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Gävle's insight from latest transnational meeting

How to boost circular building cities? A set of recommendations

This Final Network Product by the URGE project provides recommendations to boost circular building cities. 

Insights from REGGIO EMILIA

The city of Reggio Emilia (Italy) was the co-host of the 7th Transnational Meeting, which was held between 23-25 May 2022 in Sweden, along with the cities of Gävle (Sweden) and Dzierżoniów (Poland).

Resourceful Cities Circular Transition Stories

In September of 2019 our nine Resourceful Cities embarked on their journey to develop next generation urban resource centers as a means to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. The idea for this URBACT action planning network arose from one of the actions identified by the EU Urban Agenda partnership on circular economy.

Taking a look how success could look like helps finding your path to it!

In May 2022, Space4People met to discuss how to promote our Integrated Action Plans (IAPs) to key stakeholders to strengthen ownership amongst stakeholders, assure adoption by political players and foster a smooth transition to its implementation phase. Questions focused on what measure are fitting for which stakeholder group, who are potential troublemakers and how to convince them to back the actions and ideas of our IAPs?

The Final IAP meeting in Heerlen

The INT-HERIT Implementation Network is one of the approved projects and gathers 9 EU cities/communities who are implementing a strategic development plan based on cultural heritage. The network is composed by Baena in Spain as lead partner, Alba Julia in Romania, Sigulda in Latvia, Mantova in Italy, Espinho in Portugal, Dodoni in Greece and the Intercommunale Leiedal in Belgium – and will engaged in several knowledge exchange activities to devise innovative approaches to cultural management in order to improve and extend the impact of the foreseen investments and action plans.