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How to involve your ULG members using a card game?

Boulogne-sur-Mer, a historic coastal city in northern France, is blending community engagement with urban revitalization through a unique card game designed for collaborative planning. Facing challenges like economic shifts, population decline, and coastal erosion, the city is rallying local stakeholders to reimagine and activate underutilized spaces. This approach has inspired new ideas for future projects, fostering deeper community involvement and turning citizen input into actionable plans for a thriving local future.

Turning the Tide: How Small Cities are Competing for Talent

C4TALENT’s Lead Expert, Béla Kézy, takes you to ten small- and medium-sized cities as they fight to reverse the 'brain drain' and retain talent.

Urban permaculture: helping residents reconnect to nature - Case study

The BiodiverCity partnership visited the Dole Self-Reliance Training Ground, a permaculture garden with educational facilities in Poljčane, Slovenia, to learn about permaculture, the importance of soil diversity, and discussed the implications for urban areas. The case study explains why it is so important to deal with permaculture in urban areas too.

You can read the whole case study HERE.

BiodiverCity: beehive therapy

Have you ever tried beehive therapy?

Hundreds of European cities are experimenting with biodiverse grassland management
and pollinator-friendly initiatives. Engaging residents is an - evergreen – challenge in these
sensitive, often culturally-driven questions. For them, operating a beehive therapy house in
a controlled way can be an interesting and rather attractive engagement tool, getting
people closer to nature.

Adressing Heathcare Migration in Lampedusa, Italy

Lampedusa, a small Italian island situated between Tunisia and Sicily, has become a focal point for migration to the European Union. Despite its modest population of 6,000, the island saw over 100,000 migrants arrive by boat from Tunisia and Libya in 2023. Lampedusa’s identity has been significantly shaped by EU migration policies, which often make these journeys perilous, leading to tragic losses at sea. This situation is largely due to the fact that people arrive in rather dire conditions. Consequently, as part of the WELDI project, the city organized the 6th transnational meeting focused on health-related issues to enhance community well-being.

WELDI workshop on Setting Up One-Stop Shops for Migrant Support