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  • Planning Industrial Corridors with a User-Centered Approach

    When designing new developments, it’s essential to consider the diverse needs of different user groups. In the URBACT EcoCore Action Planning Network, this means creating green industrial corridors

    Mary Dellenbaugh

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  • Beyond car dependency & brain drain: How Ormož is striving for a more sustainable future

    From February 3rd to 6th, 2025, urban practitioners and stakeholders from the URBACT EcoCore network gathered in Ormož, Slovenia for a transnational partner visit. The meeting provided an opportunity

    Eileen Crowley

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  • Midpoint Milestones for the URBACT EcoCore Network: A Review of Test Actions Across Partner Cities

     

    As the EcoCore network reaches its halfway point, the nine partner cities across Europe have made significant strides in their shared mission to proactively work with stakeholders to put in place the

    Eileen Crowley

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  • Hackathon - The Balbriggan Innovation Challenge

    Hackathon - The Balbriggan Innovation Challenge

     

    The EcoCore Project lead partner Balbriggan, Ireland successfully ran a hackathon challenge, The Balbriggan Innovation Challenge, last Friday in the

    Gavin Cusack

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  • EcoCore City Visits to Tuusula and Ķekava: Showcasing Green Urban Innovation

    Last week, practitioners from across Europe visited the Finnish municipality of Tuusula and the Latvian town of Ķekava as part of the EcoCore project, a transnational action planning network exploring

    Eileen Crowley

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  • EcoCore - Small Cities with Big Ambitions for their Green Transition

     

    The climate time bomb is ticking. This is the most important global systemic threat to the worldwide economy today. In response, government policies from the local to international level are

    Eileen Crowley

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