Do you have the answers how to activate and motivate owners and potentials investors to reactivate vacant buildings?

The participating cities of the URBACT ALT/BAU network now have a few answers to these questions. During the Transnational meeting in Constanta, 18-19.09.2019, the participants exchanged their experiences about activating and supporting owners and potentials investors for the reactivation of vacant buildings and developed jointly approaches that they want to apply in the future.
ALT/BAU Lead Expert Nils Scheffler and Martin Neubert, in charge of the ALT/BAU network give you an overview.

The City of A Coruña hosts its 3rd ULG meeting

The third Urbact Local Group (ULG) meeting of A Coruña took place on 26^th August 2019 at the Centro Cívico Novoboandanza, in the city center.

If you want to do European projects, URBACT is the place to start

Meet Kieran McCarthy, EU Committee of the Regions member and Cork City Councillor.

Visiting French Toy Libraries: what’s at stake

An article by Ileana Toscano and Paola Amato

Toy Libraries were the focus of the Study Visit, organized in Paris and its surroundings on 1st and 2nd July 2019, by the Urbact Transfer Network “The Playful Paradigm”, a partnership of 8 EU cities leaded by the Municipality of Udine and aimed at adapting Udine’s Good Practice about games and gamification experience as tools for boosting a better urban governance and an innovative urban planning.

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?