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    It was simply amazing, a real treasure-hunting II.

    The URBACT Come In Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network marks a milestone, as the first festivals modeled on the Budapest 100 Open House Weekend were held. In the second part of our series

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    It was simply amazing, a real treasure-hunting

    The URBACT Come In Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network marks a milestone, as the first festivals modeled on the Budapest 100 Open House Weekend were held. In the first part of our series we

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    Community between panels

     

    Although the first prefabricated buildings were built in Western Europe after the Second World War, they are undoubtedly the synonyms of the post-soviet countries like Hungary. Negative connotations

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    Mind the gap between top-down and bottom-up approaches while transferring the good practice

    The ‘Come in! – Talking Houses / Shared Stories’ URBACT Transfer Network is centred on the good practice entitled Weekend of Open Houses. It is an easily adaptable community festival in Budapest

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    Analysing transfer potentials in Pori

    Come in! partners went to Pori (FI) to analyse transfer potentials together with locals. The video, created by the network expert, shows what they have found.

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    Why do we need policies to make participation work? Check out what Pori’s Participation Agent does!

    Across Europe we are witnessing the rise of participative policies - policies aiming to have more insights, resulting in more efficient public policies. Not only because participation of citizens in

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    How participatory placemaking can help URBACT Local Groups to develop urban actions for public spaces in our cities

    More and more citizens, practitioners, politicians and city officials realise the importance of public spaces in our cities. These spaces are often described as the arteries and lungs of our cities

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    Start placemaking in your own courtyard!

    The managing team invited Wessel Badenhorst, an expert on placemaking to participate the Come in! Masterclass event in Budapest and help partners understanding how placemaking techniques can

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    Talking Armenian houses in Gyergyószentmiklós / Gheorgheni

    On a sunny Saturday afternoon, in a small city in Hargita/Harghita County, houses began to talk. This isn’t the beginning of a Transylvanian fairy tale but the story of a cultural event organized in