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Innovative community programs in Újbuda
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Designed with and for the user: GAVIUS employs co-creation to develop its social aid management app
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Digital transition
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Urban Agenda for the EU
MEET's workshop at the CUP4Creativity consortium meeting
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Towards new cultural services: using service design to explore user perspectives
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10 times URBACT has taken the leap towards digital
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Create your own Jungle! 
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RESILIO smart Blue-Green roofs: looking into the future
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"You have to take risks to advance - also as a politician."
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Prescribed fire
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Prescribed burning in GUARDIAN project: what could have been but never was…
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A thing we call public history
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One of the 4 scenarios elaborated during the NEXT COGHENT workshop reusing the CoGhent building blocks (photo credit: Strategic Design Scenarios).
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Next CoGhent :  Searching for CoGhent’s follow-up scenarios
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5 Bridges - Nantes
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5Bridges - Final Journal
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Procurement EPIU
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Innovation on public procurement at local level
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The Added Value of Air-Break to the City of Ferrara

After three and a half years of implementation and approaching the closure of the Air-Break project at the end of December 2023, UIA Expert Pietro L.

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Advancing Urban Mobility: Challenges, Progress, and Policy Implications of Air-Break Motivational Campaigns – Zoom-In 2
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06/12/2023
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Insights Unveiled: Air-Break Ferrara's Data-Driven Policymaking
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AIR BREAK Journal Nr. 3
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27/11/2023
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