The Portuguese city of Óbidos and INTELI–Intelligence in Innovation Centre, respectively Lead Partner and full partner of the URBACT network on Creative Clusters, were invited to attend the European Forum on Cultural Industries that took place in 29-30 March 2010, in Barcelona. The objective of the event was to discuss the importance of cultural industries […]
Archives for 2010
Financial devolution: postponed again due to economic crisis?
As stated last year by Peter Mehlbye, Director of the ESPON Coordination Unit, “when addressing the global economic recession it is crucial to underline that the crisis is in progress and not over yet, despite first encouraging signs of recovery”. Unfortunately, in the first months of 2010 early impressions of recovery are being altered by […]
World Bank: “Safer Homes, Stronger Communities”.
Catalysed by events in Haiti and coinciding with new earthquake and tsunami incidence in Chile and the Pacific, the World Bank has just launched a new publication “Safer Homes, Stronger Communities – a Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters“. This is an interesting composite of structured guidelines, tapping into experience of agencies and stakeholders stretching […]
Singer reflects bright lights on Belfast!
A Belfast songwriter is getting ready to take the next step on his career path after winning OPENCities Soundtrack for Belfast competition to write a song which captures the spirit of Belfast. Tyler Green won the OPENCities Soundtrack For Belfast competition, organised by the British Council in association with Oh Yeah music centre, with his […]
The Untapped potential of cultural heritage – a Catalyst for Sustainable Urban Development and an Internationally Competitive Europe
URBACT has its HERO. A clever name for an ambitious URBACT Project which has published a strategy paper entitled “The Untapped potential of cultural heritage – a Catalyst for Sustainable Urban Development and an Internationally Competitive Europe”. The document makes the case for a strong urban dimension as part of EU Cohesion Policy with a […]
URBACT has a Facebook Group!
They are 100!!! 100 first fans of URBACT on Facebook! On this dedicated page, one will discover URBACT latest news, videos or events and have access to information or publications related to sustainable urban development. You too, join the community and become fan of URBACT on Facebook. Laura Caldironi
Haiti, could the earthquake resuscitate a failed nation state.
At the beginning of June 2009, I reported for URBACT on the effects of the earthquake on the Italian city of L’Aquila “such a catastrophe represents the extreme challenge for urban regeneration in the broadest sense”. Today events in Haiti (earthquake 12th January) take the idea of “extreme challenge” to a totally different, almost unprecedented, […]
2nd RegGov Newsletter
The RegGov project has published its second RegGov Newsletter ( 2nd-reggov-newsletter1 ). This Newsletter informs briefly on two implemented network seminars – the 2nd Thematic Seminar in Nijmegen (Netherlands) and the Joint Seminar for Managing Authorities and the European Commission in Budapest (Hungary). Afterwards an article about the project “NRW Fit for Europe” presents as a […]
Debate on the future of cohesion policy: distributive vs allocative policy?
Whithin the framework of the current debate on the future of the European Cohesion policy it is important to look at the goals that cohesion policy should pursue to meet the challenges of the 21st century. One of the difficult policy issues is whether relatively richer regions should be eligible for expenditure from the Structural […]
Belgium prepares for the electric car – already a complement for new URBACT project EVUE?
With a comment which might suggest history is repeating itself, “Electricity is the fuel of the future”, the Belgian Secretary of State for Mobility inaugurated the first charging post for electric cars in the country on the 17th of December, 2009. This first infrastructure access point was installed perhaps not surprisingly in the premises of […]
Authors
Aidan Cerar
Aldo Vargas
Alice Ferguson
Alina Andreea Băileşteanu
Alison Partridge
Amy Labarrière
Ana Resende
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