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Integration processes at city level: Hamburg, Ghent, Amadora URBACT cities Good Practices
The refugee reception crisis of 2015-2016 brought to fore the need for common European patterns of reception and inclusion. For long decades Europe...
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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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Conclusions and presentations of URBACT workshops during the European Week for Regions and Cities
This year the Committee of the Regions and the DG Regional and Urban Policy organised the 15th European Week for Regions and Cities in Brussels from...
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Two cities united by a love of good food
As URBACT opens its first call for Transfer Networks here’s a story of how a Good Practice from one city was adapted and transferred to a completely...
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The growing role of food in fixing our cities
For starters: Cherry heaven Imagine cherries as far as the eye can see. Imagine cherries with and in everything you eat. Imagine an economy that...
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Lifting the lid on URBACT’s Good Practices
What links Barcelona, Tampere and Dupnitsa? Not much, you might think. Barcelona is a global city with an international reputation for innovation,...
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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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A city fighting climate change: How Nantes got its citizens to talk energy transition
Tackling climate change was never going to be easy. But in the afterglow of the Paris COP21 Agreement, at least it seemed that we were moving in the...
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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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REFILL MATCH-MAKERS
The REFILL project is all about the reuse of vacant spaces. A key question is how these spaces are filled to best use. This article describes the...