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Bringing (more) sustainability to cities: 5 golden rules
How are cities putting sustainable urban development into practice? Here are 5 golden rules from URBACT's City Lab.
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URBACT’s City Labs: Refreshing Europe’s urban policy principles
The 2007 Leipzig Charter established the EU’s urban policy principles. Ahead of its 2020 EU Presidency, Germany is refreshing this key document...
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Enhancing the vitality of small cities: “let’s make it a priority!”
How can small towns thrive today? Here we highlight an array of local actions to help small and medium sized cities become more vibrant.
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4 ways cities are breathing life back into empty spaces
URBACT’s new online resource Remaking the city presents a selection of space-related city solutions: remakingthecity.urbact.eu Cities across Europe...
10 - 11 December 2018
Fighting Homelessness Policy Lab
Deadline for registrations has been extended! URBACT is co-organising with FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organisations Working with the...
25 October 2018
Conference on the vitality of smaller cities in Europe
Join us for a one-day conference highlighting the importance of sustaining smaller cities despite the attractiveness of large cities.
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Why ‘Think Global, Act Local’ is no longer enough
How can cities refresh the message ‘think global, act local’ and build common purpose amongst stakeholders – citizens, communities, elected...
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TRIPLE HELIX (3H): Where are Europe’s cities standing?
The triple helix (3H) of university-industry government relations has become one of the most popular innovation models in the last two decades. What...
29 - 30 January 2020
City Lab #4 Balanced territorial development
Together with EUROCITIES , URBACT is hosting a series of City Labs, which focus on the principles of the Leipzig Charter . The Lab outputs will feed...
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Good practice call soon to be launched!
Last week in Bratislava, the URBACT Monitoring Committee agreed the launch of a new type of call for the selection of good practices . Building on...