{"id":240,"date":"2014-11-05T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oc.citizensforeurope.org\/ojs\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2015-07-01T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:22:47","slug":"about_us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oc.citizensforeurope.org\/ojs\/about_us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>What is Open Citizenship?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Open Citizenship is a cutting-edge magazine and journal produced for and by people concerned with citizenship, political participation and migration in Europe. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>What we focus on<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Each edition focuses in on a different aspect of citizenship. Topics as diverse as European identity, urban citizenship and sustainability have been covered. You can find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/oc.citizensforeurope.org\/ojs\/open-citizenship-current-and-back-catalogue\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>What&#8217;s so special?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We break down the barriers of publishing, and bring together academic articles with profiles of activist movements. Top that off with interviews and editorial pieces and you&#8217;ve got a totally different kind of journal \u2013 one that&#8217;s not afraid to ask big questions and find the right way to answer them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">You&#8217;ll see one of these icons at the top of each article, which should identify what kind of piece it is:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-icon=\"&#xe005;\"><\/span> Academic Article &nbsp; <span data-icon=\"&#xe074;\"><\/span> Commentary &nbsp; <span data-icon=\"&#xe06f;\"><\/span> Interview &nbsp; <span data-icon=\"&#xe01b;\"><\/span> Movement Profile &nbsp; <span data-icon=\"&#xe0d4;\"><\/span> Review<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>How we&#8217;re published<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Open Citizenship publishes all articles in this magazine online. We also collect academic articles and publish them in a printed journal. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What can you do?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We encourage our readers to contribute and get involved any way they can: submit an essay, review or get involved in a movement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Who we are<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Open Citizenship is organised by Citizens For Europe (CFE), a Berlin based non-profit NGO. CFE promotes the development of a\u00a0participatory and <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1526\" src=\"http:\/\/oc.citizensforeurope.org\/ojs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cfe.png\" alt=\"cfe\" width=\"217\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oc.citizensforeurope.org\/ojs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cfe.png 217w, https:\/\/oc.citizensforeurope.org\/ojs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cfe-100x39.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/>inclusive European Union, and focuses on issues of citizenship, diversity, migration and political participation in the EU. Its transnational projects \u00a0include online voting platforms, local street campaigns, international conferences, academic research and publications as well as interactive workshops.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">You can find out more\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/citizensforeurope.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Some more<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b> history<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Open Citizenship started out in 2010 primarily as a paper journal. It now produces work online, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">some of<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> which will be collected into journal once we\u2019re ready to publish it. You can discover the back catalogue of our journals\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/oc.citizensforeurope.org\/ojs\/open-citizenship-current-and-back-catalogue\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #1f2024;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Crimson Text', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">. All of our content is published on this website \u2013 so if you like the look of a particular journal, you can find it and all of its contents by browsing our categories.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Open Citizenship?<br \/>\nOpen Citizenship is a cutting-edge magazine and journal produced for and by people concerned with citizenship, political participation and migration in Europe.<br \/>\nWhat we focus on<br \/>\nEach edition focuses in on a different aspect of citizenship. 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