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Newsletter nr. 9: Walk on a Bee Path and learn a city Bee Story

In the main article we invite you to learn more about our cities' Bee Paths, which showcase all of our efforts to make our cities bee and pollinator friendly. Walking the Bee Paths gives visitors a unique perspective into the lives of bees and how they affect our daily lives. Knowingly and unknowingly these effects are felt in every area. When you eat a simple meal, at least one part of the meal is on your plate thanks to our wonderful pollinators. When you take a walk outside and enjoy all nature has to offer, well the view would not be spectacular in the least without them. 

So if you are a citizen of a city or a tourist visiting somewhere, the glory of all that surrounds us, would be diminished without our friends the Bees, so read how you can learn more about them while visiting our Bee Paths in Amarante, Bydgoszcz, Cesena, Hegyvidek, Nea Propontida and Ljubljana.

Youth Lab: Green Shoots

YouthLab: Green Shoots is a collaborative and experimental project developed as part of the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art’s YouthLab programme. The project ran from December 2020 to March 2021 and has grown out of an earlier project, Greening the City, that was suspended in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. It explored how we can use collaborative action to enact change in our local neighbourhood, moving towards more sustainable practices and raising awareness of environmental issue. 

Transfer Story from the City of Radlin in Poland (Silesia Region)

Radlin is an urban commune in the district of Wodzisław, located in the Voivodship of Silesia in Poland, inhabited by 17 759 people, which is 11 % of the population of the Wodzisław County. Radlin as an industrial city is part of the Rybnik Agglomeration in the centre of the Western Subregion of Silesia Voivodship. One of the key challenges of the Radlin City is the demographic situation. A disturbing phenomenon is the change in the size of the individual age groups. In the period 2009-2019 the number of people in post-working age in Radlin increased by 28%, while decreasing of over 7% in the number of people in working age.

That’s why we entered the Volunteering Cities Project.

Webinar: International House - One-Stop-Shop

Leading European entities in regional talent attraction and retention have formed an alliance dedicated to go above and beyond in welcoming international talent and increase mobility between regions. As such frontrunners and thought leaders in regional talent attraction management will be collaborating and sharing best practices.

Retail Therapy

Helping local shop owners go digital in Saint Quentin.

Author : Nicolas Gibbe, project manager, Saint-Quentin City

Take a walk on any of the six Bee Paths

Meet the different bees that live on our Bee Paths!

If you like to enjoy your time and observe nature and all of its inhabitants, even some of the smallest ones like the bees, we will explain where to learn more about them in this article. To get started we invite you to take a walk on the six bee paths of the cities of Amarante, Bydgoszcz, Cesena, Hegyvidek, Nea Propontida and Ljubljana. Read some information about them or take a more detailed stroll along them in the attached documents in English or the local languages.