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EcocNews is registered at the Court of Matera in the press register n. 2/2021
Editor in chief: Mariateresa Cascino. Founder and editorial director: Serafino Paternoster
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Few days ago, at the Halle au Blé, over 800 people gathered to launch their CRI for Bourges 2028. This unprecedented call for projects for a European Capital of Culture aims to bring hundreds of Contributions for Reinventing Imaginations (CRI) to life.
The report of the evaluation panel for the choice of the French city to be European Capital of Culture in 2028 is online.
In the end, Bourges will be the European Capital of Culture in 2028 for France. A title it will share with Budweiss for the Czech Republic and Skopje for North Macedonia.
Four French cities have been shortlisted to become European Capital of Culture in 2028: , , , .
In France, many cities have decided to participate in the competition to become the European Capital of Culture in 2028 together with a city in the Czech Republic. With EcocNews also for 2028 we discover which are some of the candidate cities and how they are moving to involve citizens and to change the destiny of their cities. Also in this circumstance we asked all the French candidate cities the same questions. After Rouen, Montpellier, Clermont – Ferrand, Reims and Bastia – Corsica, today we discover Bourges.