Murcia Pilot Action

Murcia City Hall, ≈450k inhabitants, south-east of Spain, as partner in the Urbact Innovator Transfer Network, is using bottom-up innovation in the public administration originating from Civil Servants, operating under the working concept of Capacity Building and Empowerment of Municipal Employees through Innovative Idea and Solution Generation.

Grosseto – Covid round-trip

As you well know, here in Italy we didn’t have time to realize what was going on and was going to happen … and all the sudden, we were all on lock-down, between the 9th and 11th march.

L'Hospitalet's EMMCA keeps up and running from home

Since March, the Music School and Arts Centre of L’Hospitalet, EMMCA, has its doors closed and nobody inside. However, EMMCA is a big educational and artistic community that kept working, playing, practicing, creating and sharing during these months. Here are the latest news from the leading city of the URBACT OnStage network!

Baseline study Resourceful Cities

The Baseline study has the goal to provide partners with a shared understanding of the existing knowledge base with, regard to progressing the transition to a circular economy in cities. It gives a good insight into project and introduces the network partners, urban resource centers, the workings of the project and the goals to be achieved.

From ACTive NGOs to solidarity networks: civic ecosystems during and after COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis has heavily disrupted the activities of NGO Houses and their civic ecosystems. While the lockdown and rules of social distancing have made most of the activities of these spaces impossible, many NGO Houses moved their activities online and became protagonists in existing or emerging solidarity networks. Existing local communities and solidarity networks proved to be a strong asset in tackling the crisis: in neighbourhoods and cities where mechanisms of solidarity and care had already been in place, NGOs and civic spaces were able to organise themselves and provide their communities with the necessary goods and services. We reached out to partner cities of the ACTive NGOs URBACT network to explore how NGO Houses and their local ecosystems responded to the crisis and complemented the work of municipalities.

The C-Change Pilot Action Programme: Creative Messages

The C-Change project has created a Pilot Action Programme (PAP) in each of its partner cities. The PAP provided seed funding to artists and arts organisations to create a piece of work that will educate and influence behaviour change in relation to climate action.

A CORUÑA PARTICIPATES IN AN INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF EUROPEAN PROJECTS BETWEEN RU:RBAN AND INTERNATIONAL URBAN COOPERATION (IUC)

This article has been redacted by the RU:RBAN partners of the City of A Coruña and published on the City’s website.

Last May, the city council of A Coruña, through the European Project RU:RBAN, participated in the international meeting promoted by the city of Rome, to discuss and exchange ideas on the creation of urban gardens with the city of Barranquilla ( Colombia).

MAST Good Practice Explained

Arts and culture sector collaboration on climate action and engagement in a city which recognises the value of culture and is itself demonstrating climate change leadership, linked to two of the key local challenges that run through the city’s climate change strategy;

• mobilising business action on climate change through a sector specific approach
• engaging and mobilising citizens to act on climate change

C-Change - An Introduction

C-Change will bring together cities to mobilise their arts and culture sectors to lead climate action by inspiring citizens to act, reducing carbon emissions and developing local policies. Lead by Manchester City Council and funded by URBACT.

New times, new tools

Expert Eddy Adams reflects on the impact of Covid-19 on URBACT and transnational cooperation.