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28 June 2018

Nilüfer shares what winning the 2017 Transformative Action Award has meant to them

An Interview with Ender Acel, Nilüfer Muncipality’s Innovation Center In 2017, Nilüfer (Turkey) won the first edition of the Transformative Action Award for their action which sought to increase civic engagement and participatory local democracy through Neighbourhood Committees. Si...

25 June 2018

Glasgow secures funding for innovative solar car park

ICLEI Member Glasgow (United Kingdom) has secured 940,000 GBP, from the European Commission, to transform a city car park into a solar power centre. The project will see the building of a huge canopy of solar panels above the council-owned car park on Duke Street that will be primarily used to powe...

27 April 2018

Does the rise of smart cities mean the end of privacy?

Each industry has a company that comes to define it, and in their approach to business, they often reveal something about the era in which they operate. As textile companies once represented the modernity ushered in by the industrial revolution, and the Ford motor company reflected fossil-fuel suppo...

6 April 2018

ICLEI Member Alba-lulia partners with tech companies to develop smart city solutions

ICLEI Member Alba-lulia (Romania) has in recent years forged partnerships with several technology companies, such as Orange Romania and Microsoft to develop smart city solutions. Through these partnerships, starting this year, Alba-Iulia will offer visitors and residents the opportunity to connect ...

28 March 2018

Giving citizens the tools to shape their city

Euan Mills, Urban Futures Lead with Future Cities Catapult, believes that new technology has the potential to revolutionise the involvement of local residents in urban planning decisions. “Citizen participation is one area the planning system is not managing very well,” says Euan. &ldqu...

16 March 2018

DGNB seminar to explore urban sustainable development through smart cities

Digitisation, the increase in digital media, information and innovation, has become widespread, impacting upon many aspects of society. Digitisation offers enormous potential for increasing the sustainability of a city, but under what conditions? The role ‘smart cities’ can play in driv...

15 February 2018

Registration open for ICLEI World Congress 2018

Registration has now opened for the ICLEI World Congress 2018, which will be held from 19-22 June in Montréal (Canada). At the ICLEI World Congress 2018, ICLEI and Ville de Montréal will bring together hundreds of mayors, governors, city staff, international organisations, business le...

14 February 2018

Smart Sustainable Cities initiative to hold workshops in Bristol and London

ICLEI Europe is partnering with Tynos Consulting, The Lunar Works, Future Earth Ltd and Resilience Brokers Ltd to host the inaugural UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Smart Sustainable Cities Initiative on 22 - 23 February in Bristol and 1 - 2 March in London. The initiative will act as a long-ter...

22 January 2018

ICLEI Regional Director Wolfgang Teubner reflects on the challenges and successes of 2017

Dear Members, Partners, Colleagues and Friends, I hope you all had a great start into 2018, and wish you health, happiness, and success for the year to come. The turn of the year is a time when we tend to look back at the year that has passed and forward to the year ahead of us, often with hope an...