The event starts with a pilot lesson at the Musicodrom and a study visit to the projects ‘The district sounds good’ and ‘Pimp my yard’ (social participation in the design of public spaces to improve living together in the area).

On 19^th September, IAEC Executive Committee members visit the facilities where the 16^th IAEC International Congress will take place, meet the Scientific Committee and agree on key organisational issues. Other topics discussed at the meeting are the following: celebration of the International Day (30 November) and its manifesto, the 30^th anniversary of the Educating Cities’ Charter, the requirements for the presentations of bids for the 2022 International Congress and the territorial networks’ updates.

The meeting ends with a study visit to the temporary exhibition ‘The Silesian hip-hop 1993-2003’. Polish hip-hop was a medium through which young people had opportunity to speak in the 90s, often paving through the way for a better social position.