Rosignano-Marittimo launches its BioCanteens good practice transfer!

On the 17^th of April, at the conference hall of the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo, the project BioCanteens was officially presented to the city. Citizens, associations, companies, non-profit organizations and institutions which, in terms of skills, interests and needs, are in line with the objectives of the project to transfer BioCanteens good practice were invited to the meeting.

Local food in urban forks

Agri-food production can help with social inclusion says Miguel Sousa the Agri-Urban Lead Expert following the workshop held during URBACT City Festival in Lisbon in September 2018.

Agri-food production is key for cities.

A kind of knowledge comes around here, making the community become more

Julianna Libárdi has got into the world of Budapest100(BP100) Weekend of Open Houses as a volunteer. It has enchanted her so much, that she has been working on the programme as a project leader already for 4 years. She thinks that Budapest100 is not only highlighting the values of the built environment but also one of the newest instruments of community building, which proved to be very effective mainly in urban environment.

Cultural Events in Magdeburg (GER)

Cultural events for Welcoming International Talents? Magdeburg organizes it! In the upcomming months, The Otto von Guericke University, together with cultural centres and the Spanish Department facilitates three interesting events for internationals living in Magdeburg. Save the date and come join us!

Aveiro: professionalising & supporting school teams

In Aveiro (PT), a close collaboration with teachers and schools provided new insights into detecting and tackling early leaving from education and training (ELET).

Ampelokipi-Menemeni: reaching out to vulnerable groups

Ampelokipi-Menemeni, a municipality of Thessaloniki (GR), has focused on working with a specific community as part of the Stay Tuned project – the Roma community

Tackling Implementation Challenges in small cities with 'Case Examples'

➔ Summary

The INT-HERIT Implementation Network is now identifying and collecting data about
the way small cities are tackling implementation challenges on their cultural heritage projects.
New smart, low cost initiatives are being implemented to overcome the traditional lack of
resources by adopting an integrative and participative approach towards stakeholders and
increase the value created for citizens through heritage conservation projects. This article
provides a preliminary insight on some of the initiatives currently taking place in the
participating cities in order to contribute for a knowledge base of solutions that will be
hopefully useful for many small cities across Europe.

Pooling urban commons: the Civic eState

Naples’ Urban Civic Uses policy is characterised by the way artists, creatives, innovators and city inhabitants are entitled to organise themselves to establish forms of self-government for critical social infrastructure including urban commons such as abandoned, unused or underused city assets. Christian Iaione, URBACT Lead Expert, tells us how Naples’ Good Practice is being transferred to other European cities thanks to the Civic eState project.

Cities in international perspective: Leuven

In the Welcoming International Talent project, seven cities aim at sharing knowledge, improving policies and implementing best practice projects in their international student cities. But why are these specific cities participating in the WIT project? Each city will explain what they can contribute and what they would like to learn from this knowledge exchange. This time: Leuven, Belgium.

Fighting homelessness: the role of cities

Laura Colini, URBACT programme expert gives an overview of the URBACT City Lab for Cities Fighting Homelessness, which was done in collaboration with FEANTSA and the Mairie de Paris.