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Playful Paradigm to re-think cities: join our participatory play lab at the European Week of Regions and Cities

Thu 8 October | 11:30 – 13:00 CET | Registration deadline: 27/09/2020

Let's build together upon the Good Practice of the Playful Paradigm URBACT Network!

Rome: the Improvement Plan of the city’s Regulations of Urban Gardens is going ahead

The debate between the Councilor for Green Policies of the City of Rome, Ms Laura Fiorini, and the representatives of the city’s urban gardeners associations is in progress: the City Administration has launched the new rules for urban gardens and shared them with the City Districts before proceeding with their approval by the City Council. The rules have nevertheless encountered some confusion and disagreement among the representatives of the urban gardeners associations.

The power of Honey

The Municipality of Amarante, one of the most beautiful and “sweet” cities of Portugal, is a destination in the north of the country. It is recognized for its honey in varieties such as heather, rosemary, eucalyptus or orange which is so special, that it is labelled with the EU Protected geographical indication. Originating from traditional use of honey in the culinary field and due to locals with dreams and visions, who joined small beekeepers and developed their business, local honey and diverse products made with honey or other bee products are distributed across the country and abroad. Today, beekeeping is a growing sector of the local industry especially important for the rural areas.  

Local community initiatives thriving global

What is the secret of those societal initiatives that could scale up and extend their local know-how and develop from a city initiative into a worldwide social movement? We analysed the key success factors and key rules that made it possible for them to scale up and set up these formats.

Preparing Net Zero Energy for cities and regions

The URB-EN PACT project will develop a method for city-regions to prepare Net Zero Energy action plans.

The evaluation of a good example - housing agency for shrinking cities on the test stand

As a lead partner and official URBACT Good Practice in the URBACT Transfernetwork ALT/BAU, Chemnitz was not like the other six partner cities initially faced with the question of how the working methods of a good practice could be transferred and adapted to another city. Nevertheless the city of Chemnitz also expected to gain knowledge from the URBACT network and pondered how this could be achieved.