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The Regeneration of Historic Centres: From Small Scale to Impactful Change

By Pablo Muñoz Unceta | URBACT Ad-hoc Expert, Paisaje Transversal

December 2025

Closing Conference of the Breaking Isolation Programme: Reflecting on Two Years of European Cooperation Against Social Isolation 

On December 9, 2025, the closing conference of the European Breaking Isolation programme took place. This 90-minute online event, open to the public, brought together network partners, local and European stakeholders, as well as many participants interested in the issue of social isolation. The conference was hosted in Agen (France), the lead city of the Breaking Isolation network, in the presence of its Mayor, on the occasion of the final Transnational Meeting.

Reflecting on the Journey: video messages from CSG project partners

As the Cities for Sustainability Governance (CSG) project nears its conclusion, we are excited to share a collection of video reflections from our dedicated partner cities across Europe. These short clips provide a personal glimpse into the journeys, challenges and key learnings that shaped our collaboration.

Reflecting on the Journey: video messages from CSG project partners

As the Cities for Sustainability Governance (CSG) project nears its conclusion, we are excited to share a collection of video reflections from our dedicated partner cities across Europe. These short clips provide a personal glimpse into the journeys, challenges and key learnings that shaped our collaboration.

From Vision to Action: How Metacity Cities Co-Created Their Integrated Action Plans for a Human-Centred Digital Future

The Integrated Action Planning (IAP) Report of the URBACT Metacity network was formally presented by the Lead Expert Eurico Neves, marking a decisive milestone at the end of a demanding and highly collaborative three-year journey.

Developed between 2023 and 2025, the IAP Report brings together the collective intelligence, experimentation and strategic ambition of ten small and medium-sized European cities that share a common challenge: how to harness emerging digital and immersive technologies—particularly those associated with the metaverse—to improve public services, urban governance and citizens’ quality of life. The report, finalised in December 2025, documents not only what each city plans to do, but also how those plans were co-created, tested and refined through the URBACT method.

From planning to action: Beyond the Urban partners publish their Integrated Action Plans for sustainable urban–rural mobility

Beyond the Urban is an URBACT network of ten territories across Europe. Cities, regions and rural areas work together to rethink how people move —between villages and cities, to work, to school, to services— with sustainability, inclusion and digital tools at the core. Led by Osona, Beyond the Urban has been a shared journey of learning, testing and planning a new kind of urban–rural mobility.