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    URBACT launches successful e-University on implementation and funding of city action plans

    New capacity-building focus will help cities plan – and fund – cross-cutting local actions to improve residents’ lives.

    Sally Kneeshaw

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  • ROOF Bootcamp in Braga (PT)

    The Municipality of Braga held on 7 and 8 February, the Bootcamp Roof - Integrated Action Plan Design Experience, at the Hotel Axis Ponte de Lima. This meeting led by the Urbact Local Group (ULG) of the European Network #urbactroof - Ending Homeleness, allowed the co-construction of the Integrated Action Plan for the House of Skills Project, an innovative transitional housing solution for homeless people, through a program to improve personal, social and professional skills, in collaboration with the various social organizations in the city of Braga, which operate in this field.

    Hannelore Bonami

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  • First Urbact Local Group Meeting in Udine. The start of a playful work together

    The first Urbact Local Group of Udine has started today with a virtual meeting. The first important step of a playful jurney.

    Altrementi

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  • SDGs good food for all

    Public Policies & Governance for Territorial Food Systems

    The transition towards territorial food systems requires new public policies that consider innovative and effective formulas for participatory governance, among other facilitating elements. Food democracy impacts citizen empowerment when it comes to bringing together actors for this necessary action for change. The local perspective and the consolidation of participatory structures can be nurtured through networks such as those promoted by the URBACT Programme through Local Action Groups.

    URBACT

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  • Public Policies & Governance for Territorial Food Systems

    The transition towards territorial food systems requires new public policies that consider innovative and effective formulas for participatory governance, among other facilitating elements. Food democracy impacts citizen empowerment when it comes to bringing together actors for this necessary action for change. The local perspective and the consolidation of participatory structures can be nurtured through networks such as those promoted by the URBACT Programme through Local Action Groups.

     

    Vera Lopes

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  • How places of heritage in our cities can be drivers for local economic development by ad-hoc expert Wessel Badenhorst

    European cities are often blessed with places or quarters of significant heritage value. Many of these places can only be maintained and sustained if new purpose and uses can be found for them. In the Kair s Project partner cities are actively examining the possibilities for repurposing heritage with a zest for creative fusion of the old and the new, the sacred and the unexplored.

    Dorothee Fischer

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