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Anykščiai: Healthy Through Culture

In 2019, the Municipality of Anykščiai District joined the URBACT “Healthy Cities” network. It was the first time the Municipality had become part of such an extensive network, intended for the acquaintance with the specific aspects of different countries, their issues, achievements and aspirations, as well as opportunities to gain valuable experience shared by all members and thus create a model of a Healthy City.

Lexit boosts safe tourism, business amid COVID-19 pandemic

After human life and businesses being severely affected by the massive outbreak of coronavirus in Finland, as elsewhere in the world, the Lexit Project in Lapland is trying to remedy the situation through reducing the adverse impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and service sectors by ensuring safety measures.

Seeing rethinking infrastructure as an opportunity

Infrastructure needs to take care not only about its efficiency, but also about its relationship and impact on surrounding communities and territories. In doing so, great chances for sustainable urban development can arise, and RiConnect aims to seize such opportunities by gathering diverse stakeholders and assessing interventions

An unexpected but welcome result of the transfer process in Rybnik. The real impact of the ALT/BAU project on shaping the housing policy in Rybnik.

Artur Gliwicki reports on an unexpected but very welcome side effect of the ALT/BAU network in Rybnik.

When on 9 July 2020 we sat down to the next ULG online meeting, we couldn’t realize how crucial our webinar would be. Who would have thought that three months later Rybnik’s model of housing policy would undergo such a significant transformation?

Why is rethinking infrastructure important?

RiConnect aims to rethink mobility infrastructure, and to do so, it is important to acknowledge the relevance of the challenges we are facing. Mobility causes a wide array of nuisances in our metropolises, such as pollution or car dominance, yet solutions to these issues need to tackle not only mobility, but also its infrastructure.

From Manchester to Mantova: A ULG Success Story

As the Lead Partner on both a Transfer Network and an Action Planning Network, the city of Manchester is sharing its knowledge and experience across its two URBACT networks. Having started C-Change in December 2018, the C-Change partners are well placed to transfer their learning to support the ZCC network. This was the case when the URBACT Local Group (ULG) coordinator from the City of Mantova was invited to present at the recent Zero Carbon Cities (ZCC) virtual transnational meeting.