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  • How does Seraing want to boost the renovation of its habitat?

    From prosperity to decline then to reconstruction

    Bénédicte Borckmans, project coordinator for the ALT/BAU network in Seraing, reports on how the transfer process went in the Belgian city.  

  • “Bragança, Freedom to Start over”: Bragança bets on new project to attract remote workers

    The Municipality of Bragança launches the pilot project "Bragança. Freedom to Start Over", a challenge that will give the opportunity to four families to enjoy the experience of living in Bragança

  • Transfer Story: Replicating the mediator’s role from Lodz to Birmingham - what happens if we empower community representatives to become mediators?

    The last decade saw Birmingham fall victim of the most drastic austerity measures applied by the national Government after the financial crisis in 2008. The change of the national political leadership

  • Social cohesion

    ‘Housing First’: how two URBACT cities in Belgium implement the right to housing

    Find out how two Belgian cities are fighting homelessness as part of the URBACT ROOF network.

  • Alphen aan den Rijn: Op weg naar een groen-blauwe stad!

    Alphen aan den Rijn is een gemeente in de Nederlandse provincie Zuid-Holland. Het was oorspronkelijk een Romeinse stad, maar industrialiseerde in de 19e en 20e eeuw. Het buitengebied en de dorpen zijn

  • SAVE THE DATE: 13 y 14 de mayo evento presencial URBACT y EDUSI en A Coruña

    Los días 13 y 14 de mayo de 2021 el Punto Nacional URBACT junto al Ayuntamiento de A Coruña organizamos “Del Huerto a la Ciudad”, una jornada conjunta entre URBACT y EDUSI sobre políticas alimentarias

  • The Climate Kid - A Superhero we all need!

    The Climate kid works with schoolchildren on a sustainable living environment

    The City of Vilvoorde launched the Climate kid on 20 February 2018. Its mission is to make it clear to children of the 3rd

  • Transfer Story: Zagreb "Block Badel" challenge

    “Indeed, the move to connect public subsidy and private compliance must be understood in the context of the post-war history of urban redevelopment initiatives, most of which have been considered

  • Alphen aan den Rijn: Becoming a Green-Blue City!

    Alphen aan den Rijn is a municipality in the Dutch province of South-Holland. Originally a Roman city, it industrialised in the 19th and 20th centuries. The outlying area and villages are centred