Networks and cities' news

While you were designing your city logo, they built an entire city from scratch

Adrian Docea gives cities a long overdue wake up call, suggesting they take a leaf out of the private sector to build their brands before it’s too late.

He says: ‘We’re completely out of time. Europe needs to speed up or we will lose the global battle for attracting investors, tourists, students, ‘startupers’ and the best engineers, inventors and creative minds out there. We’re too slow, too conservative, way too relaxed about our future. Meanwhile the whole world is changing.’

Naples’ Urban Civic Communities

By Nicola Masella

Conferring a greater social value to the historical municipal assets by promoting open and inclusive management schemes

BLUACT: Why the Blue Economy is an increasing sea of opportunity

A report by Darinka Czischke, Conor Moloney and Catalina Turcu

INT-HERIT Road towards an Operational Implementation Plan

A compendium of two videos released in the past weeks about the last transnational meetings by INT-HERIT.

WORKING SESSION OF ULG BARCELONA: EXPLORING CONNECTIONS AMONG ACTIONS.

By Sebastià Riutort (Barcelona, Lead Partner of the URBinclusion network). Integrated approach is one of the URBACT challenges of Implementation Networks (IN). The Guidelines that deal with this issue suggest some tools or methodologies that have the intention to get IN-members think about integration. Within the ULG of Barcelona we discussed about the synergies and interactions of the 7 actions which are part of the Implementation Plan.

Social media to strengthen local commerce: The case of the Semaest in Paris

Foram aprovadas, pelo Comité de Monitorização URBACT, 23 Redes de Planeamento de Ação, as quais envolvem 26 países e 203 parceiros. A decisão teve lugar no dia 25 de junho de 2019, na reunião realizada em Alba Iulia. Com a aprovação destas redes, concluem-se os procedimentos concursais no âmbito do URBACT III.