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Engaging SMEs to participate in public procurement: Koszalin’s Key Challenges

Statistics from the European Union, Poland and local analyses by the City of Koszalin demonstrate that still a low percentage of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises that dominate the economic landscape participate in public procurement. The reasons include low awareness on the part of entrepreneurs as well as complex and difficult public procurement law; these are the key challenges that we should seek answers to. 

How did BioCanteens good practice helped the LAG Pays des Condruses to involve its local elected representatives?

BioCanteens meeting as a stepping stone for Pays des Condruses’s food governance:

Lublin: A Municipality co-designing a long-term Local Strategy with local and European stakeholders

“Mapping, mapping and one more time: mapping!” Data collection, interpretation and use has become one of the most important needs in Lublin. Not only Lisbon Strategy – an URBACT Good Practice to be adapted within the framework of Com.unity.Lab – can help this enchanting eastern city of Poland to develop a more meaningful and integrated ”Lublin 2030 Strategy”, but also the experiences from other cities involved in this Transfer Network… Even local stakeholders like Lubelska Grupa Badawcza (that we interviewed in situ) have a crucial role towards a more participatory city. At least this is the opinion of Anna Szadkowska and Magdelena Gnyp-Scigocka, experts in the Municipality Social Participation Office and coordinators of Com.Unity.Lab in Lublin.

How to harvest the community impact within urban policies? – lessons learnt from the Come in! Masterclass Event Part II.

The main goal of the Come in! Talking Houses/ Shared Stories Masterclass weekend was to enable partners to get to know the Budapest100 Festival, in order to make use of this knowledge in the future. So what kinds of benefits do participating cities get?

INT-HERIT, AN IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT

Travel Diary

INT-HERIT is a network of cities that share and learn together in the implementation scenario of their cultural heritage management strategies. A type of methodology poorly known and tested for the first time by the URBACT Programme. Both for URBACT and for the other actors involved (cities, experts, interested parties...) it was an unknown landscape. What has happened along the way, what lessons are drawn from the INT-HERIT network, especially from the eyes of a navigator placed in the internal team of the Leading Partner of the Consortium? A journey in several steps from handwritten notes in the travel notebook...

How to harvest the community impact within urban policies? – lessons learnt from the Come in! Masterclass Event Part I.

Organising a community-led festival along the main principles of the good practise “Budapest100” is the task for Come in! partner cities. Organising the festival whilst applying co-creation techniques with both volunteers and residents and thus sharing ownership is the goal. The challenge for partner cities is how to accelerate the community impact generated by the good practice in other policy fields.