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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  • Veszprém , Hungary - Wildflower cities

    BiodiverCity Steps Forward: local action and peer learning take centre stage

    Between January and March 2025, the BiodiverCity network may have appeared quiet on the transnational front, but beneath the surface, partner cities were buzzing with activity. Following the inspiring Mid Term Review in Guimarães (later crowned European Green Capital 2026) the network shifted its focus to local implementation and refinement of strategies for biodiversity-friendly urban development.

    Ferenc Szigeti-Böröcz

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  • A Table for All: Veszprém’s Long Table Picnic and Biodiversity Festival 2025

    On 22 June, the heart of Veszprém transformed into a celebration of nature, community, and conviviality as the city hosted its Long Table Picnic and Biodiversity Festival – a flagship event in Hungary’s European Capital of Culture legacy and a proud initiative of the URBACT-awarded “BiodiverCity” project.

     

    András Merza

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  • Discover what’s new in MetaCity – Quarterly Report No. 6 is out!

    Michaela.Gil

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  • Virtual tour of Arta municipal museum with the city digital twin, from the ISI Patras Testing Action

    Testing for the urban metaverse: highlights from the Testing Actions of the METACITY network

    By Eurico Neves, Lead Expert of the METACITY URBACT APN project, Chairperson of INOVA+ S.A.

    Eurico Neves

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  • First ULG meeting in Újbuda

    The importance of ULGs in the RECUP project

    What are ULGs? Why do we need them? We introduce one of the key elements of the RECUP project, the local stakeholder groups that provide the basis of the work and the most insight in every city’s progress.  

    Fanni Kosztolányi

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  • BiodiverCity: Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe with legal personhood and rights

    Mar Menor, the „small sea”, is not small at all, and it is very different from the Mediterranean Sea, the “Mar Mayor” (the “greater sea”). Mar Menor is the biggest coastal saltwater lagoon in the Iberian Peninsula, located near Cartagena, and La Manga del Mar Menor, occupying most of the 22 km long sandbar separating the lagoon from the sea, is one of the biggest tourist complexes of the so-called Costa Cálida. But Mar Menor has gained worldwide attention recently as the first place in Europe where a complex ecosystem has received legal personhood based on civic activism, following examples in New Zealand, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.

    Can it be the new standard of nature protection? Read the full Case Study of the BiodiverCity URBACT network, prepared based on its network meeting in Cieza, Spain, on 25-27 March 2025

    Ferenc Szigeti-Böröcz

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