URBACT Good Practices

The ever-growing database of URBACT-labelled Good Practices includes insider knowledge on how cities across Europe have brought  positive change around just, green and productive cities, following URBACT’s core principles of participation and integration.

The showcased initiatives are effective practices, policies and projects that have been successfully put into place and could be exactly what you are looking for in your own city. Most Good Practices are low-cost and high impact. They should be shared, adapted and scaled up. Stay tuned for the next URBACT call for proposals to submit your own success story!

 

 

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  • Troyan / Bulgaria

    A municipal farm to supply local canteens

    Paving the way for city leadership in local food production

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  • Pori / Finland

    Sharing stories in person and online to strengthen a suburban community

    Creating a place for mobilising citizens, fostering civilian power and urban stewardship through raising awareness towards the values of built heritage

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  • Lille / France

    Experimenting with new types of grants in deprived areas which are not eligible for social funding anymore

    Further develop the area-based policy for deprived neighbourhoods by applying innovative elements in territorial sense, involving new types of local stakeholders and experimenting with new empowering methods

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  • Idrija / Slovenia

    Creation of a new NGO platform

    The new ‘Towns’ Living Room’, established by the municipality in a vacant building, involves the heads of the city administration, active citizens, social services, development agency, public library and nursing home, local clubs and various associations

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  • Siracusa / Italy

    Building municipality- NGO cooperation

    A new ecosystem of spaces for public-civic cooperation

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  • Hamburg-Altona / Germany

    The Altona Declaration: Making Inclusion and Tolerance Loud and Clear

    Co-creating a commitment to inclusion and tolerance

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  • Brno / Czech Republic

    Music for social change in Brno

    Shaping inclusive public education through performative arts

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  • Cork / Ireland

    Let’s Play Cork

    Experimenting, improvising and evolving playful strategies to improve the lives of our citizens

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  • Aveiro / Portugal

    A card to simplify smart access to local services

    Digitalisation for more efficient municipal policies

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  • Vilnius / Lithuania

    New urban gardens bringing communities together

    Gardening has wider impacts on the city that one would expect

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