URBACT news
11 March 2010
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Portrait: Alison Partridge, "My top goal is to help cities"
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 projects receiving structural funding. She has been convinced by URBACT's goals and approach to dissemination, and she tells us why she takes her role very seriously, sharing her vision of one of today's key challenges: post-downturn economic recover for medium-size cities. To learn more on her aims and objectives, we invite you to read her online portrait.
03 March 2010
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Female entrepreneurship in the economic downturn
"Female entrepreneurship in the economic downturn: bringing innovation at the municipal level" is an article written by Professor Gill Scott, Lead Expert of the URBACT WEED 'Women, Enterprise and Employment in Local development' project.
09 February 2010
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Special report: Roma-Net - Returning Dignity to the Roma People
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, poverty, exclusion from healthcare, schools and jobs—as great as the discrimination faced by the majority of Europe's 8 million Roma. We asked Budapest, Lead Partner of the project's five cities (Udine in Italy, Heraklion in Greece, Karvina in Czech Republic and Amadora in Portugal) to present the project's vision of the challenges and solutions.
01 February 2010
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Discover our new URBACT projects!
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, Combating the effects of the crisis… If you share the same urban issues, if you are interested in one of these topics, we invite you to learn more and discover our new projects!
01 February 2010
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City-hinterland co-operations. A challenge made worse by the crisis
"City-hinterland co-operations. A challenge to accomplish in urban agglomerations made worse by the crisis" is an article written by Bernd Gassler, Lead Expert of the URBACT CityRegion.Net project.