When I Grow up I Want to Be… Do you remember being asked that question as a child? What was the answer you gave? I remember at various moments I wanted to be a tour guide, an air hostess and a judge. But mostly I wanted to be an international spy. The type that wears [...]
Charlie Hebdo and The Challenge to Cohesive Cities
The worst start to a year? Has there ever been a worse start to a year? January has always been my least favourite month; long, cold and grey. The only glimmer is the prospect of a new start; the offer of renewal as the calendar page turns. But even that irrational flicker of optimism has [...]
Internet Week: Aarhus Provides Knowledge for Growth
The URBACT CityLogo Network is a transnational learning experience on citybranding and -marketing in modern urban politics. It is about a better positioning of cities in the (post) crisis economic arena and reinforcing the communication dimension in urban management. Aarhus is one of the Partner Cities of the City Logo Network, and holds a significant [...]
Funding Local Action Plan delivery
ESIMeC is one of the 3 so called URBACT ‘delivery pilots’ funded to test whether transnational exchange and learning continues to be useful during implementation of Local Action Plans. The pilots started early in 2014 and run until March 2015 so now seems like a good time to take stock and share some of our [...]
Smart City +…Turin’s Platform for Employee-Driven Innovation
Torino: Open to ideas Energy sensors to minimize power usage in public buildings; the adoption of virtual meetings to reduce staff travel time; and the establishment of a crack team to modernise local authority procurement methods. These were some of the winning ideas generated by local authority staff as part of Innova.TO, the city of [...]
Measuring Impacts of Local Action Plans in Cities
ESIMeC is one of the 3 so called URBACT ‘delivery pilots’ funded to test whether transnational exchange and learning continues to be useful during implementation of Local Action Plans. The pilots started early in 2014 and run until March 2015 so now seems like a good time to take stock and share some of our [...]
We Need to Talk About… Delivering on Our Action Plans (part I)
ESIMeC is one of the 3 so called URBACT ‘delivery pilots’ funded to test whether transnational exchange and learning continues to be useful during implementation of Local Action Plans. The pilots started early in 2014 and run until March 2015 so now seems like a good time to take stock and share some of our [...]
The URBACT experience in Hungarian Cities
The more formal outcome of the participation in most URBACT project networks (with the exception of the pilot delivery networks) for a city is what we call a Local Action Plan (LAP), co-produced by city authorities and stake-holders of the Local Support Group (ULSG) . The latest national training scheme seminar in Hungary focused on [...]
Lights on Riga
Riga, Latvia’s capital, was the European Capital of Culture this year, together with Umea in Sweden. Those particular spotlights are almost about to go out, although they will immediately be replaced by those drawn by the European Council Presidency, which Latvia will take on starting January 2015. But there’s still a month and a half [...]
Authors
Eddy Adams
Fernando Barreiro Cavestany
Antonio Borghi
Ilinca-Adela Margineanu
Alison Partridge
Hans Schlappa
Ivan Tosics
Aldo Vargas- ALL AUTHORS