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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  • RiConnect themes: Rethinking for integrating the infrastructure

    How to physically integrate the infrastructure? The goal of our second theme is to ensure that mobility infrastructure is accessible, surrounded by active spaces and without leftover areas. 

    Stela Salinas

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  • A virtual feast! Closing loops in local food systems

    URBinclusion is focused on the implementation of new solutions to address poverty and social exclusion challenges in the partner cities.

    Esmée Dijt

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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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  • RiConnect themes: Rethinking for reorganising how we move

    "Rethinking for reorganising how we move" is one of the four themes RiConnect develops. In this theme, the network is aiming to integrate all mobility modes and favour a more sustainable and equitable mobility. 

    Stela Salinas

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  • Aarhus: an innovative approach to music for social change

    In Aarhus, over the past few years, URBACT OnStage has made it possible to create an innovative methodology that uses music to teach children how to support and include each other and through storytelling and gamification. Learn more in the city's latest post for the project website.

    c.salido

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  • Another way of looking at Plasencia

    People in Plasencia are very proud of their medieval and renaissance heritage, the main protagonists of the city. But the weight of the medieval architecture often makes modern, residential buildings unnoticed. "We know the heritage buildings, but we do not know the normal residential buildings, in which we have seen all our lives". Let’s see how locals engaged with their own heritage in Plasencia!

    Adrienn Lorincz

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