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Port City Territories in Action
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Connecting People, Ports, and Sustainable Futures
COST Action, launched 23/10/2024
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What does energy transition look like on a historic waterfront? 🌊
Join PACT Lisbon 2026 (25–27 Mar) to explore how decarbonization, inclusion & design can reshape port–city futures.
Abstracts open until 15 Dec 2025 → pact-costaction.eu/events

#PACT #PortCity #Lisbon2026
October 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🛳️ Field trip day! Exploring Le Havre’s port infrastructure and seeing theory come to life is always exciting. Reporting live to share key takeaways!
#PortCities #EnergyTransition #UNESCO #PACT #FieldTrip #COST
September 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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🚢 Day 2 begins with a visit to the aerial view of Le havre in the Le Havre Port Center and continues with the sum up of COST PACT including themes, methodologies and working Groups. Excited to see collaboration in action!

#PortsAndCities #Sustainability #EnergyTransition #COST #PACT
September 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🌊 Excited to kick off the PACT COST Action conference at the beautiful Port Center, Le Havre! Today we explore theoretical frameworks for inclusive energy transition with inspiring talks. Looking forward to fresh insights and collabrations🤝🌟

💫Let’s learn, share, and connect!

#COST #PACT #LeHavre
September 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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🌊🏗️ 1 day to go!
Just 3 hrs from Paris, Le Havre is a gateway city linking France to the world. 🚄🌍

Join us in our public conference & workshop!

📅 Starts tomorrow, 25–27 Sept
📍 @ Le Havre (tinyurl.com/2t3c7e3m)
&
@ Online (tinyurl.com/4phf3yp5)

#LeHavre #PACT

📷 adrien_lct on Unsplash
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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🌊🏗️ 2 days to go!
FUN FACT: Home to icons like the Normandie ocean liner, Le Havre once embodied transatlantic glamour. ⚓🌊

Join us in our public conference & workshop!

📅 25–27 Sept
📍 @ Le Havre (tinyurl.com/2t3c7e3m)
&
@ Online (tinyurl.com/4phf3yp5)

#LeHavre #PACT

📷 john_cameron on Unsplash
September 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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! Launching our audio and video page !

Watch PACT's trailer:

Port City Territories & Health: "Hamburg - Green and Blue"

www.pact-costaction.eu/videos-audio
September 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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🌊🏗️ 3 days to go!
FUN FACT: Le Havre is France’s largest container port, key to Europe’s shipping. 🚢⚓

Join us in our public conference & workshop!

📅 25–27 Sept
📍 @ Le Havre (tinyurl.com/2t3c7e3m)
&
@ Online (tinyurl.com/4phf3yp5)

#LeHavre #PACT

📷 hdbernd on Unsplash
September 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🌊🏗️ 4 days to go!
FUN FACT: Le Havre’s Église Saint-Joseph stands 107m tall with a stained-glass tower — a beacon & war memorial. ⛪✨

Join us in our public conference & workshop!

📅 25–27 Sept
📍 @ Le Havre (tinyurl.com/2t3c7e3m)
&
@ Online (tinyurl.com/4phf3yp5)

#LeHavre #PACT

📷 Siniz on Unsplash
September 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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🌊🏗️ 5 days to go!
FUN FACT: Le Havre’s 133-hectare post-war centre became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. 🌍🏛️

Join us in our public conference & workshop 🚢✨!

📅 25–27 Sept
📍 @ Le Havre (tinyurl.com/2t3c7e3m)
&
@ Online (tinyurl.com/4phf3yp5)

#LeHavre #PACT

📷 Sirisvisual on Unsplash
September 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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🌊🏗️ 6 days to go!
FUN FACT: After WWII, Le Havre was rebuilt by Auguste Perret using concrete & modular grids.

Join us in our public conference & workshop 🚢✨!

📅 25–27 Sept
📍 @ Le Havre (tinyurl.com/2t3c7e3m)
&
@ Online (tinyurl.com/4phf3yp5)

#LeHavre #PACT

📷 by David M. @ Unsplash
September 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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🌊🏗️ Just 7 days to go!
Discover Le Havre’s rich past & bold future at our free public conference + workshop.
📅 25–27 Sept
📍 @ Le Havre (tinyurl.com/2t3c7e3m)
&
@ Online (tinyurl.com/4phf3yp5)

Join us to explore how ports & cities can evolve together! 🚢✨

#LeHavre #PACT

📷 by Ines @ Unsplash
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Call for sounds!
Share your Port-City Sound! ⚓🎶
As we meet in Le Havre for the PACT's Conference, we’re creating a Sonic Map of Port Cities

How to join:
1️⃣ Upload your audio/recording here: tinyurl.com/4my3pyck

2️⃣ Or reply w/ a song → we’ll add it to our Spotify playlist!

#COST #PACT #LeHavre2025
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September 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Do you know Le Havre? Would you like to know more about how it evolved through the centuries and what plans port and city authorities have for its future?
Join us at our free public conference and workshop!
In-person:
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-person-...
Online:
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September 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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In the lead up to the public conference and workshop in Le Havre we are compiling a port city soundscape:
be it a song, an audio recording of a ship horn, waves crashing, or a poem, text, ... We would like to know what your port city sounds like to you!
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September 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Register for our public conference and workshop in Le Havre!
Find the registration links and program on our website:
www.pact-costaction.eu/events
September 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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PACT is meeting in Le Havre!

From September 25th - 27th members of PACT, experts, and researchers are meeting for a conference and workshop. 'Ports & Cities & Territories: Frameworks for an Inclusive Energy Transition' is organized by Working Group 1 (Silvia Sivo and Thanos Pallis).
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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"Sometimes I like to play city guide, and invite people over to Rotterdam who have never been here. Crucial to the route I take, is who I'm with, and how we'll hang out. "
Nathan Döding mapped the many versions of Rotterdam he has come to create for himself an others.
August 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Happy Monday!
This is the last week of our counter-mapping challenge: Did you visit a port city territory during the summer, are you living or working in one and would like to reflect on this very particular space?
August 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Do you know Tama river?
"Tama river flows from the Chichibu Mountains to Tokyo Bay, providing about 20% of Tokyo’s water and supporting hydropower" explains Yuanpeng Hou. With his counter-map Hou visualizes the effects of people's use of the river on its fish population.
August 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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What does it feel like to move to a port city? Mikaela Rands mapped her 1st year living in Seattle for our counter-mapping challenge!
August 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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"This counter-map challenges the dominant cartographic logic that treats port cities as neutral logistical nodes. Instead, it tells a spatial story of tension between nature and infrastructure, between bird song and diesel engines, between conservation and capital."
August 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Are you living or working in a port city territory or spending your vacation in one? Interested in a fun challenge?

PACT is launching a Counter-Mapping Month 👇
July 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Happy summertime!
Wherever you are spending your summer, we hope you have a wonderful time!
& in case you are spending time in a port city, do share your best pictures with us - we would love to see them: www.flickr.com/photos/20224...
July 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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PACT is getting active:
Members of Working Group 5 'Transmitting' are forming subgroups to map stakeholders in port city territories.
June 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM