UNESCO Learning CityReșița Romania
Reșița, located in Romania, was inducted into UNESCO’s Global Network of Learning Cities in 2022.
Mr. Popa IoanMayor of Reșița
“Reșița is a city with a history of 250 years of industry. Reșița was reinventing itself in this period, a couple of times. Now, after the steel production starting in 1771, after the steam locomotive starting in 1880, and the turbine production, Reșița became the father of the Romanian industry. Now, after a period, which was a suffering period after the Romanian revolution, Reșița started to reinvent itself by learning how to do it.”
Leveraging innovation for a brighter future
The steel manufacturing industry of Reșița has been in continuous decline since 1989; in response, the city’s aim is to leverage innovation and the next-generation economy to create jobs for its multi-ethnic and multicultural community.
Mr Popa IoanMayor of Reșița
“The purpose of learning is the winning of the capability, of the practice, of understanding things. As we learnt, when we were children, and then we adapt our things, in order to be able to transform in practice what we learn, in the same way the cities have to learn every time, every day; the communities have to learn every time, every day.”
Diversification, innovation, and inclusion
Reșița’s learning city strategy will support the empowerment and professionalization of educators while also providing concrete interventions to persons with disabilities. Moreover, by promoting a lifelong learning ecosystem, the city hopes to provide a diversification of learning contexts, and innovation in institutional learning and community learning. With this strategy, Reșița hopes to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, reduce inequalities, develop decent work, make the city safe, sustainable and resilient, and create new partnerships.
Sustainability and health in Reșița
Aspects of health are integrated under one of the learning city objectives, which aims to encourage all citizens to take part in healthy activities in existing and future sport and leisure facilities, which have been built with a strong green component.
Mr Popa Ioan Mayor of Reșița
“What are our focuses, now, our goals, now? The green energy, the environment friendly city, and we are promoting through our decisions and through our work that we’ve done in the last couple of years, putting the new mobility, alternative mobility, new tram, new pedestrians' lanes, new bike lanes and we try to reinvent the city in order to be more friendly for the citizens.”
Promoting equity and inclusion
Reșița addresses the challenges of vulnerable populations through a complex programme of professional training, juridical assistance and health support. Additionally, the Roma community is encouraged to participate in the labour market and adult learning.
Reșița’s commitment to decent work and entrepreneurship
An entrepreneurship programme dedicated to local tourism has been developed and will be expanded to support the development of small initiatives, offering work opportunities to new sectors. Reșița also has developed a local financing programme to promote professional inclusion to people living in rural areas.
Mr Popa IoanMayor of Reșița
"We try to readapt the school, or the practice, the educational system, in order to be able to satisfy the needs that the market has in the next period. That’s why we have to learn every day of our life and we have to learn privately, individual, and at the same time we have to learn every day, like a community."
Reșița‘s good practicesEntrepreneurship in Motion
For this programme, 15 young entrepreneurs have been supported to further develop their ideas in the field of green sports and eco-tourism. The supported measures are directed towards the empowerment of the local workforce and the promotion of a healthy environment.
Reșița‘s good practices Hala Minda Project
A revitalization project of former industrial buildings based on cooperation between traditional metal industry companies and partner schools, the Hala Minda Project also promotes community engagement through consultation and by offering lectures on sculpture.
Reșița‘s good practices The Six Streets
This rehabilitation project of the riverside brings together the community and local authorities, the latter of which is involved in urban planning to promote and protect the local environment.
Lifelong learning for all
As part of the Global Network of Learning Cities, the UNESCO learning city of Reșița will continue to work towards providing learning opportunities for young and old!
Hand in hand with other UNESCO learning cities across the globe it aims at making the promise of lifelong learning for all a reality.
Hand in hand with other UNESCO learning cities across the globe it aims at making the promise of lifelong learning for all a reality.
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) supports and improves the practice of lifelong learning in member cities by promoting policy dialogue and peer learning, documenting effective strategies and good practice, fostering partnerships, providing capacity development, and developing tools and instruments to design, implement and monitor learning cities strategies.
UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities
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UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities
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Reșița
Mr. Popa Ioan
Leveraging innovation for a brighter future
Mr Popa Ioan
Diversification, innovation, and inclusion
Sustainability and health in Reșița
Mr Popa Ioan
Promoting equity and inclusion
Reșița’s commitment to decent work and entrepreneurship
Mr Popa Ioan
Entrepreneurship in Motion
Hala Minda Project
The Six Streets
Lifelong learning for all
The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities