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From planning to action: Beyond the Urban partners publish their Integrated Action Plans for sustainable urban–rural mobility

Beyond the Urban is a URBACT network of ten territories across Europe. Cities, regions and rural areas working together to rethink how people move —between villages and cities, to work, to school, to services— with sustainability, inclusion and digital tools at the core. Led by Osona, Beyond the Urban has been a shared journey of learning, testing and planning a new kind of urban–rural mobility.

Who is the remote worker?

Remote work is no longer a niche privilege for a small group of professionals. It has become a structural feature of European labour markets and of how people choose where to live, work, and raise families. For cities, this shift is not only about broadband and coworking spaces; it is fundamentally about people, a growing and increasingly diverse population of residents, commuters, visitors and temporary locals who work remotely.

We drew on European data and research, but as well on the experience of the eight cities in the Remote-IT network - Dubrovnik, Brindisi, Bucharest District 6, Câmara de Lobos, Heraklion, Murcia, Tartu and Tirana - which have spent the last 2.5 years experimenting with policies and pilot actions around remote and hybrid work.

Surfing the Wave of Digitalisation

How to tackle digital exclusion at local level

It is well known that water and electronics don’t mix. So why are we talking about surfing and digital in the same sentence? Surely that sounds like a bad idea..?!

Ride the wave with me for a few minutes and I will explain…

Over the last 2.5 years, the Digi-inclusion network, a group of nine cities and other authorities and agencies, have been working to answer the question of how we tackle the digital divide at local level. One of the most important things to come from this network, was a new way of looking at the digital divide at local level. This starts with the concept of “The Wave of Digitalisation”. 

“What is that and how does it help the digital divide?” you might ask. It’s a good question. 

Please don’t stop the music! How Cities After Dark is keeping the lights on the night

Pula: Turning a Closed Place into an Open Future

C4TALENT concludes in Pula.

Alytus: From Concept to Commitment

C4TALENT concludes in Alytus.