URBACT IV

Programme area:
• EU Member States (EU27), Norway and Switzerland
• EU candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia

Thematic priorities:
Priority 1: Promoting integrated sustainable urban development through cooperation

  • Specific objective ISO6.1: Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities, in particular those mandated to manage a specific territory, and of stakeholders

Aims:
1. Use transnational networks to improve the capacity of European cities to:
a) co-design and implement Integrated Action Plans linked to common sustainable urban development challenges
b) transfer established urban good practices
c) design investment plans for replicating elements of Urban Innovative Actions

2. Improve the capacity of urban stakeholders to design and implement sustainable urban development policies, practices and innovations in an integrated, participative and place-based way

3. Ensure that URBACT knowledge and practice is made accessible to urban practitioners and policymakers to feed into local, regional, national and European urban policies, in particular through the European Urban Initiative; and contributing to the Urban Agenda for the EU

Eligible beneficiaries:
Local governments:
• cities, municipalities, towns;
• local agencies set up by a city, partially or fully owned by the city authority
• infra-municipal tiers of government
• metropolitan authorities and organized agglomerations

Other partners:
• provincial, regional and national authorities dealing with urban issues
• universities and research centres dealing with urban issues
• managing authorities of cohesion policy funds

Note: Only partners from EU Member States may act as lead partners.

Total budget: EUR 108,063,537
EU contribution: EUR 79,769,000 + EUR 5,000,000 (IPA)
Website: https://urbact.eu/
Managing Authority: French National Agency for Territorial Cohesion
Contact: URBACT Secretariat, 20 avenue de Ségur, 75007, Paris, France, email: communication@urbact.eu

Contact point in Montenegro:
• Borka Lješković, National URBACT point, email: borka.ljeskovic@mep.gov.me

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