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.

Want to learn more about the projects that are featured here? Discover the URBACT Networks.

 

 

  •

    Tropa Verde, 3R+1: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle + Reward

    This week we are closing the European Tropa Verde URBACT Project, and this morning we enjoyed the final online event.

    Christian Beade

    See more

  • A Toolkit to make your city Playful!

    Insights for cities and policy-makers to trigger the citizens’ active participation & promote inclusion

    CREAA

    See more

  • Playful approach and games: new ways to foster civic engagement in cities

    An article written by Ileana Toscano, Urban specialist and Community engagement expert and Lead expert of the Playful Paradigm Transfer Network

    CREAA

    See more

  • Youth Lab: Green Shoots

    YouthLab: Green Shoots is a collaborative and experimental project developed as part of the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art’s YouthLab programme. The project ran from December 2020 to March 2021 and has grown out of an earlier project, Greening the City, that was suspended in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. It explored how we can use collaborative action to enact change in our local neighbourhood, moving towards more sustainable practices and raising awareness of environmental issue. 

    Laura McIntosh

    See more

  • Transfer Story from the City of Radlin in Poland (Silesia Region)

    Radlin is an urban commune in the district of Wodzisław, located in the Voivodship of Silesia in Poland, inhabited by 17 759 people, which is 11 % of the population of the Wodzisław County. Radlin as an industrial city is part of the Rybnik Agglomeration in the centre of the Western Subregion of Silesia Voivodship. One of the key challenges of the Radlin City is the demographic situation. A disturbing phenomenon is the change in the size of the individual age groups. In the period 2009-2019 the number of people in post-working age in Radlin increased by 28%, while decreasing of over 7% in the number of people in working age.

    That’s why we entered the Volunteering Cities Project.

    s.georgiou

    See more

  • Shifting from Civic Management to Community Management: Barcelona Transfer Story

    Looking at the other cities of the network, Barcelona continued to work to support new forms of interaction between the public municipal institution and community citizen initiatives, based on the recognition of the right to public management and use of public resources by the people.

    Gregorio Turolla

    See more