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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    Naples’ Urban Civic Communities

    By Nicola Masella

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

    Massimiliano Rumignani

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  • The role of cities in Smart Specialisation. URBACT IN FOCUS FINAL CONFERENCE

    The URBACT IN FOCUS Final Conference took take place on April 19, 2018 in Bilbao. This event was the perfect framework for celebrating the results of the IN FOCUS project, in which 10 European cities have worked as a network over 30 months for the promotion of local economic development from smart specialisation and city-region articulation in RIS3.

    slopez

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  • 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.

    Antonio Zafra

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  • 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.

    Massimiliano Rumignani

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  • Local and international initiatives in Timisoara

    By Angela Ciupa-Red

    Timisoara recently organized two relevant activities in the Kuncz neighbourhood, the area targeted by the URBinclusion project. Both activities were closely related to our project activities.

    Massimiliano Rumignani

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  • Attractiveness. City´s internationalisation pathway to smart growth

    How cities are marketed as business and innovation ecosystems? This was the main theme of the URBACT IN FOCUS Transnational Workshop held in Grenoble from February 7 to 9, 2018, where we had the opportunity to discuss on marketing the city as a business location, with a central question to discuss: How to take advantage from the concept of smart specialisation to improve and give more direction when branding and communicating the city as a business environment and innovation ecosystem.

    slopez

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