Partners express their local stakeholders’ interest at URBACT Markets Barcelona kick-off meeting

Representatives were told by URBACT Secretariat programme manager Melody Houk that many cities across Europe would be anxious to learn and implement the sorts of best-practice learning that would come out of this project. 

All the partner cities’ representatives said their local stakeholders were very excited about working on the project because of the expected high impact of the final action plans.

The kick-off meeting agreed to extend the partner cities network by up to seven new applicants.

Representatives all agreed the project’s objective were ambitious with potentially huge impacts on their city’s development. 

Partners agreed on the procedures to complete the first project phase, with a main deliverable being a state-of-the-art baseline study on markets, especially focusing on their usage as tools for urban development planners, for job creation and entrepreneurism and also as generators of sustainable living.