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Barnsley College becomes Regional Partner of Sheffield Digital

Last year Barnsley College launched an ambitious three-tiered digital transformation strategy designed to improve the digital skills of local communities, transform the college’s infrastructure and facilities, and close the region’s digital skills gap.

Digital Media Centre expansion will lead to over 100 digital jobs

Following significant growth in the last three years, the Barnsley Digital Media Centre (DMC 01) is kicking off its expansion with the creation of DMC 02 which will help to create over 100 digitally skilled jobs in the local economy.

10 Good Habits meeting place at United in Oskarström

In Oskarström, local stakeholders will work with 10 Good Habits and Emotions as a common ground. Three schools and nine preschools will start this health promotion effort during the spring term of 2020. The 10 Good Habits project, enriched with some ideas from the Viladecans Emotions project, has been the result of the exchange & learnings within the ON BOARD project.

Why do we need change in public institutions?

Sharing results on pilot tests was the main focus of the Cluj-Napoca meeting held on February 6th, 7th, 2020

The Hague shares the dutch experience on Com.Unity.Lab

The City of The Hague joined the Com.Unity.Lab URBACT Network in Phase 2 of the Transfer Network to share its experience with Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) and be inspired by the BIP/ZIP strategy of Lisbon in order to improve the local strategy. During the Transnational Meeting in The Hague, on October 9th and 10^th, the focus was on CLLD – the fourth tool from the Lisbon toolbox. The network partners paid visits to several projects that were realized by the foundation Stichting Initiatief op Scheveningen and the foundation and a representative of one of the funded projects shared with the project partners the workings of CLLD in their context, the challenges, and the importance of continuation with this form of citizen engagement.  Sam Hurulean, from The Hague team, shared part of the dutch experience, future plans and expectations.

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A focus on Barcelona's Community Balance: a protocol for the granting process and evaluation of the Citizen Assets

The Citizen Assets Program develops a series of criteria and principles that define what we conceive by community management and use. These criteria should allow us to define, evaluate and justify associations and projects that are dealing with a social, open and participative use of collective resources, managed democratically and communally to pursue the common good.

by Albert Martín i Gómez