researcher with Fondazione Ismu. The aim was to decide together the equipment of the indoor and outdoor communal areas of the facility […]
Following Ulysses, building together
They started a journey following Ulysses, looking for clues to solve a riddle and come back home. This summer CAPACITyES organized a great scavenger hunt for more than 60 kids, during our opening event. It was an amusing afternoon for our little players but it’s also a symbol of the key elements of this project: […]
Co-housing, work is about to begin
Co-housing: keys of building consigned, work now starting. In the last few days, the City of Bergamo officially handed over the old Osservatorio Femminile building to the successful contractor for the renovation works. This starts the process that will transform the site into the CAPACITyES co-housing accommodation. A place where many families will benefit from […]
All about CAPACITyES in a video
All about CAPACITyES in a video. Just a few minutes sum up the goals, participants and locations of a project that will give new opportunities to children and teenagers right across Bergamo. With the voices of the project’s partners – local institutions and voluntary organisations – and its most important participants, the children. We have […]
CAPACITyES meets the city: planning, building, sharing
A day designed around children, for the official opening of a project in which they are the most important participants. On Friday 16 July, Bergamo saw the formal launch of CAPACITyES, a city in mind, the project funded by the European Union “Urban Innovative Action” programme. The project will enable the city to implement new ways […]