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  • Reunião do Comité de Monitorização URBACT IV

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    29/05/2023

    Os membros do Comité de Monitorização URBACT IV irão reunir-se nos dias 30 e 31 de maio, em Umea, Suécia, para tomarem decisões estratégicas sobre as próximas atividades, incluindo a aprovação das Redes de Planeamento de Ação.

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    Sob a égide da Presidência do Conselho da União Europeia Sueca, a cidade de Umea, habitual parceira do URBACT, irá acolher o próximo Comité de Monitorização.

    Os representantes dos Estados Membros e Parceiros, países do Instrumento de Assistência de Pré-Adesão (IPA), a Comissão Europeia e organismos observadores irão analisar os últimos resultados do programa e tomar decisões importantes, designadamente a aprovação das 30 Redes de Planeamento de Ação na sequência do último concurso.

    Estas decisões serão divulgadas após a reunião.

    Em complemento, os participantes desta reunião fechada serão convidados a conhecer os resultados da Boa Prática URBACT “Igualdade de género no coração da Cidade”.

  • NUP Portugal na reunião de coordenação em Paris

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    26/05/2023

    O Ponto URBACT Nacional (NUP) de Portugal esteve presente em mais uma reunião de coordenação com os seus congéneres europeus e o Secretariado URBACT. Desta vez, a reunião teve lugar na La Recyclerie, em Paris, nos dias 24 e 25 de maio, e contou com a presença do Diretor da European Urban Initiative (EUI).

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    A reunião de coordenação dos NUP decorreu ao longo de dois dias de trabalho intensivo, com a presença dos membros dos NUP dos Estados Membros, de um representante do Monte Negro - país beneficiário do Instrumento de Assistência de Pré-Adesão, cujas cidades podem integrar parcerias no âmbito do URBACT IV – da equipa do Secretariado URBACT e de dois membros da EUI, incluindo o seu Diretor, Tim Caulfield.

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    Esta reunião centrou-se nas atividades dos NUP previstas para o período 2023/2024, bem como na coordenação do programa URBACT com a EUI, que terão vários objetivos em comum no sentido de contribuírem para cidades mais sustentáveis e inclusivas na Europa.

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    O local escolhido, La Recyclerie, no 18.º Bairro de Paris, que ocupa uma estação de caminho de ferro desativada, promove ações de sensibilização para os valores eco-responsáveis em diversas frentes, incluindo a produção própria de agricultura biológica, que utiliza no seu restaurante, a disponibilização de uma oficina e de ferramentas de reparação ou a organização de formações no âmbito da economia circular.

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    Este ambiente descontraído, alinhado com os princípios de sustentabilidade que orientam o URBACT, proporcionou as condições ideais para o intercâmbio e estreitamento de laços entre os participantes, através de uma combinação de apresentações com sessões de formação interativas em pequenos grupos.

    No final da reunião, todos ficaram a conhecer o que os espera em termos de atividades para os próximos dois anos e como poderão melhor apoiar as cidades e vilas no seu desenvolvimento sustentável.

  • TIAGO Ferreira

    Better World Strategist

    In 2007, I was in the middle of my university degree, and I went on a volunteering mission to Mozambique that changed my life: I discovered my deep purpose, that is to dream, plan and implement impact-driven projects that make the World better.

    That experience influenced my entire career…

    For 5 years I worked on social innovation, mapping the Portuguese ecosystem, training, and mentoring dozens of social entrepreneurs, collaborating with IES Social Business School.

    After that, I dedicated almost 7 years to a beautiful small Portuguese city named Amarante. In here I had the role to create and manage a municipality development agency, named InvestAmarante, that works on investment attraction, entrepreneurship, economic development, tourism management and talent attraction! That’s where I met Urbact!

    I participated in four Urbact Networks:

    - City Centre Doctor as partner city

    - Change! as partner city

    - Beepathnet as partner city

    - iPlace - Finding Niches for Sustainable Local Economic Development as lead partner

    At iPlace, Amarante was the Lead Partner, and I was the project manager working with an amazing team, being responsible since the network concept creation, until the project final event. IPlace was a high impact project to Amarante, that created the cluster Amarante Tech Hub, today with more than 15 tech companies and several jobs.

    Urbact also gave me the opportunity to participate on The Urbact University at Rotterdam, and The Urbact City Festival of Lisbon, Tallin and Paris.

    => Know more about iPlace and Local Economic Development at the iPlace mooc HERE! 

    Besides these main experiences, I teach at Porto Business School and ESEP and I have my own wine, named “The Wine of the Disquiet”.

    Nowadays I am the executive director of Aliados, that is a boutique innovation consulting firm that works with economic development, sustainability, and social innovation.

    At Mozambique, I learned the sentence “We Are Together”, that is something that I am looking for at a lead expert role.

    Tiago Ferreira
    Available for Lead Expert role and Ad-hoc expertise missions
    ec04172@gmail.com
    1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
    2. Thematic expertise:
      > Social innovation
      > Local Economy
    3. Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
      > Integrated and participatory design of strategies
      > Sustaining stakeholder engagement and translating strategies into actions
  • Kerri Farnsworth

    Kerri is a highly-experienced urban planning, development & regeneration expert.  She has over 30 years' experience in Europe, Middle East, Asia and the Americas in public, private and NGO sectors, and with municipalities, cities, metropolitan areas and national-level Government departments & agencies.  Her experience includes all aspects of urban development, regeneration and economic development, with a particular expertise in delivering complex initiatives, often in challenging & politically-sensitive environments.  Her expertise in taking major initiatives through their full lifecycle, from concept all the way through to active use, means she is also very skilled in advising on operational requirements, restructuring and internal capacity-building. 

    She is a qualified spatial planner, urban designer and project manager, and her original training as a chartered surveyor in private property development & investment gives her a strong commercial acumen. 

    Kerri's is also a retained advisor to the World Bank / DG-REGIO, a Design Review Expert for UK RIBA, Editorial Board member of ThinkHouse, Board Director at International Urban Development Association (INTA), and a member of Associação Portuguesa dos Urbanistas (ECTP-CEU) and Société Française des Urbanistes (ECTP-CEU).

    Available for Ad-hoc expertise missions
    kerri@360cityshapers.com

    Expert can perform Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

    1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
    2. Thematic expertise:
      > Culture
      > Housing
      > Strategic urban planning
  • Cassilda Mariza Queiroz

    Cassilda Mariza Queiroz has more than 30 years of experience in the public transportation sector. During her professional life, she assumed different roles such as Knowledge Management Director, Strategy and Corporate Development Director, and Human Resources Director, among others. She has a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems at CERIS, in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. Her thesis relates to Urban Mobility, in particular, travel behavior analysis, transportation modeling, and strategic marketing in public transportation. She has a degree in Management, a Post-graduation in Human Resources, and an MSc in Transportation Systems. Presently, she is an Invited Assistant Professor at ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and a member of U-Shift Lab (Transportation Lab/ IST - Instituto Superior Técnico) member. She has publications as an author and she is a reviewer of Journals publications. Certified Project Management (PMP) and was the Vice President of PMI(Project Management Institute). Certified Product Owner (CSPO). She is also on the UITP Research in Mobility Committee (RIMC), UITP Business and Human Resources Management Committee (BHRM), and a member of the Supervisory Board of INDEG- Executive Education. Internationally she also represented the Lisbon Metro in the Metro Benchmarking Group (NOVA/COMET), and Bus Benchmarking Group (IBBG). Her experience in the industry and academic perspective grant her the profile for the scope of the URBACT experts.

    Available for Ad-hoc expertise missions
    mariza.motta.queiroz@gmail.com

    Expert can perform Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

    1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
    2. Thematic expertise:
      > Mobility
  • Andre Cester Costa

    André Cester Costa is Head of Unit for National Policies of INOVA+, a leading firm in innovation studies in Europe. He provides technical and strategic support to municipalities, associations of municipalities and other public administration entities in the execution of policies for the development and economic attractiveness, transformation and innovation of territories. 

    Before, as Head Office for Economic Development in the City of Aveiro [Portugal], he was project coordinator of four URBACT projects focused on Jobs and Skills and Knowledge Economy.

    He was also the project manager of Aveiro Steam City [co-financed by Urban Innovation Actions] and of the Aveiro Tech City Initiative, that granted the Portuguese city of Aveiro the title of 3rd Rising Innovative City in Europe in 2022, awarded by the European Innovation Council.

    For over 20 years he has been working in different projects under European Programmes such as, URBACT, INTERREG Atlantic, INTERREG SUDOE, HORIZON 2020 or UIA.

    He was also the coordinator for the development of the Sustainable Urban Development Strategy for Aveiro [PEDUCA] and a member of the Executive Commission of the bid of Aveiro to become European Capital of Culture 2027.

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    Available for Ad-hoc expertise missions
    andre.costa@inova.business

    Expert can perform Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

    1. Thematic expertise:
      > Jobs and skills
      > Knowledge Economy
    2. Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
      > Integrated and participatory design of strategies
      > Securing funding and resourcing 
  • Pedro Soutinho

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    Available for Lead Expert role and Ad-hoc expertise missions
    pedro.soutinho@gmail.com

    ​​​​​​​Expert can perform the Lead expert role and Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

    1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
    2. Thematic expertise:
      > Circular economy
      > Digital transformation
      > Mobility 
    3. Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
      > Integrated and participatory design of strategies
  • Junte-se à equipa do Secretariado URBACT!

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    The URBACT Secretariat is hiring!
    15/05/2023

    Esta é a sua oportunidade de fazer parte de uma equipa entusiasta e empenhada que promove a mudança para cidades melhores.

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    Estão abertas várias vagas para diferentes perfis e áreas de experiência e formação, por isso certifique-se que encontra o trabalho certo para si:

    ·         Responsável de organização de eventos

    ·         Responsável de contratação e finanças

    ·         Responsável de gestão de programa

    ·         Responsável sénior de finanças e auditoria

    ·         Responsável de projeto

    ·         Responsável principal de desenvolvimento estratégico do programa

    ·         Chefe da unidade de redes e capacitação

     

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    Submetido por URBACT a 28/04/2023

     

  • Encontre um perito URBACT IV!

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    12/05/2023

    Numa procura constante de especialistas que possam apoiar as cidades beneficiárias e as outras atividades do programa, o URBACT acaba de aprovar um primeiro grupo de Peritos Certificados.

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    Tornar-se um perito pode abrir a porta a um conjunto diversificado de missões para apoiar as redes aprovadas e as atividades do programa. Precisamos de profissionais - indivíduos, e não consórcios nem empresas de consultoria - com experiência prática e académica num vasto espectro de domínios que contribuam para o desenvolvimento urbano sustentável. Os interessados podem candidatar-se em qualquer altura. O convite à apresentação de candidaturas para peritos está aberto até 2027.

    Os peritos certificados para a função de Perito Líder podem apoiar as redes URBACT durante todo o ciclo do projeto, bem como desempenhar diferentes missões de peritagem Ad hoc, de acordo com a sua especialização. Os peritos certificados como peritos Ad hoc podem ser solicitados a qualquer momento, pelas redes URBACT em curso, para apoiar diferentes atividades da rede.

    A Bolsa de Peritos URBACT IV está sempre em crescimento, acolhendo regularmente novas pessoas. Apresentada uma candidatura, o processo global de avaliação pode demorar até um mês. Os Peritos Certificados terão então os seus perfis divulgados na nossa bolsa, onde as cidades beneficiárias e o Secretariado URBACT podem procurar diferentes perfis e competências.

    O primeiro conjunto de peritos acaba de ser aprovado. Descubra agora este grupo! As cidades que participaram no concurso para Redes de Planeamento de Ação são particularmente bem-vindas para iniciarem a procura de Peritos adequados.

     

    Encontre um Perito URBACT

     

    Tem alguma questão ou dúvida relativa aos peritos? Entre em contacto connosco através do email: expert@urbact.eu

     

    Submetido pelo URBACT em 10/05/2023

  • Maria João Filgueiras-Rauch

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    Available for Lead Expert role and Ad-hoc expertise missions
    mariajoao.rauch@gmail.com

    Expert can perform the Lead expert role and Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

    1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
    2. Thematic expertise:
      > Social Innovation
      > Jobs and Skills
      > Participatory Governance
      > Circular Economy
    3. Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
      > Integrated and participatory design of strategies
      > Sustaining engagement of stakeholders and translating strategies into actions