The objective of the STEM4ALL project is to enhance and consolidate local policies that foster inclusion and promote STEM pathways from a gender-sensitive perspective, with a particular focus on girls throughout all stages of education. The project will do so by establishing a transnational learning network of European cities facing a shared challenge, by developing transferable URBACT Local Action Plans, and building on previous knowledge and experience acquired from the WeSTEMEU Interreg Europe project.

The project idea addresses a growing challenge faced by many small and medium-sized European cities: the decline of traditional city centres due to structural economic changes, digital transition, changing consumption patterns, and increasingly fragmented urban development. While many cities already have urban regeneration or city-centre development strategies in place, a significant gap remains between strategic planning and practical implementation.

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.