http://urbact.eu/ Urbact Latest Updates en copyleft 12/03/2010 01:26 copyleft copyleft blog http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=429#85 URBACT, c’est une communauté ouverte d’acteurs de la ville passionnés et impliqués. Sur le terrain, confrontés à des enjeux et des contextes différents, ils font avancer les politiques urbaines au quotidien. Petit tour d horizon avec quelques ... 11/03/2010 16:15 URBACT People http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=1855#165 Experte référente du projet URBACT Esimec, Alison Partridge a fait des programmes de développement européens son métier. Depuis 20 ans, elle aide les autorités locales et d autres acteurs (ONG, universités…) à monter et à déployer des projets... 11/03/2010 16:11 Alison Partridge http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=1855#164 Alison Partidge, the Lead Expert for URBACT s Esimec project, has made a career of working for European development projects. For 20 years now, she has been helping local authorities and other key players (NGOs, universities, etc.) to implement... 11/03/2010 14:29 Alison Partridge http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=429#54 URBACT is an open community made up of city practitioners and policy makers who are passionate about their work. They are working hands-on in the field, facing a variety of challenges and situations, bringing progress to urban policies on a daily... 11/03/2010 14:08 URBACT People http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=372#78 10/03/2010 14:28 URBACT in figures http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=372#41 10/03/2010 14:24 URBACT in figures http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=402#82 Son rôle Le Secrétariat URBACT assure la mise en Å“uvre et le suivi des principales activités d’URBACT : Animer : il coordonne et anime le suivi des travaux des projets et du processus de capitalisation et de dissémination des connaissances à... 04/03/2010 17:30 The Secretariat http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=402#52 ROLE The URBACT Secretariat implements and monitors URBACT’s main activities. Coordination: It coordinates and monitors the work done by the projects as well as the capitalisation and dissemination of knowledge at the programme... 04/03/2010 17:26 The Secretariat http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=1529#128 The current global economic crisis is having an impact across Europe, in a variety of forms and contexts. It is clear that cities and local governments are on the front line of the crisis, in terms of its impact on people, businesses and places.... 04/03/2010 16:55 URBACT cities responding to the crisis http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=1854#163 By October 2009, some 850 cities across Europe had already signed up to the Covenant of Mayors initiative, confirming a will to reduce their CO² emissions by more than 20% by 2020 (so even surpassing EU energy objectives). This is a clear indication... 24/02/2010 15:13 Low Carbon Urban Environments http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=1854#162 By October 2009, some 850 cities across Europe had already signed up to the Covenant of Mayors initiative, confirming a will to reduce their CO² emissions by more than 20% by 2020 (so even surpassing EU energy objectives). This is a clear indication... 24/02/2010 15:12 Low Carbon Urban Environments http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=336#109 The projects are the core of the URBACT Programme. They enable cities to work together, and to develop effective and sustainable solutions to key urban challenges. They are grouped in 9 areas of expertise. 24/02/2010 14:19 Our Projects http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=441#104 An overwhelming majority of the world’s population are concentrated in some form of urban settlement pattern, but the way people live in the city is obviously highly differentiated. While homelessness, inhabiting slums or sub-standard properties,... 24/02/2010 12:14 Quality Sustainable Living http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=439#103 The whole nature of maritime transport has changed dramatically during recent decades and this could not fail to impact on port cities.Many ports have experienced declining fortunes through loss of freight throughput, shrinking national fishing... 24/02/2010 12:14 Port Cities http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=444#102 Metropolitan governance focuses on problems of integrating governance across territories.Most cities have been constrained as they grow by historic boundaries. As suburbs grew with transport innovations more and more tax payers were located outside... 24/02/2010 12:14 Metropolitan Governance http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=442#101 The economic crisis has made at least one thing clear. This is that over-dependence on large traditional industries, and low productivity, low wage sectors is an immense risk in a globalised economy. In the past, economic sectors have come and... 24/02/2010 12:13 Innovation and Creativity http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=443#100 A major challenge that has been aggravated by the financial and economic crisis is how to maintain Europe’s social achievements in the face of an ageing population. In the long term it is clearly neither socially nor economically sustainable to do... 24/02/2010 12:13 Human Capital and Entrepreneurship http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=445#99 Cities have long had a tendency to concentrate wealth and poverty in different neighbourhoods. In some cities the disadvantaged areas were in the valleys while the wealthy lived higher up away from pollution on surrounding hills. In other cities... 24/02/2010 12:12 Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=440#98 In all member states, historic towns and cities bear witness to both a shared European heritage as well as rich cultural diversity. Many urban landscapes and identities are marked by a built environment whose physical characteristics refer to a... 24/02/2010 12:11 Cultural Heritage and City Development http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=446#97 The active inclusion theme focuses on ways that specific groups in society can be included both in the labour market and in wider society. Certain groups in the city are particularly prone to social exclusion in all its forms. There are particular... 24/02/2010 12:11 Active Inclusion http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/view-one/urbact-news/?entryId=4920 Alison Partidge, Lead Expert for the new URBACT project Esimec, has made a career of working for European development projects. For 20 years now, she has been helping local authorities and other key players (NGOs, universities, etc.) to implement... 11/03/2010 16:39 Portrait: Alison Partridge, "My top goal is to help cities" http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/view-one/urbact-news/?entryId=4918 quot;Female entrepreneurship in the economic downturn: bringing innovation at the municipal level quot; is an article written by Professor Gill Scott, Lead Expert of the URBACT WEED Women, Enterprise and Employment in Local development project. 03/03/2010 11:46 Female entrepreneurship in the economic downturn http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=#4828 An URBACT CityLab was held on February 12th, 2010 in Lille, on issues related to managing metropolitan areas across national, regional and local boundaries. You are working in this field or simply interested in the topic, discover the outputs of the... 01/03/2010 12:04 URBACT CityLab on Metropolitan Governance: Outputs now online! http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/view-one/eu-news/?entryId=4910 From Monday 22 to Friday 26 March 2010 the 4th edition of the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW 2010) will take place in Brussels and in other major cities across Europe. Sustainable Energy is more and more recognised as a priority challenge for... 25/02/2010 16:16 EU Sustainable Energy Week: URBACT Energy issues http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=#4826 Develop the inhabitants feeling of belonging to a cross-border area. Involve civil society within the cross-border public life. Those two questions are fundamental in the construction of cross-border territories and were the heart of the discussion... 16/02/2010 17:30 EGTC Seminar: Involvement of civil society within cross-border conurbations http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/view-one/eu-news/?entryId=4908 Bristol is a partner city in the URBACT Lumasec project dealing with quot;Land use management for sustainable European cities quot; but the city is also a finalist for 2010 and 2011 European Green Capital Award. In a short video, the City of... 15/02/2010 14:48 European Green Capital: Bristol, an URBACT city in the spotlight http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/view-one/urbact-news/?entryId=4916 Roma-Net is right in line with the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. This new URBACT project was approved in November 2009 and sets out to improve the integration of Roma populations. Roma-net is facing challenges?xenophobia,... 09/02/2010 16:56 Special report: Roma-Net - Returning Dignity to the Roma People http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/view-one/eu-news/?entryId=4906 The European Union has been supporting urban development since the launch of the URBAN initiative s first pilot projects in 1989. The URBACT programme was created in 2002 within the framework of this EU support for urban development. This... 09/02/2010 15:13 20 years of EU support for urban development: Conference Video http://urbact.eu/en/header-main/news-and-events/view-one/urbact-news/?entryId=4910 Go to the heart of a wide range of ongoing urban challenges faced everyday by our European cities. Keep informed about their latest news and events. Roma population, Transport problems, Energy sustainability and efficiency in urban environments,... 01/02/2010 17:15 Discover our new URBACT projects! http://urbact.eu/index.php?id=#4824 We are pleased to let you know that the next URBACT Annual Conference will be held in Liège in Belgium from Tuesday 30th November to Wednesday 1st December 2010 in Liège Conference Centre. 28/01/2010 17:05 Liège will host URBACT annual Conference 2010