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Culture and cultural heritage

CAMINA -Community Awakening for Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería

Almeria - Spain

How CAMINA invented a novel approach for cultural participation in Almería

Culture and cultural heritage
In this second zoom-in output developed for the project “CAMINA”, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, focuses on the “Civic Curators”, an innov..
Air quality

INNOAIR - Innovative demand responsive green public transportation for cleaner air in urban environment

Sofia - Bulgaria

INNOAIR Final Journal

Air quality
Urban poverty

EPIU - Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit

Getafe - Spain

How urbanism can contribute tackling summer energy poverty in cities

Urban poverty
Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world, and climate risks threaten people’s health and several aspects of their well-bein..
Culture and cultural heritage

CAMINA -Community Awakening for Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería

Almeria - Spain

Online final event for CAMINA and HI.D.RA.N.T.

Culture and cultural heritage
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 c..
Culture and cultural heritage

CULTURAL H.ID.RA.N.T. -CULTURAL Hidden IDentities ReAppear through Networks of WaTer

Halandri - Greece

Engage, activate, procure. Sharing and confronting knowledge, internationally.

Culture and cultural heritage
As Cutural HI.D.RA.N.T. comes to its end, outcomes and results are collected and prepared to be discussed locally, nationally and inte..
Air quality

AIR BREAK- Co-producing healthy clean commuting air spots in town

Ferrara - Italy

Citizen Science – A double-edged blade. Perspectives from the debate emerged in Ferrara

Air quality
Citizen science, a method that brings non-experts into the fold of scientific research and data collection, has emerged as a powerful t..
Urban security

To-nite - Community-based urban security

Turin - Italy

ToNite – Journal n.4 – A final update on the project and its legacy in Turin

Urban security
The UIA Expert Simone d’Antonio provides an update on what has happened with the project since its end date, with a focus on the impact..
Urban poverty

A Place to Be-Come

Seraing - Belgium

Adapt to climate change starting from green areas

Urban poverty
The APTBC project has invested significant efforts in improving the parks in the central neighbourhoods of Seraing, which are the least..
Circular economy

RE/SOURCED Renewable Energy SOlutions for URban communities based on Circular Economy policies and Dc backbones

Leiedal Intermunicipal Association - Belgium

RE/SOURCED - Journal 3

Circular economy
Our third RE/SOURCED Journal, covering Q1 2023 to Q1 2024..

UIA latest news & events

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UIA in Perspective

Reaching the end of the 2014-2020 programming period, implementing UIA and transitioning to EUI is a moment to summarize ambitions that were behind es...
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Building green cities: accessible and affordable to all!

Climate change affects and will continue to affect all Europeans. However, the magnitude of its consequences is not equitably distributed among people...
UIA Article
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The European Urban Initiative for your city!

With the official agreement signed between the Region Hauts-de-France and the European Commission, we shift from UIA to the new European Urban Initiat...
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EFZ

The European Urban Initiative: official agreement signed between the Region Hauts-de-France and the European Commission

The Region Hauts-de-France and European Commission have now officially signed an agreement for the management of the European Urban Initiative....
UIA Article
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Join us at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2022

We are back at the annual European Week of Regions and Cities 2022! Register now for our sessions and find out more details about what we have planned...
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NEB

New European Bauhaus: 20 small and medium municipalities to receive support for frontrunner projects

The Commission announces the 20 winners of the first call of the New European Bauhaus dedicated to place-based transformative projects led by small an...
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New Call for Partners: Urban Agenda for the EU Partnerships on Greening Cities and Sustainable Tourism

New call for partners to form two new Thematic Partnerships under the Urban Agenda for the EU: Sustainable Tourism and Greening Cities ...
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16 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023

Cities Forum 2023 – Together for green and just cities

The European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy is organising its biennial major event, the CITIES FORUM, on 16-17 March, ...

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