URBACT Markets Project : Barcelona Study Visit Video
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09 October 2017Understand and explore the role of urban markets as key drivers of change in terms of local economic development, regeneration and sustainable living. This is the obective of the URBACT Markets project led by the Spanish city of Barcelona. The project has produced a video to document a Study Visit organised last month for partners from 8 cities from Europe and North Africa to see first-hand how Barcelona manages its markets network.
The delegation was made up of politicians and technicians responsible for markets in participating cities on the URBACT Markets project and another EU-financed project called Marakanda aimed at cities in the Mediterranean that want to develop their markets network.
Participating cities from the URBACT project included Toulouse, Torino, Suceava in Romania, Wroclaw from Poland, and Marakanda members Genova, Xhanti from Greece and Egypt's Cairo.
Delegates learnt first-hand from Barcelona's markets technicians how they deal with supply chain logistics around markets, waste management, hygiene, maintenance & recycling, the commercial mix of markets, market remodelling and market design, and issues related to commercial promotion.
The programme included study visits to some of the city's most representative markets like Santa Caterina and others to best practise examples in market re-developments like the markets of Sant Antoni, Concepció, Ninot, and the new Encants flea market to see just how Barcelona puts its management systems into practice.
The Study Visit delegation joined the mayor of Barcelona at the "Mercat de Mercats" fair for Barcelona's annual 3 day festival of market fresh produce and other craft foods, the which this year was visited by an astounding 260,000 people all eager to taste Catalan and Mediterranean foodstuffs and beverages.
Read more :
- URBACT Markets - URBACT website
- URBACT Markets Guidelines Offers Cities New Route Map for Development - URBACT website
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