The aim of the JESSICA (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas) initiative by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank is to support “sustainable investment in cities” via financial engineering mechanism. Through the implementation of the initiative, Urban Development Funds are emerging as potentially powerful tools to pursue sustainable urban transformation. […]
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Urban Investment Funds For Sustainable Development: Examples from The Hague
Cities have to be more and more creative when it comes to financing their projects and programmes. With budget cuts on the rise and traditional subsidy schemes disappearing, they have to increasingly look for alternatives. URBACT Project CSI Europe investigates the potential role and added value of financial instruments such as urban investment funds. Ton […]
Making the money-go round: Getting Ready for Financial Instruments to deliver Europe 2020 in cities
Financial Instruments (FI) will be at the heart of the next Structural Funds and cities must become experts at using them. The URBACT CSI Europe network, led by Manchester City Council, is leading the way for cities by engaging in dialogue with decision makers in the European institutions who are now in the process […]
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Aidan Cerar
Aldo Vargas
Alice Ferguson
Alina Andreea Băileşteanu
Alison Partridge
Amy Labarrière
Ana Resende
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