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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    Breda is becoming a city in the park by 2030: this is how!

    Breda (NL) wants to be the first European city in 2030 to be a city in a park. However, in order to realize this ambition, concrete measures will have to be taken. These can be read in the new ‘Groenkompas’ (Green Compass). It explains, among other things, how streets must always be ten percent greener when renovating, how at least 20 percent of the new neighborhood must be public green in the case of new construction and which new parks Breda will become richer in the coming years.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • The power of short food supply chains: shortening distances to reduce uncertainty

    On the occasion of the Transnational Meeting of 25 June, the Union of Bassa Romagna Municipalities presented the first Digital Study Visit focused on the thematic priority "short food supply chains” to the project partners. The study visit involved Campagna Amica, a reference point for Italian agriculture and represented an opportunity to tell a virtuous example of food sustainability in Bassa Romagna to the Food Corridors network.

    Vera Lopes

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  • Thematic Workshop on Attractiveness - Re-imagining the heritage city: from local identity to destination marketing

    The third event in our series of thematic workshops which took place on 29 and 30 June 2021 was dedicated to the theme of “attractiveness”, one of the five pillars of the KAIRÓS project.

    Dorothee Fischer

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  • KAIRÓS THEMATIC WARM-UP#2 by ad-hoc expert Matthias Ripp

    The second KAIRÓS warm-up webinar showed the potential and role of community involvement in heritage-based urban regeneration and how this is connected to urban resilience and sustainability.

    Dorothee Fischer

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  • KAIRÓS THEMATIC WARM-UP#1 by ad-hoc expert Matthias Ripp

    The online meeting showed common challenges and potential of cultural heritage for urban development and regeneration.

    Dorothee Fischer

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  • Future Agencies - the ALT/BAU offspring

    The famous ALT/BAU babies are not the only offspring of the ALT/BAU Transfer Network. In the ALT/BAU network, the aim was to transfer the URBACT Good Practice from Chemnitz - the Housing Agency for shrinking cities- to the network partner cities and to adapt its methods to the local conditions. Along the way, our partners in Riga and Turin came to the realization that setting up an agency as such was not way to go in their contexts. But four partners founded or are founding an agency similar to the one in Chemnitz. Here the transfer becomes really tangible.

    sabine.hausmann

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