Networks and cities' news

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.

Network of 5 European port cities come together to promote innovation in the blue economy

The BluAct Network aims to inspire the four new partner cities in the Second Wave of the Network to learn from the experience of Piraeus and hold entrepreneurship competitions to support local businesses in the blue economy.

Exploring new models for cultural participation in Dublin

Dublin City Council Culture Company is delighted to represent Dublin as part of the ACCESS Culture For All network, a partnership of eight European capital cities which supports integrated sustainable urban development.

Vilnius URBACT Local Group presented findings of two studie

Vilnius URBACT Local Group, in alignment with Vilnius City Administration, made a significant progress on ACCESS project activities and planned outputs.

Rocking pilot activities in Kopli

Within our SSAs we had set up four activity days which we will write about now. The first two were culture bus days for the neighborhood in North-Tallinn, our pilot area – Kopli. Targeted mostly to children and their parents plus the elderly. The third pilot activity was a collecting recipes and joint cooking/tasting event, and last but not least we had a cherry on top with students from two schools, who prepared and painted a wall using stencil-technique, to a public wall in North-Tallinn