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Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) projects will test new and unproven solutions to address urban challenges. Thanks to their experimental nature they have the potential to create a wealth of experience, practices, lessons learnt and recommendations during their implementation. For this reason, the UIA aims to capture this great source of knowledge in an analytical and story-telling format in order to reach-out to urban authorities across Europe as well as to urban practitioners and specialised organisations.

On 14 April, a total of 206 applications were successfully submitted to the UIA initiative. This article provides a sneak preview of 2nd Call statistics and an insight into which Member States are the most represented, the most popular topics, the type and size of urban authorities and delivery partners involved and the size of partnerships.

You have applied to our second Call for Proposals? Find here information about the state of play of the selection procedure and the next milestones.

The Urban Partnership for Air Quality is developing "Guidelines for Cities - Air Quality Action Plans" and to this end, it needs to collect evidence on the way cities are drafting and implementing existing Air Quality Plans. Fill in the questionnaire to contribute.

After the testimoy of Turin, read the story from the city of Rotterdam, one of the three urban authorities that have built upon their experiences in URBACT to design an innovative UIA project.

The 2nd UIA Call for Proposals was closed the 14th of April 2017, and we received 206 applications. This call has a total budget of 50 million EUR and a focus on 3 topics: Integration of migrants and refugees, Urban mobility, Circular economy. Read our news to know what comes next!

We interviewed Anne Wetzel, Director of the Europe department of the Hauts-de-France Region. She tells us about what it means to be an Entrusted Entity, how they worked to set up the UIA Initiative and what their daily role is.

The first and second UIA Call for Proposals have both included the topic of the integration of migrants and refugees. Here we explore the topic’s importance for the UIA and what our first funded projects are implementing.

With the 17 projects approved in the first UIA Call for Proposals now concretely starting their implementation activities and still a few weeks before the deadline of the second Call for Proposals closes, it was time for the Permanent Secretariat to draw some initial lessons from the first Call. Raffaele Barbato, Project Coordinator, looked at the proposals submitted in the first Call, and more especially at the approved projects, to identify trends and specificities in terms of innovation but also of partnerships and measurability of results.

URBACT and UIA agreed to produce a series of interviews that will tell the story of how three urban authorities have built upon their experiences as part of the URBACT Programme to design innovative and successful UIA projects.