Networks and cities' news

Catch up on the latest updates from cities working together in URBACT Networks. The articles and news that are showcased below are published directly by URBACT’s beneficiaries and do not necessarily reflect the programme’s position.

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    Suceava news and lessons from Sibiu

    Fall news from Suceava

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Public participation plan in Santa Pola

    Santa Pola Town Council is part of the URBACT Health & GreenSpace initiative and manages to initiate the Public Participation Plan on the landscape study of the future Municipal Natural Park of the Mountain Chain and Cape of Santa Pola.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Key to success: efficient ULG engagement

    Urbact Local Group in Poznań turned out to be an important platform for cooperation on blue&green infrastructure issues in the City of Poznań.  Engagement in reinforcing of the ULG, facilitating meetings and internal communication based on win-win approach is bringing great results.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Autumn in the allotted gardens of Poznan

    City of Poznań is continuing exploring possibilities of sharing already existing greenspace in the city, through opening Familly Allotment Gardens (FAG) to residents of Poznań.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Peer review workshop in Messina

    After a year and a half Health & Greenspace partners were lucky enough to organise the first in person meeting and Messina had the honour of holding this event.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • URBACT Local Groups? Struggles ahead!

    ULG, which stands for URBACT Local Group (ULG), is a key ingredient of the URBACT methodology that can be found in all networks and programmes. But what's an ULG? An URBACT Local Group is a group of local stakeholders who co-produce the city strategies and action plans together with the city administration. To put it in a provocative way, the principle is quite simple: "the idea is to avoid doing policymaking as usual, meaning by the city administration on its own, without any stakeholder consultation". So basically, to "constrain" cities to enter into a minimum level of participatory process. Why? Simply because evidence has shown that policies built in participatory ways are more relevant, more efficient and better designed than those done without any co-creation, participation or at least any consultation. If setting up an ULG is not an insurmountable task, maintaining it active, lively, engaged, dynamic and enthousiastic throughout the life of the network is not an easy task. Especially when you have to compose with a worldwide pandemic...

    Christophe Gouache

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