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

Awakening a town’s volunteering potential

Enhancing crafts with digital manufacturing technologies 

A strategic plan to create a business and innovation-friendly ecosystem 

Co-regeneration of urban green spaces

Tackling economic crisis in rural areas with relationship building and community-based model of welfare.

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

A citizens' inniatives service allowing citizens to participate in decision-making at local level

Involving citizens in urban planning for sustainable change.