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CENTRINNO’s Focus Group series: the Fab City Hubs workshop

The grand finale of the CENTRINNO project’s Focus Group series, the Fab City Hubs workshop took place online on 23 November 2023. Over the past months, the focus groups engaged in insightful discussions on key topics such as Social Inclusion, Circularity, and Vocational Training. This last Focus Group on Fab City Hubs encapsulated the essence […]

JRC Webinar Series – Future of Cities

RSA Europe is working with the EU Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to deliver a webinar series on the Future of Cities. This series focuses on The Future of Cities report which identifies challenges influencing the future of cities in Europe and beyond. It also presents several perspectives from which to look at resolving these […]

CLLD in the 2014–2020 period: An Innovative Framework for Local Development

The World journal has published a new article entitled “CLLD in the 2014–2020 EU Programming Period: An Innovative Framework for Local Development”, by Stefan Kah, Haris Martinos and Urszula Budzich-Tabor. The paper builds on the country summaries and horizontal analyses developed as part of LDnet’s CLLD in Europe initiative, and includes extensive reflections on ‘The […]

Integrated development in action!

Ιntegrated territorial development in UIA projects This study focuses on good practices in the integrated territorial approach in the 86 Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) projects financed in the 2014-20 programme period. Integrated territorial development (ITD) proposes a different way of shaping solutions to territorial challenges regardless of administrative boundaries. The concept is widely recognised and […]

‘Recovery through community-led approaches’ – The recording and main points of the concluding webinar of 29 April 2021

The concluding webinar in the LDnet series on ‘Recovery through community-led approaches’ was held on the 29th April 2021. Participants in the previous webinars were invited to join this final session to discuss cross-cutting themes and draw lessons. Questions included: how can community-based solutions be spread more effectively? How can communities work at transnational level […]

LDnet webinars 2021 – ‘Recovery through community-led approaches’

“Recovery through community-led approaches” – 8, 15, 22 & 29 April 2021 What can communities do to spur the recovery from Covid-19? How can local action complement governmental and EU actions? Is engaging local actors the way forward to a more sustainable future? Following positive feedback from participants in LDnet’s 2020 series of webinars, LDnet […]

SPIRE Baia Mare – Start-Ups Mentoring Programme – Applications

The SPIRE STARTUPS mentoring program is an activity of Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem – SPIRE project supported by Urban Innovative Actions program (UIA – Urban Innovative Actions). The purpose of this project is to experiment, test and implement creative, innovative, visioning, sustainable development solutions for sustainable land use, nature-based solutions. SPIRE proposes a revolutionary approach […]

URBACT Transfer Guide – Social Participative Model using Volunteerism

The network “Volunteering Cities” has decided to develop this Transfer Guide with the objective of giving support to other cities that need/wish to re-visit their Social Policy Governance Model in order to set-up: Co-creation policy making, and Action Plans design processes by incorporating the Volunteers directly and more intensively in these processes. The advantage of […]