The Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) Initiative has launched its third Call for Proposals. The call is aimed at providing urban areas throughout Europe with resources to test new and unproven solutions...
From 20th to 24th of November 2017 in the City of Genoa took place the 3rd Edition of the GenovaSmartWeek Event that put in place a series of interesting interactive panels and plenary sessions on...
The Partnership on Urban Mobility is one of the Partnerships of the Urban Agenda for the EU launched under the Slovakian Council presidency in the second half of 2016. Like their colleagues from the...
The Jobs and Skills in the Local Economy Partnership is one of the pilot Partnerships of the Urban Agenda for the EU. The Partnership is currently developing an Action Plan addressing better funding...
The Partnership on Urban Poverty, focused on creating better policies on the inclusion of vulnerable groups and the regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods, organised a workshop during the CITIES...
The Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees is one of the pilot Partnerships of the Urban Agenda for the EU. It has developed a clear set of actions and recommendations addressing better...
Two recent publications - one in English, one in French - deal with topics that are at the heart of the Urban Poverty Partnership: urban regeneration and homelessness. The first, an edited volume of...
During the Cities Forum 2017 organized by the European Commission and the city of Rotterdam, the Partnership on Circular Economy was given the opportunity to organize a workshop on the first day of...
As the Cities Forum ended on the 28th of November, the city of Rotterdam provided us with meeting facilities at SS Rotterdam to hold the 6th Meeting of the Partnership on Circular Economy. SS...
The Partnership on Sustainable Use of Land and Nature-based Solutions convened for the second time, hosted by Barcelona (read more about the kick-off meeting of July 2017 here ). The two Coordinators...
Day 2 of the CITIES Forum opened with a statement from Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Crețu , who announced the adoption of the first report of the Urban Agenda for the EU while...
This is what happened on day 1 The CITIES Forum provides one of this year’s most distinguished events on urban policy, hosted by the City of Rotterdam and organised by the European Commission...
One of the Partnership Coordinators (Frantisek Kubes from the Czech Ministry of Regional Development ), supported by representatives of Slovenia and EUROCITIES , presented the current state of play...
The City 2017 Conference was hosted by the city of Katowice on 20 and 21 November 2017. Mr Frantisek Kubes, representing the Czech Ministry of Regional Development and the Partnership on Urban...
An international seminar - called Policy Lab - on the topic of urban mobility took place in Prague on 14 November 2017. The event was organised by the Czech Ministry for Regional Development in...
In September 2017, the Partnership for Urban Mobility was presented at the 15th CIVITAS Forum 2017 which was held in Torres Vedras, Portugal. The event was attended by technical experts and policy-...
The 8th meeting of the Housing partnership took place in Glasgow in September. The meeting was generously hosted by the Scottish Cities Alliance. Members had the opportunity to exchange with Scottish...
First-hand meeting with Pratos textile industry, waste water challenges and a big step towards the Draft Action Plan: 5th Circular Economy Partnership meeting The first day of the 5th meeting of the...
The Urban Agenda process is all about enhancing the urban dimension of (EU) policies by way of concrete actions. Therefore, the main objective of each of the (currently 12) Partnerships is to come up...
The Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees is one of the pilot Partnerships launched as an integral part of the Urban Agenda for the EU process. On 3 October 2017, the partners convened...