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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    Gender equality, climate change and transportation

    What is equality in transport and mobility? According to Christian Dymén, researcher and consultant at Trivector, it is the equal possibility to influence the planning process and the power to choose between different modes of transportation. However, this is not just a question about equality between men and women, if we do not change the current transport behavior, the emissions from the transport sector will continue to damage our environment. So, in addition to the question mentioned: How can mobility become more equal and at the same time, more sustainable?

    Elisabeth Lind

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  • Capizzi (IT): Performing volunteering and solidarity activities in an organised manner. Part 2:The multiplier effect and the indirect transfer results

    How the process of transferring a good practice from the Lead partner to the partner cities has triggered an unpredictable multiplier effect, generating a series of best practices that today, thanks to the URBACT methodology, animate the  social fabric of a peripheral mountain town like Capizzi.

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  • Mobility at the margins

    Outside of Europe research confirms that women continue to be one of the most exposed groups in mobility and transport, creating barriers in their everyday life. This can be demonstrated by the example of domestic workers in Bogotá, Medellín and São Paulo presented by Harvard Doctor of Juridical Science, Valentina Montoya Robledo.

    Elisabeth Lind

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  • Gender-related perspectives and attitudes towards transport issues

    Description de poste stagiaire pôle projets

    Elisabeth Lind

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  • Save The Date...

    Do you want to know how public spend can help building stronger communities?

    Alison Taylor

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  • Making Spend Matter

    "Instead of looking to attract wealth through inward investment, we started to think about the wealth we already had at our disposal and building and harnessing that wealth for the benefit of our communities", Councillor Brown, Preston (UK)

    Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson, Network Expert for Making Spend Matter talks to key figures in Preston City Council to find out how they are changing the way procurement works in Lancashire.    

    Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson

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