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Final product (video): A shared journey of learning, testing and planning a new kind of urban–rural mobility

The European urban regeneration project Re-Gen bids farewell to the city of Verona. Institutions and the public embrace Casa Verona, with ice skating and visions of the future.

The European urban regeneration project Re-Gen, led by the Municipality of Verona, will come to an end in December 2025. The last event on the programme took place on Sunday 14 December at Casa Verona, with Mayor Damiano Tommasi, Councillor for Youth Policies Jacopo Buffolo, the project's protagonists and the young skaters of the Artiskate junior quartet, world champions in roller skating in Beijing 2025. Before the meeting, 150 young girls and boys from Verona were able to try their hand at two hours of ice skating, offered by Re-Gen, with the help of two instructors and free skate and rink hire.

Breaking Isolation Network comes to an end - Final network article

By Christophe Gouache, Lead Expert of the Breaking Isolation network.

In June 2023, when the Breaking Isolation network got approved as one of the new URBACT Action Planning Network cohort, we had no idea what we were heading towards. All we knew was that our 10 cities wanted to work on the same public problem: social isolation. And that all partners will have to deliver within about 2 years and a half, an Integrated Action Plan (often referred to as ‘IAP’ in the URBACT community).

WELDI Advocacy Paper

The SCHOOLHOODs message for safe, green and happy ways to school

The SCHOOLHOODs team dedicated its work for improving the way our children come to school. For more than 2 years, we discussed with teacher, parents, pupils and politicians. We brainstormed and negotiated solutions. We put testing actions on the ground to demonstrate how to arrive at better school commutes. And we created effective strategies and action plans to institutionalise the change to safe, green and happy ways to school.

Destination branding for the future of work

This entry is part of the Remote-IT Playbook series, developed within the URBACT Remote-IT Action Planning Network (Entry 2 of 22).

Remote work is reshaping how people choose where to live, not just where to work. For European cities, this shift is opening a new field of competition and collaboration: becoming attractive places for people whose jobs are no longer tied to a local employer. Destination branding is no longer just a tourism tool; it is becoming a strategic instrument for talent attraction, demographic renewal and economic resilience.

Here we examine how can cities position themselves as destinations for remote workers and digital nomads, drawing on European data and international research, as well as lessons from the eight cities of the Remote-IT URBACT network: Dubrovnik, Brindisi, Bucharest District 6, Câmara de Lobos, Heraklion, Murcia, Tartu and Tirana.