Explanations about Urban Practice Database ?
What is the Urban Practices Database?
The Urban Practices Database of Portico is a repository of tested urban solutions tested on the ground by cities from all over the EU, gathered to inspire urban stakeholders looking for concrete ideas to address their urban challenges. Urban practices from all over the continent and from a variety of sources, classified through precise criteria and easily searchable tags, can be browsed here in a single place.
What is an urban practice?
Urban practices are concrete answers to issues affecting urban areas, implemented previously as part of local programmes.
They have been led by cities and can be either successful or experimental, but they are all worth getting inspiration from.
Where does the Database get its urban practices from?
The Urban Practices gathered here all come from EU-based initiatives which are active in identification or funding of promising urban practices. Some of these practices might have been identified through specific calls for proposals or funding programmes; if so, a clickable labelling icon with the logo of the source will appear at the top of the practice.
Since 2015, Veszprém city (HU), through its public utility company (VKSz), has implemented climate-adaptive grassland management. This successful approach, refined through experimentation and testing, rests on three pillars:
The Entrepreneurship+ Academy equips young people with entrepreneurial skills, knowledge and attitudes, to drive innovation and support local and regional economic development.
Mataró has sought to develop further the development of its blue economy sector by transferring the practice Piraeus of a Blue Growth Initiative.
In 2012/2013 the City of Poznań (PL) and its company Poznań Social Housing Association (PTBS) decided to create an affordable housing programme, “Apartments for Graduates”, to meet the needs of university graduates and retain young talent in the city.
The Municipal Council of Volunteers (MCV) is a stable participatory governance structure that helps coordinate the activities of volunteers, creating synergies among them and enhancing the capacities to reach out groups of the population which need additional support beyond the existing public w
Com'ON is a participatory programme that enables young people to become more responsible, active and adaptive, providing a model for their peers while building trust and care in the community.
The City of Aarhus (DK) has been testing the method of including young people in the redevelopment of empty buildings since 2013.
InnoCities are the Finnish way of implementing the EU’s SUD, with green and digital transitions at its core. InnoCities are Finnish university cities that have defined lead themes for competence and development in ecosystem agreements made with the Finnish State.
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