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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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Women and the City: Be Bold For Change on International Women’s Day
8 March is International Women’s Day (IWD) and the campaign this year is #BeBoldForChange. IWD is a worldwide event that celebrates women’s...
Stay Tuned
Stay Tuned
European cities face higher levels of Early Leaving from Education and Training (ELET) than their national averages, meaning that some urban areas have more ELET rates, than the countryside areas - contrary to the national trends of these cities' countires. This represents a serious challenge...
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Scaling the commons: the experience of the European Commons Assembly
Few these days are not obsessed by reading the news. Profound and epic changes bearing political, economic and humanitarian crisis are unfolding in...
URBinclusion
URBinclusion
Socioeconomic disparities and other forms of inequalities are a major issue in European cities which are threatened by social polarisation increase. Poverty does not only create social differences between people and groups; it also leads to spatial differences.
URBinclusion implementation network...
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Health in Public Spaces: The challenge of inactive citizens for cities
One of the main challenges for cities in the coming decade is how to make their citizens become physically active again. Physical inactivity and...
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Simple is the new smart: lessons from the refugee crisis
“Refugees don’t just come to nations; they move to cities” writes B. McKenzy at Brookings Institution. Whether we agree on not with this catchy...
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Squatting for cultural use toward commons: The case of Rog factory in Ljubljana
During their 100-150 years of history industrial (or in a broader sense, non-residential) buildings face many challenges. Not only technology may...
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DIY Integrated Approach: learning from Prinzessinengärten
“Prinzessinnengärten is a new urban place of learning. It is where locals can come together to experiment and discover more about organic food...
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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...