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The unsung heroes of the ALT/BAU Transfer Network - we would like to thank...

As is so often the case and in so many companies, the ALT/BAU network also had students working as interns. We would like to thank them today for their valuable contributions. 

Gelsenkirchen's transfer story

Building a creative alliance for climate action – adapting the Manchester model in the heart of the Ruhr

Gelsenkirchen’s Urbact Transfer Story

By Susanne Dippel, Climate Action Manager, City of Gelsenkirchen and Stefanie Rogg, freelance Project Manager for the City of Gelsenkirchen

Agents of change - Agueda's transfer story

CREATIVE SPIRITS is a network of nine European cities, funded by the European Union in the frame of the URBACT III Programme. The nine CREATIVE SPIRITS partner cities have a common need to improve the implementation of their existing integrated urban strategies/action plans by including novel approaches linked to creative and cultural industries (CCI) – creative places, people and businesses. The joint policy challenge for the network is to better facilitate the above “creative ecosystem” to be able to attract (more) creative entrepreneurs and boost creative entrepreneurship in dedicated urban areas.

A CORUÑA TRANSFER STORY

Our starting points and ambitions

The most relevant starting-points for the Ru:rban implementation in Coruña were:

• The existence of a public initiative of the policy of urban gardens (top-down).
• The emerging interest of 4 different departments responsible for the city governance towards the strategic added value of Urban gardens (Environment, Culture and Education, Markets and Employment)
• Creation (in 2018) of 3 new public urban gardens in 3 different neighbourhoods and locations (112 plots in Agora, 75 in Eirís and 30 in Novo Mesoiro) and 3 plots for social integration projects in Carlos Casares Park.
• Existence of a public call for the selection of people who manage urban gardens and their conditions of use and a second call for the assignation of the three plots for social integration projects in Carlos Casares.
• Start-up of the urban garden monitors course (in 2018 and 2019).

KRAKOW TRANSFER STORY

That day the phones kept ringing. The e-mail inbox repeatedly informed me about new e-mails, of which there were more than 50 ... Invitations from the radio and TV to share more about the project that aroused such interest among the residents, that just three years ago would have been something unimaginable. All this was due to an article that appeared on our website which informed people about the start of a new project. The "Gardeniser +" project with Erasmus Plus which we invited residents to join. Without the RU:RBAN project all this would not have happened.

So much more than the IKEA quarter… Transfer story of Targówek, Warsaw

Few people are well acquainted with Targówek. In the minds of Warsaw residents, this district is rather described as: "a peripheral part of the city", "somewhere far beyond Praga", "I heard that the underground is supposed to be coming there - it's incredible!” or „Yeah, I know, I know. Sometimes, I go to IKEA there”. However, the district is inhabited by active residents, coming from diverse backgrounds, building unique neighbourhood communities, so often disappearing in other parts of the city.