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ON BOARD visits Tallinn

Along the first week of December, 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th, Tallinn (Estonia) hosted the fourth Transnational Meeting. The six ON BOARD cities gathered once again to work with different stakeholders and exchange the advances in the transference of their Education Innovation Networks.

The importance of defining the collaboration structure and communicating in the case of public-civil partnership –Platform for Lazareti

For the last year and a half, Platform for Lazareti and Youth Center in Dubrovnik were working on establishing community centers based on the civil-public partnership. It was at the same time hard work on bettering the communication and decision-making protocols and processes between the NGOs associated with the platforms but also hard work in building trust and relationship with the representatives of the City of Dubrovnik. For now, both of the cases are successful examples, and a part of it is  due to the knowledge they've received during the „Active NGOs“ project and collaboration with the URBACT lead and ad-hoc experts. Ana Cvjetkovic from the Platform for Lazareti tells us about the main goals, accomplishments, and obstacles and gives us an invaluable insight in what is one of the most intense processes of organizational development and decision-making.

A collection of useful Covid-19 resources from the Playful Paradigm network cities

Useful and playful ideas to fill this period while locked at home.

Play and Public Procurement

by Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson, AD-Hoc Expert for Playful Paradigm | Services and activities require Municipalities to buy goods, services and works through the process of Public Procurement, historically viewed as very bureaucratic and technical. How can we procure goods, services and works for Play and Games in a more efficient, effective and playful manner?

Strengthening Naples' Urban Commons network

The Neapolitan experience of commons started approximately 8 years ago, but much can still be done to empower and broaden citizen participation. A recap of the actions designed by Naples' URBACT Local Group inside the Civic eState project

Words by Roberta Nicchia, URBACT Local Group Coordinator, City of Naples

Public Procurement during and post COVID-19

The world of public procurement has increasingly changed over the past 6 years as shown by the European Commission, with its updated procurement requirements detailed in the 2014 EU Procurement Directives. However, the scale of the challenges commissioners and procurers are facing at local and city levels are still considerable when it comes to changing their culture, behaviour and practice in order to undertake procurement in a more efficient and effective way.