The Learning from Context conference aims at confronting and setting in constructive dialogue different experiences of urban education, knowledge exchange and capacity building. The conference will pay special attention to:

• the valorisation of knowledge produced in informal, bottom-up initiatives to improve employment and neighbourhood-based welfare;
• the learning process and skills developed in voluntary engagement within local communities and their recognition, measurement, acknowledgement;
• tools and techniques to improve the capacity of communities to understand their contexts and to better devise appropriate solutions to local challenges;
• how new forms of co-productive city making lead to the development of skills that are complementary to the urban planning profession or practice;
• how collaborative economic paradigms can improve the resilience of neighbourhoods in crisis;
• how artistic and communication skills can be employed to fight exclusion and counteract stigmatisation and gentrification.

The conference is the closing event of the EULER Erasmus Plus project coordinating training programs in the cities of Antwerp, Barcelona, London and Berlin. It aims at presenting the participatory toolsets developed by the local laboratories in the four cities and enhancing reflection, sharing and dissemination of the produced knowledge in a profitable confrontation with similar experiences.

The conference will have a practice-oriented multidisciplinary approach.