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    How participatory design can help build a strong partnership

    Galati used processes and methodologies advocated by URBACT to establish a Local Group to steer their work on creating an effective start-up community and used a process of participatory design, to ensure their partners could help to shape the solution.

    Angelos Ploumis

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  • How piggybacking on larger players became a route to success for two cities

    Faced with the challenge of needing to organise a Blue Growth Entrepreneurship Programme, the city of Salerno, in Italy, cleverly opted to piggyback off the back of an existing entrepreneurship competitions that operated in their city, rather than go it alone.

    Angelos Ploumis

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  • Cities secure sponsorship to offer prizes to aspiring entrepreneurs

    Two European cities that are part of a network that aims to stimulate Blue Growth Entrepreneurship (growth linked to the Marine & Maritime Economy) have secured commercial sponsorship to offer prizes to aspiring entrepreneurs that are in the early stages of developing their business ideas. This sponsorship money, combined with the offer of a professionally delivered incubation and mentoring programme, helped them to publicise their competitions and attract more high-quality applications.

    Angelos Ploumis

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  • Transfer Story: Municipality of Braga and Urban Regeneration Mix project challenge

    A group of citizens resident in the urbanisation around Praceta João Beltrão, in mid-2020, started a movement to show their discontent with the construction works that the municipality of Braga was carrying out in the public spaces of that area.

    n.rydlewska

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  • 23 Transfer networks: stiamo arrivando alla seconda fase del viaggio!

    25 Paesi sono rappresentati nei 23 network che riuniscono un totale di 161 singoli partner. Circa il 37% dei partner sono nuovi arrivati ​​a URBACT, il che significa che non sono mai stati coinvolti in una rete URBACT II o III precendetemente.

    sdantonio

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  • Budoucnost Integrovaných územních investic ITI

    Integrované územní investice, častěji známé jen pod anglickou zkratkou ITI – Integrated Territorial Investment – se dotýkají každodenního života většiny obyvatel Česka, kteří o jejich existenci však nemusí mít nejmenší tušení. ITI stojí v pozadí široké škály aktivit, od rekonstrukcí národních kulturních památek, nákupů moderních trolejbusů a autobusů, rozšiřování kapacit tříd škol a školek až po podporu špičkových vědeckých týmů či vědeckotechnických parků, a přináší více než 30 miliard Kč ze zdrojů EU, které doplňuje přes 10 miliard Kč z rozpočtů českých měst, státu a soukromých subjektů. Přesto představují pojem srozumitelný jen omezenému okruhu odborníků a prakticky neznámý laické veřejnosti. 

    Eliska Pilna

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