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Spaces for smart specialisation: spaces and places where smart specialisation takes shape

The urban economy is changing, and so are the locational needs for companies and workers. How can cities cope with this? URBACT IN FOCUS partners reflected on the development of new workspaces and places, in the context of smart specialisation strategies of cities and regions during the Transnational Workshop held in Bordeaux from 22-24 November 2017.

AGRI-URBAN LEGACY

AGRI-URBAN has arrived to the end of its implementation in the frame of the URBACT Programme.

This last article is the summary of two texts included in the final publications produced by experts and partners of this Project and offers an overview of the itinerary followed during the past 30 months.

We kindly invite you to read the set of publications and videos created and particularly to benefit from the Integrated Action Plans approved by the eleven cities involved in AGRI-URBAN. All documents and videos are accessible on this website and the YouTube project page.

CityMobilNet at the 5th European Conference on Sustainable Mobility Plans

Right now, the 14th and 15th of May 2018, the international community of sustainable urban mobility experts, policy makers, scientists and practitioners is gathering in Nicosia, Cyprus for the 5th edition of the European Conferene on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. About 500 persons are discussing the latest developments and innovations as well as the experiences gathered and collected from first and second stage plan development. CityMobilNet is proud to be part of it!

Lyon Metropolis context and social strategy

This is not the end!

On 11-13 April the Interactive Cities final conference was held in Genoa to showcase the potential and challenges of social media and digital tools experimented at local level. Cities involved in the network also decided to continue the work together in the coming years through a Eurocities Task Force on Digital Citizenship. The conference comprised workshops to present the Integrated Action Plans (IAPs), developed at local level, presentations by guests specialised in various aspects, site visits and public debates.

(Non) conference of socially innovative cities

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Boosting Social Innovation - an URBACT  project has been summarized in Gdansk.
In Paris - the Olympic Citizens' Budget, in Milan - the fourth industrial revolution, in Wroclaw - the shaping of commercial streets in the city together with residents.

The goal of all these initiatives is the same: to stimulate social innovation. 10 cities in Europe are summarized by the BoostINNO project, whose Gdansk is the leader.
The BoostINNO project is about to end, in which, for 2.5 years, representatives of ten European cities worked on developing the subject of social innovation. Social innovation is a philosophy of changing the way a city is managed, in which the role of power is no longer planning and managing the implementation of plans but co-designing the future and introducing innovative changes with the participation of residents.

It is them who, as people who know their nearest surroundings, have to change the city for the better - from the inside. The city's authorities and administration are to help them, encourage them and support them. In short, the local government is to be a broker of social innovation. The event summarizing the project is not accidental in Gdansk (on April 11 - 13), because it is the city, and precisely the Department of Social Development of the Gdansk municipality is the leader of BoostINNO.