{"id":6653,"date":"2013-10-25T20:04:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T19:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2013-10-25T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T19:04:54","slug":"urbact-call-open-for-proposals-to-create-pilot-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6653","title":{"rendered":"URBACT call open for proposals to create Pilot Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Following the decision of the URBACT II Monitoring Committee on 4 September 2013, an URBACT Call for proposals is now open for the creation of up to 4 Pilot Networks for the transfer of good practice in the field of integrated and sustainable urban development\u2019, closing on 4 November.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">URBACT writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>In URBACT II, the focus of exchange networks has been on fostering integrated and participative approaches to urban policies through sharing experience and practices, and improving local policies (production of Local Action Plans). The full chain of identification, transfer and validation of \u2018good practices\u2019 in the field of urban policies has barely been explored. It is proposed to experiment this \u2018capitalisation of good practices\u2019 process with small scale pilot projects under the current programme so as to explore tools and processes to be embedded in URBACT III.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot Transfer Networks shall aim to:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Support the validation of good practices through the transfer (re-use) by cities in the framework of a transnational exchange and learning project.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Identify key elements of success for the transfer of the selected practices<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Explore how transnational cooperation can support the identification, validation, dissemination and active in-take of good practices in the field of integrated sustainable urban development (in the perspective of the URBACT III programme, with a focus on the EU2020 objectives).<\/p>\n<p>More generally, these pilot Transfer networks shall allow the programme to explore how URBACT III could, building on transnational cooperation, foster and support the mapping, re-use and validation of good practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Eligible partners: EU cities<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Size of partnerships: 3-5 cities including the Lead partner city<\/p>\n<p>This call for proposals is open from 03 October until 04 November 2013, 02.00 pm CET.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">See<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/urbact.eu\/en\/news-and-events\/view-one\/news\/?entryId=5295\">LINK<\/a> <b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the decision of the URBACT II Monitoring Committee on 4 September 2013, an URBACT Call for proposals is now open for the creation of up to 4 Pilot Networks for the transfer of good practice in the field of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}