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  • Climate action
    Cope, planters

    47 URBACT cities put the economics of the green transition into practice

    From forgotten spaces to greener industries and circularity, URBACT cities are bringing green urban economy to life

    Eleni FELEKI

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  • Articles
    Creating the wildlife pond in Guimares with children. Photo: Laboratório da Paisagem.

    From brownfields to biodiversity: Nature-based Solutions that make a difference in our cities

    What happens when cities let nature in? Twenty-nine cities involved in URBACT Action Planning Networks show and tell...

    Marcelline Bonneau

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  • Local economy
    Cities at Heart

    Uncovering the local economic changes cities cannot afford to miss

    What if your city’s biggest economic challenge is the one you cannot see yet? Six URBACT networks take a proactive approach to local economic development.

    Béla Kézy

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  • Social cohesion
    Participative governance
    Urban planning
    Breaking Isolation | Pombal, Portugal

    The urban life diagnosis: how cities shape health beyond healthcare

    Three URBACT networks answer the question, what if better health starts before people even need healthcare? 

    Christophe Gouache

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  • Badia del Vallès mass housing estate in Barcelona (ES).

    Shaping cities together: seven URBACT Good Practices reimagining the city through collaborative planning

    In cities throughout Europe, local authorities are working on urban planning that respond to local needs, whether affordable housing plans or green urban regeneration.

    URBACT

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  • Le nouvel appel à réseaux URBACT est lancé !

    L'appel à réseaux d'action URBACT est ouvert jusqu'au 17 juin 2026. Nouvelle ambition : la mise en œuvre d'actions urbaines concrètes au sein de vos territoires !

    Lauryn Pignarre

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  • 1ère Rencontre de la communauté française URBACT : une dynamique nationale lancée !

    Ces 3 et 4 février 2026, les collectivités françaises participant ou ayant participé à URBACT se sont retrouvées pour échanger et fonder une communauté nationale d’URBACT.

    Lauryn Pignarre

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  • Social cohesion
    Breaking Isolation Journey

    Breaking Isolation Network comes to an end - Final network article

    By Christophe Gouache, Lead Expert of the Breaking Isolation network.

     

    In June 2023, when the Breaking Isolation network got approved as one of the new URBACT Action Planning Network cohort, we had no

    Barbara Gautherie

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  • Une ultime réunion contre l’isolement social : le réseau Breaking Isolation s’achève à Agen

    La douzième et dernière réunion transnationale du réseau Breaking Isolation s’est tenue à Agen, ville chef de file, où les dix villes participantes ont pu présenter la version finale de leur plan d

    Lauryn Pignarre

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