Goethe – Institut invited 5 European Citymakers to Rotterdam, to share their experience on acting in the context of ‘a learning city´. Their shared findings are brought to the stage of the congress challenging Rotterdam to take position.How to make failure productive? How can initiatives mutually empower eachother? How to use learning as a strategy to challenge the status quo? How can a fertile soil of civic initiatives foster the transition towards a sustainable city?

These and other questions are explored by five European Citymakers together with their counterparts from Rotterdam: Leeszaal and Afrikaanderwijk Coop. The exchange takes place as part of the Goethe Institute’s In Transit programme. The invited participants are ØsterGRO (Copenhagen), Yhteismaa (Helsinki), Mitt127(Stockholm), Pikene på Broen (Kirkenes) and Saline34 (Erfurt).

Moderator:  Chris Roorda (Drift)
Met: Maurice Specht (Leeszaal Rotterdam West) & Annet van Otterloo (Afrikaanderwijk Coop)
Tijd: 14.30 uur
Locatie: Erker
Voertaal: Engels