How can local groups live on after URBACT projects end?
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URBACT experts share three strategies for towns and cities to ensure their URBACT-sparked local participation keeps on thriving.
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Gen-Y City : Attracting, retaining and embedding Generation-Y Talent in European Cities
Interview with: Mayor of Poznan Mr. Jacek Jaskowiak, and Iwona Matuszczak-Szulc, Network manager interviewed by Jim sims, lead expert of the Gen-Y...
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Sign of the times: new URBACT projects reflect people power patterns
Each generation of URBACT projects tells it’s own story about shifting urban priorities in Europe. Previously, we’ve seen clusters of projects around...
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The war for talent in cities
‘The war for talent’ is a term first coined in 1997. In a ground-breaking McKinsey study ( Steven Hankin of McKinsey & Company ) it described the...
Inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs - A review of the first Westminster Enterprise Week
Earlier this year URBACT published the results of its latest capitalisation initiative which included a focus on Youth and Jobs through the 'Job...
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In Italy, a struggling town looks to refugees for revival
"In Italy, the job of settling and integrating asylum seekers belongs to local governments. Mayors across the impoverished southern region of...
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URBACT II Capitalisation publications in E-Book format!
The URBACT II Capitalisation publications published this year are now available in e-book format which also include videos, city case studies and...
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Capitalisation Lessons for Governance
URBACT’s recently published series of workstream reports outlined some of the most pressing challenges facing cities, related to New Economies , Job...
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Railway Hubs: Changing track in stakeholder engagement
Railway station locations are increasingly being re-invented as vibrant, multi-functional, multi-modal urban attraction poles. This inspired the...
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City & University: a Symphony for Progress?
How can cities and their universities benefit more from each other? What kind of governance is needed to establish fruitful strategic (rather than ad...
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Crowdfunding City Futures?
What has crowdfunding got to do with urban development? What part of the future funding mix could crowdfunding play for European cities strapped for...