From planning to implementation. The new URBACT call for proposals is launched!
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11 April 2016Since 2002, URBACT has developed a unique methodology to support European cities in their planning of integrated and sustainable action plans. Through transnational exchange and with targeted expert support, European cities taking part in the URBACT programme improve the way they develop integrated urban strategies and actions.
The call for Implementation Networks aims at facilitating the uptake of successful implementation of integrated and participative strategies resulting in a more sustainable urban development in European cities.
URBACT III is taking this process a step further by launching a call for Implementation Networks. This call is open to European cities that are looking into ways to improve the implementation of their integrated strategies or actions.
Fostering cooperation among city’s services and with its citizens, building a resilient project pipeline, organising decision-making for delivery, and moving from strategy to operational action-planning are some of the elements that the new URBACT III call on Implementation Networks will focus on. Joining an URBACT Implementation Network will allow cities to benefit from a structured and organised process of exchange and learning with peers across Europe. They will also be able to address defined implementation challenges with other European cities working on the same topic.
Each network will involve networks of 7 to 9 cities working together within the same project for about three years. The issues that cities can tackle cover all the thematic objectives of the EU Cohesion Policy, ranging from fostering employment, boosting the local economy, improving mobility and transport to urban renewal and fighting poverty.
The call targets European cities that already have an approved integrated strategy or action plan for sustainable urban development. They also have to have secured funding (at least in part) for implementation of such plan.
The integrated and participative approach is central to all URBACT calls and will have to be strong in the design of Implementation Networks. Targeted cities can be cities benefitting from structural funds (among which ERDF Article 7 cities), cities that have developed a Local Action Plan with a former URBACT II network, cities that have signed the Covenant of Mayors and developed a Sustainable Energy Action Plan in this framework, but also cities working with public or private local resources.
The URBACT III call for Implementation Networks is open from 22 March to 22 June 2016.
More information and guidance to prepare your bid on the URBACT website.
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