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  • A Tale of Two Cities. Transfer Stories from East and West.

    Two German cities are currently lead partners in the 23 URBACT transfer networks. Altena in North Rhine-Westphalia and Chemnitz in Saxony. Altena shared its best practices on how to develop

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    A HERO'S JOURNEY through the land of dragons

    Nyirbator's Transfer Story

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  • Melgaço’s Transfer Story Report

    1. Planning a long wanted and challenging voyage.
    Understanding the practice
    Melgaço is the most northern municipality of Portugal, bordering on Galicia in Spain.
    It covers a territory of 238 Km2 and has

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  • Transfer Story Idrija

    Through few chapters we are explaining how we transferred good practice and established our Towns’ living room. And also explaining what were the important steps and learnings from the whole transfer

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  • Transfer Story Manresa

    La Canal

    Executive Summary
    These Transfer Stories explain in 4 chapters how the Stellwerk practice
    arrived at Manresa and how it was transferred and implemented in a
    new NGO platform called La Canal.
    First

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    Christmas Pop-Up Shops in Altena

    The Lead Partner of URBACT's network re-growCity filled empty stores with manufacturers of Christmas decoration instead of a Christmas market (which was forbidden in 2020 because of Corona).

    "We made a

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    Good practice definition for the NGO Platform

    NGO Platform in a nutshell
    NGO platforms connects citizens who need help or who care about a particular issue with local groups which are active in this field. NGO platforms support local groups with

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    Good practice definition of aPop-up Shop

    Pop-up shop in a nutshell
    Pop-up shops utilise under-used or vacant premises for short term commercial or social initiatives. Short term and low cost leases reduce the risks for entrepreneurs to

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