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CPUL | Food
2024-Jan-31 : Coming soon: The Urban Food Mapping book
Urban Food Mapping: Making visible the Edible City is now in print.
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2023-Nov-30 : Coming soon: A book chapter on urban design for food
One of the contributions to Bohn’s and Tomkins’ edited volume Urban Food Mapping will be Katrin’s chapter on food opportunity mapping.
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2023-Oct-31 : Coming soon: The Urban Food Mapping book
We are pleased to announce the book Urban Food Mapping: Making visible the Edible City, edited by Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins.
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2021-Nov-01 : INVITE: COP26 stand by me
Today, COP 26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, has opened in Glasgow.
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2021-Jun-21 : Editorial board selects proposals for Mapping the Edible City book
Eight-people-strong board selects more than 20 thematically, geographically and disciplinarily balanced contributions.
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2021-Jun-10 : INVITE: Launch of the Design of Circular Cities & Regions REG
We are pleased to invite you to the public online launch at the University of Brighton on 24th June.
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2021-May-31 : Special Issue on sustainable food planning co-edited by Katrin
An open access Special Issue in the journal Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems was released in April.
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2021-May-17 : New initiative to support a LebensMittelPunkt in Berlin
Transformation Haus und Feld invited Berliners to its kick-off meeting about the capital’s decommissioned inner-city airport.
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2021-May-07 : Connecting circular economy to open space planning in Brighton
André and Katrin discussed the city's Circular Economy Programme with Brighton & Hove City Council.
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2021-Apr-19 : A new type of garden city for Hamburg-Öjendorf, Germany
The urban masterplanning for Neue Gartenstadt Öjendorf combines housing, productive landscapes and nature conservation.
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2021-Apr-05 : Spiel/Feld Marzahn counts high number of plant species.
The Wild Pollinator Project found 127 plant species in its scientific survey.
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2021-Mar-22 : Presenting our work at IAAC Barcelona
Bohn&Viljoen were invited to give a talk at the Institute for advanced architecture in Catalonia (IAAC).
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2021-Mar-15 : A community garden programme for Berlin
Katrin was one of more than 100 people gathering to kick-off a long-awaited project by Berlin’s Senate.
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2021-Mar-08 : INVITE: Mapping the Edible City: Call for expressions of interest
It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit your expression of interest to our forthcoming book project Mapping the Edible City.
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2021-Feb-26 : Finding the right tools for implementing urban agriculture
The EdiCitNet project contextualises its toolbox with a study of complimentary projects.
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2021-Feb-05 : A catalogue of technologies for nature-based solutions
COST Action Circular City, including Katrin Bohn, met for its 6th virtual workshop.
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2021-Jan-26 : INVITE: Discussing the future of food
On Thursday, 25th February, from 10 am to 12.30 am, Katrin will be discussing the future of food with entrepreneurs and academics.
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2021-Jan-14 : Team including B&V longlisted for Thamesmead Waterfront
White Arkitekter’s team has been selected as one of ten teams to bid for the Thamesmead Waterfront development in East London.
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2020-Dec-30 : H A P P Y _ N E W _ Y E A R _ 2 0 2 1 !
For the new year, we wish our readers health and happiness and productivity.
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2020-Dec-18 : Lecturing on Productive Urban Landscapes
Katrin gave an (online) lecture to Masters’ students at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Cottbus, Germany.
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2020-Dec-07 : Gold Award success for Brighton & Hove
National awards body Sustainable Food Places announced the first UK city to win a Gold Sustainable Food Place Award.
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2020-Nov-23 : In 2030, Berlin feeds itself in a climate and socially just way!
Katrin Bohn took part in the action conference organised by Berlin’s Food Policy Council.
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2020-Nov-09 : The Circular City: Rethinking architecture and engineering
Katrin's public presentation and conversation for the Unlikely Partners series at the University of Brighton
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2020-Nov-02 : Cost Action tackles the complexities of circular city planning
More than 60 participants from all European countries continued their discussions on circularity opportunities and challenges.
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2020-Oct-23 : Masterplanning for food in Letchworth Garden City
One of the most successful parts of the Horizon2020 project EdiCitNet is taking stock.
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2020-Oct-12 : Letter on sustainability published
A letter by André and Katrin appeared in the October edition of the RIBA Journal.
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2020-Oct-01 : Brighton & Hove Planning Advice Note on food growing adopted
The revised edition has been written with input and review by André Viljoen.
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2020-Sep-21 : Showcasing the diversity of urban food mapping
Last week, we welcomed a perfectly diverse range of contributions to our international RAI/RGS conference panel.
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2020-Sep-14 : Spiel/Feld Marzahn is part of project to win United Nations' Award
The Wild Pollinators Project received the award by the German Offices of the UN's Decade on Biodiversity.
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2020-Sep-11 : LET’S CELEBRATE: The blog Productive Urban Landscapes turned 100!
Whilst we all were away on summer vacation, our blog passed the mark of 100 news posts.
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2020-Aug-31 : INVITE: Join us for our panel Mapping the Edible City in 2 weeks!
On Wednesday 16th September and Thursday 17th September, we co-host 3 panel sessions as part of the prestigious RAI and RGS conference.
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2020-Aug-28 : Team including Katrin in last round at Berlin Senate competitive tender
The team led by practice Parzelle X is bidding to develop the capital's community garden strategy.
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2020-Aug-12 : DIGITALISATION What comes next?
Katrin Bohn was interviewed by philosopher and digital media expert Wolf Siegert for his project Was kommt nach der Digitalisierung?
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2020-Jul-31 : Plattform Produktives Stadtgrün shortlisted for National Prize!
Congratulations! A project recently completed by the AG Stadt & Ernährung, including Katrin Bohn, stands out.
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2020-Jul-27 : Rethink 2025 for our post-pandemic world (and London in 2045)
A CPUL-like proposal is one of the three joint winners of an ideas competition by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
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2020-Jul-13 : Cultivating Architecture at Uni Brighton’s end-of-year show
A Master's of Architecture project at our home university is celebrating building-integrated agriculture.
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2020-Jun-29 : Productive urban landscape becomes part of new urban quarter in Heidelberg, Germany
City council approved masterplan for implementing a Produktive Stadtlandschaft as a key concept of the PHV.
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2020-Jun-19 : Wild Pollinators Project starts at Spiel/Feld Marzahn.
The community garden has been selected as part of a Berlin-wide research on bees, pollination and crowd science.
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2020-Jun-05 : The RAI Anthropology and Geography conference moves online!
Our panel Mapping the Edible City will now be held at the online conference 14-18 September 2020.
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2020-May-27 : Shaping the European Green Deal call
Katrin Bohn has contributed to Area 7 Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services of the European Commission's draft.
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2020-May-15 : International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) symposium
Andre Viljoen joined colleagues from Japan, Canada and the USA to convene a special symposium on Borderless Landscapes.
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2020-Apr-14 : INVITE: Resistance with distance! Seed exchange and joint film this Friday
Join urban gardeners in Germany this Friday 17th April 2020 to allow the gardening seasion to start.
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2020-Apr-03 : A dynamic masterplan for PHV Heidelberg
Productive Urban Landscape is one of the key themes of the plan that has now been recommended to the City for implementation.
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2020-Mar-16 : Plattform Produktives Stadtgrün goes live!
It is with great pleasure that we announce the full going-live of the website Platform Productive Urban Green for Berlin.
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2020-Mar-09 : INVITE: Food and Logistic in the House of Statistic in Berlin
The event on Thursday 12th March is dedicated to a LebensMittelPunkt which the House of Statistic is currently setting up.
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2020-Mar-06 : COST Action Circular City convenes in Instanbul
Members of the COST Action Implementing nature-based solutions for creating a resourceful city (Circular City) met in Turkey.
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2020-Feb-21 : Building continuous productive (peri-)urban landscapes: New book chapter out
This invited book chapter by André and Katrin has been published last week in a new book.
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2020-Feb-13 : The Village Green at Playing/Field Marzahn is badly missed.
The Dorfplatz, designed and built in 2014 by students of the TU Berlin taught by Katrin Bohn, served the community until last year.
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2020-Jan-30 : Eco-Visionairies panel at the Royal Academy of Arts
At the Designing from a depleted world event, Katrin presented Bohn&Viljoen's work and took part in the public panel discussion.
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2020-Jan-21 : Paper accepted for Anthropology & Geography conference
Katrin's abstract, co-authored with Ferne Edwards, was accepted for the panel Mapping the Edible City.
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2020-Jan-17 : INVITE: Designing from a depleted world at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
Please join us at this public panel discussion this coming Monday 27th 6.30pm.
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2019-Dec-30 : H A P P Y _ N E W _ Y E A R _ 2 0 2 0 !
For the new year and new decade, we wish our readers, colleagues and friends all the best!
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2019-Dec-13 : Guest lecture to international Master’s course at the TU Berlin
Katrin Bohn spoke about food-productive urban landscapes and CPULs to students of in Urban Management.
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2019-Dec-09 : A CPUL design for Tokyo
In Tokyo, Andre Viljoen discussed with local farmers how to integrate their urban farms into productive urban landscapes.
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2019-Dec-05 : Letchworth Garden City team visits Brighton food projects
Katrin Bohn, University of Brighton, and Vic Borrill, Brighton & Hove Food Partnership, invited representatives to Brighton.
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2019-Nov-27 : Successful launch of the Platform Productive Urban Green
About 40 people attended the (test)launch of Berlin’s new interactive online platform on invitation by the Senate Department.
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2019-Nov-11 : Paper presentation at the 9th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference
Researchers, practitioners, students and guests from all over Europe and further afield came to Madrid.
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2019-Nov-05 : INVITE: Launch of the Platform Productive Urban Green in Berlin!
Save the date!: On Tuesday 26th November, a public event will celebrate the Platform Productive Urban Green going (test)live!
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2019-Oct-14 : INVITE: Come to the Apple Fete this Saturday 19th October in Berlin !
The LebensMittelPunkt Spandau, co-initiated by Katrin, is supporting the Gartenarbeitsschule Spandau.
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2019-Oct-07 : Panel accepted at next year’s Anthropology and Geography conference !
We are pleased to announce that we will be co-convening a panel at this prestigious international conference.
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2019-Sep-30 : Bohn&Viljoen exhibit at Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City
The Mexican art and design exhibition exhibits photographs by Bohn&Viljoen.
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2019-Sep-23 : EU research network Circular City holds working meeting in Finland
Katrin is representing Great Britain in the COST Action Circular City.
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2019-Sep-06 : INVITE: Plenary assembly of the Food Policy Council Berlin on October 14th
Co-initiated by Katrin Bohn, the Berlin Food Policy Council has become a strong voice in Germany's capital.
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2019-Aug-23 : INVITE: Have your say on the policy paper Good food for all!
Please do join in a discussion on Thursday 29th August from 5.30 pm where the paper draft will be presented and discussed.
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2019-Aug-16 : Urban agriculture pioneer joins team at Platform Productive Urban Green
Katrin Bohn, with the AG Stadt & Ernährung, develops an interactive platform for the Senate of Berlin.
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2019-Jul-31 : Katrin Bohn joins editorial board of Springer Book Series
It is an honour to have been invited onto the editorial board of the Urban Agriculture Book Series at Springer by the editors.
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2019-Jul-15 : Viljoen and Bohn are working with the world’s first Garden City
Since several years and via their work at the University of Brighton, André and Katrin have links to Letchworth.
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2019-Jul-04 : Bohn and Viljoen to embark on new cooperation with Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
Katrin Bohn and Vic Borrill, director of the charity, met to discuss a new project in Brighton.
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2019-Jun-28 : Successful first public presentation of the Platform Productive Urban Green in Berlin
More than 30 people came to the first public presentation by AG Stadt & Ernährung which happened last week.
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2019-Jun-17 : INVITE: Berries Feast at Spiel/Feld Marzahn, Germany
The community garden, co-initiated by Katrin Bohn in 2011, is celebrating. Come along!
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2019-Jun-04 : Congratulations on the acceptance for AESOP Food Planning Conference 2019
Katrin Bohn will present a joint paper with Dr. Dong Chu from Harbin University China.
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2019-May-24 : INVITE: A Productive Urban Green platform for Berlin, Germany
Save the date! On Monday 24th June, the Platform Productive Urban Green will be presented to the public.
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2019-May-08 : Research project meeting in Germany’s first Edible City
Katrin attends a 4-day EdiCitNet team working meeting in Germany’s first Edible City Andernach.
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2019-Apr-29 : Lecture to students at the TU Berlin, Germany
Urban design students at the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (ILAUP) hear about CPUL.
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2019-Apr-18 : INVITE: First Stammtisch of the Food Policy Council Berlin, Germany
Please come to the new Regulars’ Table of the Ernährungsrat Berlin on Tuesday 23rd April.
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2019-Apr-05 : Urban Agriculture Park Heidelberg: Council approves planning order
The concept will build on ideas developed through a participatory design process co-led by Katrin.
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2019-Mar-29 : Platform Productive Urban Green starts in Berlin
The AG Stadt & Ernährung discussed first ideas for the Plattform with community gardeners and city officials.
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2019-Mar-11 : INVITE: Do join us for the Global Climate Strike!
This Friday, 15th March 2019, the first Global Climate Strike will happen. Please join us, whereever you are.
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2019-Mar-04 : Berlin’s Spiel/Feld Marzahn community garden elects a new head
The neighbourhood association running the site held its annual general meeting.
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2019-Feb-28 : Plattform Produktives Stadtgrün meets Berlin's community gardening activists
AG Stadt & Ernährung discusses initial ideas for new online platform about productive urban spaces.
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2019-Feb-15 : COST Action Circular City meeting in Vienna, Austria
Katrin Bohn took part in the 2nd management committee meeting and working group workshops of this European research network.
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2019-Jan-31: INVITE: Fielding Architecture Symposium
The call for papers is out for this symposium to be held at the University of Brighton in June 2019.
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2019-Jan-24 : A new food-productive life for Berlin's fire break walls?
Katrin Bohn was invited by the Eastern branch of Germany's B.A.U. Association to consult on its Initiative Green Fire Break Walls.
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2018-Dec-24 : M E R R Y _ C H R I S T M A S _ 2 0 1 8 !
We wish all our readers, colleagues and friends a peaceful and joyous festive season!
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2018-Dec-18 : German magazine Bauwelt thinks about PHVision Heidelberg
The city-focused issue of Bauwelt, one of Germany's leading architectural magazines, places the IBA project in context.
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2018-Dec-10 : Christmas season at Spiel/Feld Marzahn
The now already legendary Christmas party of the Berlin community garden happened last week.
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2018-Dec-03 : Productive green zones in Tokyo, Japan
André Viljoen returned from his first working visit to Japan where he acts as a consultant to Nerima City.
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2018-Nov-20 : A networking and information tool on productive urban green
Contracts have been signed for the AG Stadt & Ernährung to begin work with Berlin's community gardeners.
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2018-Nov-06 : INVITE: Preserving, Exchanging, Tasting on Tuesday 13th November
The LebensMittelPunkt Spandau is running a chutney making event in Berlin.
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2018-Oct-29 : COST Action Circular City kicks off successfully in Brussels!
The European network COST Action 17133 Implementing nature-based solutions for creating a resourceful city started last week.
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2018-Oct-22 : Discussing productive urban landscapes with artists in Andalucia
As part of a writing retreat in Los Gázquez international residency, Katrin gave a lecture about Bohn&Viljoen's work.
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2018-Oct-05 : Germany's first Regiowoche has reason to celebrate
Berlin's first bio-regional food procurement week held at 275 schools held its closing event today.
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2018-Sep-24 : INVITE: Last chance to see the Edible Terrace
The exhibition Food Revolution 5.0 at KGM Berlin remains open for only one more week.
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2018-Sep-14 : The EdiCitNet project starts in Europe
Katrin Bohn and André Viljoen will participate in a multidisciplinary innovation action funded by the EU's Horizon 2020.
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OLD NEWS (2011 – 2017)
Please find here a collection of news items from past years.
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OLD NEWS (2006 - 2010)
Please find here a collection of news items from past years.
