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    TEchTown, interview with Tracey Johnson lead Partner

    Before I answer these questions, let's back track a bit as the local context is important. Barnsley is a medium sized city - at least by UK standards in the north of England. Historically it was a

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    Procure – creating a good local economy

    Interview with Tamar Reay from Preston City Council and Councillor Matthew Brown, the Lead Member for Social Inclusion and Policy at Preston City Council interviewed by Matthew Jackson, lead expert

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    Smart specialisation: why is it the time for cities to act now? Experiences from Bilbao and Basque country

    The Basque Country is celebrating now the 25th anniversary of the Basque cluster policy. According to Michael Porter, it was the first region in the world in applying massively the cluster concept to

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    Freight TAILS – delivering Tailored Approaches for Innovative Logistics Solutions

    Interview with from Charlotte Knell (Lead Partner Westminster), Councillor Heather Acton, Dan Dura and Deputy Mayor Lucian Harşovschi from Suceava (project Partner City) interviewed by Matthew Jackson

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    TOWARDS A PAN EUROPEAN MODEL OF SOCIAL INNOVATION

    Interview with the Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz and Magdalena Skiba – coordinator Boosting Social Innovation, interviewed by Peter Wolkowinsky, lead expert of Boostino network

    Boostinno is a new

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    The Arrival Cities project

    The Arrival Cities Action Planning Network is tackling one of Europe’s most urgent issues by looking at how cities can manage the challenges of old and new migration flows. Arrival Cities was

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    Challenges and Ambitions for Baena, the Lead Partner of URBACT AGRI-URBAN project.

    AGRI-URBAN is about Rethinking Agri-Food Production in Small and Medium sized Cities.

    Interview with Jesús Rojano Aguilera, Mayor of the city of Baena, and with the project coordination team, António

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    In Italy, a struggling town looks to refugees for revival

    "In Italy, the job of settling and integrating asylum seekers belongs to local governments. Mayors across the impoverished southern region of Calabria, and especially here in Satriano, are embracing

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    Less money, more innovation! Regeneration of deprived residential areas since the crisis

    Since the crisis local municipalities are forced to change their approach to the regeneration of deprived residential areas. They have several options for cheaper interventions, as shown in this