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    Accommodating and integrating refugees in the city of Thessaloniki: the multi-stakeholder programme REACT

    Thessaloniki has been at the forefront of the management crisis of refugee flows. The city launched its emergency response in 2015, just before the closure of the Balkan Route and the EU-Turkey common

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    Cities and digitalisation: “Adapt or die”

    How can cities benefit from digitalisation?  With dramatic headlines about jobs being destroyed by digitalisation, and many policy makers resisting change, Alison Partridge argues that the 4th

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    Can nature make your city climate-resilient?

    Among the headlines of summer 2017: disastrous floods in the South of England, Istanbul and Berlin, extreme water scarcity in Rome, wild fires damaging homes on the Croatian coast, the Côte d'Azur and

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    Emerging retail and consumer trends that challenge small cities and their centres

    Mireia Sanabria, URBACT III RetaiLink network Lead Expert

    What follows is a summary of the presentation delivered at the URBACT III City Centre Doctor network transnational meeting held in San Donà di

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    The growing role of food in fixing our cities

    El pasado 7 de enero de 2019 se lanzó oficialmente la nueva convocatoria las URBACT Action Planning Networks, que estará abierta hasta el 17 de abril. Puedes conocer todos los detalles aquí
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    Green Public Procurement & Socially Responsible Public Procurement

    Green Public Procurement (GPP) and Socially Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP) bring environmental, societal and economic benefits at the local level, and can help drive the market towards

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    Stay Tuned: Keeping the door of opportunity open

    No próximo dia 13 de fevereiro, o Ponto URBACT Nacional, em parceria com a Câmara Municipal de Aveiro, promove o URBACT Infoday 2019 no Pequeno Auditório do Centro de Congressos de Aveiro.
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    A city fighting climate change: How Nantes got its citizens to talk energy transition

    Tackling climate change was never going to be easy. But in the afterglow of the Paris COP21 Agreement, at least it seemed that we were moving in the right direction. By late 2016, the biggest