‘STAY TUNED’ after the project concludes

‘Early leaving from education and training’ (ELET) will be a challenge long after Stay Tuned concludes. With these words, Ghent vice-mayor of education Elke Decruynaere concluded the final conference of the European project on exchanging ideas and expertise between nine European cities. It indicates the necessity, not only to continue such exchange on tackling ELET long after our final conference, but also to find strategies to implement them in our respective cities.

Gothenburg: insight in non-attendance through a digital tool

Gothenburg (Sweden) has been running a project, in partnership with one of the city district administrations in Gothenburg, to develop a digital tool that facilitates a more proactive and pre-emptive approach.

Revitalization in Zagreb - create "New urban value for new social interaction always with the presence of its heritage and industrial memory".

The revitalization in the city of Zagreb is a constant process that takes years in different parts of the city.

4 ways cities are breathing life back into empty spaces

URBACT’s new online resource Remaking the city presents a selection of space-related city solutions.

How residents and businesses are re-energising their city centre

Many in Heerlen (NL) wanted change, but didn’t know how to effect it. Following a wealth of inspiration, participation and activation through URBACT, things are now looking up.

Sofia: sports to keep young people engaged

Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria, created a Municipal Education Fund to support micro-actions that contribute to the prevention of ELET. In 2018 it initiated the Youth Referee Academy, an educational sports programme, which seems to effectively entice young people to continue education, gain qualifications.

How did BioCanteens good practice helped the LAG Pays des Condruses to involve its local elected representatives?

BioCanteens meeting as a stepping stone for Pays des Condruses’s food governance:

Lublin: A Municipality co-designing a long-term Local Strategy with local and European stakeholders

“Mapping, mapping and one more time: mapping!” Data collection, interpretation and use has become one of the most important needs in Lublin. Not only Lisbon Strategy – an URBACT Good Practice to be adapted within the framework of Com.unity.Lab – can help this enchanting eastern city of Poland to develop a more meaningful and integrated ”Lublin 2030 Strategy”, but also the experiences from other cities involved in this Transfer Network… Even local stakeholders like Lubelska Grupa Badawcza (that we interviewed in situ) have a crucial role towards a more participatory city. At least this is the opinion of Anna Szadkowska and Magdelena Gnyp-Scigocka, experts in the Municipality Social Participation Office and coordinators of Com.Unity.Lab in Lublin.

How to harvest the community impact within urban policies? – lessons learnt from the Come in! Masterclass Event Part II.

The main goal of the Come in! Talking Houses/ Shared Stories Masterclass weekend was to enable partners to get to know the Budapest100 Festival, in order to make use of this knowledge in the future. So what kinds of benefits do participating cities get?

INT-HERIT, AN IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT

Travel Diary

INT-HERIT is a network of cities that share and learn together in the implementation scenario of their cultural heritage management strategies. A type of methodology poorly known and tested for the first time by the URBACT Programme. Both for URBACT and for the other actors involved (cities, experts, interested parties...) it was an unknown landscape. What has happened along the way, what lessons are drawn from the INT-HERIT network, especially from the eyes of a navigator placed in the internal team of the Leading Partner of the Consortium? A journey in several steps from handwritten notes in the travel notebook...