A culture of responsibility for climate action: the URBACT National Practice Transfer experience in Italy | urbact.eu

A culture of responsibility for climate action: the URBACT National Practice Transfer experience in Italy | urbact.eu

 

URBACT’s National Practice Transfer journey, Italian style

Between June 2021 and December 2022, seven medium-sized Italian cities (with populations of no more than 60 000) joined the Italian National Practice Transfer Initiative. More specifically, Avellino, Ferrara, Cuneo, Rovereto, Siena, Corigliano-Rossano and Sestri Levante successfully transferred an URBACT Good Practice developed by the commune of Mantua. 

The origins of this Good Practice can be traced back to URBACT’s C-Change Transfer Network, for which Mantua and other partner European cities committed themselves to transferring the URBACT Good Practice of Manchester's MAST (the Manchester Arts Sustainability Team). 

The following examples from the national transfer partners highlight their experience working together to understand, adapt and reuse the experiences of C-Change and Mantua. Each municipality has managed to implement small-scale actions, together with stakeholders at various levels and from different sectors, to jump-start change in line with the European Green Deal and the UN 2030 Agenda. (...)