The URBACT IV Programme is part of the European Territorial Cooperation Objective of the Structural Fund policies for the period 2021-2027. The URBACT IV Programme is financed through the European Regional Development Fund as well as IPA III and NDICI.

URBACT’s mission is to enable cities to work together and develop integrated solutions to common urban challenges, by networking, learning from one another’s experiences, drawing lessons and identifying good practices to improve urban policies.

URBACT IV will build the institutional capacity of cities needed to implement territorial strategies, it directly contributes to Policy Objective 5 in particular: a Europe closer to citizens, by supporting locally-led development strategies and sustainable urban development across the EU.

To reach this objective URBACT IV has three aims:

• Use transnational networks to improve the capacity of European cities;
• 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;
• 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.

The European Urban Initiative (EUI), funded by the European Union, supports urban areas of all sizes with innovative actions, capacity and knowledge building, involving cities in the design and implementation of policy responses to their local challenges and with an aim to strengthen the urban dimension of EU policies.

One of the strands of activities of EUI is the funding of Innovative Actions. The objective of this strand is to support cities to test transferable and scalable innovative solutions, techniques and planning models to urban challenges of EU relevance.

• Culture
• Education and training
• Environment and Climate Change
• Public Administration
• Urban Development

• Central Government
• Large Enterprises
• Legal Entities
• Local Authorities
• Other Beneficiaries
• Parliamentary Bodies
• Private Bodies
• State-owned Enterprises

Νational Contact Point for Cyprus & Greece (NUP contact details_20240112):

Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism

Person to Contact:
Maria Papoutsi
Email: mpapoutsi@mou.gr
Twitter account: @URBACT_GR_CY

Also, the Person below is a representative of Cyprus in the Monitoring Committee for the specific program:

Chrystiana Syzinou
Senior Administrative Officer

European Funds Unit (EFU), Ministry of Interior
Address: Elma House, Mnasiadou 10, 1065 Nicosia-Cyprus
Τelephone: +357 22 409920
Fax: +357 22409948
Email: csizinou@moi.gov.cy
Website: www.moi.gov.cy/efu

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For enquiries, you can reach out to us the URBACT Secretariat at communication@urbact.eu

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