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Awareness-raising around the SDGs – a practical example from La Rochelle Urban Community

On 25 November, Stina Heikkilä had the opportunity to participate in an exciting event organised by our Global Goals for Cities partner La Rochelle Urban Community: the bi-annual Participatory Forum for Actors for Transition (Forum Participatif des Acteurs de la Transition). For this Forum, the team from La Rochelle Urban Community had planned an “SDG edition” with the aim of raising awareness about the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs among local stakeholders.

Impressive Smart Limerick at Limerick Innovation Virtual Event (Part 2)

Introduction
On the 25th and 26th of October the City of Bragança held a Transnational Meeting on the Policy challenge “Innovative and Smart Business”. This TNM was only the first part of the event focused on smart and innovative cities, as Limerick City and County Council presented their innovative and smart city strategy and actions during this virtual study visit on the 9th and 10th of December 2021. 

Impressive Smart Limerick at Limerick Innovation Virtual Event (Part 1)

On the 25th and 26th of October the City of Bragança held a Transnational Meeting on the Policy challenge “Innovative and Smart Business”. This TNM was only the first part of the event focused on smart and innovative cities, as Limerick City and County Council presented their innovative and smart city strategy and actions during this virtual study visit on the 9th and 10th of December 2021. The planning of this Virtual Study Visit as evolved into the very first ever Limerick Innovation Live Event (LIVE), a public event to showcase Limerick as a Smart City. Limerick is rich in talent and hosts many leading areas of expertise and practice – including some of the leading global technology, medical and pharma companies as well as globally significant research and education facilities. Find Your Greatness project partners heard about innovation from ULG members such as DELL Technologies, University of Limerick, Technical University of the Shannon, Analog Devices, and others. The event also contained the Limerick Small Scale Action. We introduced the Limerick Makers Club and FabLab, who demonstrated that innovation in Limerick is not trapped behind the walls of Intellectual Property, but a living aspect of the City.

The recordings of Day 1 and 2 can be viewed at: https://www.limerick.ie/council/whats-on/citizen-engagement/limerick-innovation-virtual-event

Tiny Practical Steps for change: TransNational Meeting in Wroclaw, Poland

The 2nd Meeting of the BioCanteens#2 Transfer Network took place in Wroclaw, from the 22nd  to the 25th of November, under the theme "Micro Good Practices". The meeting gathered the four project staff of the four Cities (Mouans-Sartoux, Liège, Gavà and Wroclaw),  their respective kitchen staff, and local stakeholders.

Feeding a Cooperative Food Network in a Time of Pandemic

This article presents brief comments on three ideas that describe the state of mind of the FOOD CORRIDORS network just before giving way to the final period of a project that has seen the light and grown parallel to the life cycle of a pandemic. It has been a strange circumstance that we would nevertheless like to consider as the engine that has pushed a desire for rebirth or rejuvenation for our network. We understand this rebirth as the means to cultivate new ways of working, new spaces of relationship, environments of curiosity that generate transformative action to the proposed problems. The FOOD CORRIDORS partners, together with the network's experts and the URBACT Programme, have evaluated what we have experienced, what we have learned, and what we would like to propose to continue with the challenge of cooperation between European cities in the face of their significant challenges.

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“Experience is the best teacher”

“Experience is the best teacher” – learning through Case Studies about methods to use technology and innovative business models to improve Urban Development in small cities

By Eurico Neves, Lead Expert of the ‘IoTXchange’ URBACT APN project, CEO of INOVA+ S.A.

It is commonly accepted that ‘Experience is the best teacher ‘. However, this experience doesn’t have to be undergone personally, and can be learnt through the lessons and achievements of others as well. That’s the whole purpose of Case Studies, and that’s how they have been used within the context of the IoTXchange Action Planning Network (APN) of the URBACT programme.