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This article shows how the Home Silk Road project is part of a bigger strategy to use temporary urban planning and architecture to provide solutions t...
Article on the opening of BaklAAVA restaurant/caterers on the Home Silk Road site...
A look back at the impact of COVID19 on Home Silk Road ...
Point de CHU...T is a rap and slam project developed at the initiative of young people living in emergency shelter on the site of the Home Silk Road U...
This journal describes implementation challenges in the second phase of the Home Silk Road project. This project is testing an innovative housing solu...
Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) and URBACT are joining forces to push the right to housing...
This Zoom-In takes a close look at how the Home Silk Road UIA Project fits into the broader Housing First strategy of the Metropole of Lyon. Housing F...
UIA Expert Ruth Owen presents Lyon’s initial challenges, the most relevant of which is “the participative approach for co-implementation. Using cultu...
You want to capture the change that your project is bringing at local level? The new monitoring and evaluation platform is now online: browse through ...
UIA Expert Christoph Reinprecht and the CORE team produce a video on a key part of the project’s empowerment work stream. ...
Get to know better what Vienna is doing on the integration of migrants and refugees in this UIA Expert journal. ...
In his third journal, UIA Expert Christoph Reinprecht guides us through the role and relevance of voluntary activity both from the angle of refugee (s...
UIA Expert Christoph Reinprecht has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of ...
The VILAWATT project was implemented to secure a stable energy transition process through the setting of an innovative governance structure (local pub...
UIA Expert Lucia Fuselli has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Viladec...
Get to know better what Viladecans is doing on the topic energy transition in this UIA Expert journal....
UIA Expert Lucia Fuselli has developed a PPT slide show to discuss how the Vilawatt project in Viladecans has approached communication, stakeholder pa...
Stay up-to-date with the latest achievements of Viladecans...
Vilawatt is currently considered to be a Spanish example in social innovation and community energy, at a time when energy poverty and energy access ar...
In his 3rd Journal, Freek Spinnewijn summarizes the activities that took place in the last months in the 5Bridges project....
Get to know better what Nantes is doing on the topic urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal....
In his 2nd journal of 5Bridges, UIA expert Freek Spinnewijn looks into how the project has left behind a difficult period and entered one with more op...
This zoom-in explores the potential of a strong link being established between the 5Bridges project and the recent national Housing First strategy lau...
Get to know better what Paris is doing on energy transition in this UIA Expert journal. ...
UIA Expert Juan de las Cuevas has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Pa...
Get the latest news about Paris’ innovative action...
UIA Expert Juan Ramon de las Cuevas and the CoRDEES team have produced a video to explain the main elements of this Energy transition project. ...
In his 6th journal of BRIDGE, UIA expert Eddy Adams looks into the lessons generated by the project – the ones that are left behind for other cities. ...
The pandemic and its aftermath have major consequences for international work. City authorities, and those working with them, need to adapt and develo...
Rotterdam and Madrid are developing innovative jobs and skills solutions through Urban Innovative Actions. Both address the challenge of raising skill...
Read the final report with conclusions from the jobs and skills in the local economy capitalisation activities...
In his 4th journal of BRIDGE, UIA expert Eddy Adams looks into the future legacy of the project. To name but a few, the high-level Work Learning Agree...
Get to know better what Rotterdam is doing on jobs and skills in this UIA Expert journal. ...
UIA Expert Eddy Adams has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Rotterdam ...
UIA Expert Eddy Adams highlights in this video animation the main elements of the BRIDGE project set in Rotterdam-South. ...
Read about the progress with a specific focus on monitoring and evaluation...
When the UIA Initiative was officially launched in 2015, the media headlines all over Europe were reporting dramatic stories of tens of thousands of r...
Read the opinion of Marcelline Bonneau, UIA expert for the Antwerp Circular South project, on supporting sustainable consumption practices....
Mataro's tenants housing cooperative, Bloc Cooperatiu, provides affordable rental housing reactivating private vacant flats. This article describes ho...
The city of Mataró has developed an innovative housing project to provide affordable housing in the private rental market. In order to learn from the ...
On 18th of February 2021, the notary LOPEZ & ALBIOL formally approved Mataro’s new tenants housing cooperative ‘BlocCooperatiu’. Dedicated residents o...
UIA Expert Nils Scheffler updates us how “the acquisition of empty flats as well as the training of troubled adolescents for the renovation of the emp...
COVID-19 and its effects continue to be a reality in Mataró, but also for the project 'Yes, we rent!'. ...
Interview with Laura Font Mela, director of Salesians Sant Jordi-PES Mataró, how they have successfully shifted their physical training program for tr...
Yes, We Rent! – Training vulnerable young adults...
On 28th of September the time had come. The first owner, Antonio Martínez, signed the contract to make his empty flat available to the 'Yes, we rent!'...
UIA Expert Nils Scheffler explains that “so far, no serious challenges for the project have arisen. There is a quite strong political and administrati...
In order to acquire apartments for the 'Yes, we Rent!' housing scheme, the first information campaign measures were started and first apartments visit...
Mataró faces the problem of “people without flats and flats without people”....
Leveraging on the experience gained by transforming other OASIS Schoolyards this past year, the OASIS partnership decided to explore a different parti...
In her first Zoom-in, Maria Sitzoglou, UIA Expert for the OASIS Schoolyards project, presents the project journey from the co-design phase until the a...
The vision for healthy and cohesive neighborhoods lies at the heart of the OASIS Schoolyards project. As 9 out of 10 schoolyards are now transformed, ...
As the end of summer is approaching, governments around the world are seeking ways to safely re-open their schools and welcome their pupils in class. ...
In her 1st Journal, Maria Sitzoglou, UIA expert of the OASIS project, discusses all key activities that you need to know about it, what the project is...
UIA Expert Alena Bartonova shares insights about the first months of implementation: “the first 16 months were dedicated to development of the complex...
How can a global sanitary crisis affect a single construction project in Budapest? A taste of the housing crisis in 2021 in Budapest: “The renta...
UIA Expert Annette Kuhk “elaborates on the ambitions of the E-Co-Housing project, with a zoom-in on the specific location (Gizella út), the programme ...
UIA Expert, Peter Wolkowinski, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
The decision of the Dutch national agency for reception of asylum seekers (COA) to anticipate the closure of Plan Einstein and the transfer of asylum ...
In the Capacityes project, the active involvement of children and adolescents is reflected in the design and construction of the Hub4Kids. This struct...
The CAPACITyES project focuses on the fight against urban poverty. The added value of this approach lies in the fact that the project puts on the tabl...
Implementing projects accepted by local communities and, consequently, characterized by different types of sustainability, requires a long and methodi...
The CAPACITyES PROJECT identifies and manages the problems of urban poverty and marginalization through an urban regeneration paths characterized by ...
The low numbers of infected people during the summer made it possible to have an important dialogue with the target groups of the Capacityes project. ...
Bergamo had the great misfortune of being among the first cities in Europe to have been affected by the effects of COVID 19, when all over Europe it w...
The Tonite project includes two important urban renewal interventions. Today we talk with Valter Cavallaro and Samantha Ghirotto of the Municipality o...
In the framework of the Tonite project, a tender was launched with the goal of collecting proposals from local communities. The aims of the project ar...
Tonite project aims at improving urban security perception at night-time by providing new services with the citizens' engagement and more pro-active a...
Last April, the teams leading the Call 4 UIA Projects for urban security got together for an online meet-up: different cities, different contexts, one...
The resurgence of Coronavirus cases in recent days, making it clear that this second wave is upon us in Europe, is a good opportunity to focus our att...
Aveiro Tech City Bootcamp is an intensive training program, dedicated to unemployed, students or employed professionals looking for new career opportu...
First Zoom In of the UIA project IGNITION and visualisation of the project’s citizen engagement activities....
Workshop on Libanese food (c)Les Sens du Goût The UIA TAST’in FIVES project, taking place in the Fives neighbourhood of Lille, France, has aimed at...
Children's imagination can make our cities more welcoming and harbingers of inclusion-oriented messages, of symbolic meanings that can enrich our expe...
131 ideas for empowerment in the transition to sustainable urban mobility
Lyon_Home Silk Road_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
Vienna_CoRE_UIAExpertJournal3 (May 2019)
Vienna_CoRE_UIAExpertJournal2 (July 2018)
Vienna_CoRE_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)
Viladecans_Vilawatt_UIAExpertJournal4 (March 2019)
Viladecans_Vilawatt_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Viladecans_VILAWWAT_Zoom-in 1 (July 2018)
Viladecans_Vilawatt_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2018)
Viladecans_Vilawatt_UIA Expert Journal 1 (Dcb 2017)
Viladecans - Project Presentation - PPT
Vilawatt Infographics - setting up a project proposal
Nantes_5Bridges_Zoom in 1 (December 2018)
Nantes_5Bridges_UIAExpertJournal 2 (March 2019)
Nantes_5Bridges_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Dcb 2017)
Paris_CoRDEES_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Paris_CoRDEES_UIAExpertJournal2 (July 2018)
Paris_CoRDEES_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)
CORDEES-Transferability handbook
Rotterdam_BRIDGE_Journal 5 (Octb 2019)
Rotterdam_BRIDGE_UIAExpertJournal4 (April 2019)
Rotterdam_BRIDGE_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Rotterdam_BRIDGE_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2018)
Rotterdam_BRIDGE_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)
BRIDGE - Project description - PDF
Mataro_Yes We Rent_UIAExpert Journal (January 2020)
Yes We Rent! @Mataro- Journal 2
OASIS Expert Journal 1
Oasis booklet
Helsinki_HOPE_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
Budapest_E-Co Housing_Journal 1 (May 2020)