Learning to use new tools (URBACT or otherwise) sometimes helps us see our action planning logic from another perspective and order what we already know into a recognizable structure that can be understood by people who are not directly involved in the process. This is a crucial factor for the next stage of Integrated Action Plan development – in 2025, the participating cities will need to find funding sources for their actions which will most likely involve meetings where the Action Plan itself must be presented to “outsiders”.
Having a sound plan and understanding how the actions fit into broader urban development issues will make this easier – and so will the training the participants received in Budapest on December 2-3 which culminated in a pitching session. The event was also useful for networking: connections between projects running in parallel were made – and even in the case of wildly different networks, it was certainly interesting to learn what other cities in the country are doing.
The C4TALENT network was represented by the ULG Coordinator and the Managing Director of the Industrial Park of Nyíregyháza.
