While the city has been developing multiple strategies of civic management in the past (that is a community association managing a public resource), Barcelona is hoping to turn this practice into a community management strategy. This meaning that the association managing the public resource should not only serve the purpose of the organization itself but it also should have its own mechanisms to be connected to the surrounding community interests and needs. The shift from Civic Management to Community Management implies incorporating a form of democratic and participatory governance, understanding that the entire community must be able to participate in the resource.

To strengthen, support and promote these communitarian experiences, the Barcelona City Council, with the support of different kinds of social stakeholders, developed in 2017 the Community Use and Management of Citizen Assets Programme. The programme has defined two main guidelines, the Community Balance and the Citizen Assets Catalogue.”

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In 2018 the slot conference of the URBACT project Refill concerning the temporary use of vacant spaces took place in the beautiful Saint Jozef Church in Ghent. At that time, the City was planning on buying this church and ‘giving it back’ to the neighbourhood citizens. After the positive experience in the Refill project, the City decided to participate in the URBACT project Civic eState, concerning the co-management by the city and its citizens of city assets and chose the Saint Jozef Church as the main pilot project.” (https://urbact.eu/establishing-connections-intermediate-spaces-policy-participation-ghent)

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“Together with the city of Prešov, we got the idea of how to enrich this festival and its next years and involve the whole public closer to the world of architecture, design, planning, functionality and implementation of all this”, said Peter Marcinko, organizer of the Festival.” (https://urbact.eu/city-oasis-pre%C5%A1ov)

https://urbact.eu/city-oasis-pre%C5%A1ov

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In Iaşi, the asset identified for the transfer process is represented by a former high-school canteen, and the intention of the Municipality, following the discussions within our local working group, is to use the building as a Municipal Robotics Center for children and young people. The Municipality plan also to carry out some rehabilitation works in order to use it to its full potential. The community dimensions involved in the project local working group are represented by various basic sectors, such as public administration, private, knowledge and NGOs.” (https://urbact.eu/first-steps-taken-ia%C5%9Fi-experiment-urban-commons)

https://urbact.eu/first-steps-taken-ia%C5%9Fi-experiment-urban-commons

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