Networks and cities' news

EMBARKING ON THE GREEN TRANSITION

Over the next two years, the ten cities forming the URBACT In4Green network will collaborate to devise local solutions addressing the challenges of industrial transition

TechDiversity Unveils Integrated Approach to Urban Development and Tech Talent

On the 6th and 7th of March, the 2nd Transnational Network Meeting of "TechDiversity – Diversity and Inclusion in Knowledge-based Digital and Tech Ecosystems" took place in Amarante, Portugal.

How can Varberg become the number one city for young talent?

URBACT Local Group meeting in Varberg, Sweden

Archethics | The Baseline Study and the Network Roadmap

The Baseline Study and the Network Roadmap of ARCHETHICS (written during the activation stage of ARCHETHICS - URBACT Action Planning Network - June - December 2023) aims at guiding partner cities in a depth and productive exchange and learning at Network and local level in the next two project years (2024-2025). 

Ideas and possibilities for the revitalisation of a postindustrial site

The FEMACT-Cities Action Planning Network: Addressing the implementation gap in gender equality policy

Why are we still talking about gender equality?

2024 will mark the 25 year anniversary of the Pact of Amsterdam, the legal document which made gender equality compulsory in the European Union. But even before that, gender equality policy had been enacted on national and regional levels in the member states. So why are we still talking about gender equality?

Haven‘t we moved beyond this topic yet?

Unfortunately, the reality is that not only haven‘t we closed the gap between men and women in wages, pensions, school achievement, participation in STEM fields, number of political representatives, and many other topics, in fact, recent data from the European Institute on Gender Equality (EIGE) shows that progress on gender equality in the EU-27 stalled or was in some places even negative between 2019 and 2022, due largely in part to the gendered effects of the pandemic.