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  • Social cohesion

    Housing at the URBACT City Festival 2018: from the EU Urban Agenda to Lisbon (PT)

    Affordable and adequate housing is one of the theme Lab sessions at URBACT City Festival taking place in Lisbon, 13-14 September 2018. This text serves the purpose of introducing to the housing

    Laura Colini

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  • Cities in migration - A conversation with Anne Bathily on integration

    I have first met Anne Bathily, expert on integration policies former policy officer at European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and now at UNHCR for Northern Europe, in the early meetings of the

    Laura Colini

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  • Integration processes at city level: Hamburg, Ghent, Amadora URBACT cities Good Practices

    The refugee reception crisis of 2015-2016 brought to fore the need for common European patterns of reception and inclusion. For long decades Europe has integrated immigrants and refugees, more or less

    Laura Colini

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  • Articles

    Scaling the commons: the experience of the European Commons Assembly

    Nu är det dags att nominera din stad till Access City Award 2019.

    Laura Colini

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    Simple is the new smart: lessons from the refugee crisis

     


    “Refugees don’t just come to nations; they move to cities” writes B. McKenzy at Brookings Institution. Whether we agree on not with this catchy phrase, it is true that cities administrations, and

    Laura Colini

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    'Migrant crisis': which engagement for Europe and the Urban Agenda?

    Following the article on affordable housing in Europe, we're continuing our series on the Urban Agenda for Europe partnerhsips. This month - inclusion refugees and migrants. To be read together with ‘

    Laura Colini

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