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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    Picnic for the elderly in Hegyvidék-Budapest

    „Időspiknik” (Picnic for elderly), a series of mini-programmes within the Health and Greenspace project aims to combine the positive physiological effects of the green environment with mental health and prevention elements.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • How to design a health nature trail? (download guideline!)

    How to design a health nature trail? Espoo´s new booklet shows you!

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Lessons from Tallin on spatial planning

    Tartu aims at completing an Integrated Action Plan that will set very certain next steps for their newest department at Tartu City Government – the Spatial Planning Department. Tallinn, our capital, has recently established a very similar new department and in order to initiate good future cooperation we decided to give them a visit.

     

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Barnsley's Fierce Love Holds You Forever in it's Heart

    These are the words, lit up in neon that welcome you when you walk into Barnsley’s new public space in the town centre. 

    Justine

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  • In Swedish: Gävle is developing urban sustainability

    Nätverket Global Goals for Cities arbetar med Agenda 2030 och de globala målen. Gävle kommun ska tillsammans med 18 andra städer i nätverket under kommande två år skapa och dela kunskap för att utveckla den urbana hållbarheten.

    Karin Luhaäär

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  • Looking for just societies through volunteering!

    Cities that face currently emerging multidimensional social needs such as elderly and children care, social isolation and depression, unemployment and poverty, just to name some, need to develop innovative policies through the creation of collective learning processes based on exchange and peer-to-peer learning. This is the policy change Volunteering Cities+ network is developing supported by the URBACT methodology!

    s.georgiou

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