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    Одобрен е проектът на Програма Урбакт IV 2021-2027

    Финални стъпки по одобрение на Програма УРБАКТ IV

    psimeon

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  • Local Communication has many facets

    Participatory planning, co-creation, co-management are fashionable “buzzwords” when you ask city practitioners on the recent trends in urban planning and development. And they are right: the best way to plan for an inclusive, green and also prosperous city development is to meet the needs of its stakeholders, its population. This means of course involvement, the earlier and the more integrated the better. But what is needed to accomplish planning with and for people? One of the answers to this is an obvious and at the same time a challenging one: it is communication. With stakeholder, with residents, with population groups. On their needs, their concerns, their ideas, their vision for coming development steps. So, what can be done for a good communication a city’s diverse stakeholder and population setting?

    Claus Kollinger

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  • Meet the partners: interview with Sebastian Knoll

    [[{"fid":"48554","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Sebastian Knoll","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Sebastian Knoll","field_author[und][0][value]":"City of Munich"},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Sebastian Knoll","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Sebastian Knoll","field_author[und][0][value]":"City of Munich"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Sebastian Knoll","title":"Sebastian Knoll","height":445,"width":445,"style":"float: right; height: 100px; width: 100px;","class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]]The city of Munich works on the city’s first circular district, transforming the former military base ‘Bayernkaserne’ to a new urban district housing around 15,000 people. Making smart use of locally available materials is an important goal in the project. Sebastian Knoll, being an engineering ecologist, supports the ULG in Munich regarding the re- and upcycling of excavated soil and secondary raw materials as rooting layers. At the Technical University of Munich he is currently researching the possible re-use of brick material as plant substrates.

    City of Utrecht

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  • A hackathon for gender equality on career choices

    La Rochelle aims solve the mismatch between offer and demand in the local labour market through a gender perspective, and in the beginning of March they arranged a hackathon for gender equality on carreer choices.

    annika.dalen@umea.se

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  • Το πρασίνισμα ως δρόμος προς την ανθεκτικότητα των αστικών περιοχών

    Τα πράσινα μέρη στις πόλεις μπορούν να βελτιώσουν σημαντικά την υγεία και την ευτυχία. Αλλά εδώ υπάρχει το θέμα: το πράσινο δεν είναι πάντα καλό για όλους.

    mpapoutsi

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  • « URBACT et la France, une histoire d'inspiration mutuelle » : rencontre avec le responsable de l'Autorité de Gestion d'URBACT

    François-Antoine Mariani est Directeur général délégué à la politique de la ville au sein l'Agence nationale pour la cohésion des territoires (ANCT). A ce titre, il assure également la fonction de responsable de l'Autorité de gestion d'URBACT.

    Mathieu Copere

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