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

Organising a community-led festival along the main principles of the good practise “Budapest100” is the task for Come in! partner cities. Organising the festival whilst applying co-creation techniques with both volunteers and residents and thus sharing ownership is the goal. The challenge for partner cities is how to accelerate the community impact generated by the good practice in other policy fields.

The MVP approach for Innovato-R

By Loris Gherra

“No matter how far you went along a wrong path: Go back”.  (Turkish proverb)

Minimum viable product. Why is it so important for generating innovation within an organisation? 
Is it applicable for a public administration?

First key points from the Action Planning Network call

The Action Planning Network call is now closed.
We are delighted to announce that 62 applications have been submitted.

“The consumers have a huge power to increase organic offer”

The 2nd Meeting of the BioCanteens Transfer Network took place in Torres Vedras, from 19 to 21 March, under the theme "Supply and Demand of Organic Products". The meeting gathered the seven project partners of this European project such as local stakeholders.

How cities can accompany consumer change practices

Marcelline Bonneau makes a case for changing habits, innovative incentives and the benefits of a circular economy.

THREE-PRONGED APPROACH TO SUCCESSFUL REGENERATION

The way to  achieve social mix in historical areas of cities.

Video: Why Welcoming International Talent?

Why Welcoming International Talent project from URBACT? What is this project all about? Check out the video!

The URBinclusion final conference: Networking for social inclusion in Europe

By Massimiliano Rumignani, Sebastià Riutort, Marc Caballero – Barcelona URBinclusion team.

The “URBinclusion final conference: Networking for social inclusion in Europe” took place in Barcelona on the 28th of March. It involved civil servants, technical and political representatives from the Network nine cities in addition to URBACT network representatives and several local and international actors and stakeholders.

Nantes: turning high level strategy into concrete, measurable actions

The project team from Nantes (FR) wanted to turn a high level strategy into something concrete and measurable. Building collaboration and trust with stakeholders (including families) was key to their approach and success.

Ghent: implementing action plans

Ghent (BE), lead partner of Stay Tuned, created an overall plan to prevent early school leaving, and to create new perspectives for young people who leave school early anyway.