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Achieving sustainable school canteens: BioCanteens partners prove it is easier than you may think!

BioCanteens partners had a lot on their plate for their first transnational meeting on sustainable school kitchens from the 30th of January to the 1st of February 2019: how to help partner cities in significantly improving the sustainability of local school kitchens that serve up to thousands of meals on a daily-basis and which organisation is complex and based on deeply-rooted practices? Here is how BioCanteens partners did it.

ACTive NGOs – Transfer Network of 6 European Cities for the Development of Cooperation between NGOs and Local Governments

Interview with the representative of the Riga City Council, the coordinator of project ACTive NGOs Irina Vasiļjeva was conducted at the beginning of Phase 2 of the project.
 

CAHORS A MATTER (A STORY) OF CENTRALITY

A few minutes after flying over the Pyrenees, the plane starts its descent to Toulouse airport, the nearest destination to Cahors, one of the small European cities participating in the INT-HERIT project. This project involves and gives name to a network of 9 cities, all committed to the improvement of heritage management at local level as a way of connecting it to their future. In Cahors, the traveller soon discovers the weight of heritage and how for both political representatives and citizens, it is perhaps one of the most important assets when it comes to recovering the centrality of the city for the future, as it was in the past.

The Tech Revolution journey has begun

The journey has begun! Seven European cities with a shared belief in the power of digital economic development have come together to plan their manifesto for a better, brighter, future.

URBinclusion Final Conference in Barcelona

On the 27 and 28 of March, Barcelona will host the final meeting and conference of this project funded by the URBACT programme and focusing on the co-creation of new implementation solutions to reduce poverty in deprived urban areas.

The penultimate Case Study Meeting

URBANITAS project This report contains a summary of the various conferences held as part of the Urbanitas URBACT I project, which ran from May 2005 to March 2007. This report ends with the conclusions and recommendations produced by the practical experience from over two years of European cooperation.