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February 20, 2009

Leipzig Charter on Sustainable Urban Development

The URBACT II Programme for Urban Sustainable Development is creating a Working Group on the implementation of the Leipzig Charter. The Charter is an understanding, signed in May 2007 by all EU Ministers responsible for urban development, to establish common principles and strategies for urban development policy.
The platform will:
- work on systems of reference/sets of criteria to implement the Charter principles and objectives and monitor policy implementation;
- constitute a test group to trial agreed frameworks and provide a set of related good practices in the design, monitoring and assessment of sustainable urban development policies which will be made available to all European cities; and
- react to projects from involved cities and develop concrete, realistic proposals for future actions.
Candidate cities (defined in the broadest sense and “of different scales and contexts”) are invited to submit an expression of interest or more concrete proposals to the URBACT Secretariat by 21 March.

http://urbact.eu/no_cache/home.html

Posted by iroronan at February 20, 2009 11:11 PM