Reimagining urban, agricultural, and natural spaces as interconnected infrastructures that improve health, wellbeing, climate resilience, social inclusion, and quality of life in small and medium-sized cities.
• Green infrastructure and public health: using nature-based spaces to improve physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
• Healthy mobility and urban-natural connectivity: connecting urban, agricultural, and natural areas through accessible green corridors and active mobility routes.

The Associação de Municípios do Corredor do Rio Leça, Portugal, is preparing an URBACT IV Action Network proposal focused on integrated water management, nature-based solutions and cleaner urban river corridors. 

The proposal will bring together cities and urban territories that already have a strategic, regulatory or policy instrument related to water management, stormwater management, wastewater pressures, river restoration, blue-green infrastructure or nature-based solutions.

WAKE UP CITIES – Partner Search for URBACT – Action Networks
 

The Stalowowolska Agencja Rozwoju Regionalnego (StARR) - a 100% municipal company of the City of Stalowa Wola (Poland) - is currently building a partnership consortium as a leader for the URBACT Program (Action Networks) project entitled WAKE UP CITIES, planned to be submitted by 17 June 2026.

While many cities have developed policy frameworks to promote the inclusion of ethnic minorities and immigrant population, significant gaps remain between strategic intent and effective, transformative local practice. This network seeks to respond to this challenge by reframing inclusion not as a sectorial or compensatory policy field, but as a process of expanding people’s real opportunities to live lives they have reason to value, rooted in the specific territorial, social and cultural contexts of cities.