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Urban and Rural Wellbeing Highlights: June and July 2025

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24 July 2025

Urban and Rural Wellbeing Highlights: June and July 2025

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Don’t miss out on essential updates tailored for you! In this bimonthly recap, we spotlight for you five content items that you might have missed on the EU Proximity and Social Economy Platform. The selection includes articles, best practices, and library items related to the thematic area ‘Urban and Rural Wellbeing’.

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Editorial Team: EY

Topics
Geographical descriptors

Albania

Armenia

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

EU-27

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Türkiye

Ukraine

Other

Organisation Type

Academic / Research and VET Institutions

Business Support Organisation

Company with 250 or more employees

Cluster Organisations

Consumer Organisations

Cultural and Heritage Organisations

Destination Management & Marketing Organisations

EU Institutions

Financial Institutions and Investors

Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce

International Organisations

Local Authorities

Media / Journalist Organisations

National authorities

Networks and Federations / Confederations

NGOs / Non-profits

Notified Bodies

Regional Authorities

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

Social Economy Entity

Trade Unions

Other

  • Thematic area

    • Urban and Rural Wellbeing

  • Interlinkages with other sectors

    • Proximity and social economy

    • Agri-food

    • Construction

    • Cultural and creative industries

    • Digital

    • Electronics

    • Energy intensive industries

    • Energy-renewables

    • Health

    • Mobility, transport, automotive

    • Retail

    • Textile

    • Tourism

    • Aerospace and defence

  • Action areas and keywords

    • 15-minute city

    • Access to Finance

    • Access to technology

    • Addressing capacity and skills gap

    • Advancing gender equality and safety at work

    • Blue Economy

    • Boosting digital skills by - and in the social economy

    • Buy social

    • Certification, labelling and self-regulation

    • Circular Economy

    • Clusters (including Cluster of social and ecological innovation)

    • Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

    • Creating financial incentives and supportive regulation for green and circular social economy business models

    • Data Maturity and data driven business models

    • Data sharing, Data management & Code of Conduct

    • Digital Platforms

    • Digital social innovation

    • Economic democracy

    • Education

    • Future workplaces

    • Greening infrastructures and business operations

    • Housing

    • ICP rights & workers involvement

    • Industrial relation and social dialogue

    • Innovation

    • Innovation as enabler for green transition and business development in the social economy

    • Internationalisation

    • Local employment

    • Local Green Deals, green business communities and citizens’ initiatives

    • Local Markets

    • Micro mobility

    • New business models

    • New business models – the platform economy

    • New European Bauhaus

    • Other action area

    • Public and private tech partnerships and support

    • Reinforcing Business to Business collaboration for greener and circular value chains

    • Responsible (Public) Procurement

    • Smart mobility

    • Social Finance

    • Socially oriented territorial regeneration

    • Strategy for Data

    • Supporting Digital Social Innovation & Tech for Good entrepreneurship

    • Sustainable Finance

    • Tech for Good

  • Ecosystem focus

    • Proximity economy

    • Social economy

  • Scope of activity

    • International

    • Local/neighbourhood

    • National

    • Regional

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Third community event 'Resilient communities: local solutions for social and economic growth': download here the presentation!

The event 'Resilient Communities: Local Solutions for Social and Economic Growth' took place online on Friday 27 June 2025. This was the final session in a series of three community events dedicated to information sharing and collaboration with the proximity and social economy ecosystem.

INSPIRE project

The INSPIRE project promotes wellbeing and inclusion for people living in European rural areas, through research, policy solutions and pilot interventions. It analyses social inclusion and access to social services in rural areas and provides capacity-building on social entrepreneurship to rural citizens, with an extra focus on vulnerable groups. Smart Village Labs in seven pilot areas, empower the local community and promote social entrepreneurship.

Posmo Cooperative for Ethical and Sustainable Mobility Data Management

Posmo, short for positive mobility, is a Swiss data cooperative dedicated to fostering fairness, transparency, and sustainability in the management of personal mobility data. It operates independently, developing an ethical data model that emphasises the security and rights of data contributors. 

NeedsMap: A Cooperative Platform for Community-Based Disaster Relief

NeedsMap is a cooperative digital platform that connects individuals and organisations affected by disasters with those who can offer essential resources and support. With a strong focus on community-driven aid, the platform maps needs in real-time and enables the effective matching of donations and services to those in crisis. 

BASTA!’s Capacity Building Camp on Social Reuse of Assets

From 29 to 31 May 2025, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in Brussels hosted a three-day national capacity-building camp organised by BASTA! – Belgian Antimafia: Steps Towards Awareness! as part of the RESTART project. Bringing together 25 participants, the camp explored the public and social reuse of confiscated, unoccupied, and abandoned assets through workshops, study visits, and expert-led sessions. The initiative served as a collaborative platform for legal experts, social innovators, policymakers, and civil society actors, aiming to strengthen democratic engagement and promote a new legal and economic model that repurposes assets for community benefit. The camp concluded with a call to action for a Belgian law on social reuse, drawing inspiration from practices across Europe.

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