Between April 8 and 10, 2025, the URBACTCity Festival took place in Wroclaw, Poland. The festival serve as a platform for collaboration and experience-sharing for European cities, aiming to establish partnerships and transfer these successful practices.
The URBACT program selected 116 good urban practices that were awarded at the festival. Among the four good practices selected from Romania is the one proposed by the Intercommunity Development Association of Satu Mare County, titled “Social Inclusion of Disadvantaged Groups: Integrating Vulnerable People, Especially the Roma, Through Education and Empowerment.” Good practices are initiatives recognized for their positive impact on communities and their ability to be implemented and adapted in other European cities.
The good practice proposed by the Intercommunity Development Association of Satu Mare County includes projects implemented by the Association over the last four years, focusing on social inclusion of disadvantaged groups and facilitating access to education and skills development for vulnerable people, including the Roma community. Through an integrated and participatory approach, the projects aimed to develop individual and community capacity, thus contributing to the reduction of social and economic marginalization of disadvantaged groups.
According to URBACT, a good practice must be impactful, participatory, integrated, relevant, and easily transferable to other European cities. The selected practices, including that of the Intercommunity Development Association of Satu Mare County, will benefit from broad promotion through URBACT’s communication channels in the 2024-2025 period.
The good practice label represents a recognition of the positive and significant impact of the projects implemented by the Association in the field of inclusion of disadvantaged groups. The Satu Mare County Intercommunity Development Association was represented at the festival by Paul Dancu and Szilágyi Márton, project managers within the Association.
