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The sustainability and resilience of cities in the V4 countries is one of the most important challenges of our time, especially in the face of rapidly changing economic, social and environmental conditions. The CEURES project aims to make a comprehensive contribution to the development of municipalities in the region by collecting best practices and sharing the knowledge gained among urban planners, municipalities and practitioners.

The project has been implemented in close cooperation with the participating organisations, including the University of Hradec Králové (CZ), the Stanislaw Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PL), the Forum Regional Development Centre (SK), PONTIBUS EGTC (SK-HU) and the University of Szeged.

The CEURES project has produced a number of important results, including the collection and free availability of best practices, the development of multilingual e-learning materials providing practical knowledge, and the publication of the Central European Municipal Resilience Handbook. The aim of the project is to make the knowledge gained available to all and to support Central European cities in the long term to increase their resilience.

The CEURES project has brought together recent but scattered knowledge and best practices on municipal resilience in the V4 countries. To achieve the greatest impact, the project has implemented the following:

• Identifying best practices in each of the V4 countries
• Professional workshops
• A freely accessible selection of best practices
• Free multilingual, modular e-learning curriculum providing practical knowledge
• Pilot training
• Central European Municipal Resilience Manual, freely available

The aim of the project is to help colleagues who want to work on how our municipalities can be more resilient and adaptable in these turbulent years.

The good practices are available in the form of short e-learning videos on the Association for the Development of Human Settlements YouTube channel, with English and Hungarian subtitles, on this playlist: CEURES municipal resilience e-learning videos

The videos are also available in Czech, Polish and Slovak for those interested in urban development in the Visegrad countries:

CEURES e-learning videos in Czech

CEURES e-learning videos in Polish

CEURES e-learning videos in Polish CEURES e-learning videos in Polish

Good practice collections:

Bilingual publications of good practices observed in each country (in English and in the language of the country) can be downloaded here:

Good practices of municipal resilience in Hungary

Good practices of municipal resilience in the Czech Republic

Good practices in municipal resilience in Poland

Good practices of municipal Resilience in Poland

We have also produced an English summary volume of best practices from the four Visegrad countries, highlighted by our experts.

The handbook can be downloaded here!

CEURES presentations on urban Resilience good practices:

Czech Republic

Towns´ Pathways to Urban Resilience and Self-sufficiency

EcoMart: A Sustainable Supermarket Solution Using Wood Marcel Pikhart

Ecological Village Hostětín

Poland

Urban Meadows for an Ecological & Sustainable Urbanism

Multicultural lessons: Learning about the beauty of difference and similarity beyond boundaries. A project run by the Multicultural Center in Warsaw

Urban Transit Lab for Voices of Sustainable Mobility

Narew River Clean up in Łomża as a Local Ecological Civic Initiative

Hungary

Rain gardens as examples of community building and sustainable urban development in Kecskemét , Hungary

Piroska kommandó food and medicine delivery for elderly people during the COVID pandemic

Digitalization of in-kind social services

Energy independence at settlement level

Slovakia

Pandemic Grant Program of Novartis to Support Non-Covid Healthcare for Patients in Slovakia

Rain garden to divert rainwater from road in Šamorín

Volunteer-based cooperation to integrate war refugees in Banská Štiavnica

First-minute help for war refugees in Šamorín

Resistant suburbs – taking climate action

Grant amount: EUR 36 500.

The project is co-funded by the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia from the International Visegrad Fund Visegrad Grants. The mission of the Visegrad Fund is to promote ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

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