Urban Heritage within URBACT projects
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Culture and Heritage are key topics for URBACT cities: from renovations of historic buildings to new management methods.
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Improving children’s education for a sustainable urban future
URBACT is helping European cities find – and share – new ways to support children’s education for a better future.
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EU Urban Agenda: what can URBACT cities bring to the table?
This article explores the synergies between URBACT and the Urban Agenda for the EU.
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More URBACT learning for better funding
One year on, cities say URBACT leads to more learning and more funding.
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REFILL@LILLE: Policy Design Labs and URBACT exchange networks
How civil servants from Lille Metropole benefited from the experience of URBACT REFILL network to shape a roadmap to set their temporary use policy.
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Bringing (more) sustainability to cities: 5 golden rules
How are cities putting sustainable urban development into practice? Here are 5 golden rules from URBACT's City Lab.
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How residents and businesses are re-energising their city centre
Many in Heerlen (NL) wanted change, but didn’t know how to effect it. Following a wealth of inspiration, participation and activation through URBACT...
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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...
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Rethinking welfare from a neighbourhood level
For years the municipality of Gdańsk (PL) has been struggling to develop a network of citizen-led community centres. Thanks to the city’s...
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Welcoming international professionals and students
Willem van Winden takes a look at how the university city of Groningen (NL), in the North, is working towards welcoming, nurturing and integrating...
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A new urban freight plan
When Umeå — northern Sweden’s largest urban community — joined the URBACT Freight TAILS network, its city centre faced increasing traffic problems,...