#Covid19 3 April Apr 2020 1226 03 April 2020 Jahier: “Now, we are either a Union or we are nothing” Luca Jahier “All Member States must come together, to support each other and to coordinate a concerted action. A piecemeal approach by the individual Member States is a sure recipe for disaster. If we get this wrong, we may not have another opportunity to get it right”, says Luca Jahier, President of the European Economic and Social Committee
France 24 March Mar 2020 1710 24 March 2020 #Coronamaison, the challenge: drawing the house of dreams for quarantine Cristina Barbetta It is a project launched on Twitter by a group of renowned French cartoonists and illustrators: everyone, professional or not, is invited to imagine and represent their ideal home, where they would like to spend this isolation period due to Coronavirus, on the base of a template to fill in
Events 7 December Dec 2019 0800 07 December 2019 Human rights Film Festival 2019: "What are we leaving for our children?" Cristina Barbetta The students of the European Master’s in Human Rights at the Global Campus Europe - Global Campus of Human Rights announce the 11th edition of the Human Rights Film Festival on Saturday, 7 December, in Venice. On the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the festival theme is "Future generations: what are we leaving for our children?”We have met Kosta Karakashyan, who is the director of the festival
Sustainability 2 December Dec 2019 1637 02 December 2019 The social economy can be an economic model for tackling the dual challenges of ecological emergency and social crisis Staff Such is the message to the European institutions from the social economy actors meeting in Strasbourg – European capital of the social economy 2019, for the 4th European Day of Social Economy Enterprises, just as the European Parliament gives the green light to Ursula von der Leyen's new team
Projects 1 November Nov 2019 2128 01 November 2019 From Venice to the world, to promote human rights Cristina Barbetta Cosmocafes are real conversations between people who are experts or interested in human rights, taking place all around the world, for 18 months in total. They are part of the Human Rights Pavilion, a project by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen. The final goal? To establish a permanent and supranational Human Rights Pavilion as part of the Venice Biennial. The project was initiated in Venice, and there we embarked on participating in one of these conversations with Italian and foreign experts