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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    Nudging residents towards outdoor exercise facilities

    When the covid-19 pandemic in Espoo shut down all indoor sports facilities, ­­outdoor exercise facilities got more popular than ever. We were lucky – this was only possible because the City of Espoo has invested within the years heavily in outdoor exercise facilities as a part of its wellbeing strategy.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • 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.

    Gregorio Turolla

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  • Tropa Verde in Nice (Transfer Story)

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

    Christian Beade

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  • Young voices gathered at the Transnational Meeting 5 in Poznan

    After several months of preparation and dealing with a global situation that has changed many of the plans, the ON BOARDers have gathered. The fifth Transnational Meeting of the ON BOARD project arrives to Poznan. A host city that, this time, has opened its doors virtually.

    s.mendez

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  • Families take the floor at the second sessions of Transnational Meeting 5 in Poznan

    Families as members of the local Educational Innovation Network. Why they are important and what they can do. Benefits of parental involvement in children’s learning process and school life seem to be widely proved. Parents who monitor their children homework, discuss learning difficulties with the teacher, take part in school projects and praise the child school achievements, positively impact on the results and educational success.

    s.mendez

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  • 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.

    s.georgiou

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