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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    Do you know how to inventory and monitor your vacant buildings and flats in your city?

    This was the key question the participants of the ALT/BAU meeting in Riga, June 2019 tried to answer. Together they exchanged and discussed their practices and solutions.
    ALT/BAU Lead Expert Nils Scheffler and Martin Neubert, in charge of the ALT/BAU network, give you an overview.

    Nils Scheffler

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  • Do you have the answers how to activate and motivate owners and potentials investors to reactivate vacant buildings?

    The participating cities of the URBACT ALT/BAU network now have a few answers to these questions. During the Transnational meeting in Constanta, 18-19.09.2019, the participants exchanged their experiences about activating and supporting owners and potentials investors for the reactivation of vacant buildings and developed jointly approaches that they want to apply in the future.
    ALT/BAU Lead Expert Nils Scheffler and Martin Neubert, in charge of the ALT/BAU network give you an overview.

    Nils Scheffler

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  • You want to reactivate vacant buildings in your city? Start an ‘Alternative Building Activation Unit’!

    This was the key answer and lesson learnt from the ALT/BAU partners about Chemnitz URBACT good-practice “CityLiving agency”.
    ALT/BAU Lead Expert Nils Scheffler and Martin Neubert, in charge of Chemnitz's good-practice, the "CityLiving agency' tell you more about it. 

    Nils Scheffler

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  • URBACT and the UK cities

    A message about URBACT beneficiaries and experts from the UK.

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  • It’s all about MARKETING!

    Do you know how you can support the reactivation of vacant buildings through marketing, promotion and communication activities?

    The partners of the ALT/BAU network have found the following solutions.

    Nils Scheffler

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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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