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Hello,

we are a group of journalists who have decided to make their experience and skills available to the European Capitals of Culture through EcocNews.com, the web newspaper online from 1st February  2021.
It is a space for information on the activities of all National capitals of culture, all European Capitals of Culture, the candidate cities and those that have earned the title, and on everything related to this extraordinary program,  even from a regulatory point of view.
We believe that after 35 years from the beginning of this adventure about Ecoc, it has become necessary to build a virtual home of the European Capitals of Culture where to exchange news, where to discuss cultural programs also to define the aspects that can be improved. We believe that this space is even more important in a complex time like the one we are all going through and where digital strategy can really help us to build relationships, define new ideas in the exclusive general interest of European culture and European citizens.
But the activities of EcocNews.com do not stop there. The goal is also to save, in a special section of the site, all the documents, bid books, and reports of the jury of the different cities participating in this challenge. In this way, their extraordinary work does not go to waste when the competition or the Ecoc year has ended.

The editorial team is made up of journalists who have already had experience with the national and international communication of various cultural programs. Experiences that have allowed us to fully understand the secrets of this job.
At this moment, we only ask you to insert us in your mailing list and to send us your press releases or in the original language or, when possible, in English, attaching authorized photos with credits, and we will publish them on the site and on our social channels.
We believe it is an opportunity for everyone, for all cities, for culture, for creative industries, for citizens, and above all for our whole dear Europe.
But the result also depends on you. Trusting in your precious collaboration, we invite you to follow us also on our social channels Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. And, if you want, you can write for us about your city or your capital.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon, we send you best wishes.
EcocNews Team

Serafino Paternoster, founder of the project
A repentant Jazz guitarist, a musical reviewer and keen on cinema, his main activity is communication. His first experience in a press office was for Ray Charles’s concert held in Matera in 1992. However, at that time he did not yet know that it would be his job.
Graduated in Communication Sciences, he started to work as a journalist in 1991 and he enrolled in the National Register of Journalists in 2001.
He has been working for the Region of Basilicata press office since 1996 where he works now. From 2010 to 2015 he was in charge of the institutional communication of the Municipality of Matera and at the same time he was in charge of the press office of the Matera 2019 Committee for the candidacy of Matera as the European Capital of Culture. Thanks to this experience he wrote the book “Le città invincibili – L’esempio di Matera 2019” (Editrice Universosud – 2017).
In 2018 he was appointed as the coordinator of the press office of Matera – Basilicata Foundation 2019by the Director of the Press Office of the Council of the Region of Basilicata. From february 2020 he has returned to work in the Basilicata Region.

Mariateresa Cascino, editor in chief
Mariateresa Cascino is from Matera and is 46 years old. She holds a degree with honours in Communication Sciences, with a specialization in marketing. She is a journalist, publicist and consultant in marketing and communication for private and public organizations. She gained professional experience in Italy and in the USA (Boston and New York) working in institutional and corporate communications and on expansion and internationalization projects in the American market. She has created marketing plans, carried out feasibility studies and managed public relations for investors interested in both Northern America and Italy. She is a Europhile, and has worked for the Department for Public Administration, dealing with information about the structural funds of Objective 1 Regions. She has also developed integrated communication and advertising campaigns to support institutional communications about the ERDF structural funds of the Basilicata Region.
Mariateresa is co-founder and president of the Women’s Fiction Festival in Matera, the only literary festival in Europe focused on the Writer’s Conference aims of discovering new talent and promoting women’s fiction.

Alberto Giordano, International relations manager
Alberto Giordano, 75, journalist since 1968, lived different lives crossing fields and places. He first practiced this profession in Rome’s newsroom of the Mattino
 di Napoli, then at RAI’s Radio News 1, where in 1975 he became head of the economic and union editorial unit and specialist reporter. In 1979
moved to Turin to work in Fiat’s Press Office. In 1983 changed suit being appointed Director 
of Institutional Relations 
of the Fiat Group. In this capacity he dealt with the transformation 
of several Fiat brownfields (in Turin, Milan, Florence, Pisa, etc.). In 1989,
as President and CEO of the Lingotto company (a subsidiary company controlled by Fiat), he oversaw the renovation
of Fiat’s historical plant and its transformation into a multifunctional complex with Trade Fair and Congress center, hotel, offices and a shopping center. This job put him in close contact with the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano, in charge of the project. After years of collaboration as client, in 1993 he left Fiat and Turin moving to Genoa, becoming Chairman of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop,
as part of which he took part, among others, in projects involving the museum of the Beyeler Foundation 
in Basel, the church dedicated to Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo, the Banca Popolare di Lodi, the renovation of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the Auditorium of Rome, the Kansai airport in Japan. Councilor for culture and tourism for the City of Matera in the years of candidacy as European capital of culture and then Goodwill Ambassador of Matera 2019, after the nomination.

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Gaetano Caivano, web developer

Si è concluso sabato 24 ottobre a Matera, a qualche ora dal DPCM che ha sospeso gli spettacoli pubblici in teatri, cinema e spazi all’aperto, il Festival di arti performative “So Far So Close. Esercizi di vicinanza” prodotto dalla Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019, con la collaborazione artistica di Silvia Bottiroli e Cristina Ventrucci, in partenariato con Apt Basilicata e ASM Matera e il patrocinio dei Comuni di Matera, Montescaglioso, Venosa, San Mauro Forte, Cirigliano, Latronico, San Severino Lucano.

In 2026, the Slovak Republic will host the title of European Capital of Culture (ECOC). This prestigious title will be shared in 2026 by two cities from two European Union (EU) Member States: one Slovak and one Finnish.

Kronos was reinstalled in Eleusis in November 2019 with the use of carton inspired by Olivier Grossetete.

Due to the effects of the coronavirus crisis, the European Commission has today proposed to give Rijeka (Croatia) and Galway (Ireland) the possibility to extend their year as 2020 European Capitals of Culture until 30 April 2021. The Commission also proposes to postpone the year in which Novi Sad (Serbia) is due to host a European Capital of Culture from 2021 to 2022 and the year in which Timisoara (Romania) and Elefsina (Greece) will hold the title from 2021 to 2023.

Se l’Inghilterra non fosse uscita dall’Unione europea, la città di Leeds sarebbe stata capitale europea della cultura insieme alla città ungherese di Veszprém. Ciononostante il lavoro fatto dalla città inglese continuerà e per il 2023 sta organizzando un ricco programma culturale attraverso il Leeds Culture Trust.

Se la Germania ha già deciso che la capitale europea della cultura per il 2025 sarà Chemnitz, la Slovenia ancora dovrà scegliere fra le quattro città entrate in short list: Ljubljana, Nova Gorica, Piran e Ptuj.