URBACT facilitates good practice transfer to cities of the same country
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URBACT has just launched 5 National Practice Transfer initiatives to test the transfer of good practices in cities of the same country.
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Experimenting with governance
Innovative governance work is notable is several of the 97 URBACT Good Practices . Common themes emerge around how cities are beginning to innovate...
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From nature lovers to nature activists
How cities are reclaiming nature for citizens (and vice versa) Last Saturday I fell asleep in the park, basking in the unexpected rays of sunshine. I...
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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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Humble superheroes needed
While the URBACT’s Good Practice Transfer Call is open and ahead of the launch of URBACT’s Good Practice Transfer projects, Eddy Adams considers some...
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How do URBACT Good Practices strive towards more sustainability together with citizens and other stakeholders?
Striving towards sustainability together The occurrences and types of events and catastrophes related to climate change (environmental , biodiversity...
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Urban Resilience in Potenza: a concept for co-creating cities of the future
Within the Resilient Europe network the city of Potenza works with the innovative governance concept of Transition Management developed by the Dutch...
From co-visualising the 'in between' to more integrated policies and actions? Mapping common ground in European social innovation projects
Often people say that the problem in our cities is not lack of resources, but the need to use them more effectively. But how can we do this,...
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Bologna innovates to help its most fragile communities
Three of the cities selected in the first call of Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) are working, or have worked, within URBACT on topics similar to...
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URBACT, another paradigm for European cities
With the integrated urban development approach promoted by the URBACT European programme, new models for improving our cities together are currently...
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The urban dimension of smart specialisation: building a two-way bridge
Smart specialisation and its related methodology known as Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) have been assessed as “the...