It's time to Find your Greatness

Eight cities have joined the URBACT Action Planning Network (APN) 'Find Your Greatness' aiming to boost their sustainable urban development by defining their strategic brand position and increasing their attractiveness and competitiveness.

ROME'S ULG MEETING AT TIMES OF COVID-19

If anyone had told me, just a few weeks ago, that today I would find myself writing this article confined within the four walls of my home I probably would have burst out laughing…but there is little to laugh about. We are facing one of the worst health emergencies in the last 100 years, an unprecedented situation which no one could have foreseen when welcoming the new year, but here we are. Images of scenes of despair, pain and disbelief flow in front of us and, at the same time, of great humanity and solidarity. What is emerging of all this is the ability of the human kind to respond resiliently to new shocks such as the one we are witnessing. What is certain to all of us is that nothing will ever be the same after this, nothing should ever be the same.

A Video Storytelling of the 4th Transnational Meeting in Viana do Castelo (Portugal)

„United for Ukraine“ fördert Partnerschaften zwischen ukrainischen und europäischen Kommunen zur kurz- und langfristigen Wiederbelebung von Strukturen in den ukrainischen Städten.

Making Spend Matter Newsletter - Issue 4

Discover the fourth issue of Making Spend Matter Newsletter bringing you the latest updates from our Network on progressive public procurement, spend analysis and anchor institution cooperation.

The unforgettable and inclusive night of L'Hospitalet's Django Orchestra at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu

Barcelona's majestic Gran Teatre del Liceu hosted a very special concert of EMMCA's Django Orchestra, which played together with students from all ages and professionals with and without disabilities. Here is L'Hospitalet's latest update on how the URBACT OnStage project is progressing in the town!

Playmaking – making places for play in our public spaces

An article by Wessel Badenhorst, Ad Hoc Expert

Tale of a communication officer or “We needed a spark”

by Sabine Hausmann

How to communicate the activities of an URBACT network? Its goals? Its purpose? To an audience that has never heard of URBACT? How do you communicate a complex issue such as the revitalisation of vacant ruinous buildings? Especially if you don't have such effective figures of sympathy as adorable bees at your disposal? And how do you do this not only for your own town, but, for all the partner cities of the network?

Two Latvian URBACT project cities met to share good practices and to get inspired

At the very beginning of March within the project ACTive NGOs representatives of the Riga NGO House together with ULG members went on an experience exchange visit to the city of Aluksne (Latvia). Aluksne is a city which, similarly to Riga, is currently implementing the URBACT project Re-growCity. Similarly to Riga the NGO house has been established in Aluksne with the support of the municipality - the Aluksne Municipality Community Center.

City-run ‘hackathons’: worth the hype?

More cities are turning to the hackathon-style, but do they really work?

Specialist supplier of sound and visual services to international gaming industry expands Barnsley HQ

An award-winning audio development company which provides sound, voice, music and animation for video games has expanded its global head office in Barnsley.