Impressive Smart Limerick at Limerick Innovation Virtual Event (Part 1)

On the 25th and 26th of October the City of Bragança held a Transnational Meeting on the Policy challenge “Innovative and Smart Business”. This TNM was only the first part of the event focused on smart and innovative cities, as Limerick City and County Council presented their innovative and smart city strategy and actions during this virtual study visit on the 9th and 10th of December 2021. The planning of this Virtual Study Visit as evolved into the very first ever Limerick Innovation Live Event (LIVE), a public event to showcase Limerick as a Smart City. Limerick is rich in talent and hosts many leading areas of expertise and practice – including some of the leading global technology, medical and pharma companies as well as globally significant research and education facilities. Find Your Greatness project partners heard about innovation from ULG members such as DELL Technologies, University of Limerick, Technical University of the Shannon, Analog Devices, and others. The event also contained the Limerick Small Scale Action. We introduced the Limerick Makers Club and FabLab, who demonstrated that innovation in Limerick is not trapped behind the walls of Intellectual Property, but a living aspect of the City.

The recordings of Day 1 and 2 can be viewed at: https://www.limerick.ie/council/whats-on/citizen-engagement/limerick-innovation-virtual-event

Grosuplje želi uvesti igriv pristop k razvoju mesta

Grosuplje spoznalo igralno kulturo italijanskega Vidma.

Tiny Practical Steps for change: TransNational Meeting in Wroclaw, Poland

The 2nd Meeting of the BioCanteens#2 Transfer Network took place in Wroclaw, from the 22nd  to the 25th of November, under the theme "Micro Good Practices". The meeting gathered the four project staff of the four Cities (Mouans-Sartoux, Liège, Gavà and Wroclaw),  their respective kitchen staff, and local stakeholders.

URBACT wünscht frohe Weihnachten und freut sich auf ein spannendes Jahr 2022!

2021 war erneut ein turbulentes Jahr: Beruflicher wie privater Alltag standen für viele weiterhin unter großen Beeinträchtigungen aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie. Dabei lebt gerade die Arbeit im Kontext von URBACT von Reisen, Netzwerken und Austausch mit Kolleg:innen aus ganz Europa. Dass diese schönen Facetten der URBACT-Netzwerkarbeit ein weiteres Jahr sehr eingeschränkt waren, ist sehr schade und wir hoffen alle, dass wir im nächsten Jahr wieder mehr von dieser besonderen URBACT-Atmosphäre erleben können!

Feeding a Cooperative Food Network in a Time of Pandemic

This article presents brief comments on three ideas that describe the state of mind of the FOOD CORRIDORS network just before giving way to the final period of a project that has seen the light and grown parallel to the life cycle of a pandemic. It has been a strange circumstance that we would nevertheless like to consider as the engine that has pushed a desire for rebirth or rejuvenation for our network. We understand this rebirth as the means to cultivate new ways of working, new spaces of relationship, environments of curiosity that generate transformative action to the proposed problems. The FOOD CORRIDORS partners, together with the network's experts and the URBACT Programme, have evaluated what we have experienced, what we have learned, and what we would like to propose to continue with the challenge of cooperation between European cities in the face of their significant challenges.

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Cum își implică Aradul cetățenii în crearea de spații pentru oameni

Orașul Arad găzduiește 176.000 de locuitori și este localizat foarte aproape de Ungaria, precum și aproape de granița cu Serbia. Acest context conferă Aradului o poziție cheie pentru conexiunile rutiere și feroviare internaționale, inclusiv un coridor al rețelei centrale TEN-T care traversează direct orașul. Aradul se află în prezent în proces de implementare a primului său Plan de Mobilitate Urbană Durabilă (PMUD) și în același timp își actualizează PMUD pentru următorii ani. Realizările recente în domeniul mobilității urbane au creat cea mai mare rețea urbană de ciclism din România, cu peste 150 km și rețele ample de transport public, care se întinde în zonele periurbane ale orașului. Lucrările pentru un serviciu de transport urban durabil continuă și vor avea parte de îmbunătățiri ulterioare ale rețelei de transport public cu vehicule noi, linii noi, opriri și management mai bun al traficului, precum și extinderea rețelei de biciclete și crearea de zone pietonale.

Unul dintre obiectivele principale de astăzi este revitalizarea centrului orașului. Ideea este de a reconsidera și redistribui spațiul public de la un design orientat spre mașină la crearea de spațiu pentru oameni. Aradul aplică extinderea spațiilor pietonale, crearea unei rețele pietonale și managementul parcărilor ca principale instrumente pentru a-și vitaliza centrul orașului.

“Experience is the best teacher”

“Experience is the best teacher” – learning through Case Studies about methods to use technology and innovative business models to improve Urban Development in small cities

By Eurico Neves, Lead Expert of the ‘IoTXchange’ URBACT APN project, CEO of INOVA+ S.A.

It is commonly accepted that ‘Experience is the best teacher ‘. However, this experience doesn’t have to be undergone personally, and can be learnt through the lessons and achievements of others as well. That’s the whole purpose of Case Studies, and that’s how they have been used within the context of the IoTXchange Action Planning Network (APN) of the URBACT programme.

Το URBACT γίνεται (ακόμα) πιο πράσινο

Κλιματική Αλλαγή

Από ένα φεστιβάλ με ουδέτερο ισοζύγιο άνθρακα έως τo νέο URBACT IV για την υποστήριξη των πόλεων, το URBACT ενισχύει τη δέσμευσή του για απαλλαγή από τον άνθρακα σε όλα τα επίπεδα.

Ko piedāvā jaunā URBACT IV programma?

Jaunā URBACT IV programma 2021. – 2027. gadam koncentrēsies uz atbalstu ES pilsētām un pašvaldībām, nodrošinot iespējas pašvaldībām no visas ES sadarboties, mācīties vienai no otras, pārņemt citu pašvaldību labākās prakses, stiprināt savu kapacitāti un izstrādāt integrētus pilsētvides politikas attīstības risinājumus, vienlaikus saskaņotā veidā papildinot Eiropas Reģionālās attīstības fonda (ERAF) regulas projekta 12. pantā izklāstīto iniciatīvu – Eiropas pilsētiniciatīva (European Urban Initiative).

Network of 5 European port cities come together to promote innovation in the blue economy

The BluAct Network aims to inspire the four new partner cities in the Second Wave of the Network to learn from the experience of Piraeus and hold entrepreneurship competitions to support local businesses in the blue economy.