Start of the lay of the director's garden
February 23, 2007 10:53 AM

  In March, after the winter stop, the lay of the director's garden of the V-Tex gatebuilding will start.Up to now, the garden has been maintained and cleaned up as it was and used for neighbourhood activities like a summer brunch or the theatre play in open air.

WP 2 workshop at Kortrijk
October 5, 2006 1:48 PM

Kortrijk invited the VISP partners to a workshop on WP 2 Integrated urban planning from the 27th until the 29th of September 2006. 20 delegates from abroad and 20 projectpartners from Kortrijk assisted to the thematic workshop.

Local service economy in Kortrijk
September 8, 2006 10:49 AM

Local service economy in Kortrijk Kortrijk plays a leading role in local service economy in Flanders. This is part of social economy, in which new services on the scale of a neighbourhood, are set up in order to improve the quality of life of the users by focussing on collective and personal needs.

Spatial structure plan Kortrijk : opening exhibition
May 17, 2006 10:28 AM

                        The City of Kortrijk prepared a spatial structure plan for the city, in which the vision about spatial development in the long term is explained. It adresses how the city will develop green spaces, housing, the city centre, open spaces.

Services at home paid with service vouchers
February 7, 2006 3:34 PM

Service vouchers are a method to pay individual help at home. Service vouchers cost 6.

Ecological renovation by social economy
November 30, 2006 12:10 PM

Ethimmo, a social economy project of Kanaal 127 that renovates houses in a ecological way, presented recently the first renovated house on the neigbourhood Venning -Veemarkt. The focus in the way of working is on Housing quality and sustainable use of energy.

International competition Entente Florale
September 8, 2006 10:53 AM

International Competition Entente Florale The City of Kortrijk is nominated for the International Competition Entente Florale. On Friday the 7th of July 2006, Kortrijk received the international jury to show some local projects in greenery, who evaluated them on various criteria : greenery and flowers, ecology and environment, city development and infrastructure, culture, education and sensibilisation, tourism and recreation, cooperation and communication.

White Paper on Urban Policy
July 5, 2006 7:48 AM

        The Flemisch Community published in 2003 a white book on urban policy,The century of the city‘ which inspires also cities as Kortrijk in their vision about the development of Kortrijk. It is the result of two years of work, which started with background analyses and discussions between academics, experts and other stakeholders.

Ambassador of Social Economy
March 10, 2006 4:20 PM

                        The Secretary of the State Els Van Weert hands over the placque with the title of Ambassador to Mobiel ( Photo : Valerie Lambertyn ) During the week of social economy from the 3rd to the 10th of March, Mobiel received the title of Ambassador of Social Economy ( category Employment and Environment ) of the Secretary of the State Els Van Weert. Mobiel is a social economy project in Kortrijk that promotes environmental friendly transport by bike while providing employment for unemployed people.

Expansion of social economy project abroad
November 8, 2005 3:24 PM

Mobile Environmental Care ( MEC ) exists since 5 years and recycles plastics and cleans jerrycans in Belgium. Since last year they are located in Kanaal 127 and now they opened a mobile unit in Lille ( F).