Networks and cities' news

KAIRÓS THEMATIC WARM-UP#2 by ad-hoc expert Matthias Ripp

The second KAIRÓS warm-up webinar showed the potential and role of community involvement in heritage-based urban regeneration and how this is connected to urban resilience and sustainability.

Role-playing as a method for active participation in the URBACT KAIRÓS - Heritage as Urban Regeneration project by ad-hoc expert Mirna Karzen

Can you have small scale actions before infrastructure developments and when to introduce them? Why include community in the urban planning processes – they are not experts, architects, urban planners, and traffic specialists? How can you introduce alternative mobility options in the hilly city? What green infrastructure solutions to introduce in the historical old towns that would not make conservationists cringe?

Focus on Braga (PT) - The house that gives back the hope for a better life

In the scope of Braga's Integrated Action Plan, Braga Municipality is developing the House of Skills, a project that aims to create an innovative transitional housing solution to integrate homeless people who are in temporary accommodation centres. The project includes a programme of personal and social development and employability skills for this public, with a view to their professional and social reinsertion.

Site Visits to CO4CITIES Partners: a First Glimpse into the Transferability Plan

From June 2021 Levente Polyak, the CO4CITIES Lead expert, has been visiting all the Cities involved in the Transfer Network with the active involvement of local stakeholders in order to discuss challenges and objectives that will be included in the Transferability plan.

Levente has been guided through the cities of Turin, Gdansk and Cluj-Napoca while he organized meetings with several local stakeholders in Budapest, his hometown.

Bistrita's Summer 'Sustainable Urban Mobility Campaign'

The Small-Scale Action carried out by the Municipality of Bistrita refers to a “Sustainable Urban Mobility Campaign”, trying to encourage citizens to use sustainable alternative means of transport, to foster cycling culture and to promote these means.

Also, Bistrita municipality is concerned with protecting the environment, reducing CO2, thus carries out in the framework of the SSA a series of education, information and awareness actions.

RU:RBAN FAREWELL AND KICK-OFF MEETING IN ROME

Rome was the setting of an unusual meeting last 15-17 September: the Farewell Meeting of RU:RBAN First Wave, with representatives of the partner cities of A Coruna, Caen, Loures, Krakow, Thessaloniki and Vilnius, and the Kick-Off Meeting of the RU:RBAN Second Wave with representatives of the partner cities of Alexandroupolis, Algeciras, Carlow and Split.