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Rzeszów: Treating Students as Future City-Makers

C4TALENT concludes in Rzeszów.

Beyond the Ballot Box: Why the Best Mobility Plan is a Great Place

By Maciej Zacher, URBACT Ad-Hoc Expert

Democracy often feels like a series of checkboxes. We vote every few years, fill out the occasional survey, and attend the odd town hall meeting. But building a city - especially one focused on sustainable mobility - requires something deeper than counting votes. It requires understanding lives.

This was the core challenge the URBACT PUMA network tackled during our recent workshop in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. When we talk about Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP), the conversation often drifts toward technicalities: bus frequencies, bike lane widths, and modal split percentages. These are crucial, of course. But we gathered to strip mobility back to its most fundamental truth: the spatial aspect.

Please don’t stop the music! How Cities After Dark is keeping the lights on the night

Surfing the Wave of Digitalisation

How to tackle digital exclusion at local level

It is well known that water and electronics don’t mix. So why are we talking about surfing and digital in the same sentence? Surely that sounds like a bad idea..?!

Ride the wave with me for a few minutes and I will explain…

Over the last 2.5 years, the Digi-inclusion network, a group of nine cities and other authorities and agencies, have been working to answer the question of how we tackle the digital divide at local level. One of the most important things to come from this network, was a new way of looking at the digital divide at local level. This starts with the concept of “The Wave of Digitalisation”. 

“What is that and how does it help the digital divide?” you might ask. It’s a good question. 

Pula: Turning a Closed Place into an Open Future

C4TALENT concludes in Pula.

Alytus: From Concept to Commitment

C4TALENT concludes in Alytus.