Irish URBACT Partners Meet-up
For the third consecutive year, all active Irish partners involved in an URBACT project were invited to participate in a meet up of URBACT networks which took place in Navan (Co. Meath) on the 11th of June.
Five projects attended the event and gave an update on their URBACT journey, what has worked well, what they have learned and what their next steps entail:
- WISH CITIES, an innovative transfer network involving Dublin City Council
- CITI4UD. one of the new Transfer Network involving Dublin City Council
- PARKS, another transfer network involving Monaghan County Council
- CALL, a transfer network involving Galway City Council
- ReDAN, a transfer network involving Limerick City and County Council
This update was followed by a presentation from the first level controllers (FLC) in charge of validating expenditure claims for URBACT projects in Ireland. This opportune session ahead of the first reporting period for the Transfer Network contingent gave the FLC the opportunity to explain in detail what can be considered an eligible cost in a project and how to best prepare project claims. In turn, project partners were able to ask questions and clarifications.
The meeting was kindly hosted by Meath County Council who recently completed their In4Green project with the adoption of their Integrated Action Plan (IAP). This IAP is directly linked to the implementation of the nine decarbonisation zones within the county. The meet-up continued with a presentation and a site visit around Navan led by Meath County Council colleagues to showcase their integrated public realm and movement plan and the concrete changes it brought to the town as part of Navan 2030.
The day concluded at the Solstice arts centre with a presentation of the “take me to the river initiative”, a creative public engagement project bringing communities together in the preservation of local waterbodies in the county.
