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The Story of Altena in Four Brief Chapters

Sit back and listen to Altenas Mayor Dr. Andreas Hollstein talking about Altena's way in demographic and structural change.

Tackling Urban Poverty in Bari

The City of Bari joined the Com.Unity.Lab Urbact network to be inspired by the Bip/Zip program to improve its local strategy. In this interview Vitandrea Marzano from the City of Bari explains to us what are the key priorities in the city and how they are developing collaborative strategies to tackle urban poverty.

City of Pardubice Inspired by Innovative Know-how in the UK

Pardubice has become a successful candidate and joined the TechRevolution project under URBACT III operational programme. The project will help to find solutions in the digital and creative industries. TechRevolution project leader is an English town Barnsley, which has selected its closest partners for the first stage of the project: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, and Pardubice, The Czech Republic.

The project aims at small and medium-size industrial municipalities interested in high-tech initiatives, focusing on the establishment and sustainability of business incubators, creative hubs or start-ups, regardless of the stage of preparation or development of the local innovative environment.

The Educational Innovation Network towards the Localization of the Sustainable Development Goals

Last month, the Third Report on "Local Governments and the Location of the Sustainable Development Goals", elaborated by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), was presented in New York at the High Level Political Forum of the United Nations.

Transfer test of the good practice: the Murcia meeting

By Loris Gherra

As the concept of “Lean Design Methodology for innovation” was the focus of the kick-off meeting in Paris, last February, the aim of Murcia meeting, held at the beginning of June, was to support the Innovato-R partner cities to get clear about the transfer of the good practices and about how to proceed with the testing of their local implementation.

Urban Agriculture is the center of attention of the National Rural Network Magazine

The Italian National Rural Network magazine dedicates an entire issue to urban gardens, The silent revolution of the hoe, with an article on the urban garden Parco Ort9 Sergio Albani in Rome which is managed by the Association Vivere in…, a very active member of the ULG (Urbact Local Group) of Rome.