URBACT Good Practices

The 2025 URBACT City Festival will put in the spotlight 116 urban good practices that are impactful, participatory, integrated, relevant and easy to transfer to other European cities.

 

To scale them up across Europe, URBACT will launch a Call for Transfer Networks from April to June 2025. Join the URBACT City Festival to find the URBACT Good Practice you want to transfer in your own city and network to make this happen! 

 

Find out who these practices are and where they come from below! 

  • Craft Lab - Casas e Lugares do Sentir

    Enhancing crafts with digital manufacturing technologies 

  • Olympics4all: Communities for Active Ageing

    Increasing physical activity of the elderly and creating healthier communities 

  • Night at the Market

    Fostering community engagement through municipal market events 

  • Urban farm

    Sustainable farm producing quality vegetables while involving individuals at risk 

  • Social inclusion of disadvantaged groups

    Integrating vulnerable individuals, especially Roma, through education and empowerment 

  • Low emission schools

    Transforming older buildings into eco-friendly learning hubs 

  • Mainstreaming ecosystem services and biodiversity

    Participation, integrated ecosystem services and biodiversity in peri-urban forest parks 

  • Solar School Energy Community

    Energy community based on a cooperatively owned solar power plant

  • City Forest

    Development of urban forests 

  • Transforming wastewater basins into a biodiversity hotspot 

    Shifting from industrial use to nature conservation in urban areas 

  • Repurposing heritage for citizens

    Transforming an old ceramics factory into a cultural and leisure hub 

  • Urban Community Development Näsby

    Joint urban development addressing challenges posed by segregation and inequality