Networks

Discover the URBACT Networks, their cities, their plans,  and recommendations. An URBACT network brings together EU cities willing to exchange ideas and produce integrated local policies with the help of their peers, local stakeholders and URBACT experts. Cities can join three types of URBACT Networks, Action Planning, Transfer and the Innovation Transfer Mechanism, following calls for proposals.

Interested in taking part in an URBACT Network? Find out more about the upcoming calls for Networks, how to join a Network as an expert or how to become a Local URBACT Group member, get involved!   

 

  • PARKS

    The PARKS network aims to transform urban greenery management by placing citizens at the heart of public space care. The project facilitates the transfer of best practices through a collaborative ecosystem involving schools, professionals, and businesses, with a primary focus on active community participation. By empowering residents to lead stewardship efforts, PARKS ensures that urban green areas are co-managed, sustainable, and deeply rooted in the needs of the people who use them.

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  • Eat4Climate

    While food systems account for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions, the Eat4Climate URBACT Transfer Network, led by Mouans-Sartoux (FR) with six European partner cities, proves that food can cut down urban footprints, starting with what’s on our plates. Through the Food City Lab, local stakeholders transition toward sustainable diets, while cities transform school meals, expand local organic farming, and ensure access for all to healthy, fair, local organic food. It's not just feeding people, it's feeding the future.​

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  • SpongeMeasures

    SpongeMeasures transfers Püspökszilágy’s (HU) efforts to tackle floods and droughts together to six partner municipalities: Vilamarxant (ES), Nuovo Circondario Imolese (IT), Razkrižje (SI), Plav (ME), Târgu Secuiesc (RO), Velykyi Bereznyi (UA). Working with local communities, the network will implement and share small-scale nature-based solutions that act like a sponge - slowing down and retaining rainwater, strengthening local resilience, and supporting biodiversity during dry periods.

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  • CivicHeritage

    CivicHeritage empowers cities and communities to transform and repurpose cultural heritage into active civic infrastructure. Led by Municipality of Onda (ES), the network of European cities strengthens civic participation, urban resilience and social infrastructure. It activates heritage through community engagement, co-design assemblies, space revival labs, intergenerational heritage workshops, storytelling campaigns, and heritage-in-action festivals.  

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  • Network4Work

    Network4Work is an URBACT Transfer Network bringing European cities together to improve how local employment systems work. The project transfers a proven multi-stakeholder model that connects public authorities, businesses and civil society to better respond to labour market challenges. Through cooperation, shared learning and local action, Network4Work helps cities create stronger partnerships and better labour opportunities for their communities.

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  • TactiCity - Tactical urbanism for inclusive places

    The project builds on the “Citywide tactical urbanism” good practice and aims to transfer tactical urbanism experiences to the network’s cities, drawing on integrated urban development, participatory processes and citizen engagement, to design more inclusive, sustainable and shared public spaces. 

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  • URBACT Pioneers Accelerator

     

    URBACT Pioneers Accelerator is the bespoke learning programme for cities from EU accession countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. Participating cities are tackling specific urban challenges with solutions in line with the EU integrated sustainable urban development policy framework, values and best practices.

     

    The URBACT Pioneer Accelerator is a structured and inspiring learning journey that helps cities lead sustainable change. It supports them in understanding EU urban development policies while fostering innovation through integrated and participatory approaches and the implementation of small-scale pilot actions.

     

    Cities are organised within 4 thematic clusters - Urban Nature, Waste Management, Mobility and Sustainable Tourism. All 27 cities follow the same methodological - URBACT Accelerator framework which consists of three learning dimensions:

     

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