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    Female entrepreneurship - a way to development in rural areas

    Within the framework of its participation in the FEMACT-Cities project, the County Administrative Board of Skåne primarily works on how the proportion of female entrepreneurs can be increased and how

  • Why are we still talking about gender equality? The FEMACT-Cities Action Planning Network: Addressing the implementation gap in gender equality policy

    The FEMACT-Cities Action Planning Network: Addressing the implementation gap in gender equality policy

    Why are we still talking about gender equality?

     

    2024 will mark the 25 year anniversary of the Pact of Amsterdam, the legal document which made gender equality compulsory in the European Union. But

  • The City of Tampere Among the 100 European Climate-neutral and Smart Cities

    The European Commission announced today the cities selected to the group of 100 Climate-neutral and Smart Cities by 2030 – the city of Tampere is among them. Tampere is part of the URBACT Urb-En Pact

  • Last ULG for Clermont Auvergne Métropole

    On May, 16th, the last ULG from CAM held with all the members working together about the evaluation of the IAP. The latter has been evaluated by the peers at the European scale and now it’s time for

  • Industry is on the way towards net-zero energy cities

    The Métropole Rouen Normandie (France) explains why and how to conciliate industry and energy management when the territory has a important industrial fabric. In other words, how to combine economic

  • Public-private partnership around a common goal : "a vision of a climate-neutral economy"

    The ability to federate all the stakeholders in a territory is one of the main strengths of an URBACT project. Public sector, associations, private partners can meet, exchange, act together in a

  • Urb-En Pact - Appeal of energy awareness-raising actions through “Gaming”

    Let's find out how Alto Minho helps raise awareness about energy transition. Thanks to the implementation of a URBACT small-scale action, the city has successfully experimented with “gaming” in

  • When European citizens’s expectations about energy transition are gathered in a planet

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  • When European citizens’s expectations about energy transition are gathered in a planet…

    In line with the DNA of the Urb-En Pact network, participatory approaches are encouraged. The network launched a survey for the citizens to identify their expectations towards public authorities about