PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY A REAL BENEFIT FOR THE MUNICIPALITY

Bertrand Girardi is Delegate Municipal Councilor in charge of the city of Agen’s Participative Democracy and in particular of the URBACT Program and European projects of citizen participation. Fascinated by politics from an early age, he describes his experience of participative democracy through the Urbact program.

The Urbact program was integrated in the middle of the 2 mandates.

Play and Placemaking – a perfect match for great public spaces

This article addresses two questions:

How can we work together in communities to make better public spaces?

How can play be used to create the momentum and focus for placemaking?

The article follows on from an online transnational meeting held on 11 February 2022 where play and placemaking were explored by partners in the Playful Paradigm Second Wave Project.

By Wessel Badenhorst

URBACT Ad Hoc Expert

April 2022

Case study Granada: Social circularity at Santa Adela

In this nineth and last case study delivered by the URGE network, the city of Granada shares their approach to the renewal of the Santa Adela quarter in which social circularity has contributed massively to a succesful revitalisation. In the next phase of the project, environmental circularity will be added. 

"Facilitating partnership brokering in an Industry 4.0"

"Facilitating partnership brokering in an Industry 4.0" by Alison Partridge, Ad Hoc URBACT expert

What can cities do to facilitate partnership brokering in an Industry 4.0 context? 

First face-to-face meeting in Solingen

Together with the cities of Tallinn and Heraklion the TM#6 was hosted by Solingen and was held from April, 6 to April, 8 in the Theater and Concert Hall in Solingen. After one year of work in
the GG4C project participants from 14 different countries took the chance to meet in person.

Insights from Heraklion, the co-host of TM6

The city of Heraklion was the co-host of the 6th Transnational Meeting which was held between 5-8 April 2022 in Solingen, Germany along with Solingen and Tallinn.

AS TRANSFER Newsletter

Meet the partners: Interview with Janus Christoffersen

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ROME REGULATION FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF URBAN GARDENS: THE ULG ENGAGED IN DRAFTING THE UPDATED VERSION!

The ULG of Rome met online on the 8th and 20th April to start working at the update of the Rome Regulation for the Management of Urban Gardens that was approved in 2015. The need to revise the document approved in 2015 arises from the fact that, after that date, different Councillors made a series of changes that were no longer in line with the principle of the assignment of plots to citizens’ associations, measures that caused disappointment in Roman stakeholders.

The KAIRÓS Journey continues … Discovering heritage cities in the Spanish region of Murcia

The KAIRÓS partners gathered in the Southern Spanish region of Murcia from 27 - 28 April 2022 to exchange on the achievements of the project as well as the lessons learned along the way. The international meeting also offered the partners the opportunity to refine their final outputs and to discuss the next steps on the road ahead.