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    Integration processes at city level: Hamburg, Ghent, Amadora URBACT cities Good Practices

    The refugee reception crisis of 2015-2016 brought to fore the need for common European patterns of reception and inclusion. For long decades Europe has integrated immigrants and refugees, more or less

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    How do URBACT Good Practices strive towards more sustainability together with citizens and other stakeholders?

    Striving towards sustainability together

    The occurrences and types of events and catastrophes related to climate change (environmental , biodiversity, human, social or societal concerns) have been

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    Procurement is a Cycle – monitoring is a core and continuous spoke

    The sixth transnational meeting of the Procure network took place in Koszalin, Poland on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th September 2017. The focus of the meeting was upon how cities can monitor the

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    From co-visualising the 'in between' to more integrated policies and actions? Mapping common ground in European social innovation projects

    Spin-Off' project that responds to the specific needs of the partners and will be suitable for further development and will be in compliance with the requirements of the respective Transnational

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    Two cities united by a love of good food

    As URBACT opens its first call for Transfer Networks here’s a story of how a Good Practice from one city was adapted and transferred to a completely different local context.

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    Accommodating and integrating refugees in the city of Thessaloniki: the multi-stakeholder programme REACT

    Thessaloniki has been at the forefront of the management crisis of refugee flows. The city launched its emergency response in 2015, just before the closure of the Balkan Route and the EU-Turkey common

  • Cities and digitalisation: “Adapt or die”

    How can cities benefit from digitalisation?  With dramatic headlines about jobs being destroyed by digitalisation, and many policy makers resisting change, Alison Partridge argues that the 4th

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    Can nature make your city climate-resilient?

    Among the headlines of summer 2017: disastrous floods in the South of England, Istanbul and Berlin, extreme water scarcity in Rome, wild fires damaging homes on the Croatian coast, the Côte d'Azur and

  • Emerging retail and consumer trends that challenge small cities and their centres

    Mireia Sanabria, URBACT III RetaiLink network Lead Expert

    What follows is a summary of the presentation delivered at the URBACT III City Centre Doctor network transnational meeting held in San Donà di