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The City of Šibenik Presents Itself to Zagreb Students as a Hub of Career Opportunities and High-Quality Living

Work-Life Balance in the Mediterranean Style. On Thursday, December 5th, the Technical Polytechnic of Zagreb (TVZ) hosted a presentation about Šibenik, showcasing it as a city where it’s possible to develop a successful career while enjoying all the benefits of the Mediterranean lifestyle. The event was part of the URBACT project – Residents of the Future, which addresses the challenges of depopulation and population loss in small towns.

C4TALENT Highlights at Piraeus ULG Meeting and Blue Growth Conference

Held at the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce.

Talent-Friendly Cities

Introducing C4TALENT's Infographic #2.

Accessible and Inclusive Public Spaces: Foundations for Thriving Communities

Public spaces are the core of urban community life, offering people a place to observe each other, connect, and share goals, needs, and stories. When designed with human diversity in mind, these spaces have the transformative potential to foster social cohesion, enhance quality of life, and support sustainable urban living. They serve as platforms for community interaction, cultural exchange, and recreation, contributing in the long term to healthier, more equitable cities. Public spaces should be accessible to all citizens and not create discrimination caused by the built environment. However, although accessibility and inclusion are recurring topics in numerous EU documents and reports, they are still too often treated as add-ons rather than integral components of urban planning. This leaves many spaces inaccessible or unfriendly to diverse user groups and leads to missed opportunities for building an equitable society.

To build on this, GreenPlace, one of Urbact’s networks that aims to develop a set of activities for "recycling" unused urban areas using social participation tools having a strong focus on diversity and inclusion, recently held a workshop titled “Equitable Cities—An Inclusive Approach” in Nitra, Slovakia. The participants examined how the built environment can contribute to social segregation and generate disabilities even where there are no permanent ones. They discussed the importance of shifting accessibility from being viewed as a "special case" ¹ to becoming a core priority in public space development. 

Schoolhoods’ Mid-Term Reflection Meeting: Advancing Safe, Green, and Happy Ways to School!

Parma, Italy | November 13-14, 2024

Climate-adaptive grassland management in urban environments

Veszprém (HU), the “City of Queens” (ca. 56.000 inhabitants), as it is often called due to its role in Hungarian history, is located between the famous Lake Balaton and the karst area of Bakony Hills, its territory is both part of the Bakony-Balaton UNESCO Geopark and the Balaton-upland National Park. Veszprém was the European Capital of Culture in 2023 together with its hinterland (Veszprém-Balaton-Bakony region), highlighting the city’s integral connection to surrounding landscapes.