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How to become a repair city?

Cities are important actors in the circular economy and essential facilitators to promote and support local repair. However, how to start?

We gathered all the developments within the Sharepair project in a city repair toolkit with 10 concrete actions to help cities scale up repair projects, start a Repair Café, reach as many citizens as possible and highlight the importance of repair with citizens.

Check out the city repair toolkit below!

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City repair toolkit

Check out our repair toolkit and let these 10 actions guide you towards becoming a repair city! Each action is further documented in a practical & actionable way.

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10 concrete actions to guide your city towards repair

  1. sign a repair manifest or support repair campaigns
  2. promote city repair initiatives and make professional repairers more visible
  3. introduce repair to younger generations
  4. organize or support a Repair Café or a repair event in the city
  5. put repair in the spotlight during International Repair Day
  6. facilitate an Urban Repair Centre (URC) in the city
  7. provide financial incentives for citizens to choose repair
  8. create a city repair platform
  9. guide citizens towards the best repair solutions
  10. monitor and communicate about the impact of repair in the city


Feel like you are already working on these actions, or like there is no time to waste? Send us a message and take the first step in becoming a repair city!

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The city repair toolkit consists of 10 concrete actions to help cities support, facilitate and promote local initiatives, while raising awareness about the importance of repair among citizens
Liene Blancke, city of Leuven

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