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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    Impacts of Green Spaces on Physical and Mental Health - Thematic Report

    The first thematic report of the Health&Greenspace report is ready!

    The report gives you an overview of the general context of how green spaces effect mental and physical health and was put together by top experts in their field. Have a look!

    Viktoria Soos

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  • RU:RBAN participates in the 2020 Sustainable Development Festival

    The Sustainable Development Festival (22 September-8 October 2020) is the largest Italian initiative to raise awareness and mobilize citizens, businesses, associations and institutions on the issues of economic, social and environmental sustainability, and to achieve a cultural and political change that will favour the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.     https://festivalsvilupposostenibile.it/2020

    Patricia Hernandez

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  • Vilnius shares its very own gardening guide and its Ideas Garden

    It is known to all that Lithuania is one of the greenest countries in Europe and its capital city, Vilnius, one of the greenest city in Europe with 46% of the territory dedicated to green space: parks, squares and forests. Thanks to RU:RBAN and the city’s ULG (Urbact Local Group), the number of urban vegetable gardens is growing rapidly as a new phenomenon embraced by citizens and included as a sustainable tool within the city’s urban development policies.

    Patricia Hernandez

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  • ACTive NGOs partners meet virtually in a seminar in Espoo

    The partners of the project “Riga NGO House - Platform for Cooperation between Non-Governmental Organizations and Municipalities” (ACTive NGOs) met this time in a virtual environment and shared their experience during the international seminar. The fourth seminar of the project was dedicated to getting to know more about the situation in the Finnish partner city of Espoo.

    z.biteniece

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  • Nantes Transfer Story

    “My interest to be involved in this project is to have the opportunity to meet people we know exist but don’t have the opportunity to meet, and then together be innovative joining our efforts towards a common goal”, says Fabienne Affilé Headmaster of Pre-school Henri Bergson in the South District of Nantes.

    s.mendez

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  • Scoping a circular ecosystem, lessons by the city of The Hague!

    On Thursday the 10th of September the Resourceful Cities network had its first City2City session in which the City of The Hague presented how they are scoping a circular ecosystem.

    Esmée Dijt

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