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    Incubation and Mentoring comes in different shapes and sizes

    Business Plan competitions are just one way of generating new business ideas within a city and supporting the entrepreneurs to start-up in business. For port cities, or cities with a strong heritage

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    How participatory design can help build a strong partnership

    Galati used processes and methodologies advocated by URBACT to establish a Local Group to steer their work on creating an effective start-up community and used a process of participatory design, to

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    How piggybacking on larger players became a route to success for two cities

    Faced with the challenge of needing to organise a Blue Growth Entrepreneurship Programme, the city of Salerno, in Italy, cleverly opted to piggyback off the back of an existing entrepreneurship

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    Cities secure sponsorship to offer prizes to aspiring entrepreneurs

    Two European cities that are part of a network that aims to stimulate Blue Growth Entrepreneurship (growth linked to the Marine & Maritime Economy) have secured commercial sponsorship to offer prizes

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    Transfer Story: Municipality of Braga and Urban Regeneration Mix project challenge

    A group of citizens resident in the urbanisation around Praceta João Beltrão, in mid-2020, started a movement to show their discontent with the construction works that the municipality of Braga was

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    23 Transfer networks: stiamo arrivando alla seconda fase del viaggio!

    25 Paesi sono rappresentati nei 23 network che riuniscono un totale di 161 singoli partner. Circa il 37% dei partner sono nuovi arrivati ​​a URBACT, il che significa che non sono mai stati coinvolti

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    Budoucnost Integrovaných územních investic ITI

    Integrované územní investice, častěji známé jen pod anglickou zkratkou ITI – Integrated Territorial Investment – se dotýkají každodenního života většiny obyvatel Česka, kteří o jejich existenci však

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    Legyen a nemek közötti egyenlőség az újrakezdés középpontjában

    Az URBACT szakértője, Sally Kneeshaw ajánlásokat fogalmaz meg azzal kapcsolatban, hogy miként kellene a nemek közötti egyenlőséget a városok Covid járványt követő fellendülésének kulcsfontosságú

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    Manchester’s Road to Net Zero 2038

    The Paris Agreement on Climate Change committed countries to restrict carbon emissions so that global temperatures don’t rise more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. With around 70% of