EUniverCities

Edited on 18/10/2024

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  • City Branding
  • Education
  • Participation
  • Research and innovation
  • Youth

Improve the university-city nexus. By applying to the URBACT programme, they want to learn from each other's experiences and practices, and move forward as successful and inclusive knowledge cities to realise Europe's 2020 strategy.

Summary

Introduction

EUniverCities will address the issue how to frame co-operation between city and university, and arrive at smart, "next-generation" forms of city-university collaboration. The core idea behind the network is that more comprehensive types of collaboration and "co-creation" will bring significant benefits for both sides, and will strengthen the position of the city as "knowledge-based" city.

University-cities are key engines of Europe’s knowledge economy, and the prime loci of “smart growth”. They are powerhouses for the development of new knowledge, ideas, products and services that are at the basis of prosperity and well-being. They are “incubators”, attracting and educating talented young people in a crucial period of their life. They are breeding nests for entrepreneurship, and some attract knowledge-based companies that look for the brightest young people.

 

PARTNERS

Lead Partner : Delft - Netherlands
  • Magdeburg - Germany
  • Germany
  • Ghent - Belgium
  • Aveiro - Portugal
  • Lecce - Italy
  • Varna - Bulgaria
  • Lublin - Poland
  • Tampere - Finland
  • Linköping - Sweden

Timeline

Project launch

Project completed

Articles

  • Articles
    Joergen Popp Peterson, mayor of Tonder, Welcoming words

    TNM#10 in Tønder: A Danish Boost to the Fight Against Social Isolation

    From southwestern Denmark to Agen, the fight against social isolation continues to unite European cities involved in the URBACT IV – Breaking Isolation project. For this 10th Transnational Meeting

  • Articles
    Veszprém , Hungary - Wildflower cities

    Eight URBACT Good Practices to reconnect cities with nature

    Across Europe, cities are rediscovering the power of nature: making natural spaces social spaces, converting industrial basins into biodiversity hub, rewilding suburban parks, and more. Nature-based

  • “Opportunities multiply as they are seized”

    The C4TALENT team in Nyíregyháza entered into a cooperation with one of the local stakeholder group members, proving Sun Tzu’s famous adage true once again.