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Do you have the answers how to activate and motivate owners and potentials investors to reactivate vacant buildings?

The participating cities of the URBACT ALT/BAU network now have a few answers to these questions. During the Transnational meeting in Constanta, 18-19.09.2019, the participants exchanged their experiences about activating and supporting owners and potentials investors for the reactivation of vacant buildings and developed jointly approaches that they want to apply in the future.
ALT/BAU Lead Expert Nils Scheffler and Martin Neubert, in charge of the ALT/BAU network give you an overview.

The City of A Coruña hosts its 3rd ULG meeting

The third Urbact Local Group (ULG) meeting of A Coruña took place on 26^th August 2019 at the Centro Cívico Novoboandanza, in the city center.

Visiting French Toy Libraries: what’s at stake

An article by Ileana Toscano and Paola Amato

Toy Libraries were the focus of the Study Visit, organized in Paris and its surroundings on 1st and 2nd July 2019, by the Urbact Transfer Network “The Playful Paradigm”, a partnership of 8 EU cities leaded by the Municipality of Udine and aimed at adapting Udine’s Good Practice about games and gamification experience as tools for boosting a better urban governance and an innovative urban planning.

Re-growCity has got its first transfer success!

The ULG in Melgaço (Portugal) has made enormous strides towards adapting the pop-up shop practice from lead partner Altena (Germany).

Teaching youth to take care of the environment will green each street of your city

Find out how COVID-19 is no barrier to innovation in resilient cities and how to prepare for the next big crisis

Japanese Academic Visits Altena

Altena’s reputation as a town that takes highly innovative actions to tackle long term decline has taken on a global dimension.