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    Local drive for a cycle-friendly city

    Facing severe pollution from over-reliance on cars, Thessaloniki (GR) committed to promoting cycling proactively, and, through the URBACT RESILIENT EUROPE network, drew up its first-ever strategy

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    BeePathNet: enriching the urban jungle with bees

    Klemen Strmšnik shares his enthusiasm for Ljubljana’s (SI) green endeavours and the on going success of the BeePathNet project linking 6 European cities seeking to promote urban beekeeping. He asks

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    Welcoming international professionals and students

    MEDINT project MEDINT is an URBACt I Project which studied the integrated approach concept, which has become a characteristic feature of European urban development strategies. The work carried out in

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    An old fortress brings new cohesion

    MEDINT project MEDINT is an URBACt I Project which studied the integrated approach concept, which has become a characteristic feature of European urban development strategies. The work carried out in

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    The penultimate Case Study Meeting

    URBANITAS project This report contains a summary of the various conferences held as part of the Urbanitas URBACT I project, which ran from May 2005 to March 2007. This report ends with the conclusions
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    Naples’ URBinclusion thematic seminar: how to make co-creation and co-responsibility real?

    By Nicola Masella and Roberta Nicchia

    The URBinclusion “ULG Thematic Seminar” took place in Naples on the 13th and 14th of December 2018, bringing together representatives from the URBinclusion Local

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    Cahors is experimenting with participatory approaches

    Cahors will host the eight cities of the Int Herit network at a meeting that will take place from February 2019, 19 to 22. It will be the opportunity for Cahors to highlight the mobilization of its

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    ACTive NGOs: platforms for public-civic cooperation

    Levente Polyak looks at the pros and cons of Riga’s NGO House in Teika (LV), sharing its story from its inception to its five year anniversary.

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    Breathing new life into abandoned spaces

    This is the report of the Creative SpIN Final Event, held in Birmingham, 21-22 April 2015