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    Digital Builder program, how Métropole du Grand Paris gathers a community of local civil servants to develop new services

    “Digital Builders”, this is the name of the initiative launched by the Métropole du Grand Paris based on InnovaTO project. The aim of Digital Builder program is to gather a community of local civil

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    Climate change and Covid-19 – a tale of two crises

    What if we treated the climate crisis with as much urgency as Covid-19?

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    How Kavala is using public procurement to build local resilience.

    In today’s conditions, politics, development, and economy should derive from the central government as well as from local and regional administration. The objective of Kavala’s municipal development

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    The first steps taken by Iaşi to experiment on urban commons

    George Marius Homocianu, Project manager of the City of Iaşi for the Civic eState Transfer Network, on how his city is working to implements policy that could help the birth and management of urban

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    From Rome to Barranquilla…sharing knowledge on urban agriculture

    An interesting initiative is launched by ANCI Lazio, the Association of the 376 Municipalities of the Lazio Region (Italy), as part of the last IUC (International Urban Cooperation program) Call, to

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    ON BOARD Partners’ Actions on Education to respond to COVID19

    The Coronavirus health and social crisis is hitting hard our cities. Public health systems are put under enormous strain. Other welfare areas, such as Education, have come immediately afterwards, due

  • „Continuing business as usual“ – the case of the Youth Center and Platform for Lazareti during the COVID-19 crisis

    „The work of civil society organizations contributes to the realization of the highest values of the constitutional order: freedom, equality, national and gender equality, respect for human rights and

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    Growing Together

    Starting July 2018, the Town of Pregrada began its journey of transferring the Good Practice from the Town of Athienou, Cyprus, the town which was awarded the title of European town of Good Practice