WHAT DOES AN INITIATOR NEED TO CATALYZE PUBLIC-VALUE INNOVATION?
As we progress with the Cluj Innovation Fellowships, we regularly take time to reflect on the process and to share our journey. Our perspective is that of a first-time supporter in a pilot program with ambitious intent and a resolute first cohort of fellows. These reflections are also a way of grasping the often invisible […]
RE-IMAGINING WORK. INNOVATION AND TRANSFER MECHANISMS IN 2020/21 WITHIN THE CLUJ FUTURE OF WORK PROJECT
Between November and December 2020, we will launch a series of open calls intended for various target groups ranging from cultural operators to social entrepreneurs based in Cluj-Napoca and across Romania. The calls were developed to engage individuals and organizations outside the 10-partner consortium within the Cluj Future of Work (FoW) Project, and each of […]
RE:FORM – EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMME FOR RETHINKING WORK
re:form is a facilitation and microfinancing programme for rethinking work practices in the cultural sector. It encourages the infusion of solidarity, inclusion, empathy, respect, and other values practiced through the medium of art into the daily experience of the people working in the cultural sector. re:form will take place between October 2020 and September 2021 […]
FUTURE OF WORK: CLUJ-NAPOCA PREPARES FOR THE JOBS OF THE FUTURE, WITH EUROPEAN FUNDS
Cluj-Napoca is the first Eastern European city to benefit from European funding through the Urban Innovative Actions program. The 5.6 million euro project, of which 80% is non-reimbursable, aims at analyzing and testing scenarios that allow the cultural, academic, business and administrative sector and, in general, the community to prepare for the inevitable change which […]
CULTUREPRENEURS 20/21 IS ON – 80 BUSINESS IDEAS FOR THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE SECTORS
Culturepreneurs will take place between June 2020 and March 2021 and is part of the Cluj Future of Work Project initiated by the Urban Innovation Unit in Cluj-Napoca, which was created by the Cluj Cultural Centre in partnership with the Centre for Innovation and Civic Imagination of the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca. First-time or seasoned entrepreneurs […]
MINIMAL SANITARY FACILITIES – A NEED IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROCESS, PART OF THE INFORMAL WORK SCENARIO
Access to showers and toilets was identified as the main need in two of the communities in Pata Rât, namely `Cantonului` and `Rampa`. The people from the two areas were consulted during meetings held in the framework of the participatory budgeting process, which were carried out in January and February 2020, as part of the […]
