SDG Story: Solingen

Shaping the future. Vision Agenda 2030 in Solingen.

RU:RBAN IN THE FACTS! CONFERENCE

The FACTS! Conference, first  international gathering foreseen within the EFUA Horizon 2020 project, took place online on 29-30 March 2022. The partner Risorse per Roma (municipal agency of Rome), organizer of the conference in collaboration with FAO, hoped to host partners and participants in Rome but monitoring of the Covid-19 situation both in Italy and in the rest of Europe led the organizers to shift to the online format. Over 260 registered participants from all over the world and professional backgrounds (European Commission, international organizations, NGOs, regional and local governments, research centers, universities, agriculture and farming associations, civil society representatives) participated in the conference and followed the contributions of 38 speakers.

TRANSNATIONAL MEETING IN DINSLAKEN: AGEN, LEAD OF THE ACTIVE CITIZENS NETWORK, BRINGS PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY TO THE HEART OF EUROPE

FEEDBACKS FROM AGEN’S DELEGATION FOLLOWING THE TRANSNATIONAL MEETING IN DINSLAKEN.

As part of the European Urbact program, the “Active Citizens” delegation from the city of Agen took part, on March 30 and 31st, 2022, in the 3rd Transnational Meeting in Dinslaken, Germany. During these 2 days of meeting, the 8 European cities, members of the “Active Citizens” network, were able to discuss feedback from the participatory democracy experiments implemented at the local level. Interventions and workshops, the particularity of this meeting is based on the first feedback from the experimental phases set up in each country. A moment of sharing that will make it possible to build the IAP (Integrated Action Plan) grouping together good practices and applying them on a local level beyond the URBACT program.

The Vilawatt project continues efforts in the city of Trikala to promote the energy transition

https://bit.ly/3bk5SmhThe 4th Vilawatt-UTM Transnational Meeting was held on 2 and 3 March and hosted by the city of Trikala. The two-days online sessions allowed the partner cities to make further progress in the Vilawatt project transfer.

SDG Story: Manresa

Do we all really share a common positive vision of the future of our city?

Local governmental committees (LGC) as a flagship of a democracy Our planned small-scale action with a long-term impact

There is an ongoing discussion of how to encourage people to take care about their town, neighborhoods or park, which they use every day while walking to the job. On that account one has to ask: Why do we not care about public spaces in the same way we tend to care about our flats or gardens? This question points to the very important fact, which is our sense for a common world, the one we all share together, and where “I and they” merge into one. Thus, the key role of Active citizens I see in advocating for this sense of common. To understand this will help us to build a stronger sense for participative principles and democracy. Who I perceive as a useful ally in this task are local governmental committees (Komise místní samosprávy in Czech). In response to that, our ULG sets as one of our long-term goals, to create a strong partnership with LGC in Hradec Králové. In the following lines, I would like to describe our tactics of how to involve members of LGC in Active citizens’projects and what pros we see in this cooperation.

Walk and Roll Cities: transformacija javnog prostora po mjeri čovjeka

Upoznajte gradove iz URBACT mreže koji se bave vezom između mobilnosti i javnog prostora u svrhu poticanja razvoja održivih, inkluzivnih, atraktivnih urbanih područja.

"Az URBACT és Franciaország, egy kölcsönös inspiráció története": Ismerd meg az URBACT Irányító Hatóságának vezetőjét

Interjú François-Antoine Marianival, a francia Nemzeti Területi Kohéziós Ügynökség városi ügyekért felelős főigazgatójával.

Franciaország a program teljes húszéves időtartama alatt az URBACT házigazdája volt. A kapcsolat továbbra is töretlen: a francia Nemzeti Területi Kohéziós Ügynökség (ANCT) a 2021-2027-es időszakban is az URBACT irányító hatósága marad. Négy hónappal Franciaország Európai Uniós tanácsi elnöksége után François-Antoine Mariani, az ANCT munkatársa, aki a hátrányos helyzetű területeket célzó francia nemzeti várospolitikát is vezeti, Amy Labarrière-rel beszélget. Az integrált városfejlesztés erejének híveként elmondja, hogy az URBACT hogyan ösztönözte a polgárok részvételét a helyi politikai döntéshozatalban országszerte. Továbbá megosztja a francia elnökség városi dimenziójához - és az új URBACT IV programhoz - fűzött reményeit...

Sechs Lösungsansätze für Städte zur Reduzierung von Lebensmittelabfällen

Jedes Jahr werfen private Haushalte in der EU mehrere Millionen Tonnen an Lebensmitteln weg. Was können Städte tun, um die Lebensmittelverschwendung zu verringern?

FOCUS ON: Trapani - how the city is building on its strengths

In the last article about Trapani, we gave a snapshot of this fascinating but relatively little known city.  In this article, we focus on how Trapani is building on it's strengths going forward.