Making Spend Matter Newsletter - Issue 4

Discover the fourth issue of Making Spend Matter Newsletter bringing you the latest updates from our Network on progressive public procurement, spend analysis and anchor institution cooperation.

The unforgettable and inclusive night of L'Hospitalet's Django Orchestra at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu

Barcelona's majestic Gran Teatre del Liceu hosted a very special concert of EMMCA's Django Orchestra, which played together with students from all ages and professionals with and without disabilities. Here is L'Hospitalet's latest update on how the URBACT OnStage project is progressing in the town!

Playmaking – making places for play in our public spaces

An article by Wessel Badenhorst, Ad Hoc Expert

Tale of a communication officer or “We needed a spark”

by Sabine Hausmann

How to communicate the activities of an URBACT network? Its goals? Its purpose? To an audience that has never heard of URBACT? How do you communicate a complex issue such as the revitalisation of vacant ruinous buildings? Especially if you don't have such effective figures of sympathy as adorable bees at your disposal? And how do you do this not only for your own town, but, for all the partner cities of the network?

Two Latvian URBACT project cities met to share good practices and to get inspired

At the very beginning of March within the project ACTive NGOs representatives of the Riga NGO House together with ULG members went on an experience exchange visit to the city of Aluksne (Latvia). Aluksne is a city which, similarly to Riga, is currently implementing the URBACT project Re-growCity. Similarly to Riga the NGO house has been established in Aluksne with the support of the municipality - the Aluksne Municipality Community Center.

City-run ‘hackathons’: worth the hype?

More cities are turning to the hackathon-style, but do they really work?

Specialist supplier of sound and visual services to international gaming industry expands Barnsley HQ

An award-winning audio development company which provides sound, voice, music and animation for video games has expanded its global head office in Barnsley.

What is Tech Revolution?

We wanted to simplify Tech Revolution and make it easier to understand. See the animation to discover how the good practise works for Barnsley, how they're using Tech Revolution to improve, and how partners are learning from the network to achieve their goals. 

Barnsley College becomes Regional Partner of Sheffield Digital

Last year Barnsley College launched an ambitious three-tiered digital transformation strategy designed to improve the digital skills of local communities, transform the college’s infrastructure and facilities, and close the region’s digital skills gap.

Digital Media Centre expansion will lead to over 100 digital jobs

Following significant growth in the last three years, the Barnsley Digital Media Centre (DMC 01) is kicking off its expansion with the creation of DMC 02 which will help to create over 100 digitally skilled jobs in the local economy.