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  • Articles

    From nature lovers to nature activists

    How cities are reclaiming nature for citizens (and vice versa)

    Last Saturday I fell asleep in the park, basking in the unexpected rays of sunshine. I was grateful for this small patch of green, right

    Ania Rok

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    Housing for all - Experiences of URBACT cities on affordable housing

    What can be done to avoid evictions? How can a city provide housing to the most vulnerable groups and to the young talented people? Can low-carbon housing be affordable?
    Barcelona (ES), Dupnitsa (BG)

    Ivan Tosics

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    Building an effective entrepreneurship eco-system

    How can cities create effective programmes for promoting enterprise and entrepreneurship? How should cities respond to some of the structural changes currently taking place in the business start-up

    Jim Sims

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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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    How do URBACT Good Practices strive towards more sustainability together with citizens and other stakeholders?

    Striving towards sustainability together

    The occurrences and types of events and catastrophes related to climate change (environmental , biodiversity, human, social or societal concerns) have been

    Marcelline Bonneau

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    Procurement is a Cycle – monitoring is a core and continuous spoke

    The sixth transnational meeting of the Procure network took place in Koszalin, Poland on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th September 2017. The focus of the meeting was upon how cities can monitor the

    sbamber

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    From co-visualising the 'in between' to more integrated policies and actions? Mapping common ground in European social innovation projects

    Spin-Off' project that responds to the specific needs of the partners and will be suitable for further development and will be in compliance with the requirements of the respective Transnational

    Aldo de Moor

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    Two cities united by a love of good food

    As URBACT opens its first call for Transfer Networks here’s a story of how a Good Practice from one city was adapted and transferred to a completely different local context.

    Amy Labarrière

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    Accommodating and integrating refugees in the city of Thessaloniki: the multi-stakeholder programme REACT

    Thessaloniki has been at the forefront of the management crisis of refugee flows. The city launched its emergency response in 2015, just before the closure of the Balkan Route and the EU-Turkey common

    Meric Ozgunes

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