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LOURES TRANSFER STORY

Loures Municipality joined the RU:RBAN project with great enthusiasm because it is a project well adapted to the physical characteristics of its territory, its urban occupation and citizens needs and hopes. It is important to mention that4666, in addition to the dedication of the municipal political leaders, there was also a demand for a project for the future with sustainable, inclusive and healthy ambitions.

VILNIUS TRANSFER STORY

Gardening has wider impacts on the city that one would expect…

Implementing community gardens can be highly beneficial for a city not only for environmental purposes but also for social ones: to fight social exclusion and bring neighbours together, at the same time for the organization of educational activities for children around the urban garden. This is what Vilnius has done while transferring the Good Practice of Rome, in ‘sleeping districts’, with training for gardeners and setting up adequate urban management schemes.

THESSALONIKI HOSTS TWO WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN ON HOW TO CREATE URBAN GARDENS

The children of Thessaloniki participated in two workshops organized by Kedith, the agency for the city of Thessaloniki involved in the implementation of RU:RBAN in the Greek city, on the 26th of April and on the 12th May. Both workshops were coordinated by Mrs Argiro Skitsa, teacher and training expert.

A Tale of Two Cities. Transfer Stories from East and West.

Two German cities are currently lead partners in the 23 URBACT Transfer Networks. Altena in North Rhine-Westphalia and Chemnitz in Saxony. Altena shared its best practices on how to develop sustainable initiatives with a minimum of external resource input in the Re-growCity network. Chemnitz shared its good practice of activating vacant buildings in need of refurbishment in the ALT/BAU Network.

Both cities were forced to develop methods to lessen the impact of the severe population loss. Chemnitz, in the east, lost about 25% of its population after German reunification until 2005, most of whom migrated to the west to find employment.  Altena, in the west, has been losing residents since the 1970s. Between 1990 and 2009, the city was subject to a 15% population decline, making it the municipality with the fastest population decline in NRW. How did the two cities experience the transfer process in the URBACT networks over the past two and a half years? Volker Tzschucke, ULG member in Chemnitz reports about both cities.

What have we learned about transferring urban good practice?

URBACT Expert Eddy Adams talks us through the experience and lessons of the first generation of URBACT Transfer Networks.

EGY VÁRATLAN UTAZÁS A SÁRKÁNYOK FÖLDJÉN - Nyírbátor pop-up sztorija

Interjú dr. Fülöp Enikővel - Nyírbátor Városgazdálkodási Osztály Vezetője, projektmenedzser, ULG tag

Május 18-án került megrendezésre a Re-growCity Transzferhálózat záró konferenciája, amelyen a pop-up shop és az NGO platform jó gyakorlatok, a partner városok eredményei, tapasztalatai, jövőbeli terveik voltak fókuszban. A Hálózat magyar partnere Nyírbátor is, jelen interjúban dr. Fülöp Enikőt kérdeztük a transzfer folyamatról, a helyi eredményekről, nehézségekről és a folytatásról.