Registration is now open for the 9th Informed Cities Forum, taking place online 26-28 October. Organised under the title “Re-purpose. Re-charge. Re-think. Heritage and e-mobility at the crossroads”, the Forum will cast light on cultural heritage and electric mobility.

The Informed Cities Forum event series is a popular European interactive “un-”conference driven by ICLEI, which aims to bridge the gap between research, policy-making and action in sustainable development, both at and for the local level.

Through a series of interactive sessions, this year’s Forum will explore how the topics of cultural heritage and electric mobility align, and how problem solving and specific processes might be addressed differently.

Interactive sessions will explore topics such as: the role of adaptive reuse of cultural heritage in the New European Bauhaus movement; the role science plays in decision-making around electric vehicles; the accessibility of cultural heritage; future energy sources for mobility; and how obsolete transportation infrastructure can be repurposed.

Through a series of Networking Carousel’s, the Forum will also provide participants with an opportunity to connect with one another to uncover what they need to re-purpose, re-charge and re-think to increase the impact of their work.

To see the full conference programme, click here.

Speaking about the Forum and the importance of this year’s topic areas, Jasmin Miah, ICLEI Europe Governance and Social Innovation officer says: “With this year's Forum we are trying something completely new: we are bringing together two projects and topics that ordinarily wouldn’t be explored in the same conference, to see how they both want to and can create more sustainable cities; and to see how they interrelate. What are the commonalities? What are the differences in their approaches? And how can mobility and heritage maybe even work together in the future? These are questions that aren't often discussed, so let's find out!”.

The 9th Informed Cities is co-organised by the GreenCharge and OpenHeritage projects. GreenCharge aims to demonstrate how technological solutions and associated business models can be integrated and deployed to overcome barriers to wide-scale adoption of electric vehicles in ICLEI Members Barcelona (Spain), Bremen (Germany), and Oslo (Norway).

OpenHeritage identifies best practices of adaptive heritage re-use, develops inclusive governance models for overlooked heritage sites, and tests them in six Cooperative Heritage Labs across Europe.

For more information and to register to attend, click here.