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Can you transfer trust?

For more than ten years, Com'ON, a youth participatory budgeting programme from Cluj-Napoca (Romania), has trusted young people with public resources, inviting them to propose ideas, vote for the projects they believe in and turn them into reality. Hundreds of community initiatives later, this principle, tested in Cluj-Napoca, is being taken further through Com’ON City.

RECUP MASTERCLASS on Monitoring & Impact Evaluation: Measuring the Value of Culture

In April 2026, partners of the URBACT RECUP Network gathered online for a dedicated Masterclass on monitoring, evaluation and the communication of cultural impact. The session focused on helping cities better understand, measure and demonstrate the contribution of culture and creativity to urban development. 

Final Hydro-Heritage Cities meeting: Getting ready to kick off

The Network met for last time in Rome concluding its transfer journey and investment plans, while presented in public the future of Hydro-Heritage management. 

SPARK: Rethinking public procurement as engine for local resilience

AUTHOR: Sabina Reichert, LEAD EXPERT FOR URBACT TN SPARK

On paper, the municipality of Kavala (Greece) looks like many other medium-sized European cities. Back in 2018, it had a relatively solid budget, a tourism-driven economy, and a long list of goods and services to buy every year to keep the city running. Yet officials noticed a worrying pattern: local companies were losing public contracts, larger firms from outside the city were winning more tenders, and no one could clearly say how much of the city’s spending was actually supporting the local economy. 

De áreas abandonadas à biodiversidade: Soluções Baseadas na Natureza que fazem a diferença nas nossas cidades

O que acontece quando as cidades dão espaço à natureza? Vinte e nove cidades envolvidas nas Redes de Planeamento de Ação URBACT mostram e explicam...

Ações locais das cidades portuguesas de Guimarães através do Laboratório da Paisagem, Vila Nova de Poiares e Vila do Conde no centro das atenções.

URBACT Accelerator for Ukraine and Moldova: МОЖЛИВОСТІ ДЛЯ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ МІСТ