Networks and cities' news

From Manchester to Mantova: A ULG Success Story

As the Lead Partner on both a Transfer Network and an Action Planning Network, the city of Manchester is sharing its knowledge and experience across its two URBACT networks. Having started C-Change in December 2018, the C-Change partners are well placed to transfer their learning to support the ZCC network. This was the case when the URBACT Local Group (ULG) coordinator from the City of Mantova was invited to present at the recent Zero Carbon Cities (ZCC) virtual transnational meeting. 

Seeing rethinking infrastructure as an opportunity

Infrastructure needs to take care not only about its efficiency, but also about its relationship and impact on surrounding communities and territories. In doing so, great chances for sustainable urban development can arise, and RiConnect aims to seize such opportunities by gathering diverse stakeholders and assessing interventions

Why is rethinking infrastructure important?

RiConnect aims to rethink mobility infrastructure, and to do so, it is important to acknowledge the relevance of the challenges we are facing. Mobility causes a wide array of nuisances in our metropolises, such as pollution or car dominance, yet solutions to these issues need to tackle not only mobility, but also its infrastructure.

An unexpected but welcome result of the transfer process in Rybnik. The real impact of the ALT/BAU project on shaping the housing policy in Rybnik.

Artur Gliwicki reports on an unexpected but very welcome side effect of the ALT/BAU network in Rybnik.

When on 9 July 2020 we sat down to the next ULG online meeting, we couldn’t realize how crucial our webinar would be. Who would have thought that three months later Rybnik’s model of housing policy would undergo such a significant transformation?

Đurek 60 – New community Festival in Varaždin

The URBACT Come In Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network had another successful festival modelled on the Budapest 100 Open House Weekend held in Varaždin. 

Insights from Tourist-friendly Cities network: Integrating health & safety in a new model for sustainable tourism

In the framework of the fifth transnational meeting that took place in January 28-29 2021, the Tourism-friendly Cities (TFC) URBACT network focused at one key element for consolidating sustainable tourism practices: the health and safety of tourists, and, of course, of residents. As the TFC cities are beginning to develop their Integrated Development Plans (IAPs) on sustainable tourism, in a co-creation process within their own URBACT Local Groups (ULG), we wanted to reflect at this theme that was not so visible on our radar in 2019 when we imagined the initial peer-to-peer learning and exchange workplan of the network.