BIOCANTEENS: How one city went 100% organic without spending any more

Une contribution URBACT à l’Agenda Urbain Européen

Local drive for a cycle-friendly city

Facing severe pollution from over-reliance on cars, Thessaloniki (GR) committed to promoting cycling proactively, and, through the URBACT RESILIENT EUROPE network, drew up its first-ever strategy framework to increase cycling in the city.

BeePathNet: enriching the urban jungle with bees

Klemen Strmšnik shares his enthusiasm for Ljubljana’s (SI) green endeavours and the on going success of the BeePathNet project linking 6 European cities seeking to promote urban beekeeping. He asks: if the awareness and enthusiasm are already there, can urban beekeeping become integral to an urban lifestyle?

 

Welcoming international professionals and students

MEDINT project MEDINT is an URBACt I Project which studied the integrated approach concept, which has become a characteristic feature of European urban development strategies. The work carried out in European cities shows that this concept has been interpreted and implemented in a variety of different ways (integration of local actors, of different economic sectors, of different initiatives, of different development tools and policies). The conclusions of the MEDINT network are summarized in the form of several pdf files.

An old fortress brings new cohesion

MEDINT project MEDINT is an URBACt I Project which studied the integrated approach concept, which has become a characteristic feature of European urban development strategies. The work carried out in European cities shows that this concept has been interpreted and implemented in a variety of different ways (integration of local actors, of different economic sectors, of different initiatives, of different development tools and policies). The conclusions of the MEDINT network are summarized in the form of several pdf files.

The penultimate Case Study Meeting

URBANITAS project This report contains a summary of the various conferences held as part of the Urbanitas URBACT I project, which ran from May 2005 to March 2007. This report ends with the conclusions and recommendations produced by the practical experience from over two years of European cooperation.

Naples’ URBinclusion thematic seminar: how to make co-creation and co-responsibility real?

By Nicola Masella and Roberta Nicchia

The URBinclusion “ULG Thematic Seminar” took place in Naples on the 13^th and 14^th of December 2018, bringing together representatives from the URBinclusion Local Group and Network's partners. The main aim of this meeting was, in fact, to exchange and learn on the topic: how to make co-creation and co-responsibility real?

Cahors is experimenting with participatory approaches

Cahors will host the eight cities of the Int Herit network at a meeting that will take place from February 2019, 19 to 22. It will be the opportunity for Cahors to highlight the mobilization of its Urbact Local Group around the revitalization of Château-du-Roi Street.

Please see here the agenda for the meeting

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ACTive NGOs: platforms for public-civic cooperation

Levente Polyak looks at the pros and cons of Riga’s NGO House in Teika (LV), sharing its story from its inception to its five year anniversary.

Breathing new life into abandoned spaces

This is the report of the Creative SpIN Final Event, held in Birmingham, 21-22 April 2015