Networks and cities' news

Catch up on the latest updates from cities working together in URBACT Networks. The articles and news that are showcased below are published directly by URBACT’s beneficiaries and do not necessarily reflect the programme’s position.

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    Future Agencies - the ALT/BAU offspring

    The famous ALT/BAU babies are not the only offspring of the ALT/BAU Transfer Network. In the ALT/BAU network, the aim was to transfer the URBACT Good Practice from Chemnitz - the Housing Agency for shrinking cities- to the network partner cities and to adapt its methods to the local conditions. Along the way, our partners in Riga and Turin came to the realization that setting up an agency as such was not way to go in their contexts. But four partners founded or are founding an agency similar to the one in Chemnitz. Here the transfer becomes really tangible.

    sabine.hausmann

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  • NETWORK FINAL EVENT

    RU:RBAN comes to an end, the past two years have been intense, enriching and inspiring for all six cities receiving the transfer of Rome’s good practice. What better way for a send-off than meeting all together? This was the original plan, that is to meet in A Coruña ….but Covid-19 did not give the partners this chance and the meeting had to be held online. However, the partners from the Galician city did an extraordinary  work in “bringing” A Coruña to all of us through the images, videos, interviews and virtual tours of the city’s urban gardens and community initiatives taking place in their urban areas. A really successful meeting that showed the extraordinary resilience of the entire RU:RBAN community!

    Patricia Hernandez

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  • The chart of the smart cities in Romania still has the same leader: Alba Iulia

    MAPPING OF SMART CITIES, SMART COUNTIES AND SMART VILLAGES IN ROMANIA IN 2021 – 860 PROJECTS IN 124 CITIES. This is an article written by Cornel Barbut, and published firstly on the Vegacomp Consulting website, and the in Romanian press. The present work talks about the state of the smart cities in Romania, Alba Iulia still being on the first place within this edition radiography. 

    Liviu Stanciu

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  • Copying neighbours: Lessons of BioCanteens Transfer Network

    BioCanteens is one of the 23 URBACT Transfer Networks engaged in a form of “action-research” to transfer Mouans-Sartoux's sustainable food project to 6 other European cities. After three years of hard work, you will find in this publication a detailed presentation of this project's innovative work methodology, its main results on the ground and key learning points.

    Nathan Begoc

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  • Klaipeda Case Study: Virtual hackathon “Unlock SDGs”

    To achieve Agenda 2030 and make sure that we leave no one behind, everyone needs to get involved in the work towards a more sustainable world. Youth continuously are an important factor in this work. The Klaipeda city has Forum of Youth Ambassadors, which is a new body put in place with the hope of creating lasting and strong youth engagement. The forum is designed to generate ideas for the Youth Affairs Council of Klaipėda, which consists of 7 youth representatives and 7 municipal representatives.  This process is in progress according to national law.

    Karin Luhaäär

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  • People play

    Reconsidering play in city-making

    By Anamaria Vrabie- URBACT Ad-hoc expert Playful Paradigm II

    Altrementi

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