URBACT’s City Labs: Refreshing Europe’s urban policy principles

The 2007 Leipzig Charter established the EU’s urban policy principles. Ahead of its 2020 EU Presidency, Germany is refreshing this key document. URBACT’s City Labs, linked to the Charter’s principles, are supporting this process. The Labs will identify what works, where cities are struggling, and how we can build their capacity to build a bright sustainable future.

The Leipzig Charter

Music for all in Katowice: having fun and cooperating to inspire social change

A public brass music festival for young and old alike and a lot of learnings from the last Poland’s URBACT Campus: here is Katowice’s latest update on how the URBACT ONSTAGE project is progressing in the town!

Tackling Urban Poverty in Bari

The City of Bari joined the Com.Unity.Lab Urbact network to be inspired by the Bip/Zip program to improve its local strategy. In this interview Vitandrea Marzano from the City of Bari explains to us what are the key priorities in the city and how they are developing collaborative strategies to tackle urban poverty.

Stay Tuned has come to an end

In the past three years, nine European cities, namely Ampelokipi-Menemini (GR), Aveiro (PT), Barcelona (ES), Berlin (DE), Ghent (BE), Gothenburg (SE), Nantes (FR), Sofia (BG) and Tallinn (EE), have been exchanging ideas and expertise on tackling Early leaving from education and training (ELET). Now, Stay Tuned has come to an end.

Videos/Testimonials from the Stay Tuned partners

Partners have been producing videos about the ELET tackling projects in their cities:

ACTive NGOs proud to attend Whitehawk, Volume 1 at Crew Club

ACTive NGOs Brighton was proud to attend the launch of Whitehawk, Volume 1, an exhibition of documentary photography taken by local residents Lisa Pettitt and Sharon Scaife and organised by Curtis James.

Transfer test of the good practice: the Murcia meeting

By Loris Gherra

As the concept of “Lean Design Methodology for innovation” was the focus of the kick-off meeting in Paris, last February, the aim of Murcia meeting, held at the beginning of June, was to support the Innovato-R partner cities to get clear about the transfer of the good practices and about how to proceed with the testing of their local implementation.

Building inclusion through arts education: Valongo engages the community and shares progress

The first public community meeting and a study visit to an arts school which works with vulnerable youngsters under an innovative approach: here is Valongo's latest update on how the URBACT ONSTAGE project is progressing in the town!

OLD DOGS, NEW TRICKS: Can cities really learn...?

Whilst the Learning Ladder of Implementation gives us a framework to help us understand what we’re dealing with, there are still some other things to consider when developing our understanding of implementation and then applying that new learning within our teams, across our municipality or more widely throughout our wider city partnerships.

STEP BY STEP WE GO: Structured learning about implementation

In the previous post (Talking About Doing) we looked at defining what we mean by implementation and introduced the idea of separating the concept of Implementation from the concept of Policy – looking at the HOW separately from the WHAT.

Having done that, we need to look at the process for learning and exchange in relation to implementation…