Networks and cities' news

Reaching out into communities to find fledgling entrepreneurs

Business Plan Competitions are essentially a contest where business plans, submitted by aspiring entrepreneurs, are compared, and judged, according to a set of criteria published prior to the launch of the competition. Winners go on to receive incubation and business support to help them set down strong roots in a particular locality, grow and employ more people.

Reaching out into communities to find fledgling entrepreneurs

Business Plan Competitions are essentially a contest where business plans, submitted by aspiring entrepreneurs, are compared, and judged, according to a set of criteria published prior to the launch of the competition. Winners go on to receive incubation and business support to help them set down strong roots in a particular locality, grow and employ more people.

Reaching out into communities to find fledgling entrepreneurs

Business Plan Competitions are essentially a contest where business plans, submitted by aspiring entrepreneurs, are compared, and judged, according to a set of criteria published prior to the launch of the competition. Winners go on to receive incubation and business support to help them set down strong roots in a particular locality, grow and employ more people.

ART as the inspiration for urban actions of sustainable change: The municipal theater of Plasencia hosts a play about depopulation

Art has always been a powerful tool and has had a strong voice in describing important social issues. That's why the City of Plasencia, member of Residents of the Future URBACT network, hosts a play in municipal theater that deals with depopulation, and to which the members of the local ULG have been invited. 

Second Transnational Meeting in person in Torres Vedras

On April 15th, 16th, and 17th, the second transnational meeting of the DIGI-INCLUSION network was held in Torres Vedras, Portugal and was attended by the network's Lead Expert, Ian Graham and the following delegations from all the network partners:

- Mollet del Vallès (Network leader)
 

- Jelgava Municipality (Latvia)
 

- Municipality of Alexandroupolis (Greece)
 

- Gdansk Entrepreneurship Foundation (Poland)
 

- Municipality of Iași (Romania)
 

- Boulogne sur mer Développement Côte de Opale (France)
 

- Lepida ScpA (Italy)
 

- Municipality of Torres Vedras (Portugal)
 

- Department of Development and International Projects of the Canton of Zenica-Doboj (DDIP ZDC) (Bosnia and Herzegovina

EcoCore - Santo Tirso Core Network Meeting Report

For the first time since meeting in Balbriggan, Co.Dublin in November 2023, network partners gathered in Santo Tirso for their first core network meeting of the action planning phase on 12th and 13th March. 
Taking advantage of the warm spring sunshine, partners were treated to a fun and energising icebreaker of social bingo by Aliados consulting. The icebreaker session took place outdoors in the riverside courtyard of the recently renovated Fábrica Santo Tirso, a former spinning mill and textile factory.