Networks and cities' news

Catch up on the latest updates from cities working together in URBACT Networks. The articles and news that are showcased below are published directly by URBACT’s beneficiaries and do not necessarily reflect the programme’s position.

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    Promotion of neighbourhood communities – the key to cooperation between the municipality and residents

    In the recent years, the idea of neighbourhoods has developed rapidly in Riga, targeted activities are organised, focusing the interests and needs of the community of a particular neighbourhood, several neighbourhood associations have been established. We invited for a conversation Guntars Ruskuls, the author of the implementation of the neighbourhood idea and platform, Head of the Strategic Management Board of the Riga City Council’s Department of City Development.

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  • A Toolkit for Cities to promote Playful Activities in Schools

    Insights for cities and policy-makers to design a strategy to involve Schools Institutions for promoting PLAY activities

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  • "Sharing and connecting" - an effective way of Trapesa international meeting point to engage Espoo residents

    With a slogan ‘sharing and connecting’ Trapesa international meeting point offers a neutral and unbiased environment for discussions, hobbies and learning, and its doors are open to all people regardless of their nationality, mother tongue, religion and cultural background. To explore the establishment and development of Trapesa, we had an interesting conversation with Raisa Lindroos, Secretary General of Filoksenia Association that is the driving force behind Trapesa. 

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  • RU:RBAN HAS ITS OWN TRANSFER STORY: HOW TO IMPLEMENT URBAN GARDENS

    The philosophy behind URBACT Transfer Networks is embedded in its name: transferring a city’s Good Practice to a group of cities that have adhered to the possibility of adopting (and adapting) such Good Practice and make it their own. All in the spirit of sharing knowledge and experience with the ultimate goal to improve quality of life, in its manifold facets, in our cities. Every Transfer Network is supposed to produce a “transfer story” which is, in not so many words, the tale of how the good practice has been transferred to other EU cities, which have been the challenges faced and the opportunities emerged from the process.

    Patricia Hernandez

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  • Learn together, Albergaria-a-Velha Transfer Story

    This is a story about Innovation in Education and the adventure of the Municipality of Albergaria-a-Velha on the ON BOARD Transfer Network, experienced and shared with five European cities from different countries, Viladecans (Spain), Poznań (Poland), Tallinn (Estonia), Nantes (France), and Halmstad (Sweden), with the aspiration to learn together.

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  • The importance of defining the collaboration structure and communicating in the case of public-civil partnership –Platform for Lazareti

    For the last year and a half, Platform for Lazareti and Youth Center in Dubrovnik were working on establishing community centers based on the civil-public partnership. It was at the same time hard work on bettering the communication and decision-making protocols and processes between the NGOs associated with the platforms but also hard work in building trust and relationship with the representatives of the City of Dubrovnik. For now, both of the cases are successful examples, and a part of it is  due to the knowledge they've received during the „Active NGOs“ project and collaboration with the URBACT lead and ad-hoc experts. Ana Cvjetkovic from the Platform for Lazareti tells us about the main goals, accomplishments, and obstacles and gives us an invaluable insight in what is one of the most intense processes of organizational development and decision-making.

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