UniTS will also contribute to the rich programme of events planned for Nova Gorica – Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025 (https://www.go2025.eu/).

The year of events, a mix of music, art, nature and culture kicking off on 8th February, will also include the UniTS Gorizia Campus on Via d'Alviano.

Here we have provided a preview. [AR1] The Events section of UniTS portal will include all the news in the programme and details of the individual events.

27th – 28th March

• Interreg GO!

The European Commission has chosen the Interreg Italy-Slovenia Programme to host the ‘Interreg GO!’ event, which will bring together all the representatives of the active Interreg programmes, as well as representatives of the European Commission. It will be held between Gorizia and Nova Gorica, and special attention will be paid to young people active in associations and interested in European Territorial Cooperation. An event scheduled in the afternoon of Wednesday 26th March will be dedicated to these young people at the UniTS Gorizia Campus, in cooperation with the Department of Political and Social Sciences and the Bachelor’s Degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences.

31st March – 9th May

• GO!2025 Urban Center

Exhibition of educational, project and research outcomes of RRR Lab on Gorizia - Nova Gorica European Capital of Culture 2025

Studies and projects by Collettivo Colgo and Collettivo VAGO

The exhibition brings together the results obtained by RRR Lab (Laboratory of Architecture and Construction Integrated Design) in the last two academic years, in which the design, study and research themes on European Capitals of Culture were central, with a focus on the specific case of Gorizia - Nova Gorica. 

The exhibition showcases the highlights of two years of planning, punctuated by activities, seminars, workshops, conferences and projects for the two cities, as part of a single cross-border urban system. The cities have been preparing to become European Capital of Culture 2025 for the last few years, and will now have to reflect on the ‘after event’. 

• Presentation of the book ‘Il corpo della città. Telo mesto’ (The Body of the City. A Sad Veil) and panel to discuss the cross-border urban system Gorizia - Nova Gorica before, during and after the European Capital of Culture event. 

• Screening of the short film Corno/Koren. Memorie Sommerse (Submerged Memories). Collettivo Vago

• Conference 2024-25 GONGO, with the participation of about 250-300 students and lecturers from UniTS, the Polytechnic University of Milan, Federico II University of Naples and Salerno to talk about the GO!2025 project area, the two cities, the Transalpine Railway, the Nova Gorica railway station and the future of border areas.

• Presentation of the book ‘Mapping the city. Learning from ECOC’, the first systematic and comparative Italian study on cultural capitals from an architectural and urban point of view: legacies and possible futures.

4th April

• Meeting and exhibition on the figure of Otto von Habsburg, Europeanist

The meeting, organised with the Otto von Habsburg Foundation, will historically contextualise Otto con Habsburg’s character and the legacy of his work, which was strongly in favour of European integration. The speakers at the meeting will include Andrej Rahten, former ambassador of Slovenia to Austria and now professor of Contemporary History at the University of Maribor, and Enikö Györi, former ambassador of Hungary to Italy, as well as representatives from the European University Institute.  

26th-27th-28th May

• National Conference on Health Degrees

Health degree representatives from all over Italy will discuss the progress of the field and its training needs.

5th June, on World Environment Day

• Conference ‘Microplastics and Health’

Organised together with ASUGI (local healthcare services), the conference will bring together Italian nanoplastics experts who will discuss available data and challenges for the future. 

June (date to be confirmed) 

• GOSAFE meeting - Gorizia on ‘Safety culture between tradition and innovation’

Organised in cooperation with INAIL (Italian national institute for insurance against accidents at work), the meeting aims to discuss necessities in the field of health and safety and the implementation of the practice with various scholars.

October

• Conference ‘From the Helsinki Final Act to Go!2025, Nova Gorica - Gorizia European Capital of Culture’

The meeting, organised in cooperation with the Italian and Slovenian Diplomatic Associations on leave, will retrace the path which across 50 years has changed a climate of political tension into a context of cooperation and open borders.

Date to be confirmed

• Presentation of the results of the Cross-border Survey on the perception of GO!2025 among young people 

As part of the taught course in Cross-border Relations and Local Development held by Prof. Moreno Zago, the students of the Master's Degree in International Diplomacy and Cooperation had the opportunity to design, administer and process in October-December 2024 a cross-border survey on GO!2025 Nova Gorica-Gorizia European Capital of Culture.

Specifically, the questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 415 young people living or studying in the two cities or in their hinterland with the aim of understanding how the event could be an opportunity for connection with places and peers from across the border. The questions also focused on the role of European institutions for young people, the feeling of belonging, the perception of young people from across the border, the role of the border, and the future of relations between the two cities.

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