Networks and cities' news

Ampelokipi-Menemeni: reaching out to vulnerable groups

Ampelokipi-Menemeni, a municipality of Thessaloniki (GR), has focused on working with a specific community as part of the Stay Tuned project – the Roma community

Tackling Implementation Challenges in small cities with 'Case Examples'

➔ Summary

The INT-HERIT Implementation Network is now identifying and collecting data about
the way small cities are tackling implementation challenges on their cultural heritage projects.
New smart, low cost initiatives are being implemented to overcome the traditional lack of
resources by adopting an integrative and participative approach towards stakeholders and
increase the value created for citizens through heritage conservation projects. This article
provides a preliminary insight on some of the initiatives currently taking place in the
participating cities in order to contribute for a knowledge base of solutions that will be
hopefully useful for many small cities across Europe.

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.