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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 of these projects, four are addressing the construction sector, which is recognised as one of the biggest contributors to climate change, waste production and primary recourses consumption. In order to share valuable experiences and lessons learned from these four circular construction projects, UIA organised a workshop during the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels.

As part of its Capitalisation activities, the UIA Permanent Secretariat aims to identify the most promising experiences of Monitoring and Evaluation for urban innovative interventions among ongoing UIA projects.

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 to design an innovative UIA project

The UIA Initiative has launched its fifth Call for Proposals. It will remain open from 16 September 2019 until 12 December 2019 at 2pm CET.

The Municipality of Milan organised in June a two day event to discuss the future skills, new technologies, narratives and policies with which cities are imagining new relations between production, consumption and sustainability of their agri-food systems. For that, five cities in the process of implementing 5 Urban Innovative Actions projects, Milan (OpenAgri), Madrid (Mares), Maribor (Urban Soil for Food), Pozzuoli (MAC) and Lille (Tast’in Fives) were invited to share the first results of their projects.