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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  • IDRIJA | Mining Town – Industrial Hub – Smart City

    RUnUP organised three thematic events throughout its project lifespan in Agueda, Potsdam and Barakaldo. Event information including programmes, flyers and images are contained in this Report.

    Alberto Ferri

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  • Collaborative Governance Tech Platform: lessons retain to increase community participation

    The Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) Lisbon Network is a non-profit organisation created in 2015 following an application for Portugal 2020 funding. It is a strategy for Local Community-Based Development which primarily aims to promote, in certain areas, strategic and functional cooperation between partners, focusing on entrepreneurship, employment, education, training and social integration, in accordance with the Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement and with the aims of the Europe 2020 strategy.

    fvirgilio

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  • Palermo bets on social media governance

    Palermo bets on social media governance to restore a climate of trust between citizens and institutions in the field of urban mobility. Within the process of reduction of the Local Action Plan Palermo’s URBACT Local group is working to the integration of its communication tools and to the strengthening of good practices of social media governance in order to restore a feeling of trust between citizens and the public administration in the field of urban mobility.

    fvirgilio

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  • VIDEO FOR THE TRANSNATIONAL MEETING HELD IN ARMAGH CITY

    THIS IS THE VIDEO PRODUCED AFTER THE TRANSNATIONAL MEETING OF THE NETWORK WHICH WAS HOLD BY THE ARMAGH CITY PARTNER. 

    Antonio Zafra

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  • Let us build the new politics starting from our everyday lives

    The Rethink Activism Festival

    Back in September, Sager der Samler (translated: Uniting Causes), in collaboration with many other stakeholders, organized the people’s festival Rethink Activism in Aarhus. We put together a program of 250 workshops, conversations, concerts and so forth which were all initiated by citizens and grassroots. The aim was to highlight a new capacity for action which is emerging across society and to raise the profile of everyday activists who are changing the world right there where they are through creativity and cooperative spirit. We set the stage for the experience of concrete local initiatives with an optimistic vision for society – not methods and fine speeches.

    The festival took place in the area surrounding the old slaughterhouse and power station at Sydhavnen in Aarhus which was transformed into a city within the city with town hall, school, factory, culture house, day shelter, health house etc. The city spread across an area the size of 10 football fields and as the festival opened on Friday morning the city’s new inhabitants flocked to the place. The interest and curiosity turned out to be enormous, lasting all the way until the end Sunday evening. Despite a very limited advertising budget more than 10.000 people visited the festival that was held over three days.

    Amongst those participants were partners involved in the URBACT CHANGE! Network. Led by Eindhoven, Aarhus is an active member of this network which is exploring how we can involve citizens in reshaping urban policy and practice. Each of the network’s cities came to festival with their own ideas and experience of how we can do this.

    And if the festival proves one thing it is this: a lot of people are committed to society and to making societal change. As journalist at Politiken Anne Bech-Danielsen commented: “They are young, they are old, and they act: Refugees, unemployed or people who have simply had enough of overconsumption, isolation or not doing anything and there are more of them than just a handful of cheerful civilians.”

    A new way to be politically active

    Paul Natorp

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  • In Glasgow, food became a symbol of urban resilience

    In Glasgow, the neighbourhoods around the Possilpark area are some of the city’s most deprived. The stresses experienced by these communities are disproportionate when compared to the rest of the city, and are consequences of decades of de-industrialisation that have resulted in poor health, low life expectancy, high levels of unemployment, and vast areas of contaminated derelict land.

    rkoskamp

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