NEW! Urbact- best practices in urban development
Eurotowns participated in the 2008 URBACT annual Conference that took place in Montpellier in the south of France. From Sunday evening, November 30th, to Tuesday, December 2nd 2008 at midday, 450 participants representing 220 cities from forty countries attended the event.
During the official plenary sessions Metka Cernelc Chair of the Urbact Monitoring Committee and Dirk Ahner Director General of DG Regional Policy at the European Comission talked about the future of the Cohesion Policy and the territorial cooperation programmes.
Urbact projects and the methodologies that Urbact program is encouraging where presented during the two days conference.
The main points discussed in the Urbact conference were:
- The integrated approach, economic growth and sustainable development.
- The collaboration between local communities, and public-private partnership.
- The knowledge sharing, dissemination and best practices.
Regional competitiveness, Urbact projects- mainstreaming, the way to learn more about local development policies, how to promote local development urban rule, or forget the rural-urbact separation and work closely, were some of the ideas highlighted in the conference.
We need to work on the basis of the real problems.
What is the impact of challenges in our cities?
A final roundtable showed how important is the collaboration and the exchanges of experiences in a globalised world. Four specialists and practitioners from India, Canada, Brazil and Cameroon compared their approaches on urban development with those found in Europe.
To close the Annual Conference, the URBACT Secretariat invited specialists and practitioners from India, Canada, Brazil and Cameroon to compare their approaches on urban development with those found in Europe.
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MOBILITY PROJECTS
Notice of call for proposals with a view to obtaining grants for actions in the field of urban mobility.
Total funding: The program has 5.000.000 € to support de development of of sustainable mobility.
Co-financing: Co-financing will cover between 10% and 50% of the elegile costs.
Closing date for submission: 31 March 2009
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COMENIUS REGIO
The Comenius programme focuses on the first phase of education, from pre-school and primary to secondary schools. It is relevant for all members of the education community: pupils, teachers, local authorities, parents’ associations, non-government organisations, teacher training institutes, universities and all other educational staff.
Total funding: The program has 961 milion €.
Co-financing: The level of grants awarded vary depending on factors such as the type of the project and the number of countries involved.
Closing date for submission: several deadlines in 2009.
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