URBACT Good Practices

Appointing community representatives amongst the residents of the target area Edgbaston Reservoir, to become permanent ambassadors, communicating with the City Council, and understanding their challenges – enabling Birmingham in this way to rebuild trust

Managing sustainable projects in cross border governance with participatory urban planning model

An experiment challenging traditional welfare system and empowering long-term unemployed in their efforts to find or create a job

Upgrading municipal government in the areas of business and the environment

Boosting urban mobility and air quality by promoting cargo bike transport 

Promoting environmental regeneration and sustainable mobility 

Creating economic creativity by using empty buildings and undeveloped sites 

Supporting local circular economy by selling goods from recycling centres 

Promoting the ecological rehabilitation of the river area