Levente Polyak

We are proud to announce that Eutropian’s report on #integrated #territorial #development in European Urban Initiative / UIA projects is published!

In the past year, Eutropian has worked together with AEIDL (European association for innovation in local development) to explore the integrated (place-based, multi-stakeholder, participatory and cross-sectoral) development aspects of EUI / UIA projects. 

By studying the different projects funded by UIA, we aim to propose tangible good practices of integrated territorial development. 12 project have been selected and studied over 12 months.

The report is composed of an introduction presenting the methodology, key recommendations for professionals, 6 chapters that detail either the principles or key project phases and the 12 case studies.

The study is the perfect resource to accompany city practitioners in designing the new generation of sustainable urban development projects (the first EUI call has just been launched). You can read the full report here. 

In the following months, we will bring our new book Funding the Cooperative City: Community finance and the economy of civic spaces to a variety of events across Europe. We will participate at the following events:

September 22-23, Berlin: Learning from Context. Building social competence from local knowledge
September 23-26, Rome: New Generations Festival
October 4-8, Frankfurt (Oder) and Slubice: MitOst Festival
October 6-7, Berlin: Experimentdays
October 11, Budapest: OFF-Biennale Budapest
October 25-29, Madrid: Transeuropa Festival
November 16, Bilbao: Urbanbat Festival
November 22-24, Rijeka: Participatory Governance of Culture
November 28, Belgrade: Ministry of Space

Would you like to co-host a debate related to the book? Write us to info@cooperativecity.org!

In mid-July we joined the annual meeting of Arquitecturas Colectivas in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where we spoke about Funding the Cooperative City.

In Amsterdam, we gave a lecture at the Maak je Stad Academie, organised by Pakhuis de Zwijger, and consulted a series of Dutch city makers.

In early July, we helped the European Investment Bank in designing, moderating and documenting Joint CoR-JASPERS workshops on the implementation of the EU Urban Agenda in Gdansk and Athens, organised by the EIB’s Jaspers programme and the Committee of the Regions and bringing together representatives of municipalities, regional authorities and national organisations.