How can public procurement help cities achieve their sustainable goals?

Sustainable public procurement aims to address the impact on society of the goods, services and works purchased by the public sector and can be a powerful tool both for advancing sustainable development and for achieving local social and environmental objectives. The Making Spend Matter cities came together in Bistrita, Romania, to explore public procurement as a strategic instrument to spend public money efficiently and sustainably.

Leading innovation in local administrations

By Loris Gherra

Meeting with Rotterdam’s experts Jochem Cooiman and John de Ruiter

New opportunities in Brno: music as a bridge to a stronger social inclusion

The first session of a new community choir, a music class in a newly-opened kindergarden and music programmes in two primary schools: these are the latest news on how URBACT OnStage is progressing in Brno!

Urban Heritage within URBACT projects

Culture and Heritage are key topics for URBACT cities: from renovations of historic buildings to new management methods.

Resettlement Model. How to achieve a social mix?

The model presented in this outputs is a description of the method of allocating municipal premises in tenement houses renovated within the framework of the revitalisation programme.

Profiles & competences for mediators

Revitalization is a very complex and complicated process, which, contrary to the common stereotype, includes not only property and road renovations, but also working with the community living in a degraded area. The aim of revitalisation is to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants, which can only be achieved through direct cooperation and contact with them.

Presentations & concrete cooperation schemes

Our new outputs concentrate on the different ways of management used by the cities participating in Urban Regeneration Mix, with a special emphasis on efficiency, which is characteristic for the Toulouse model, where area managers are employed in order to lead the regeneration processes.

High tech Aveiro’s new Citizen Card makes life easier

When a high tech town simplifies citizens’ access to public services thanks to the Card4All network.

Video: Integration via Dance - A succes stroy from Debrecen

How to combine integration, entertainment and culture? These Hungarian and international students show how this works in Debrecen, Hungary!

Maps for multi-level and multi-sector resources

The idea of this mapping comes from the need to be able to manage complex partnerships, which are part and parcel of regeneration processes.