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    More URBACT learning for better funding

    One year on, cities say URBACT leads to more learning and more funding.

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    Teaching youth to take care of the environment will green each street of your city

    Find out how COVID-19 is no barrier to innovation in resilient cities and how to prepare for the next big crisis
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    Japanese Academic Visits Altena

    Altena’s reputation as a town that takes highly innovative actions to tackle long term decline has taken on a global dimension.

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    The Transfer process behind the BeePathNet

    We are well into the first third of the project and partners are busy with transferring Ljubljana's good practice in accordance with their plans. On a recent Boot camp meeting in Ljubljana, all

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    TimeWalking - New community festival in Újbuda

    A good example is sticky, holds the saying. Following the ninth weekend of this year's Budapest 100 Open House Weekend, several European cities and districts are organizing their own festival

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    Open Plasencia will link buildings with stories and cultural actions

    This year, on the occasion of the participation of Plasencia (Spain) in the " URBACT Come In! Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network", the "Open Night" is renamed "Open Plasencia" with the aim

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    The do’s and don’ts of urban journalism. Tips from the editor of Guardian Cities

    Chris Michael shares his advice on how to write compelling city stories.

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    ACTive NGOs at Football United

    Tom Goodridge, Project Coordinator (Brighton, GB), took the opportunity to promote the ACTive NGOs project in the emerging community hub in the heart of Whitehawk, Whitehawk Football Club. It was the

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    You want to reactivate vacant buildings in your city? Start an ‘Alternative Building Activation Unit’!

    This was the key answer and lesson learnt from the ALT/BAU partners about Chemnitz URBACT good-practice “CityLiving agency”.
    ALT/BAU Lead Expert Nils Scheffler and Martin Neubert, in charge of