Networks and cities' news

Visiting French Toy Libraries: what’s at stake

An article by Ileana Toscano and Paola Amato

Toy Libraries were the focus of the Study Visit, organized in Paris and its surroundings on 1st and 2nd July 2019, by the Urbact Transfer Network “The Playful Paradigm”, a partnership of 8 EU cities leaded by the Municipality of Udine and aimed at adapting Udine’s Good Practice about games and gamification experience as tools for boosting a better urban governance and an innovative urban planning.

Re-growCity has got its first transfer success!

The ULG in Melgaço (Portugal) has made enormous strides towards adapting the pop-up shop practice from lead partner Altena (Germany).

The Transfer process behind the BeePathNet

We are well into the first third of the project and partners are busy with transferring Ljubljana's good practice in accordance with their plans. On a recent Boot camp meeting in Ljubljana, all partners started to work on their own bee paths which will be developed alongside different local stakeholders. We will hopefully soon see the first urban apiaries in Bydgoszcz and Nea Propontida to accompany the first activities in the bee paths' implementation.

But what is the actual process behind the transfer?

Japanese Academic Visits Altena

Altena’s reputation as a town that takes highly innovative actions to tackle long term decline has taken on a global dimension.

Open Plasencia will link buildings with stories and cultural actions

This year, on the occasion of the participation of Plasencia (Spain) in the " URBACT Come In! Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network", the "Open Night" is renamed "Open Plasencia" with the aim of expanding its field of action, integrating a good European practice originating in the city of Budapest, which seeks citizen participation and the valorization of heritage through the opening of residential buildings and the participation of neighbors sharing stories and experiences with their visitors.

ACTive NGOs at Football United

Tom Goodridge, Project Coordinator (Brighton, GB), took the opportunity to promote the ACTive NGOs project in the emerging community hub in the heart of Whitehawk, Whitehawk Football Club. It was the first of many community appearances the ULG team made over this summer and this special event did not disappoint.