Civic eState

Pooling Urban Commons

Edited on 09/07/2025

04/04/2018 06/04/2021

Closed
  • Transfer Network
  • Participative governance
  • Abandoned Spaces
  • Participation

The Civic eState network worked on new models of urban co-governance based on the commons. Two years of EU cooperation for promoting urban co-governance and experimenting public-community partnerships to enable inhabitants and local communities constitutional rights to self-organize and collectively act for the urban commons. The network outputs aim at guaranteeing the collective enjoyment as well as collective management of urban essential facilities, to secure fair and open access, participatory decision-making, sustainability and preservation for the benefit of future generations.

Summary

Partners

Lead Partner : Naples - Italy
  • Amsterdam - Netherlands
  • Barcelona - Spain
  • Gdańsk - Poland
  • Ghent - Belgium
  • Iași - Romania
  • Presov - Slovakia

Timeline

Kick-off meeting, Naples (IT)

Mid-term meeting, Iași (RO)

Transnational meeting, Prešov (SK) / Transnational meeting, Amsterdam (NL)

26-28 May 2021, Final Network Event (online)

Articles

  • Articles
    Group of Urban Echo at Cork

    From neighbourhood presence to meaningful participation: Ghent shares its approach at URBACT Univeristy

    As Lead Partner of the URBACT Transfer Network URBAN ECHO, the City of Ghent joined the URBACT University 2026 in Cork, bringing together city practitioners and local stakeholders from across Europe

  • Articles
    Playground in neighbourhood of Ledeberg (Ghent)

    Six cities, one echo

    An echo is not a copy. In its first stage, URBAN ECHO worked out which parts of Ghent's twenty years of neighbourhood renewal can actually travel to five very different cities, and why the answer