KreNI10

Nis, Serbia

30 speakers
6-7 December, 2024.
Proximity
Host country: Sweden
Place: Hotel Ambasador

ABOUT

KreNI conference is the first and most influential creativity festival in southeastern Serbia gathering innovative creative professionals and experts from all over the world. KreNI conference is about creativity of young people and their engagement in society. It is empowering young people and including them in mapping and solving some problems in their surroundings.

Potential of creative industries in Nis is going to be presented in order to raise awareness about the role that this part of Serbia can have in the global development of creative industries using the experience of foreign experts. Are you creative and innovative person who want to make our city a better place for living? Welcome to the KreNI board!

HOW IT WAS BEFORE?

PROGRAM

MAIN PROGRAM - AGENDA

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6 December
7 December

09.30 - 10.00

Registration

10.00 - 10.30

Official opening

Snezana Andric, President of Young Ambassadors
Mr. Dragoslav Pavlovic, Mayor of the City of Nis
H.E. Charlotte Sammelin, Swedish Ambassador to Serbia
H.E Pierre Cochard, French Ambassador to Serbia
Ms. Clare Sears Wood, British Council, Director Western Balkan
Ms. Madelyn Mahon, Cultural Attache at the US Embassy in Serbia
Mr. Roberto Cincotta, Director of Italian Institute for Culture
Ms. Maja Spanjevic Keselj, Cultural Coordinator at the Embassy of Portugal in Serbia

10.30 - 11.30

Panel discussion: Is Proximity from another planet?

This panel explores the practical potential and challenges of creating “15-minute cities” where key life essentials—work, housing, and services—are within easy walking or biking distance. The discussion will draw insights from Sweden's pioneering ABC city concept, launched in the 1950s with Stockholm’s Vällingby suburb, which aimed to integrate workplaces, homes, and centres in close proximity. Decades later, this idea resurfaces worldwide. Are we closer to achieving it? Or does the reality still feel far from reach?

Johanna Alkan Olsson, Teacher and Researcher at the Centre for Environment and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden
Marko Todorović, Director of business development at Semrén & Månsson International
Ivana Bogdanović Protić, Associate Professor, Chair of Town and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Niš
Moderator: Ivana Marjanović, Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Economics, University of Niš

11.30 - 13:30

KreNI talks: 15 minutes speech for 15 minutes cities

(best practices in proximity introduced by European experts - Portugal, Austria, Italy, Sweden, France)
11.30 - 11.45 - Lara Seixo Rodrigues, Founder and Director of Mistaker Maker Platform for Artistic Intervention, Portugal
11.45 - 12.00 - Damien Plant, Chartered Environmentalist, IEMA Fellow and alumni of the Cambridge University Sustainable Business programme, Austria
12.00 - 12.15 - Ilhami Alkan Olsson, PhD on the international climate change regime, international educator for human rights, Sweden
12.15 - 12.30 - Coffee break
12.30 - 12.45 - Giovanni Lanza, MSc and PhD in Urban Planning, professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
12.45 - 13.00 - Mathieu Voisin, Transport and Mobility Specialist, France

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 17.00

Workshop I

STAGE I (Green Skills)

Damien Plant, Chartered Environmentalist, IEMA Fellow and alumni of the Cambridge University Sustainable Business programme, Austria
Johanna Alkan Olsson, Teacher and Researcher at the Centre for Environment and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden
Ilhami Alkan Olsson, PhD on the international climate change regime, international educator for human rights, Sweden

STAGE II (Creative Skills)

Lara Seixo Rodrigues, Founder and Director of Mistaker Maker Platform for Artistic Intervention, Portugal
Mathieu Voisin, Transport and Mobility Specialist, France
Giovanni Lanza, MSc and PhD in Urban Planning, professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy

SPECIAL GUESTS

H.E. PIERRE COCHARD

France, Ambassador of France in Serbia

ROBERTO CINCOTTA

Italy, Director of the Italian Institute for Culture

KEY SPEAKERS

JOHANNA ALKAN OLSSON

Teacher and Researcher at the Centre for Environment and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden

ANDREAS BRYNGELSON

Business developer at Lund University, Sweden

DAMIEN PLANT

Business consultant and diplomat, Austria

LARA SEIXO RODRIGUES

Founder and Director of Mistaker Maker | Platform for Artistic Intervention, Portugal

ILHAMI ALKAN OLSSON

PhD on the international climate change regime, international educator for human rights, Sweden

GIOVANNI LANZA

MSc and PhD in Urban Planning, Italy

MILAN JANIć

Creative director and Co-founder of Goodbraind and Futurons, France
H.E. Charlotte Sammelin

H.E. CHARLOTTE SAMMELIN

Swedish Ambassador to Serbia

MARKO TODOROVIć

Director of business development at Semrén & Månsson International, Serbia
Mr. Roberto Cincotta

MR. ROBERTO CINCOTTA

Director of Italian Institute for Culture

IGOR MADZOV

Investor and entrepreneur, North Macedonia

IVANA MARJANOVIć

Assistant at the Faculty of Economics of University Niš, Serbia

IVANA BOGDANOVIć PROTIć

Associate Professor, Chair of Town and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Niš, Serbia
Ms. Clare Sears Wood

MS. CLARE SEARS WOOD

British Council, Director Western Balkan

LIDIJA STEFANOVIć NIKOLIć

Chief Urban Planner for the City of Niš, Serbia
H.E Pierre Cochard

H.E PIERRE COCHARD

French Ambassador to Serbia

MATHIEU VOISIN

Transport and Mobility Specialist, France

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