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Responsibilities and profile of the project/area manager

In order to ensure the effectiveness of public action, it is important to appoint a person responsible for the coordination of all project stakeholders. This ensures a strong role in the municipality, which provides an overall vision of the project and the mobilisation of the various departments involved.

Small cities finding their economic niches in a competitive world

Can small cities with populations below 100 000, including large towns between 10 000 and 50 000, compete with their larger counterparts for talent and investment?

Are there examples and good practices among partners, and from small cities across Europe, that will inspire new initiatives, which could be examined and explored in the iPlace Project?

All cities compete and collaborate. The URBACT Programme has developed proven methods for cities to work together in well-designed efficient projects to create mechanisms for analysing, learning and planning actions that will initiate integrated and sustainable urban development. Following from their kick-off summit meeting, the partner cities in the iPlace Project are confident that the potential exists for partners to learn and develop new pathways, especially if those pathways include exercises in re-imagining historical sectors that were the mainstays of their local economies in previous eras.

How transport adds to public space meeting people’s needs?

Space4People, challenging the use of public space!

Rethinking the mobility infrastructure of Europe's metropolises

RiConnect is exploring more efficient, equitable, and attractive metropolitan mobility systems.

Schemes for regeneration management, its monitoring and fast-track reactions – Lodz case study

In our next output, based on the example of Łódź, which carries out large-scale revitalisation projects, the scheme for managing the revitalisation process in the city was analysed and a strategic document was presented, which was created in Łódź and constitutes the framework, principles and scope of revitalisation activities.

A TESTIMONY OF OUR MEETINGS IN CLERMONT FERRAND...

Sometimes images are better than words...Difficult to explain in an article so many interesting exchanges and learning, so we recommend you to watch the video...