United Kingdom
Birmingham
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The Architecture of Health
When your city speaks 90 languages, you'd better make sure that your food policy makes sense in all of them. Birmingham is engaging with locals, lobbying national government and even changing the shape of the city to make healthy food the default.
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Culture is back
The outcry caused by the absence of the word ‘culture’ from the titles of any European commissioner under Ursula von der Leyen has been addressed at the last minute.
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Food Trails launches new podcast series on urban food systems
Host, Natasha Foote, previews the Food Trails podcast exploring the power of cities in shaping sustainable food systems.
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Eight webinars to ensure quality and sustainable food for all
Cities are not only more aware of their role in creating sustainable food systems, but they are also increasingly taking active roles in improving both food production and consumption for a greener, healthier, and more inclusive future.
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Why and how to develop urban food policies?
The Food Trails project is in the middle of an online series discussing why cities should have an urban food policy and how to get started with project experts and cities that have tested tools and solutions.
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Preventing food crises through collaboration
In Warsaw, cities discussed how food systems are connected and vulnerable to crises. The key to build resilience in the face of these crises lies in collaboration.
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“Culture is foundational.” A call to urban leaders
The 11-13 October Culture Forum in Birmingham highlighted arts and culture’s role in urban evolution, urging cities to weave it into their core development strategies.
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Five more cities commit to a more sustainable and inclusive culture
The Eurocities Lille Call to Action for low-carbon and more inclusive culture has now reached 41 signatories.
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Our food system is exhausted
While the current industrial food system has not been able to deliver, cities test solutions involving all stakeholders in the food chain and ask to feed their experience in national and European policy.
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Cities hungry for recognition in EU food
Last week, city representatives met in Brussels to discuss the future of food systems exchanging views with representatives of the European Commission ahead of future legislative proposals connected to food.
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Inspiring young women leaders
Women worldwide hold just 24% of senior leadership positions. Birmingham's 'Young Women into Leadership' aims to change that and to inspire young women to make history.
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10 ways to make integration gender-sensitive
About half of all migrants in the EU are women, but integration policies often leave women behind. Here are ten cities where things are different.
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How cities are helping achieve the EU’s food vision
Healthy food, produced in a sustainable way and available for all, rich and poor – a shared vision for cities across Europe. Here is what the speakers at the breakfast sessions of the EU project Food Trails brought to the table.
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Europe Day marks year of city-to-city solidarity
Europe Day on 9 May 2021 is an occasion to celebrate some of the incredible solidarity that cities have displayed over the last year.
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Early music, hope for the future
Hundreds of musicians from all over Europe play at a distance, but still together, to celebrate Early Music Day this Sunday.
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Keeping Europe together after Brexit
While the results of Brexit, the UK’s exit from the EU, are counted in gains and losses, city leaders in Europe look for common ground for future cooperation.
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“Brexit or not – we’re still in”
On day one of Brexit, British cities commit to European cooperation. “Our country might have left the European Union – but we are certainly not leaving Europe,” mayors from the network Eurocities state in a joint message.
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Polish cities call for tolerance
To mark International Tolerance Day, mayors of Polish and foreign cities appeal to respect the principles of equality.
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UK cities remain European partners despite Brexit
British cities have expressed their commitment to European cooperation even after Brexit. “City to city collaboration at a European level and cooperation within the Eurocities network has never been more important”, reads a statement of UK Core Cities.
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Setting out the path to a sustainable future for urban food policy
Now more than ever, cities are playing a role in food system transformation.
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Cities pledge over €14 billion to fight poverty and social exclusion
44 cities, representing more than 51 million citizens, have jointly pledged €14.2 billion in social investment measures towards creating a fairer, more equal and inclusive Europe.
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City dialogue on volunteering
What has been the role played by volunteers and civil society during the Covid-19 pandemic?
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New platform for knowledge sharing on social innovation
The increase of social needs requires to try out more effective, efficient and fair solutions to some of the critical problems that affect citizens’ life.
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