{"id":2,"date":"2014-06-02T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-06-04T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T10:27:24","slug":"about-urbact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About URBACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>ABOUT THE URBACT PROGRAMME<\/h2>\n<p><b style=\"color: #404040;\">&#8220;URBACT<\/b><span style=\"color: #404040;\">\u00a0is a European exchange and learning programme (*) promoting sustainable urban development. \u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">We enable\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #404040;\">CITIES<\/b><span style=\"color: #404040;\">\u00a0to work together to develop solutions to major urban challenges, reaffirming the key role they play in facing increasingly complex societal changes.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">We help cites to\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1368b9;\" href=\"http:\/\/urbact.eu\/typo3\/\/index.php?id=384&amp;letterToShow=N&amp;L=en#national_dissemination_points\" target=\"_blank\">develop<\/a><span style=\"color: #404040;\">\u00a0pragmatic\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #404040;\">SOLUTIONS<\/b><span style=\"color: #404040;\">\u00a0that are new and sustainable, and that integrate economic, social and environmental dimensions.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">We enable cities to\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #404040;\">SHARE<\/b><span style=\"color: #404040;\">\u00a0good practices and lessons learned with all professionals involved in urban policy throughout Europe.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><b style=\"color: #404040;\">URBACT is 500 cities, 29 countries and 7,000 active participants.<\/b><span style=\"color: #404040;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">URBACT is jointly financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) and the Member States.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">(*) This European programme is part of Europe\u2019s\u00a0cohesion policy: its goal is to help implement the<\/span><a style=\"color: #1368b9;\" href=\"http:\/\/urbact.eu\/typo3\/\/index.php?id=384&amp;letterToShow=L&amp;L=en#lisbon-gothenburg_strategy\" target=\"_blank\">Lisbon-Gothenburg Strategy<\/a><span style=\"color: #404040;\">,\u00a0which prioritizes competitiveness, growth and employment.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>ABOUT THE CAPITALISATION PROCESS<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;<b>Since its conception the URBACT programme has considered issues of\u00a0<b>capitalisation<\/b>\u00a0of utmost importance.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"color: #404040;\">URBACT II puts a strong emphasis on capitalisation understood as\u00a0<i>the production of new knowledge building on existing experience and knowledge coming not only from the URBACT partners but also from similar or complementary European projects\/ programmes<\/i>. Linked to the capitalisation process is the dissemination of this new knowledge in the view to foster mainstreaming of good practices and policy recommendations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"color: #404040;\">Building on the URBACT I experience, URBACT II has strengthened its capitalisation framework to consolidate and disseminate practical knowledge on sustainable urban policies. The URBACT II Programme Manual foresees that<\/p>\n<address class=\"bodytext\">\u201c<i>the needs of capitalisation will be addressed from the earliest stages of exchanges at project level (baseline studies, support from experts, common methodologies, templates, etc.) and at programme level: creation of thematic poles in charge of supporting the projects and building on their activities to develop capitalisation projects taking into account non-URBACT knowledge and needs, development of thematic dossiers, etc.<\/i>\u201d (Programme manual, factsheet 1).&#8221;<\/address>\n<address class=\"bodytext\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"bodytext\"><em>Source\u00a0of the quotes :\u00a0http:\/\/urbact.eu\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT THE URBACT PROGRAMME &#8220;URBACT\u00a0is a European exchange and learning programme (*) promoting sustainable urban development. \u00a0We enable\u00a0CITIES\u00a0to work together to develop solutions to major urban challenges, reaffirming the key role they play in facing increasingly complex societal changes.\u00a0We help cites to\u00a0develop\u00a0pragmatic\u00a0SOLUTIONS\u00a0that are new and sustainable, and that integrate economic, social and environmental dimensions.\u00a0We enable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-socialinnovationincities\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}