Networks and cities' news

Enabling co-governance in a post-communist city: Iași Transfer Story

As “learning city” of Civic State Transfer Network, Iași was motivated to see the good practices of the mature cities – like Naples, Barcelona and Gdansk – on participative approaches and understand how these could be adapted in the local context to better use the local urban goods, by involving actors of the local community in the process. For Iași, commoning and urban commons are quite an innovative approach to governance, being the first time the city is facing this kind of challenge.

Visions from the City Representatives - Milen Dulev, Mayor of Belene (BG) by Lead Expert Miguel Rivas

Heritage-led urban regeneration involves major urban projects requiring significant investment. Political backing and direction are therefore key to attract resources and align necessary contributors and stakeholders.

This is a series of short interviews conducted by KAIRÓS lead expert and TASO principal Miguel Rivas with Mayors and elected representatives from the URBACT network KAIRÓS Heritage as Urban Regeneration.

Tropa Verde in Nice (Transfer Story)

Tropa Verde, Covid and Alex: is it a “nice” transfer story in Nice?

L. O. Story - Not yet the Chemnitz Transfer Story

The ALT/BAU transfer does not only take place on a European level and not only in big cities. Parallel to the Housing Agency receiving the URBACT Good Practice Award 2017 and the start of the ALT/BAU Transfer Network's work since 2018, the Housing Agency's methods were adapted in the neighbouring city of Chemnitz, Limbach-Oberfrohna. (For marketing reasons often called L.O.)

How to be a Volunteer? - A Transfer Story from Arcos de Valdevez

In 2018 our Municipality joined the network of transferring good volunteering practices. It should be noted that the Municipality of Athienou is a lead partner of this Volunteer Network, of which Arcos de Valdevez is already part, as well as municipalities in countries such as Poland, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Croatia and Italy.

Altena - A Transfer Story

Our starting point: We had already a working volunteering base, the STELLWERK and we also had some great projects which are going on in Altena, but we have one really big problem we need new and young people for our volunteering actions.

It was and still is a great chance to be a part of the transfer network from Urbact “Volunteering Cities” and learn from the lead partner and the other cities what we could do, to get more volunteers into the STELLWERK.