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URBACT e-University: knowledge exchange, digital yet entertaining

The annual URBACT Summer University, an eight-day dynamic event, was carried out online in 2020. Despite the new setting and fast adaptation, the meeting proved successful with over 300 participants. It was a bold exchange of ideas and key takeaways for RiConnect.

"Udine Play Around", a playmaking project in Udine (Italy)

by Marco Pollastri and Riccardo Mercuri (Centro Antartide, Bologna, Italy)

Thanks to the Mose, Venice sees a future without flooding, becoming an even more inclusive and accessible city for its residents and tourists

Venice and the water, an indissoluble bond since the founding of the city 1600 years ago. A link, however, that also because of the sea level rise has provided ground for some extreme high tide phenomena that have caused extensive damage. This is the case of the “Acqua Granda” of 12 November 2019, when the tide reached its second maximum peak ever, 187 centimeters above the tidal zero of Punta della Salute.

How citizens take over public park maintenance in Espoo

Imagine, that you were given a public park of your own to take care of – you can cut the grass, clear off brushwood or remove invasive species, even to mow reed at the shores of a lake or sea. In Espoo, this is all possible, thanks to Our park concept.

In Espoo, the citizens are invited to take part in the development of their local environment – through Our park concept, (finn. Meidän puisto), an individual resident, group of people or a community have been given a possibility to maintain their appointed local forests and parks on their own.

From a housing agency to a living platform - the Torino transfer process

What do Chemnitz and Torino have in common? An easy answer could be that, in the last century, both had been known as “the city of…”.  The city of Karl Marx for the former Karl-Marx-Stadt in the eastern part of Germany, and the city of cars for Torino, the home to the FIAT factory.
Relax, this is not a quiz on cities!

Erica Albarello and Giulietta Fassino report on the transfer process in Torino and the important protagonists.

Case study Nigrad (Maribor): Production of recycled concrete

In this second case study delivered by the URGE network, Nigrad d.o.o., the utility company of the City of Maribor, shares their experiences with the pilot production of recycled concrete.