The UNISCAPE Executive Board met on 18-19 October in Nova Gorica for a preparatory meeting for the next edition of the General Assembly of the Network, which will be held in June 2025 between Nova Gorica and Gorizia, within the events of the European Capital of Culture 2025.
The UNISCAPE initiative will focus on the theme of migratory landscapes, and the overcoming of physical and cultural borders, using the landscape as a key to understanding.
Community Lunch with Trees Celebrates Cross-Border Unity and Sustainability
On Saturday, October 19, 2024, the “Community Lunch with Trees,” part of the Landscape of Migration initiative within the Green Spots and Mobility project (part of the official GO!2025 program), brought together over sixty participants from Gorizia, Nova Gorica, and the Rethinkable Festival community. Together with representatives from the UNISCAPE university network, they welcomed the GO!BORDERLESS trees, a migrating community of trees, which will find a new home in the Koren Urban Orchard.
This event highlighted a powerful local collaboration between the Municipality of Nova Gorica and the University of Nova Gorica, wihin the framework of the GreenInCities Horizon Europe project. The partnership took the occasion to relaunch a series of participatory events to join the local and global communities in the spirit of sustainability. These initiatives will embrace the idea of co-designing with not only human participants but also with the extended, migrating community of living beings, strengthening the citiescommitment to environmental stewardship and cross-border cooperation.