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Playful approach and games: new ways to foster civic engagement in cities

An article written by Ileana Toscano, Urban specialist and Community engagement expert and Lead expert of the Playful Paradigm Transfer Network

Youth Lab: Green Shoots

YouthLab: Green Shoots is a collaborative and experimental project developed as part of the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art’s YouthLab programme. The project ran from December 2020 to March 2021 and has grown out of an earlier project, Greening the City, that was suspended in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. It explored how we can use collaborative action to enact change in our local neighbourhood, moving towards more sustainable practices and raising awareness of environmental issue. 

Transfer Story from the City of Radlin in Poland (Silesia Region)

Radlin is an urban commune in the district of Wodzisław, located in the Voivodship of Silesia in Poland, inhabited by 17 759 people, which is 11 % of the population of the Wodzisław County. Radlin as an industrial city is part of the Rybnik Agglomeration in the centre of the Western Subregion of Silesia Voivodship. One of the key challenges of the Radlin City is the demographic situation. A disturbing phenomenon is the change in the size of the individual age groups. In the period 2009-2019 the number of people in post-working age in Radlin increased by 28%, while decreasing of over 7% in the number of people in working age.

That’s why we entered the Volunteering Cities Project.

Shifting from Civic Management to Community Management: Barcelona Transfer Story

Looking at the other cities of the network, Barcelona continued to work to support new forms of interaction between the public municipal institution and community citizen initiatives, based on the recognition of the right to public management and use of public resources by the people.

Webinar: International House - One-Stop-Shop

Leading European entities in regional talent attraction and retention have formed an alliance dedicated to go above and beyond in welcoming international talent and increase mobility between regions. As such frontrunners and thought leaders in regional talent attraction management will be collaborating and sharing best practices.

Retail Therapy

Helping local shop owners go digital in Saint Quentin.

Author : Nicolas Gibbe, project manager, Saint-Quentin City