Logo

Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Slide 0
Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 6
Slide 7
Slide 8
12.06.2012 - Ausgabe: 3/2012

Croatia hosts 6th edition of Child in the City

The 6th edition of the Child in the City Conference will be held on 26-28 September 2012 in the city of Zagreb. Zagreb has been the first city in Croatia to implement a strategy for children based on modern scientific achievements and national and international laws and documents.

Photo

Consequently, Zagreb is a logical host for the 6th edition of the Child in the City conference, whose objective it is to encourage cities to become more child friendly. The city of Zagreb follows five European cities that were former hosts of this bi-annual conference. In September of this year Zagreb and the initiators of this conference - the Child in the City Foundation and the European Network Child Friendly Cities – will discuss themes and policies and share best practices with conference delegates from all over Europe.

This year’s conference will focus on four specific themes. One is children’s play. “We wish to stress the influence of city planning and the need for children to have enough time and space to play”, says Jan van Gils, President of the European Network Child Friendly Cities. He explains: “Children’s most typical behaviour is playing. This behaviour is very important in child development; they need enough time and space to be who they are and to become who they will be.”

The Child in the City conference will also pay attention to the UN-Convention on the Rights of the Child. This convention has an impact on cities’ local policies in terms of child friendliness. Leading up to the 25th anniversary of the UN-convention in 2013 the Child in the City conference will contribute to developing a General Comment (an official interpretation) of article 31 (right to play) of the UN-Convention on children’s rights. This process has been started yet by the Committee of Children’s Rights and is planned to be finalized at the end of 2012.

The conference will further deal with children’s health within a child friendly city. The challenge of this theme is the integration of different aspects of health. Besides physical health there also needs to be attention for mental health (feel good, feel self-confident, enjoy life) and even more globally for social health (feel appreciated at home and in the social environment, having friends, living in a healthy environment etc.). The conference will discuss and integrate these health aspects.

The fourth and final theme this year is intergenerational development. Jan van Gils: “As children don’t want to be an isolated group of citizens, also other groups, such as elderly people, don’t want to be isolated. Therefore this theme is more than a decoration, it’s an essential quality of the society”. He continues: “This theme is being discussed throughoutEurope. No insulation or growing apart for generations, but integration. As this is possible within the family, it also needs to be realised at the level of the whole society”. Van Gils wraps up: “I hope that our conference in September again inspires more and more cities to create an increasingly child friendly environment”.

For more information please contact:
Child in the City Foundation
Ilona Leuvenkamp, project manager
T: +31 (0)30 6981800
E: ileuvenkamp@childinthecity.com
www.childinthecity.com / www.childfriendlycities.eu
 

Mehr zum Thema Events

image

Advertorial

FSB 2023: Tickets now available

From 24 to 27 October 2023, Cologne will once again become the centre of the global sports and leisure industry. At FSB, International Trade Fair for Public Space, Sports and Leisure Facilities, experts from all over the world come together to find out ...

image

Advertorial

FSB 2023 shows solutions for urban open space design of tomorrow

The design of open spaces in urban areas poses special challenges for planners and decision-makers. They have to create open and movement spaces for urban society that are not only ...

image

Advertorial

FSB 2023 - very good prospects for global industry event

From 24 to 27 October 2023, experts from all over the world will gather information at FSB, the leading international industry platform for open space, sports and exercise facilities. A good eight months before the start of the trade fair, almost all market-relevant international companies have already confirmed their participation.

image

Events

GaLaBau 2022: Cheerful reunion at the green industry meeting

After four full-on exhibition days, the 24th GaLaBau is over: From 14 to 17 September the green sector gathered again in person at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg for the first time in four years to talk about innovations, experience products firsthand, and ...

image

Events

There is life after Teams and Zoom

Trade fair duo aquanale and FSB impresses with high visitor competence and quality. More than 16,000 visitors from 103 countries came to Cologne.

image

Events

IAAPA Expo Europe Celebrates Successful Show in Barcelona, Spain

Moving Forward themed Expo saw International Participants Join Together to Make Plans for Global Attractions Industry’s Future.