• Small and medium-sized municipalities across Europe increasingly face similar challenges: ageing populations, dispersed territories, insufficient local mobility solutions and unequal access to services, facilities and community life.
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  The Municipality of Alpiarça (Portugal) is looking for partners to build an URBACT Action Network focused on improving inclusive access to local services and participation opportunities in small and dispersed territories.
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  The network aims to explore and test practical solutions related to:

This proposal builds further on the action plan from the Urban Agenda for the EU Building Decarbonisation Partnership.

Callosa de Segura (Spain) is leading the CROP-CIRCLE Action Network, an initiative designed to transform traditional local crops and natural resources into high-value biomaterials. Our network is already at an advanced stage, aiming to replace plastics and synthetic materials with sustainable alternatives that foster a circular bioeconomy and green reindustrialization.

UPSTAND – Urban Partnerships and Strategies for Transforming Attitudes, Norms, and Data for inclusive safety and equality (Working Title)
 

The municipality of Etterbeek is characterised by a significant and highly diverse youth population, within an urban context marked by strong social and cultural diversity (with more than 150 nationalities and a variety of socio-cultural profiles). Nearly 6,700 young people aged 12 to 24 live in the municipality, in addition to a large number of students attending secondary schools and higher education institutions located in and around the area.

In Etterbeek (Brussels – Belgium), citizen participation is a cross-cutting priority of the 2025–2027 legislative term, seen as a structuring lever for local democracy and social cohesion. In this context, thematic advisory councils play a key role as spaces for dialogue between citizens, associations and public authorities.

The municipality of Etterbeek (Brussels – Belgium) is facing a growing challenge in terms of social cohesion and citizen participation in a context of very high diversity: nearly 50% of its residents do not hold Belgian nationality, and more than 150 nationalities coexist. This reality represents both a strength and a challenge, particularly in terms of integration, democratic participation, and preventing the emergence of “community bubbles”.

The municipality of Etterbeek (Brussels - Belgium) owns the Hap site, a high-quality heritage complex comprising a listed 19th-century mansion, an orangery and a 1.3-hectare public park. The site was fully renovated between 2017 and 2020 thanks to significant public investment.