Re-growCity has got its first transfer success!

The ULG in Melgaço (Portugal) has made enormous strides towards adapting the pop-up shop practice from lead partner Altena (Germany).

Ravenna is redeveloping its City Docks thanks to URBACT and Urban Innovative Actions

Ravenna (IT) is one of the major urban centres of the Emilia Romagna region, on the Adriatic coast. Amélie Cousin looks at the City Docks’ urban redevelopment project aiming to transform the former harbour and industrial area into a homogeneous and compact urban district due to become a culturally vibrant knowledge centre, giving the new future economy a boost.

More URBACT learning for better funding

One year on, cities say URBACT leads to more learning and more funding.

Teaching youth to take care of the environment will green each street of your city

Find out how COVID-19 is no barrier to innovation in resilient cities and how to prepare for the next big crisis

Japanese Academic Visits Altena

Altena’s reputation as a town that takes highly innovative actions to tackle long term decline has taken on a global dimension.

The Transfer process behind the BeePathNet

We are well into the first third of the project and partners are busy with transferring Ljubljana's good practice in accordance with their plans. On a recent Boot camp meeting in Ljubljana, all partners started to work on their own bee paths which will be developed alongside different local stakeholders. We will hopefully soon see the first urban apiaries in Bydgoszcz and Nea Propontida to accompany the first activities in the bee paths' implementation.

But what is the actual process behind the transfer?

TimeWalking - New community festival in Újbuda

A good example is sticky, holds the saying. Following the ninth weekend of this year's Budapest 100 Open House Weekend, several European cities and districts are organizing their own festival, including Őrmező, Budapest. The purpose of the TimeWalking Festival is not only to entertain but also to build community, which has good basis in Újbuda.

Open Plasencia will link buildings with stories and cultural actions

This year, on the occasion of the participation of Plasencia (Spain) in the " URBACT Come In! Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network", the "Open Night" is renamed "Open Plasencia" with the aim of expanding its field of action, integrating a good European practice originating in the city of Budapest, which seeks citizen participation and the valorization of heritage through the opening of residential buildings and the participation of neighbors sharing stories and experiences with their visitors.

The do’s and don’ts of urban journalism. Tips from the editor of Guardian Cities

Chris Michael shares his advice on how to write compelling city stories.

ACTive NGOs at Football United

Tom Goodridge, Project Coordinator (Brighton, GB), took the opportunity to promote the ACTive NGOs project in the emerging community hub in the heart of Whitehawk, Whitehawk Football Club. It was the first of many community appearances the ULG team made over this summer and this special event did not disappoint.