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MILMA (Migrants Labour Integration based on Acculturation) was a project funded by the EU, through the Urban Innovative Action (UIA) that promoted int...
In his 2nd journal of the MILMA project, UIA expert Dario Mazzella highlights the progress of the MILMA Project in Fuenlabrada in the last month. It ...
UIA Expert, Dario Mazella, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
How entrepreneurship education helps to face challenges in regard to inclusion in the MILMA project....
Search below for such wonders of the project, as; - how to become a common platform, with your own powers, - how to cement partnerships between all ...
This final ZOOM-IN 3 concentrates on the unexpected results of the project, of which, there are many. They are surprising and show how strong individu...
In this Journal, UIA Expert Peter Wolkowinski shows “the incredible resilience of many of the MiFriendly Cities partners and participants"....
UIA Expert Peter Wolkowinski demonstrates “how, in normal circumstances the mixing of people coming from different countries and walks of life, can be...
UIA Expert Peter Wolkowinski reveals how the project has developed its impact measurement. ...
UIA Expert Peter Wolkowinski shares that “MiFriendly Cities has been running for 18 months and to celebrate this interim juncture partners have been l...
The essential elements of creating communities, innovation and social enterprises...
UIA Expert, Peter Wolkowinski, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
A bottom-up dominated adaptation to the needs of migrants and refugees in building a ‘Coventry for all’...
Curing the Limbo, an initiative by the Athens Municipality, connects the issues of integration, housing, exchange economy and active citizenship in a ...
Curing the Limbo was an Urban Innovative Actions-funded pilot to develop a trajectory for refugees to find their new home through education, employmen...
Curing the Limbo is an Urban Innovative Actions-funded project to develop a trajectory for refugees to find their new home through education, employme...
This journal accompanies Curing the Limbo in its past half year of progress. ...
This Journal accompanies Curing the Limbo in its past half year of progress. By giving an account of the main activities and achievements of each proj...
UIA Expert, Levente Polyak, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
Mapping the Victoria neighbourhood in Athens....
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. ...
UIA Expert Christoph Reinprecht has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of ...
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 Daniel de Torres reflects on main takeaways from the project one year after its closure: “Thanks to the lessons learned, the project's appr...
This third and final zoom-in on the Plan Einstein project aims to provide a view of the project from the perspective of the intercultural approach. Al...
UIA Expert Daniel de Torres explains how “The final months of the project have focused on completing the actions and outputs foreseen in the work plan...
Get to know better what Utrecht is doing on the integration of migrants and refugees in this UIA Expert journal....
UIA Expert Dani de Torres has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Utrech...
UIA Expert Daniel de Torres highlights in this video the steps taken to create the project’s coffee of the world....
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 ...
UIA Expert Daniel de Torres shares the latest insights....
Is the Plan Einstein (U-RLP) project contributing to the creation of a new narrative on the reception of refugees?...
Here is the Final Journal of 5Bridges project led by the City of Nantes. Enjoy reading the project experience and finding inspiration by adopting, imp...
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...
In his 6th and final journal, UIA Expert Nils Scheffler “focuses on presenting the lessons learned and recommendations from the 3-year long project, (...
UIA Expert Nils Scheffler explores how “USE-IT! has set up a free accredited community research training programme to train interested local people do...
Take a look at the latest developments!...
UIA Expert Nils Scheffler has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Birmin...
Third journal tells us how this complex project is being delivered and how it’s facing its challenges...
Interim results, lessons learnt and further actions needed....
Get to know better what Birmingham is doing on urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal. ...
In this first Zoom-In, the UIA Expert Nils Scheffler looked at one key element of the USE-IT! Project: the creation of a community of social enterpris...
UIA Expert Nils Scheffler shares the project’s insights on how to qualify 180 local overseas migrants to become employees for the British health syste...
Get to know better what Bologna is doing on the topic integration of migrants and refugees in this UIA Expert journal....
What happened to B-MINCOME during the pandemic when people lost their jobs or had their incomes cut? In September 2021, the Barcelona City Council an...
In a moment where welfare state has been retrenched and the public support becomes pivotal to respond to people’s needs arising from rapid and unstabl...
The B-MINCOME project is already in place. Nevertheless, as long as this pilot is made-up of different Active Social Policies, they should be consider...
In this first Zoom-in, Laura Colini, UIA Expert for B-MINCOME shows the approach taken by the project of combining the Guaranteed Minimum Income to di...
Get to know better what Barcelona is doing on the urban poverty topic in this UIA Expert journal. ...
With the end of the selection process of the 2000 families included in the different pilot schemes for Minimum Income, the project has now fully enter...
The Legacy of CURANT is a short video documentary telling the story of what is left of the project after its end. Through a series of interviews to me...
In his 5th journal of CURANT, UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli discusses about the legacy of the project and the concrete things that stay behind - for the ...
UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Antwer...
In his 4th journal of CURANT, UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli discusses the significance of a holistic approach to integration and the potential contributio...
Get to know better what Antwerp is doing in this UIA Expert journal!...
With 39 duos of young refugees and local buddies already cohabitating, the delivery of the new modular housing units and a wide range of active inclus...
UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli dives into the details!...
The City of Verona, Italy, has presented S.T.E.P.S. (Shared Time Enhances People Solidarity) at an expert workshop organised by the Joint Research Cen...
The Project CAMINA finished in June 2024. With this Final Journal, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, provides an overview of CAMINA focusing on project outp...
The last activity implemented by CAMINA (the project ended in June 2023) was the implementation of a “Cultural Circular Route” aimed at re-connecting ...
On 26 June 2024 the UIA projects focused on culture and cultural heritage CAMINA and H.ID.RA.N.T organised a joint online final event called “Engage.A...
On 8 May 2023 at the online webinar organised by ARCHETHICS, an URBACT Action Planning Network, CAMINA project was presented by the delivery partners ...
Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 3rd Journal, focuses on the “Civic Curators”, the collaborative laboratories to co-design and implement cultural p...
Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 2nd Journal, focuses on the Novel Collective City Narrative, built up with the contribution of Almería citizens an...
In this first episode developed for the project “CAMINA”, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, introduces the Novel Collective Narrative of Almería’s Cultural ...
Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 1st Journal, provides an overview of the policy context at local and international level, in which CAMINA has been...
« Collage van Gent » project selected by the CoGhent Co-creation Fund proposing a participatory collage of elements coming from Ghent’s collections pr...
One of the 4 scenarios elaborated during the NEXT COGHENT workshop reusing the CoGhent building blocks (photo credit: Strategic Design Scenarios)....
Cover of the Collection of Ghent webinar the 20th of June 2023 https://www.collectie.gent/kalender/collections-of-ghent-unfolds-webinar-english (photo...
Multi-screens interactive display where visitors can navigate stories combining museum collections and populations’ memories (photo credit: F. Jégou)...
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“I see many and rich ingredients in this project, but I don’t see how the cake will look like at the end?”. This is the metaphor, slightly provocative...
I asked Paul Cornelissen, thematic project manager of ForwArt about his vision on youth empowerment and how is he turning it into reality within proje...
The occassion of the UIA officer Isabella Schneble's visit to Tilburg North provided an opportunity to have a glimpse into the artistic activities wit...
"Arts and culture deserve a similar acknowledgement of their relation to sustainable development as sport, as they have been proven to have social imp...
"A generation apart" - this frequent term makes us aware that youth participation is not an easy task to perform since those youngsters are at least a...
One of the cornerstones of the Home & Care project is the integration of people who, due to their life situation, their background, and their skills a...
In the UIA project Home & Care, professional and social integration of single parents is tested with a new support model. Being a single parent in Ger...
In the UIA-project "home and care" of the city of Landshut, single mothers who work in the health care sector and single mothers who do an apprentices...
In the home and care project, a new form of childcare is being developed that enables mothers with their children and childminders to live together un...
The UIA project home and care targets the the further qualification of child minders to become educators and child day care workers. In doing so the e...
The Home and Care project in the German city of Landshut has set itself a goal. It wants to try out innovative ways to protect people from impending p...
The corona pandemic meant that the first contacts between the employees in the home and care project in Landshut / Germany and the UIA expert Prof. Dr...
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This Journal marks the end of the Capacityes project, which has successfully wrapped up its activities in its final year. The journey wasn't easy, esp...
On Saturday, 6 May 2023, an event organised by the Municipality of Bergamo, the CAPACITyES project partners, together with stakeholders from the local...
The Capacityes project revolves around three central initiatives that reflect the regenerative path in Bergamo, with a particular focus on the Borgo P...
The annual national meeting of ANCI, which this year was held in Bergamo, was an opportunity to have a moment of direct comparison with various Italia...
This zoom-in, the second and final one of CAPACITyES, highlights how difficult it can be to complete redevelopment works in a period characterized by ...
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 APTBC project has invested significant efforts in improving the parks in the central neighbourhoods of Seraing, which are the least green areas of...
This article is based on an interview with Aurélie Portois, currently project coordinator at the Maison du Peuple, and on some preliminary drafts cont...
While the project was concluded in August 2023, this final issue of the journal offers a critical reflection on the challenges faced during implementa...
This article is about the final event of the APTBC project, which took place in June 2023. The article presents how the results, ambitions and expecta...
The project A Place to Be-Come has recently closed. Ahead of the final event, all the project partners have shared their ideas about what the project’...
One goal of the project is to improve residents’ relationship with their local parks. This improvement involves on the one side improving the material...
'La Ruche à projets' has stopped being the APTBC temporary creative hub in central Seraing. However, it will not close its doors and its role as a com...
The third edition of the journal covers almost the entire 2022. The implementation of most of the project actions has been completed and the remaining...
The A Place To Be-Come project is built around one great idea: that inclusion can be promoted by building a community of local citizens eager to devel...
The city of Seraing has a bold plan to redevelop its post-industrial territory after decades of decline. In particular, some urban projects, such as a...
In Seraing, two shelters welcome people experiencing homelessness or great discomfort associated with instable and precarious conditions of life. The ...
This second journal covers the year 2021, between the first year and a half and second year and a half of implementation of the A Place To Be-Come pro...
Last October, a delegation composed by three members of the APTBC project management team, two city officials from Seraing and the UIA expert spent th...
In this journal, UIA expert Francesca Ansaloni provides an account of difficulties, challenges and achievements of A Place To Be-Come's first year of ...
La Maison du Peuple was built in 1916 in Seraing as a gathering place for the working class. “Before, social-democrat activists gathered in the old th...
Julien Bebronne and Lauranne Liégeois are respectively APTBC coordinator and project officer for Arebs, the municipal agency in charge of the project ...
A Place To Be-Come aims to tackle urban poverty in Seraing by investing in people and the enhancement of their well-being. This goal is expected to be...
UIA projects have a transformative impact on urban environments by driving sustainable innovation, improving the quality of life for citizens, and pro...
Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world, and climate risks threaten people’s health and several aspects of their well-being. According to...
The European Renovation Wave initiative is a crucial response to the pressing issue of energy poverty. The initiative is built upon the national long-...
This is the third journal of the Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU) project since its start in September 2019. EPIU, led by Municipality of Getaf...
Domestic energy consumption data is considered personal data, at least as per the Spanish Supreme court declared in 2019 (STS 2484/2019). In the proje...
Public procurement refers to the process by which public sector organizations acquire goods, services, or construction projects from external supplier...
Consolidating the demand of a new public service is one of the challenges that urban authorities face when they innovate and design new services. One ...
There is a pressing need to identify effective policy solutions to inspire locally driven low-carbon transitions in EU cities. UIA has led a two-year ...
Synergies between projects can generate a wide range of opportunities for municipalities. For example, the ability to share knowledge and best practic...
In scientific terms, an ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather or landscape, work together to f...
Energy prices are at record highs and remain volatile in Europe. Situations of energy poverty are exacerbating and families in Europe are struggling t...
This is the second journal of the Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU) project since its start in September 2019. EPIU led by Municipality of Getaf...
At corporate level, a business model is a strategy for operating a business. It describes how a company will generate value for its customers. Althoug...
In this article, UIA Expert Marta Garcia interviews the mayor of Getafe, Sara Hernández, to explore how the municipality is integrating EPIU, the UIA ...
Implementing an Urban Innovation Action implies a degree of risk for local authorities and a committed leadership is a requisite for municipal led inn...
Energy poverty is a situation in which households are unable to access essential energy services. With nearly 34 million Europeans unable to afford to...
This is the first journal of the Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU) project since its start on September 2019. EPIU led by Municipaility of Getaf...
UIA expert Simone d'Antonio provides the final updates on the activities carried out in the framework of Cluj Future of Work, such as the final event ...
The final event of Cluj Future of Work was a great opportunity for connecting the local audience to the topics of the UIA project...
The third Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on the stories of the finalists of the CULTUREPRENEURS programme, the acceleration initiative at the core ...
The results of the capitalization visit carried out by the team of Cluj Future of Work and the UIA expert to reflect on the future of work in cultural...
The cross-fertilization action carried out by three UIA projects shares interesting elements contributing to the European debate on the skills needed ...
UIA Expert Simone d'Antonio provides updates on the most interesting activities carried out in the framework of Cluj Future of Work. Among these, the...
The kick-off of the entrepreneurial educational programme of Cluj Future of Work paves the way to the promotion of a collaborative approach towards th...
The partners of Cluj Future of Work and the participants to the Culturepreneurs programme are testing new ways for producing and distributing culture,...
In a city as, Cluj-Napoca, which had the highest economic growth rate in Romania in the last decade, the alliance between public authorities, private ...
The elaboration of future scenarios may be decisive for reimagining the future of work: Cluj-Napoca is using a wide range of methodologies to imagine ...
Local community can be part of the collaborative effort of reflection on the future of work: Cluj-Napoca is involving experts, academics, stakeholders...
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...
COVID-19 and its effects continue to be a reality in Mataró, but also for the project 'Yes, we rent!'. ...
In his 2nd Zoom-in, UIA expert of the Curing the Limbo project in Athens, Levente Polyak, explores how education and training activities within the pr...
In this second zoom-in output developed for the project “CAMINA”, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, focuses on the “Civic Curators”, an innovative concept p...
On 21st February 2023 the Municipality of Almeria officially launched the activity of “Civic Curators - Social Laboratories for co-designing cultural ...
On the 21st and 22nd April 2022, CAMINA hosted the project officer Nelida Hancco-Herrera for a field visit in the places interested by the cultural an...
The project “Community Awakening and Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería (CAMINA)” has been fostering a new approach to promote Cultural Pa...
Across Ghent and beyond......
In this final episode of the ForwArt podcast series, we sit down with Inez Raskovac, project manager, and Ulco Mes, cultural policy programme officer ...
A Commitment to Youth Empowerment. A dedicated team of young individuals is making a difference through the Noordvoerders platform. Bridgebuilders bet...
Join me as we delve into the impact of art interventions, hear inspiring stories from artists and young people as we discuss how art can be a catalyst...
Discussion about how the gender perspective became important in ForwArt project and how to give space to women in a neighbourhood renewal process....
Children's imagination can make our cities more welcoming and harbingers of inclusion-oriented messages, of symbolic meanings that can enrich our expe...
On February 2020, the Centre Public d’Action Social (CPAS) - the local institution that delivers social aid - and the project partner Natagora - a gra...
The second Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on CREIC, the Regional Center of Excellence for Creative Industries that is hosting the Labs of Cluj Futu...
The first Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on Pata-Rât, a Roma settlement located near the city landfill which is one of the main focus of the Urban ...
Fuenlabrada_MILMA_UIAExpertJournal2 (March 2019)
Fuenlabrada_MILMA_UIAExpertJournal1 (Nvb 2018)
Fuenlabrada_MILMA_Expert Zoom-in 1 (Feb 2019)
Coventry_Mifriendly_UIAExpert Journal 3 (Octb 2019)
Coventry_MiFriendly Cities_UIAExpertJournal 2 (May 2019)
Coventry_MIFRIENDLY CITIES_Zoom-in 1 (Feb 2019)
Coventry_MIFriendly_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2018)
Coventry Journal 4: ‘Share My Language’ sessions
MiFriendlyCities @Coventry - Journal 5
Coventry Zoom-in 2_Changing realities in the West Midlands
A guide to developing a MiFriendly City
MiFriendly Cities Evaluation Report
Athens' lessons shared - Curing the Limbo
Athens_Curing The Limbo_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2019)
Athens_Curing The Limbo_UIAExpertJournal1 (Nvb 2018)
Athens_Curing The Limbo_Case Study Affordable Housing
Vienna_CoRE_UIAExpertJournal3 (May 2019)
Vienna_CoRE_UIAExpertJournal2 (July 2018)
Vienna_CoRE_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)
Utrecht_URLP_Journal 5 (Octb 2019)
Utrecht_U-RLP_UIAExpertJournal4 (March 2019)
Utrecht_U-RLP_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Utrecht_URLP_Discover the project!
Utrecht_U-RLP_UIAExpertJournal2 (June 2018)
Utrecht_U-RLP_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)
U-RLP Infographics
U-RLP in a few slides
Utrecht - U-RLP - UIA Expert Zoom-in 2 (July 2019)
Nantes_5Bridges_Zoom in 1 (December 2018)
Nantes_5Bridges_UIAExpertJournal 2 (March 2019)
Nantes_5Bridges_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Dcb 2017)
Zoom-in_Community research for a community-oriented urban regeneration
Birmingham_USE-IT_Journal 5 (Octb 2019)
Birmingham_USE-IT_UIAExpertJournal4 (March 2019)
Birmingham_USE-IT_UIA Zoom-in 2 (March 2019)
Birmingham_USE-IT_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Birmingham_USE-IT_Zoom-in1 (September 2018)
Birmingham_USE-IT_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2018)
Birmingham_USEIT_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)
Bologna_SALUS_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Dcb 2017)
Barcelona_B-MINCOME_Journal 5
Barcelona_B-MINCOME_UIAExpertJournal 4 (Sptb 2019)
Barcelona_B-MINCOME_Zoom in 1
Barcelona_BMINCOME_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Barcelona_B-MINCOME_UIAExpertJournal 2 (may 2018)
Barcelona_BMINCOME_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)
Final Evaluation report
Policy recommendations
Antwerp_CURANT_Journal 5 (Octb 2019)
CURANT_Evaluation report Octb 2019_PDF
Antwerp_CURANT_Project brochure
Antwerp_CURANT_Expert Zoom-in 2 (July 2019)
Antwerp_CURANT_UIAExpertJournal4 (June 2019)
CURANT 2nd Evaluation Report
Antwerp_CURANT_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Antwerp_CURANT_Zoom-in 1 (July 2018)
Antwerp_CURANT_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2018)
Antwerp_CURANT_Working paper_PDF
Antwerp_CURANT_Evaluation report_PDF
Antwerp_CURANT_UIAExpertJournal1 (Decb 2017)
Antwerp - Report - Co-housing and case management for unaccompanied young refugees
CURANT @Antwerp - Journal 6
Home and care - Final evaluation report
Home and care - Policy paper
Cluj Future of Work project Journal1