The Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal, together with the Utrecht School for the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands; the Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada; and the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCACT) thematic area on Urban management and cultural policy of the city will organize a second annual symposium on Animation of Public Space through the Arts: Innovation and Sustainability. Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2011