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    Municipalities as Democratic Facilitators

    Eight partner cities, one network, and multiple hours of collaboration across national boundaries. After 2½ years the COPE project is coming to an end. To mark the conclusion of the project, the COPE

    Maya Vestergaard Bidstrup

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  • Biodivercity Final Article: Welcome to our city’s new Biodiversity Office!

    You intend to transform a part of your common courtyard into a biodiversity hotspot, but your neighbours do not support this idea, even though they do not spend much time in the garden and hate

    Ferenc Szigeti-Böröcz

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  • URBACT IV Magyarországon – Jógyakorlatok és tanulságok 2025

    Az URBACT IV program a 2021–2027-es uniós időszakban nem csupán új pályázati keret: valójában közös tanulási tér, ahol a „város- és közösségfejlesztés” a gyakorlatban és a közösséggel egységben

    URBACT Nemzeti Kontakt Pont

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  • Flipbook LET'S GO CIRCULAR! cover

    Final Network Product: LET'S GO CIRCULAR! Flipbook

    Results, recommendations and City Snapshots from the URBACT-funded Action Planning Network LET'S GO CIRCULAR! Paving the way for a circular transition of cities - in our interactive Flipbook!

     

    Larissa Kiesel

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  • Social cohesion
    The 10 partners of the Breaking Isolation program

    Why in-person Trans-National Meetings matter in European Cooperation programmes

    By Christophe Gouache, Lead Expert of Breaking Isolation

     

    As we're reaching the end our ‘Breaking Isoaltion’ network’s journey, it's also the occasion to look back on the past 2 years and in particular

    Barbara Gautherie

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  • Social cohesion
    Official reception at Agen City Hall

    TNM#12 in Agen: A final milestone to conclude the Breaking Isolation programme 

    On 9 and 10 December 2025, the City of Agen hosted the 12th and final Transnational Meeting (TNM) of the European programme Breaking Isolation, marking the culmination of two years of close

    Barbara Gautherie

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  • URBACT/EUI 2025

    Deutsche Städte nutzen Angebote von EUI und URBACT für nachhaltige Transformation – Ein Rückblick auf 2025

    Das Jahr 2025 war für die deutsche Kontaktstelle von URBACT und der Europäischen Stadtinitiative (EUI) geprägt von intensiver Zusammenarbeit und einer wachsenden Beteiligung deutscher Städte an den

    Heike Mages

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  • URBACT Knowledge Hub Social data webinar series

    From social data to better cities: URBACT launches public webinar series

    From 15 January to 19 February 2026, join a series of four webinars on how cities can collect, analyse, monitor, and turn social data into policies.

    URBACT

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