Why is Lisbon’s community economic development approach so important in Europe today?

Bairros (Neighbourhoods) and areas of priority interventions BIP/ZIP

Lisbon has developed a participative model for working in deprived neighbourhoods using the instrument of Community Led Local Development (CLLD) funded by the European Regional Development Fund. There are very few models of urban CLLD across Europe. Lisbon and the Hague are the two best examples. This paper looks in detail at the BIP/ZIP in Lisbon, which has been awarded an URBACT Good Practice Label in 2017.

The Lisbon BIP/ZIP strategy aims to promote social and territorial cohesion, active citizenship, self-organisation and community participation. Lisbon’s approach addresses the fracture of communities due to social, economic and environmental issues. When Lisbon started BIP/ZIP in 2010 their main idea was to identify neighbourhoods that were lacking social cohesion and suffered poor socio/economic, urban and environmental conditions. Most of all these areas lacked a meaningful connection between local citizens and the local authorities and so BIP/ZIP sought to build a new relationship through working together on relatively small projects of less than 50,000 EUR to improve conditions. The programme has been running across two EU programme periods starting in 2010 before the new CLLD article in the regulation. It is funded out of the National Operational programme (ERDF).

The Design of BIP/ZIP: A first mapping of the city’s social and territorial fractures

WORKING SESSION OF ULG BARCELONA: EXPLORING CONNECTIONS AMONG ACTIONS.

By Sebastià Riutort (Barcelona, Lead Partner of the URBinclusion network). Integrated approach is one of the URBACT challenges of Implementation Networks (IN). The Guidelines that deal with this issue suggest some tools or methodologies that have the intention to get IN-members think about integration. Within the ULG of Barcelona we discussed about the synergies and interactions of the 7 actions which are part of the Implementation Plan.

The dilemma of fighting urban poverty: invest into poor people or into poor places?

This article provides an insight into URBACT’s work on urban poverty and its contribution to the Urban Poverty Partnership of the Urban Agenda for the European Union. At URBACT City Festival 2018, the walkshop 5 “Tackling urban poverty from the ground up” on 14 September will deal with these issues. 

Housing at the URBACT festival 2018: from the EU Urban Agenda to Lisbon (PT)

Affordable and adequate housing is one of the theme Lab sessions at URBACT City Festival taking place in Lisbon, 13-14 September 2018. This text serves the purpose of introducing to the housing debates in Lisbon, linking them to the work of the EU urban agenda (EU UA) on affordable housing.

Challenging housing conditions in Lisbon

Social media to strengthen local commerce: The case of the Semaest in Paris

Foram aprovadas, pelo Comité de Monitorização URBACT, 23 Redes de Planeamento de Ação, as quais envolvem 26 países e 203 parceiros. A decisão teve lugar no dia 25 de junho de 2019, na reunião realizada em Alba Iulia. Com a aprovação destas redes, concluem-se os procedimentos concursais no âmbito do URBACT III.

Every single house is interesting!

There is a little square two-minutes from your flat. You have seen it many times on your daily route. You perhaps even recognised that it is somehow unique. Nothing special, no outstanding architectural value, but lovely and always full of life. And would be great to explore once.

A week-end of Open Houses initiated in Budapest (HU) (budapest100.hu)

VIDEO: LIVE INTERACTIVE DEBATE: CONSERVATION THROUGH DEVELOPMENT

During the meeting celebrated last february in the city of Kortrijk, in the Crown Room of the Texture Museum, one session was also opened to other participants and live streaming through Facebook Live and included interactive Q&A.

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Tech Revolution – the art of the possible

CSI Europe Regulation Conference Report

'Volunteering Cities' a Powerful Model for European Cities

To develop the innovative policies necessary to face the currently emerging multidimensional social needs in cities such as elderly and children care, social isolation and depression, poverty, addiction, just to name some, it is necessary to create collective learning processes based on exchange and peer to peer learning.