ROOF Advocacy Trajectory: securing the foundations before building the ROOF that ends homelessness

By Philip Brown, URBACT Ad-hoc Expert for the ROOF network

EXPERIMENTATION ON THE GROUND: SMALL-SCALE ACTIONS IN SANTA MARIA DA FEIRA

Since the first moment of the adhesion of the Municipality of Santa Maria da Feira to the European program URBACT, the local group of the Active Citizens project privileges experimentation in the field, with the preparation and implementation of small-scale actions, which allow testing and measuring results to improve or reject ideas or concepts. It is true that, by their nature, these actions have the legitimacy to fail, but they can also prove to be powerful and effective tools for citizen participation.

ROOF Baseline Study

ROOF aims to end homelessness through innovative housing solutions at city level. It is about making the shift from managing homelessness to actually ending it through Housing First/Led and about gathering accurate data.

By Liat Rogel, Lead Expert for ROOF l This Baseline Study was created during the first 6 months of the project to allow a good understanding of the general issue, of each city specific context and the added value of the partnership.

THE ACTIVE CITIZENS NETWORK: A PARTNERSHIP BASED ON HONESTY, TRANSPARENCY AND FRIENDSHIP

Christophe Gouache, the Active Citizens network Lead Expert, is a designer of public policy but also a teacher at “Science Po” Lille, a trainer at the National Institute of Territorial Studies in Strasbourg and, occasionally, a researcher in the framework of European research programs. He reveals to us, among other things, the keys to success that have made it possible to unite the 7 member countries of the Urbact network and his vision of participative democracy.

Focus on Ghent (BE): open Dialogue as a guidance method for residents in Robust Housing

By Steven Vanden Broucke l 

Testing a new support method as part of an overall strategy to restructure the field of care and support: from fragmentation and service driven to an integrated and demand driven system of care and support. 

Focus on Ghent: open Dialogue as a guidance method for residents in Robust Housing

Testing a new support method as part of an overall strategy to restructure the field of care and support: from fragmentation and service driven to an integrated and demand driven system of care and support. 

Kultúra és befogadás: Az URBACT-városok hozzájárulása az EU városfejlesztési menetrendjéhez

Zene mindenkinek, pop-up helyszínek, közösségi múzeumok... Az URBACT-városok segítenek meghatározni a kultúrán keresztül történő befogadást elősegítő uniós javaslatokat.

Ontmoeting met Roeselare, Belgische partner van Tech Revolution 2.0

Jasmien Wellens (JW) en Gino Dehullu (GD) vertegenwoordigen de stad Roeselare als Belgische partners van het URBACT netwerk Tech Revolution 2.0. Dit netwerk onder leiding van Barnsley (UK) wil goede praktijken aanreiken aan middelgrote post-industriële steden in Europa die manieren zoeken om hun economie te doen groeien en diversifiëren.

Rencontre avec Roulers, partenaire belge de Tech Revolution 2.0

Jasmien Wellens (JW) et Gino Dehullu (GD) représentent la ville de Roulers en tant que partenaires belges du réseau URBACT « Tech Revolution 2.0 ». Ce réseau dirigé par la ville de Barnsley (UK) vise à proposer des bonnes pratiques à des villes européennes post-industrielles de taille moyenne qui cherchent des moyens de développer et de diversifier leurs économies.

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