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    CARD4ALL REFLECTION ON HOW A CITY CARD CAN BE USEFUL IN A PANDEMIC CRISIS

    Cities that are open, transparent, collaborative and adopt comprehensive responses are better equipped to manage pandemics than those that are not.

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    Rotterdam completed the testing phase

    Cooiman: "We will use the feedbacks to build MVP 2, together with the requirements previously designed by our local support group”

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    Exploring the gendered impacts of Covid-19

    A reflection by Sally Kneeshaw, URBACT Programme Expert and Jaimie Just, Policy Advisor CEMR

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    What organisations need to think about to better engage with SMEs in public procurement

    As cities confront the economic devastation wrought by the Covid-19 crisis, the need to rebuild local economies that are strong, resilient and inclusive is evident.  SMEs will have a critical role to

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    A school canteen to change food behaviours

    There is a typical Portuguese phrase “É de pequenino que se torce o pepino”, which means something like “it’s since a young age that good behaviors can be learned”.

    The school meals have a huge power

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    CITY PROFILE: SUCEAVA, ROMANIA

    In this period of confinement, take the opportunity to learn more about one of our more active partner cities: Suceava in Romania. So far, you will have the opportunity to visit it virtually but

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    Better coordination through “Volunteering Cities”

    Every year, since 2008, several non-profit organizations and ecologic entrepreneurs organize in October an ecologic fair in Altea. Its aim was always to create a meeting point of sustainable and

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    Aarhus: music as driver for strong learning communities

    Aarhus School of Music is strengthening well-being among children and young people by introducing music concepts for social change. A paradigm shift has begun inspired by methods from L’Hospitalet in

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    Event, Action and Process: the three key areas of Veszprém project with a special focus on culture

    The good practice Innova.To, an important landmark for all the Municipalities involved in the project, has been adopted by Veszprém and adapted to the special local context, with a particular focus on