The Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and The Joint Research Center (JRC) are pleased to invite you to the The Urban Development Network webinar series: ‘Six building blocks to sustainable urban development’, to be held online across the month of November 2020.  

For the 2021-27 period, the European Commission proposes a stronger urban and territorial dimension, making European Structural and Investment Funds even more relevant for implementing integrated urban strategies, where integration means multi-sectoral policy, multi-level and multi-stakeholder governance, and multi-territorial and community-led processes. 

The UDN webinars, based on the findings of the Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies, will provide insights from policy makers and expert guest speakers on how to tackle the main challenges faced when designing and implementing sustainable urban development strategies as supported by Cohesion Policy. Following the structure of the Handbook, the UDN webinars will be composed of six sessions, each one focusing on one of the building blocks of the EU integrated approach to urban development, namely: strategic dimension, territorial focus, governance, cross-sectoral integration, funding and finance and monitoring.

Registrations are now open