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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    Shifting from Civic Management to Community Management: Barcelona Transfer Story

    Looking at the other cities of the network, Barcelona continued to work to support new forms of interaction between the public municipal institution and community citizen initiatives, based on the recognition of the right to public management and use of public resources by the people.

    Gregorio Turolla

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  • L. O. Story - Not yet the Chemnitz Transfer Story

    The ALT/BAU transfer does not only take place on a European level and not only in big cities. Parallel to the Housing Agency receiving the URBACT Good Practice Award 2017 and the start of the ALT/BAU Transfer Network's work since 2018, the Housing Agency's methods were adapted in the neighbouring city of Chemnitz, Limbach-Oberfrohna. (For marketing reasons often called L.O.)

    sabine.hausmann

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  • Nudging residents towards outdoor exercise facilities

    When the covid-19 pandemic in Espoo shut down all indoor sports facilities, ­­outdoor exercise facilities got more popular than ever. We were lucky – this was only possible because the City of Espoo has invested within the years heavily in outdoor exercise facilities as a part of its wellbeing strategy.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Enabling co-governance in a post-communist city: Iași Transfer Story

    As “learning city” of Civic State Transfer Network, Iași was motivated to see the good practices of the mature cities – like Naples, Barcelona and Gdansk – on participative approaches and understand how these could be adapted in the local context to better use the local urban goods, by involving actors of the local community in the process. For Iași, commoning and urban commons are quite an innovative approach to governance, being the first time the city is facing this kind of challenge.

    Gregorio Turolla

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  • Tropa Verde in Nice (Transfer Story)

    Tropa Verde, Covid and Alex: is it a “nice” transfer story in Nice?

    Christian Beade

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  • Young voices gathered at the Transnational Meeting 5 in Poznan

    After several months of preparation and dealing with a global situation that has changed many of the plans, the ON BOARDers have gathered. The fifth Transnational Meeting of the ON BOARD project arrives to Poznan. A host city that, this time, has opened its doors virtually.

    s.mendez

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