Networks and cities' news

Thinking and Acting ‘Green’: How the concern for our climate and the environment helps to galvanise urban CSR-Action

Our current URBACT Action Planning Networks are now moving into full gear. After two years of development, and despite the serious difficulties all municipalities and stakeholders have been facing during the disruptive Covid-19 pandemic, transnational and local action intensifies markedly. This is certainly true for our CITIES4CSR network; the first URBACT-network aiming to create a rich toolbox for civic leaders and administrators in order to engage with local businesses, non-profits and citizens under the ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’-umbrella. On top of the ‘to-do’-lists for our ten partner cities you will find the lesson-drawing from our Small Scale Actions (SSA) and translating these findings directly into local action planning for the Integrated Action Plans (IAP). Yet, which topics have been chosen by the Urban Local Groups that have had the power to not just stimulate interest but truly galvanise SSA-action and cooperation?

What's going on with Playful Paradigm II ?

If you want to get the knowledge of the starting steps of Playful Paradigm II Transfer Network, have a look at the first quarterly report presented here

Visual 1st Quarterly report of Playful Paradigm II

Ventspils works in the field of digital transformation

Ventspils works in the field of digital transformation

Funding actions and monitoring implementation - key focus points of our action oriented 5th transnational meeting

By Eileen Crowley, Lead Expert of Resourceful Cities

It was great to catch up with all our wonderful partners during the 5^th transnational meeting of our Resourceful Cities network which took place online,  on 28^th & 29^th June. This meeting focussed on the topics of funding & resourcing our Integrated Action Plans (IAP) and on developing a monitoring and risk assessment framework.

Getting to know each other: our City Visits

Between August and September, The Lead Partner's Team had the chance to visit the BioCanteens #2 Partners in their cities: Evora (PT), Wroclaw (PO), Gavà (ES), and Liège (BE). City Visits allowed us to get a bite of the reality of the territory, the political implication, the production and consumption patterns, and the functioning of the school procurement system. Most importantly, it gave us the chance to establish a relationship to perpetuate our fruitful collaboration for the next months.

With the following paragraphs, we want you to be part of our journey: sharing observations, places, and initiatives.

Vervoerregio Amsterdam

Our partner Vervoerregio Amsterdam Transport Authority connects 15 municipalities working together on a region where people and places are effectively connected so that everybody can easily reach their destination.