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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    Focus On: Rotterdam - how is the city building on its strengths?

    The second part of this Focus On Rotterdam, explores how the city is building on its many strengths in 11 key ways. 

    James Carless

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  • Lessons from Bologna heritage-driven urban regeneration by lead expert Miguel Rivas

    Bologna is more and more widely acknowledged as a benchmark in the field of heritage-driven urban development and regeneration. Against this background, the Municipality of Bologna gently organised a one-day study visit for a KAIRÓS international delegation in November 2021. The selection of spots and the explanations taken from the different hosts stressed a good number of insights that can be synthesised in numerous main lessons, summarised in this article by KAIRÓS Lead Expert Miguel Rivas. 
     

    Dorothee Fischer

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  • IAP peer-review workshop and study visit in Italy

    Between 16 and 18 November 2021, the partners of the KAIRÓS project met for their programmed IAP peer-review workshop hosted and impeccably organised by the partner city of Cesena (IT). The joint dinner on the eve of the event was certainly an emotional reencounter, as partners had not met in person for over one and a half year.

    Dorothee Fischer

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  • Case study OesteCIM: Promotion of ecocentres

    In this sixth case study delivered by the URGE network, OesteCIM - the Intermunicipal Community of the West Region of Portugal - shares lessons learnt on the Torres Vedras Ecocentre and its benefits for circular construction, and gives insight on their approach for the futher promotion of ecocentres in the West region.

    City of Utrecht

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  • Focus On: Rotterdam - about the city

    As we’re working closely with our partner cities, we thought it would be interesting to say a little about them. This is the first in a series of features focusing on each of the partner cities in USE-IT.

    The first in the series in Rotterdam. Here in Part 1 of the Focus On are a few interesting facts about the city.

    James Carless

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