Programme
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...
Meeting of Good Practices (upon invitation)
Closed meeting for invited Good Practices' representatives only.
Study visits
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)
- Visit of the old town of Wroclaw
Stay tuned for the detailed programme of these visits - to be announced soon!
Award Ceremony of the 116 Good Practices
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
National networking around coffee
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.
Welcoming plenary
Find out what this URBACT City Festival is about and what to expect for the two days.
Launch of the URBACT Call for Transfer Networks
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.
Good Practices marketplace (part 1)
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.
Lunch break
Thematic discovery of URBACT Good Practices
Keep discovering the awarded URBACT Good Practices through a thematic angle (parallel sessions).
Good practices marketplace (part 2)
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.
Coffee break
Good Practices marketplace (part 3)
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.
Study visits
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)
- Visit of the old town of Wroclaw
Stay tuned for the detailed programme of these visits - to be announced soon!
Sport and social activities (optional)
Collective jogging, yoga, and other courses, to keep you fresh and young!
National networking around coffee
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.
Welcome back to the Centennial Hall
Highlights of first day and what comes next!
Good Practices marketplace (part 4)
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.
What does it mean to be involved in URBACT Transfer Networks?
Parallel sessions
Lunch break
Good Practices marketplace (part 5)
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.
What does it take to transfer a Good Practice in your city?
Parallel sessions
Closing plenary
Wrap up, next steps and goodbye.