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The Hague shares the dutch experience on Com.Unity.Lab

The City of The Hague joined the Com.Unity.Lab URBACT Network in Phase 2 of the Transfer Network to share its experience with Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) and be inspired by the BIP/ZIP strategy of Lisbon in order to improve the local strategy. During the Transnational Meeting in The Hague, on October 9th and 10^th, the focus was on CLLD – the fourth tool from the Lisbon toolbox. The network partners paid visits to several projects that were realized by the foundation Stichting Initiatief op Scheveningen and the foundation and a representative of one of the funded projects shared with the project partners the workings of CLLD in their context, the challenges, and the importance of continuation with this form of citizen engagement.  Sam Hurulean, from The Hague team, shared part of the dutch experience, future plans and expectations.

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A focus on Barcelona's Community Balance: a protocol for the granting process and evaluation of the Citizen Assets

The Citizen Assets Program develops a series of criteria and principles that define what we conceive by community management and use. These criteria should allow us to define, evaluate and justify associations and projects that are dealing with a social, open and participative use of collective resources, managed democratically and communally to pursue the common good.

by Albert Martín i Gómez

PPP practise and innovation- Toulose case study

Toulouse Metropole shared their experience about every stage of preparing a PPP project: from planning, negotiating and selecting an operator, through contract drafting (division of risk and profits) and project activities implementing.

LAComicsFestival Vol.2 – a week of playful energy in Larissa for games and arts lovers.

Τη νέα αυτή χρονιά που αποτελεί και το κλείσιμο της τρέχουσας προγραμματικής περιόδου για το URBACT 2014-2020, με κοινό παρονομαστή τη διαφύλαξη της δημόσιας υγείας και την τήρηση των μέτρων προστασίας κατά του COVID19, αλλά με «πιλότο» το URBACT, σας προσκαλούμε στο URBACT Air, την πρώτη εκδήλωση του Εθνικού Σημείου Επαφής Ελλάδας - Κύπρου για το 2022 που θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Τρίτη 8 Φεβρουαρίου και ώρα 20.00 - 21.00.

Putting sense into public spending and creating partnerships with the private sector - by Piotr Wołkowiński

The “click” came, when a public procurement  officer realised that her decisions could influence what her daughter ate at lunchtime in the school canteen.

Educational Ecosystems 360: Territories Connected for Equity

Educational Ecosystems 360: Territories Connected for Equity is the title of the Annual Workshop of the Education Alliance 360, which was held 5 February 2020 in Barcelona. The Education Alliance 360, spearheaded by the Provincial Council of Barcelona, the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Federation of Pedagogical Renovation Movements of Catalonia (FMRPC), reinforced its focus on improving equity and getting educational activity to “expand beyond” the school.