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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    Case study Prato: Circular reuse of industrial heritage

    In this third case study delivered by the URGE network, the city of Prato, shares their experiences with the circular reuse of industiral heritage at urban regeneration area 'Macrolotto 0'. 

    City of Utrecht

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  • ACTive NGOs network`s journey continues for building community spaces for cultivating local ecosystems

    The beginning of April has been marked with a reunion, celebration and a significant review moment for the participants of the URBACT project “Riga NGO House - platform for cooperation between non-governmental organizations and municipalities” (ACTive NGOs). On April 7 and 8, 2021 the project participants and other stakeholders met in a virtual environment during the international final event “ACTive NGOs: creating community spaces for the development of local ecosystems”. The project has come to an end, but the work is still going on and the partners can still continue developing the idea of an NGO House in their cities.

    z.biteniece

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  • An Armenian Hungarian guy from Romania and his URBACT transfer story

    When I was a child, my grandmother always told me a lot about being Armenian. It was weird to me because we lived and actually still live the same way as the Szekler majority in my town, Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni, Transylvania). Years passed and while I was organising the pilot festival as the ULG coordinator of the Come in! Transfer Network I realized that many residents hiddenly cope with the same duality.

    Adrienn Lorincz

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  • City video URGE: Kavala

    The fourth of a series of city videos of URGE - the URBACT Action Planning Network on the theme of Circular building cities.

    City of Utrecht

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  • Public Procurement, Covid-19, health inequalities, and Playful Paradigm

    by Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson, Ad-Hoc Expert for Playful Paradigm and Co-Trainer of the URBACT Online Course on Strategic Procurement

    CREAA

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  • RiConnect themes: Rethinking for adding ecosystem functions

    The continuity and proper functioning of the ecological metabolism is often interrupted by mobility infrastructure. Therefore, rethinking infrastructure can help both protect nature flows and add new ecosystem functions.

    Stela Salinas

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