URBACT The blog http://www.blog.urbact.eu URBACT, meet, exchange, produce results together and share Fri, 29 May 2009 10:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Are the young Europeans indifferent ? http://www.blog.urbact.eu/?p=9 http://www.blog.urbact.eu/?p=9#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 08:41:51 +0000 admin http://dev.blogurbact.prodinternet.com/?p=9 We sometimes hear that the young generations are selfish, passive and resigned, more interested in the last TV shows than in the world’s changes. And that they fear for their own future, not for the one of society.

The 45 young Europeans - associated to URBACT project MY Generation - who met in Rotterdam in April convey a completely different picture. They appear as involved, determined, and creative.

Coming from 11 European cities, mostly from deprived areas, they display a maturity and an energy which are precious for our cities.

But better than a long description, watch this video of their meeting…

Read more :

The URBACT newsletter article (link)
My Generation website (link)

]]> http://www.blog.urbact.eu/?feed=rss2&p=9 Welcome on URBACT’s blog http://www.blog.urbact.eu/?p=1 http://www.blog.urbact.eu/?p=1#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 10:16:40 +0000 admin http://dev.blogurbact.prodinternet.com/?p=1 Four simple ideas and a lot of passion: that is URBACT

The aim is to meet, exchange, produce results together and share. It is what we mean with our new baseline “Connecting Cities, building Successes”. URBACT is useful, it works and it is growing month after month.

Passion is a contagious virus… But it is fragile and can be affected by bureaucratic inertia.

That is why we decided to launch this blog where passion, moods, humour, rants, anecdotes can express themselves better than in official reports.

This is a collective blog, with 70 potential authors coming from URBACT community (Lead Partners, Lead Experts and the Secretariat team).

You are an urban professional or a citizen interested in urban questions? Come often to see what’s new on this blog!

Jean-Loup Drubigny

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