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    Farkadona - Greece: The Smart and Healthy Planning Story of a Small City

    Farkadona, a small municipality in Greece, outlines its plan to capitalise on the existing natural landscape to build mental, physical, and natural health during the Healthy Cities project. With

    Amber de la Haye

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    Nudging residents towards outdoor exercise facilities

    When the covid-19 pandemic in Espoo shut down all indoor sports facilities, ­­outdoor exercise facilities got more popular than ever. We were lucky – this was only possible because the City of Espoo

    Viktoria Soos

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    Enabling co-governance in a post-communist city: Iași Transfer Story

    As “learning city” of Civic State Transfer Network, Iași was motivated to see the good practices of the mature cities – like Naples, Barcelona and Gdansk – on participative approaches and understand

    Gregorio Turolla

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    Visions from the City Representatives - Milen Dulev, Mayor of Belene (BG) by Lead Expert Miguel Rivas

    Heritage-led urban regeneration involves major urban projects requiring significant investment. Political backing and direction are therefore key to attract resources and align necessary contributors

    Dorothee Fischer

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    Az URBACT stratégiai közbeszerzési ismeretei egy gombnyomásra!

    Soha nem késő megismerni és alkalmazni az URBACT online tanfolyamán elérhető információkat.

    Az URBACT 2015 óta élen jár a városok támogatásában annak terén, hogy a közbeszerzést stratégiai eszközként

    Tímea Jaschitzné Cserni

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    Tropa Verde in Nice (Transfer Story)

    Tropa Verde, Covid and Alex: is it a “nice” transfer story in Nice?

    Christian Beade

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    L. O. Story - Not yet the Chemnitz Transfer Story

    The ALT/BAU transfer does not only take place on a European level and not only in big cities. Parallel to the Housing Agency receiving the URBACT Good Practice Award 2017 and the start of the ALT/BAU

    sabine.hausmann

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  • How to be a Volunteer? - A Transfer Story from Arcos de Valdevez

    In 2018 our Municipality joined the network of transferring good volunteering practices. It should be noted that the Municipality of Athienou is a lead partner of this Volunteer Network, of which

    s.georgiou

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    Participativni pristup regeneraciji gradova na primjeru Lodza i Zagreba

    Tijekom stotinjak godina svoga postojanja Blok Badel, koji se nalazi u centru Zagreba, prošao je razne faze – od tvornice alkoholnih pića i tvornice kvasca, pa do današnjeg napuštenog područja

    emarko

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