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Yes We Rent! - Leveraging vacant private property to build up a cooperative affordable housing scheme

Mataró - Spain

Salesians Sant Jordi starts training 12 youngsters in rehabilitation works within the Yes We Rent! project

Yes We Rent! is a project coordinated by Mataró City Council (SPAIN), to try to bring solutions to the dramatic lack of affordable rental housing in t..

AVEIRO STEAM CITY - Urban Network for Upgrading STEAM Skills and Increasing Jobs Added-Value through Digital Transformation in a new economic context

Aveiro -

Promoting Aveiro Steam City project and its challenges 1st edition

Aveiro intends to establishes itself as one of the first 5g trial cities in Portugal and Europe. Within this scope Aveiro 5G Challenges will award new..

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD - Establishment of Innovative Urban Soil Based Economy Circles to Increase Local Food Self-sufficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Maribor - Slovenia

UrbanSoil4Food Zoom-in 1: Soil for our future!

UIA Expert Daniela Patti “explores the importance of soil and how the project is creating new one through urban organic and construction waste (excava..

MiFRIENDLY CITIES

Coventry - United-Kingdom

MiFriendly at the Global Peace Forum

MiFriendly Cities celebrated reaching its halfway point by partnering with RISING Global Peace Forum, which ran from 13th-15th November at Coventry Ca..

HOPE - Healthy Outdoor Premises for Everyone

Helsinki - Finland

First crowdsourced UIA HOPE citizen air quality measuring campaign

100% of the citizen of Jätkäsaari who participated to the first HOPE mobile air quality measuring campaign would recommend participating to the next c..

MILMA Project - Migrants Labour Integration Model based on Acculturation Project

Fuenlabrada - Spain

MILMA project invited to share our experience in the event “Go local: supporting regions, cities and rural areas”

Enhancing the dialogue with local and regional authorities is a priority for the work on integration at EU level. Cities and regions are key actors in..

APPLAUSE - Alien Plant Species from harmful to useful with citizens' led activities

Ljubljana - Slovenia

Christmas tree made out of wood of invasive trees

As part of the APPLAUSE project, we have made wooden tree from invasive alien plants...

P4W - Passport4Work an intersectoral skills passport with gamified skills assessment and improvement

Eindhoven - The Netherlands

Kick-off of the project Passport4Work

To officially inform our local and national stakeholders, a kick-off for the project was held on Thursday June 13th. This coincided with a national da..

MILMA Project - Migrants Labour Integration Model based on Acculturation Project

Fuenlabrada - Spain

The second edition of BC Labs has just started

During September, the selection process for BC Labs was executed and finally 131 people are being trained. ..

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5th Call for Proposals – 222 applications received

5th Call for Proposals – 222 applications received

On December 12, 2019, 222 applications were successfully submitted to the UIA initiative. This article provides a preview of 5th Call statistics and a...
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Circular Economy is at the centre of many UIA projects. At the moment, UIA funds eight projects within the topic of Circular Economy under Call 2. Out...
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With the Call 5 deadline quickly approaching, do you have pressing questions that you would like to ask to the Permanent Secretariat? Individual consu...
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UIA Study – Approaches and methodologies for Monitoring and Evaluation of results– Recruitment process open

As part of its Capitalisation activities, the UIA Permanent Secretariat aims to identify the most promising experiences of Monitoring and Evaluation f...
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From URBACT to UIA: the trajectory and approach of the city of Ravenna

After the testimonies of Bologna, Rotterdam and Turin, you can now read the story from the city of Ravenna, which built upon its experiences in URBACT...
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