Urban practitioners, projects, initiatives, programmes, authorities and policy makers gathered together in Lisbon on September 13-14 on the occasion of the URBACT city festival. Born in 2015, the...
Every year, the European Week of Regions and Cities brings together urban stakeholders from all over Europe to discuss the latest developments relevant to regional and urban policy. Next to a broad...
There are many initiatives and projects at local level for the integration of migrants and refugees financed by EU funds (ERDF, ESF and AMIF). However, cities still encounter problems in accessing EU...
Despite continuous efforts by the European Union, Member States and national, regional and local authorities, children still make up a large proportion of asylum seekers in the EU . The high numbers...
In its Action Plan , the Partnership on the Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees suggests to expand the knowledge base on migrant integration at urban level and to strengthen EU-supported know-how...
Improving urban strategies and policies for migrant integration with data, monitoring systems and other tools for evidence-based policy-making has become practice in many European cities. However,...
In the presence of several integration policies failing to hit the mark, there is an undeniable need to better manage the involvement of immigrants and refugees in policy-making processes . For this...
On 20 June 2016, the UN Refugee Agency ( UNHCR ) launched the #WithRefugees campaign to support the development of the global compact on refugees. As part of this campaign, the Cities #WithRefugees...
Jobs and Skills in the Local Economy is also one of the priority themes of Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) . The programme MARES de Madrid is in the scope of this priority theme. During EU Green Week...
The Partnership on Urban Poverty presents five action clusters through which it aims to reduce poverty and improve the inclusion of people in poverty or at risk of poverty in urban areas across the...
One of the action clusters presented in the Urban Poverty Partnership’s Action Plan is aimed at fighting child poverty. It consists of two successive actions. What bottleneck do the Actions...
Regeneration of Urban Deprived Areas and Neighbourhoods (UDAN) is one of the action clusters of the Urban Poverty Partnership and is composed of two actions: Action 6: Cohesion Policy Post 2020:...
Homelessness is one of the action clusters presented in the Action Plan of the Urban Poverty Partnership. It entails two actions: Action 8: Ending homelessness by 2030 Action 9: Capacity building for...
The cluster related to vulnerability of Roma people encompasses three actions: Action 10: Adoption of an integrated Roma framework from a multilevel governance approach Action 11: Strengthening the...
Igor Kos is one of the members of the Circular Economy Partnership. He is an advisor at WCYCLE Institute in Maribor, Slovenia. The communication team of the Urban Agenda for the EU Technical...
Public Procurement as a tool for the overall strategy in cities The study visit will bring together technicians from European cities, members of the Public Procurement Partnership of the Urban Agenda...
The Urban Mobility Partnership, established in 2017 within the framework of the Urban Agenda for the EU, has issued a political recommendation paper regarding the involvement of municipalities,...
The European Commission opened a call for proposals to support the Integration of Third-country nationals . This call is part of the activities foreseen in the Annual Work Programme 2018 for the...
The consultation aims to assess how well the various better regulation tools used by the Commission work in practice and contribute to achieving the objectives of its better regulation policy. These...
With the support of the HELP Project in Westminster , FEANTSA is in a privileged position to offer cities a bursary to attend the FEANTSA Research Conference in Budapest on 21 September 2018...
Urban Agenda
