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'Volunteering Cities' a Powerful Model for European Cities

To develop the innovative policies necessary to face the currently emerging multidimensional social needs in cities such as elderly and children care, social isolation and depression, poverty, addiction, just to name some, it is necessary to create collective learning processes based on exchange and peer to peer learning.

Local and international initiatives in Timisoara

By Angela Ciupa-Red

Timisoara recently organized two relevant activities in the Kuncz neighbourhood, the area targeted by the URBinclusion project. Both activities were closely related to our project activities.

Give unused residential buildings a second chance!

Haven't you ever experienced this: You are in a city with beautiful old buildings and many of them are empty and dilapidated? And you ask why?

Many cities in Europe are facing this problem: vacant residential buildings (even in growing housing markets), which start to deteriorate and lose their function, even in inner city locations. This often is due to a shrinking population, suburbanisation processes or legal issues. Often older, outdated buildings are affected, which at the same time are important for the inner urban structure, the cityscape and identity of the city.

Food, Foo Fighters and a Forward Thinking Attitude, a success story from Cesena

CSI Europe Seville Local Action Plan Executive Summary

LE PESCHERIE DE GIULIO ROMANO IN MANTOVA. The INT-HERIT gaze.

CSI Europe Ancona Local Action Plan Executive Summary

Social enterprise might just be the Robin Hood we need right now

By Alicia Clyde and Ann Hyde

The legend of Robin Hood is world-renowned and has been at the centre of many Hollywood films.  The romantic idea that he stole from the rich to give to the poor has remained a consistent part of his story.  However, history books have always struggled to pin the truth of this legend down to one man doing good for the poor.