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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    The Digi-Inclusion Network Journal is now live!

    Watch our Lead Expert Ian Graham introducing this first instalment of the new Video Journal, which you can keep watching as we update it with insights and ideas and examples from the network and project partners over the next 18 months.

     

    AlbertMollet

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  • S.M.ALL 1st Core meeting in Ferrara - how it was

     

    The URBACT S.M.ALL APN 1st Transnational Meeting “Ready For Action” was held in Ferrara on December 6-7th, 2023, and allowed the Partner Cities to get to know each other in person and discuss the paradigm of Sustainable Mobility for ALL.

     

    Erica Bisetto

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  • Τransnational meeting on "Measures and piloting", June 4th & 5th Turku

    Vasilis Koutalas

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  • Press release #2

    A one-pager status report on C4TALENT.

    Zoltán Szenes

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  • Residents of The Future Quarterly Report: What have we learned from The Baseline Study?

    After the activation phase, the project partners were dedicated this period to the conclusion of the Baseline Study and to the implementation of the Urbact Local Groups.

    Krešimir Grubić

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  • How does a “sponge city” work?

    In the early 2000ies, Western and Northern European cities faced heavy rainfalls causing huge damage in the dense urban fabric. Since then, new housing estates have been built in frontrunner cities without using grey infrastructure to collect rainwater, and water retention has been an integrated part of urban development. We explain the key lessons and challenges since droughts experienced in the last years almost everywhere in Europe make the theme more essential than ever.

     

    “Extensive green rooftops (made up of a very thin - 8-15 cm - layer of substrate with shallow-root and resistance plants like sedum, herbs, mosses, and grasses) can absorb 70-80% of the rainwater, it protects the roof and boosts its insulation capacity - thus we created our Botanical Roof Garden, one of the biggest green rooftop complexes in Europe, on the rooftop of the communal utility company, to promote different techniques” - says Ms Helen Johansson, director of the Green Roof Institute during a study visit organised in the frame of the URBACT Summer University (2023). 

    Ferenc Szigeti-Böröcz

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