What now for the EU’s urban policy agenda?
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Camelia Coporan tells us about Romania's EU presidency, the benefits of transnational city networks and territorial cooperation.
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Building an effective entrepreneurship eco-system
How can cities create effective programmes for promoting enterprise and entrepreneurship? How should cities respond to some of the structural changes...
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Conclusions and presentations of URBACT workshops during the European Week for Regions and Cities
This year the Committee of the Regions and the DG Regional and Urban Policy organised the 15th European Week for Regions and Cities in Brussels from...
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Implementation Networks’ pages now online!
You can find more information about their project, the state of play and challenges ahead thanks to articles written by each Lead Expert.
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CREATIVE SPIRITS’ partners meet in Waterford
The Second Transnational Meeting took place in the partner city of Waterford on the 23 rd and 24 th of February 2017.
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Specific approaches needed to implement policies for the creative sector
CREATIVE SPIRITS is a network of nine European cities, funded by the European Union in the frame of the URBACT III Programme. The nine CREATIVE...
Creating urban environments that inspire young people into ‘creative-tech’ careers
Across the whole of Europe, the growing shortage of technical talent is starting to impact on urban economies. In this article, Jim Sims, the Lead...
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Cities talking Digital
Have a listen to URBACT’s first ever podcast which explores what we mean when we talk about digital jobs in Europe’s cities and what cities from all...
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Welcome to Rotterdam – from Mayor Aboutaleb
Rotterdam will host the 3rd edition of the URBACT Summer University , between the 24 and 26 of August 2016. We’ll be bringing around 300 urban...
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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...