Networks and cities' news

Why in-person Trans-National Meetings matter in European Cooperation programmes

By Christophe Gouache, Lead Expert of Breaking Isolation

As we're reaching the end our ‘Breaking Isoaltion’ network’s journey, it's also the occasion to look back on the past 2 years and in particular look at the 12 (in-person) Trans-National Meetings that Breaking Isolation | URBACT Network has organized.

Final Network Product: LET'S GO CIRCULAR! Flipbook

Results, recommendations and City Snapshots from the URBACT-funded Action Planning Network LET'S GO CIRCULAR! Paving the way for a circular transition of cities - in our interactive Flipbook!

Greening industry where it matters: lessons from small and medium-sized European cities

Eight Cities, One Goal: How FEMACT-Cities Turned Gender Equality into Daily Governance

It’s a wrap-up! GreenPlace cities are now on track to revitalising and green their forgotten and unused places!

After 2.5 years of the URBACT GreenPlace network, the journey now comes to an end. Project partners got to learn from each other on practices that they implement locally covering the themes of circularity, culture and nature-based solutions. They also exchanged about their governance models the ways to engage local communities  activities. Throughout the URBACT methodology they learnt to identify their challenges, develop common visions, define an intervention logic, test some activities and publish an Integrated Action Plan (IAPs). This latter now forms the basis for the on-going and future work of the GreenPlace partner cities!
 

What have been the main outcomes of the GreenPlace journey? Here is what they shared during a last in-person meeting in Limerick late September 2025.

Urban Mobility Paradigms: navigating inclusivity and sustainability in the S.M.ALL project

In the city of Ferrara, which leads the S.M.ALL project, the first transnational “ready for action” meeting took place on December 6th, 2023. This meeting concluded the city visits and marked the beginning of the next planning phase. At this point in the journey, the first considerations about the potential of this network can be formulated.