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The 2025 URBACT City Festival will showcase urban good practices from around Europe, selected for you to adapt and scale up in your city. Explore them through the City Festival’s marketplace, thematic sessions, study visits and networking opportunities. Get as well first-hand information on how to join the upcoming URBACT Transfer Networks!
 

Discover the preliminary programme of the 2025 edition and build your own City Festival journey! More details to come soon...

8 April
9 April
10 April

Meeting of Good Practices (upon invitation)

13:00 - 16:00
Centennial Hall

Closed meeting for invited Good Practices' representatives only.

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Study visits

16:00 - 18:00

Open to all URBACT City Festival participants, the following study visits will take place:

- Microgrants (URBACT Good Practice)
- Wroclaw Urban Farm (URBACT Good Practice)
- Wroclaw Old Tram (URBACT Good Practice)
- GreenPlace (URBACT Action Planning Networks)
- Visit of the old town of Wroclaw

Stay tuned for the detailed programme of these visits - to be announced soon! 

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Award Ceremony of the 116 Good Practices

19:00 - 22:00
Wroclaw Congress Centre

The URBACT City Festival opens with shading light to the 116 URBACT Good Practices. On the programme: opening speeches, award distribution, photo call, dinner, live music.

Open to all participants. Dress code: formal

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National networking around coffee

9:00 - 10:00
Centennial Hall

Meet and exchange with other participants speaking the same language you do and National URBACT Points in charge of communicating about URBACT in your country.

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Welcoming plenary

10:00 - 10:30
Centennial Hall

Find out what this URBACT City Festival is about and what to expect for the two days.

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Launch of the URBACT Call for Transfer Networks

10:30 - 11:00
Centennial Hall

On the occasion of the URBACT City Festival, URBACT launches its Call for Transfer Networks. These networks aim to transfer URBACT Good Practices to other European cities from September 2025 to end of 2027. Learn what these Transfer Networks are about, how they work, who is concerned, and what are the important dates to pin to your calendar.

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Good Practices marketplace (part 1)

11:00 - 12:30
Centennial Hall

Time to meet 116 URBACT Good Practices from 99 cities from 25 European countries in a marketplace! Find out what they are about and network with them, if you are interested in transferring them to your city through URBACT Transfer Networks.

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Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00
Centennial Hall

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00
Centennial Hall

Study visits

18:00 - 19:30

OOpen to all URBACT City Festival participants, the following study visits will take place:

- Microgrants (URBACT Good Practice)
- Wroclaw Urban Farm (URBACT Good Practice)
- Wroclaw Old Tram (URBACT Good Practice)
- GreenPlace (URBACT Action Planning Network)
- Visit of the old town of Wroclaw

Stay tuned for the detailed programme of these visits - to be announced soon! 

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Sport and social activities (optional)

8:30 - 9:00
Centennial Hall

Collective jogging, yoga, and other courses, to keep you fresh and young!

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National networking around coffee

9:00 - 10:00
Centennial Hall

Meet and exchange with other participants speaking the same language you do and National URBACT Points in charge of communicating about URBACT in your country.

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Welcome back to the Centennial Hall

9:30 - 10:00
Centennial Hall

Highlights of first day and what comes next!

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Good Practices marketplace (part 4)

10:00 - 12:30
Centennial Hall

Time to meet 116 URBACT Good Practices from 99 cities from 25 European countries in a marketplace! Find out what they are about and network with them, if you are interested in transferring them to your city through URBACT Transfer Networks.

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Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00
Centennial Hall

Good Practices marketplace (part 5)

14:00 - 15:00
Centennial Hall

Time to meet 116 URBACT Good Practices from 99 cities from 25 European countries in a marketplace! Find out what they are about and network with them, if you are interested in transferring them to your city through URBACT Transfer Networks.

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Closing plenary

15:15 - 16:00

Wrap up, next steps and goodbye.

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Farewell Wroclaw Party

19:00 - late night
Czasoprzestrzen ("Space-Time")