Pop-up workshop in Oslo

During the autumn break in Oslo the Agency of Waste Management and the City District of Alna organized several autumnal activities.

Entstehungsprozess und Ergebnis der Neuen Leipzig-Charta

Broschüre zu Dialogprozess, Beteiligten und Resultaten veröffentlicht

Bringing Heritage-Based Urban Regeneration and Development to the Road: Success Factors and Principles by ad-hoc expert Matthias Ripp

In this article, our ad-hoc expert Matthias Ripp draws conclusions from successful projects that have used urban heritage as a starting point for regeneration and development and he shares a set of “success-factors” that can be transferred to other cities.

Nove soluções para cidades mais vibrantes e produtivas

Estas ações locais de participação e produtividade comunitárias estão a inspirar cidades de toda a UE. Poderiam elas funcionar também na sua cidade?

Firma la Declaración Alimentaria de Glasgow sobre la ​Alimentación y el Clima

Las ciudades de todo el mundo que estén desarrollando políticas agroalimentarias o vinculadas a la Alimentación urbana sostenible y el Pacto de Milán podrán firmar la Declaración de Glasgow, uno de los hitos vinculados a la COP26. URBACT es uno de los socios de la Declaración y animamos a las ciudades que firmen este importante compromiso con el que combatir el cambio climático. El plazo finaliza el 4 de noviembre.

“Time for review” – lessons learnt and outcomes from the Mid-Term Review of the ‘IoTXchange’ Action Planning Network, concluded on September 2021.

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”. The authorship of the quote is often debated and assigned to different authors, from Peter Drucker to Lord Kelvin or to Antoine-Augustin Cournot, but if there doubts on who said it first, anyone agrees with its reasoning. Especially in complex projects, you need to take time along the process to stand back, listen to the parts involved, and measure what you have achieved so far, in order to improve your doings and make sure you reach your final aims.

Swarming of Urban Bees across Europe

"We have proven that the BEE PATH concept works in various European cities. Now, we need to connect the dots into a network and allow urban bees to swarm across Europe” says Maruška Markovčič, from the City of Ljubljana (SI).

Small-scale actions in Šibenik by Ines Saric

The City of Šibenik decided to include all target groups that are part of the development of the integrated action plan in three small-scale actions that took place this summer.

By Ines Saric, City of Šibenik

Multicultural reverberations by Anke van Wijck Adán

This summer the streets of the historic upper quarters of Mula reverberated with the still rather unencompassed sounds of cheering drums. In the month of August, four courses on percussion music were organised for local and immigrant children in these neighbourhoods and constitute the first phase of Mula's Small Scale Action in the context of the KAIRÓS Project.

By Anke van Wijck Adán, City of Mula and coordinator of the KAIRÓS project

Jelgava City Municipality Operative Information Center (MOIC)

Jelgava City in Latvia is widely recognised in Baltic region as one of the North European leaders in the practical implementation of Smart City concepts. The Jelgava Smart City programs began with mobile citizen e-cards for transportation and social services for pensioners and school students, smart traffic flow management, lightning sensors, security cameras, energy efficiency, use of renewable energy resources and green transport, energy planning and data management.

One of the key city achievements included the establishment of Municipality Operative Information Centre (MOIC) in 2016 to monitor the city public area and critical infrastructure with the latest technology solutions (27/7 citizens contact centre, video surveillance system, GIS, energy monitoring, flood maps, road traffics accident map, drone images database, etc.)

After extensive experimentation with Smart City Monitor digital transformation technology platform during 2018-2019, the municipality decided to obtain the license for its implementation to support the ambitious city incentives in AI and Big Data - driven digital
transformation. In 2017, the investment research department of the Financial Times, ranked Jelgava 6th among Europeans micro cities in the category “connectivity”.