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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    RU:RBAN IN THE FACTS! CONFERENCE

    The FACTS! Conference, first  international gathering foreseen within the EFUA Horizon 2020 project, took place online on 29-30 March 2022. The partner Risorse per Roma (municipal agency of Rome), organizer of the conference in collaboration with FAO, hoped to host partners and participants in Rome but monitoring of the Covid-19 situation both in Italy and in the rest of Europe led the organizers to shift to the online format. Over 260 registered participants from all over the world and professional backgrounds (European Commission, international organizations, NGOs, regional and local governments, research centers, universities, agriculture and farming associations, civil society representatives) participated in the conference and followed the contributions of 38 speakers.

    Patricia Hernandez

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  • Major Development Agency Thessaloniki

    Our Greek partner empowers the Thessaloniki metropolis and supports municipalities in managing and implementing sustainable urban development, mobility and accessibility plans and projects

    Mikel Berra-Sandín

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  • SDG Story: Manresa

    Do we all really share a common positive vision of the future of our city?

    Karin Luhaäär

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  • FOCUS ON: Trapani - how the city is building on its strengths

    In the last article about Trapani, we gave a snapshot of this fascinating but relatively little known city.  In this article, we focus on how Trapani is building on it's strengths going forward.  

    James Carless

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  • A hackathon for gender equality on career choices

    La Rochelle aims solve the mismatch between offer and demand in the local labour market through a gender perspective, and in the beginning of March they arranged a hackathon for gender equality on carreer choices.

    annika.dalen@umea.se

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  • Local Communication has many facets

    Participatory planning, co-creation, co-management are fashionable “buzzwords” when you ask city practitioners on the recent trends in urban planning and development. And they are right: the best way to plan for an inclusive, green and also prosperous city development is to meet the needs of its stakeholders, its population. This means of course involvement, the earlier and the more integrated the better. But what is needed to accomplish planning with and for people? One of the answers to this is an obvious and at the same time a challenging one: it is communication. With stakeholder, with residents, with population groups. On their needs, their concerns, their ideas, their vision for coming development steps. So, what can be done for a good communication a city’s diverse stakeholder and population setting?

    Claus Kollinger

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