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Pooling urban commons: the Civic eState

Naples’ Urban Civic Uses policy is characterised by the way artists, creatives, innovators and city inhabitants are entitled to organise themselves to establish forms of self-government for critical social infrastructure including urban commons such as abandoned, unused or underused city assets. Christian Iaione, URBACT Lead Expert, tells us how Naples’ Good Practice is being transferred to other European cities thanks to the Civic eState project.

Cities in international perspective: Leuven

In the Welcoming International Talent project, seven cities aim at sharing knowledge, improving policies and implementing best practice projects in their international student cities. But why are these specific cities participating in the WIT project? Each city will explain what they can contribute and what they would like to learn from this knowledge exchange. This time: Leuven, Belgium.

Come in! - Talking Houses /Shared Stories at Budapest

On the first weekend of May will be held the Budapest100 Open Houses, this year's theme is Bauhaus. The event coincides with URBACT Come in! - Talking Houses / Shared Stories project with Masterclass weekend, based on the good practice of Budapest100 itself.

RU:RBAN speaks with the Far East

The 14th High Level Forum (HLF) on Regional and Urban Policy Cooperation, organized by the IUC Asia project (https://www.iuc-asia.eu/2019/04/eu-china-cities-cooperation-2019-launched/) as a side event of the EU-China summit, took place in Brussels on 9th April 2019.

RU:RBAN reaches beyond-EU frontiers

Rome was the venue, on 15 April 2019, of a meeting  between representatives of the Iranian NGO WSAEP (Women Society Against Environmental Pollution, http://wsaep.ir/2019/01/26/about-us/ ) and Rome City Officials (Urban Gardens Department ) to exchange experiences on the topic of community gardens.

Diary of an international talent in Groningen

The Welcoming International Talent project focusses on welcoming international students and expats in medium sized European cities. Aim is to improve welcoming policies of these six cities with various projects. But how do internationals themselves experience living in these welcoming cities? In this column, an international from each WIT-city will share their experiences. This time: Evi Kiorri from Groningen, the Netherlands!

This article is written by Evi Kiorri for the Northern Times: a English newspaper for internationals living in the north of the Netherlands.