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Empowering Local Development

Edited on 09/07/2025

04/04/2018 06/04/2021

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  • Transfer Network
  • Participative governance
  • Disadvantaged neighbourhoods
  • Participation
  • Poverty

This Transfer network aims to replicate the Lisbon Local Development Strategy for areas of Priority Intervention which provides the city a range of integrated tools to tackle urban poverty and empower local communities. This strategy is based on a co-governance and bottom-up participatory perspective, ensuring a horizontal and collaborative local approach, to mitigate social, economic, environmental and urban exclusion, resulting in a smart and effective toolbox to implement a sustainable urban living and enhance social-territorial cohesion.

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Summary

PARTNERS

Lead Partner : Lisbon - Portugal
  • Bari - Italy
  • Aalborg - Denmark
  • Sofia - Bulgaria
  • Ostrava - Czech Republic
  • Lublin - Poland
  • The Hague - Netherlands
  • Lille - France

Timeline

  • Phase 1 | Kick-off meeting, Lisbon (PT)
  • Phase 1 | Final Meeting, Lisbon (PT)
  • Phase 2 | 1st Transnational Meeting, Bari (IT)
  • Phase 2 | 2nd Transnational Meeting, Lublin (PL)
  • Phase 2 | 3rd Transnational Meeting, Aalborg (DK)
  • Phase 2 | 4th Transnational Meeting, The Hague (NL)
  • Phase 2 | 5th Transnational Meeting, Lille Metropole (FR)
  • Phase 2 | 6th Transnational Meeting (online), Sofia (BG)
  • Phase 2 | 7th Transnational Meeting (online), Ostrava (CZ)
  • Phase 2 | Final Event, Lisbon (PT)

Network Outputs

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