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The city of Murcia, with its urban DNA project and its Murcia 2020 City Strategy, leads this international work group and has become a benchmark for the rest of the cities.
The representatives of the partner cities of Urbact that visit these days the city are Genoa, Ghent, Paris, Lisbon, Palermo, Varna, Alba Iulia, Debrecen and Tartu;
in addition to the guest partner cities of Milan, Constance and Bari.
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, this morning welcomed some thirty experts in urban development from 12 European cities who are visiting Murcia to see first hand the model of success that the City has developed in the neighborhood of Santa Eulalia, with the active participation of neighbors and associations.
In total there are 33 participants from 12 cities in seven countries of the European Union and three experts from the European Commission URBACT who have met in the Plenary Hall, and have followed the presentations made by the Councilor for Modernization of the Administration , Urban Quality and Participation, José Guillén, the Councilor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesús Pacheco and the Councilor for Youth and Development Cooperation, Rebeca Pérez.
The representatives of the partner cities of Urbact that visit Murcia are Genoa, Ghent, Paris, Lisbon, Palermo, Varna, Alba Iulia, Debrecen and Tartu;
in addition to the invited partner cities of Milan, Constanza and Bari - these last two Murcia partners of the URBACT Transfer Network project.
The city of Murcia, with its urban DNA project and its Murcia 2020 City Strategy, leads this international work group and has become a benchmark for the rest of the cities.
For these initiatives the City Council has been awarded the Quality Seal 'Good Practice Label', a recognition granted to projects of excellence that the European Union considers should be shared with other European cities.
Obtaining this recognition has allowed Murcia to present itself to the next Urbact Transfer Network call as leaders.
In addition, the ADN Urbano project and the Murcia 2020 City Strategy have been selected as the best European project in the call for 'International Urban Cooperation' of the General Directorate of Regional Policy of the EC, to export to India.
The ADN Urbano project is also competing in the prestigious US contest 'Engaged Cities Award', founded in 2009 by the then mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg.
Europe is committed to the sustainable progress of cities
For more than ten years, the URBACT program has been part of the European Territorial Cooperation Program with the aim of promoting sustainable integrated urban development in cities throughout Europe.
It is an instrument of the cohesion policy, co-financed by the ERDF, which is developed in the 28 Member States of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland.
Throughout the period 2014-2020, the aim is to continue promoting sustainable integrated urban development and contribute to the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy, seeking as objectives to improve the capacity of cities in the management of integrated urban development policies and their practices and in the design of strategies and action plans and improve the process of implementation of said strategies and action plans.
In this framework, there are currently only 11 URBACT work networks funded by the European Commission.
The city of Murcia belongs to one of them, Urbact Interactive Cities (field governance and economics).
It is an innovative project that explores how digital social networks and user-generated content can contribute to improving urban management in European cities today.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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