URGENT - Urban Re-Generation: European Network of Towns
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Original Title
URGENT - Urban Re-Generation: European Network of Towns
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Duration
1 September 2016–31 August 2018 -
Lead Partner
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Project Leader
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Financial Source
Europe for Citizens Program
Partners
City of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Rede DLBC Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Kallipolis, Trieste, Italy, European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Amphictyony, Athens, Greece, Municipality of Kumanovo, Kumanovo, Republic of Macedonia, Fundación Privada Indera, Barcelona, Spain, Local Councils’ Association, Marsa, Malta, SPES – Associazione Promozione e Solidarietà, Roma, Italy, Association of Albanian Municipalities, Albania, SSIIM Unesco Chair, Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, Italy, Local Democracy Agency Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Municipality of Novo Mesto
The Slovene Migration Institute (ZRC SAZU) is an observer of the project URGENT - Urban Re-Generation: European Network of Towns, coordinated by ALDA - the European Association for Local Democracy, Strasbourg.
In today’s Europe we are reaching alarming levels of urban fragmentation, inequality and structural socio-spatial divisions within our cities, feeding extremism and radicalisation. Most vulnerable people are often bound to concentrate in disadvantaged areas where social exclusion and deprivation usually overlap with multi-ethnicity, which further challenges social cohesion. Increasingly marginalized and stigmatised, these areas and their inhabitants are pushed into a vicious circle of poverty.
In this context, and through a bottom-up approach to raise local awareness on the urgent need to establish new connections among inhabitants of marginalized neighbourhoods and those of central areas, URGENT aims at tackling the growing fear of immigration, which feeds euroscepticist attitudes.
The co-observer of the project is the Association for the Development of Voluntary Work Novo mesto, Slovenia.
