The Āgenskalns Market is case of regeneration of an old market structure in Riga done through a Private Public People Partnership. The building has been leased to a local company active in the neighbourhood, and the INHABIT Horizon 2020 provided additional resources to expand the social dimension of the project. Tesserae has trained the Local Community Activators and supported the participatory aspects and the engagement of stakeholders.
Nitra, Slovakia’s sixth-largest city, is home to 78,353 residents (2020), including migrant workers from Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and other Balkan countries, as well as a significant Roma community. While the economic base of the city is predominantly industrial, its surrounding areas maintain a strong agricultural tradition. In recent decades, Nitra has faced demographic decline […]
On June 12th, Tesserae’s researcher Luis Miguel Benavides participated in the second Exploitation Meeting of the entrepreneur incubation program of the Horizon 2020 project IN-HABIT. The event took place in Riga at the Agenskalns Market.
Online workshop organised in the frame of the IN-HABIT H2020 project 15th February 2023 – h.14 ECT Public procurement are the processes in which public institutions buy goods and services. The potential for these processes to provide benefits for local communities is huge but mostly under used in municipalities all across Europe and the world. […]
TESTO IN ITALIANO in fondo Bridge for Billions launches incubation program to promote entrepreneurship in Lucca & Pisa IN-HABIT Lucca is a European Horizon 2020 project that aims to promote inclusive health and well-being through strengthening the relationships between people and animals in the local economy and public spaces. The official partners of this project are the […]
Nitra, IN-HABIT site visit May 2022 On May 19th and 20th, our team finished the round of site-visits of the cities participating in the IN-HABIT project. The last destination was Nitra, in Slovakia, and similarly to the other visits, it proved to be a key moment to get a deeper understanding of the territory, its […]
Agenskalns market Site-visit to Riga. The Historical Āgenskalns market has just reopened! On May 9th and 10th, Lorenzo and Luis Miguel from our IN-HABIT project team visited Riga to meet with the project’s other partners, including the University of Reading and Book on a Tree. The team had the chance to visit the newly reopened Āgenskalns […]
On April 20th and 21st, Lorenzo and Luis Miguel in representation of the team of Tesserae visited Córdoba accompanied by University of Reading, Book on a Tree and Design for Change in the frame of the IN-HABIT project. The team had the chance to full-immerse for two days into the reality of Las Palmeras, the […]
On January 24th we had the pleasure of visiting the city of Lucca, one of the pilot cities of the IN-HABIT project. In this project Tesserae leads the work dedicated to the engagement of local stakeholders in the four local Private Public People Partnerships, and to support the cities in the co-design of the integrated solutions. In […]
Las Palmeras is a residential neighborhood on the periphery of Córdoba, Andalusia, built in the 1980s and 90s. Recognized as the fourth most deprived neighborhood in Spain, Las Palmeras has struggled over 50 years with high levels of socioeconomic disadvantage.