Child in the City 2024 – last call for abstracts
The deadline for submitting abstracts for Child in the City Seminar is almost upon us – but you still have time to send us your proposals.
If you’re interested in sharing details of your work with peers at our seminar in December, you have up to and including Sunday September 1 to get in touch.
So don’t delay if you would like to be considered as a speaker at Keep on Moving, when we will be exploring a host of themes around access to and opportunities for physical movement and outdoor play.
Inclusive Spaces and Initiatives for Play and Sports; Children’s Mobility and Climate Change; and Climate Justice are the three central topics underpinning this year’s seminar, which builds on a growing body of evidence showing that young people’s health is being significantly affected by a lack of physical activity.
And so during the seminar from 3-4 December, we will once again be bringing together child professionals from across a wide range of disciplines to share, discuss and debate ideas and solutions.
Hans Migchielsen, chair of the Child in the City Foundation, said: “We’re excited at the prospect of assessing all of the interesting and thought-provoking abstracts that have been submitted. We will be staging discussions, presentations and workshops to help promote some of the excellent work being done out there to improve the lives and protect the rights of children in cities everywhere.”
Key questions under the main themes include:
- Inclusive Spaces and Initiatives for Play and Sports: How can both urban planning and bottom-up community initiatives contribute to the development of more inclusive public spaces?Â
- Children’s Mobility: What workable solutions can we detect from research and good practices that engage both traffic specialists, child professionals, and schools?
- Climate Change and Climate Justice: How can we build on the greening of squares, school yards, and educational spaces as a method for mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change in urban environments?
So if you would you like to present your project, research or local case story, please complete this form.
Click here for more about the seminar content, and if you have any questions about submitting your abstract, please email manouk.brouwers@childinthecity.org
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