Projects

Transformative Initiative: Strengthening local fresh food markets for healthier food environments within planetary boundaries

In cities throughout Africa, marketplaces have emerged as a vital space for intervention for food systems education and awareness, for direct improvements to infrastructure and services, and locations for value-addition to food and associated livelihood generation. Based on this observation, CityFoo...

CUES

Consumers' Understanding of Eating Sustainably

CUES is a Horizon Europe-funded project, which aims to revolutionise food consumption towards more sustainable patterns by fostering a 'triple change' in culture, the food value chain, and policy.

SUBLIME

SDGs Unite Border communities as Leaders of Inclusiveness, Mobilisation and Empowerment

"SUBLIME SDGs" emphasizes the essential role of local authorities in advancing the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It empowers European border towns and islands to serve as “ambassadors” for sustainable living and climate action, equipping these local governments and the...

COM4LGD

Communities For Local Green Deals

The COM4LGD project addresses the climate crisis and social-political polarization in the EU by promoting local community development, sustainability, and democratic participation. It engages citizens in climate action and strengthens democratic processes, aiming to build a transnational grassroots ...

SPADES

SPADES (Spatial Planning And DEsign with Soil) focuses on securing soils in spatial planning and developments, as part of the Mission A Soil Deal for Europe. Researchers are tackling this in seventeen locations in ten countries in Europe. SPADES will develop, test and implement soil-inclusive practi...

CARMINE

Climate Resilient Development Pathways in Metropolitan Regions of Europe

CARMINE enhances climate resilience in European metropolitan communities by co-producing decision-support tools and strategies for local adaptation, integrating traditional and Nature-Based Solutions, and implementing its approach in eight selected case study areas.

TIPS4PED

TIPS4PED is transforming urban areas in Turin, Cork, Budapest, and Kozani by creating Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) through digital simulations. These PEDs address various challenges and contribute to Europe's climate neutrality goal by 2050.

SIRCULAR

Sustainable and Integrated people centRiC solUtions for building decArbonisation and circularity

SIRCULAR develops digital tools, methodologies, and multidisciplinary solutions to decarbonise buildings, enhance circularity, and improve access to information on decarbonisation. Its solutions will be tested in four national clusters in Estonia, Spain, Germany, and Greece.

UNPplus

The EU-funded UNPplus (UNP+) project will address the need for coordinated top-down and bottom-up initiatives, engaging city- and community-driven efforts to complement national sustainability plans.

ReHousIn

Reducing Housing Inequalities

ReHousIn aims to spark innovative policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing. For this, it investigates the complex relationship between green transition initiatives and housing inequalities in European urban and rural contexts, and develops innovative policy recommendations for bette...

GoNaturePositive!

The GoNaturePositive! project is at the forefront of a pioneering, transdisciplinary, and collaborative effort aimed at accelerating the shift towards a nature-positive economy. It aims to do this by raising awareness and initiating transformative actions amongst key stakeholders, including policyma...

SYMBA

Securing local supplY chains via the development of new Methods to assess the circularity and symbiosis of the Bio-bAsed industrial ecosystem enhancing the EU competitiveness and resource independence

The SYMBA project aims to create an innovative industrial-urban method for European countries, promoting zero-waste value chains and a shift to circular economy principles.

INCLU:DE

Climate change initiatives will be more effective when they reach all members of society, particularly vulnerable and marginalized groups who are more at risk. Social justice is therefore becoming a core goal for cities tasked with the design and implementation of climate initiatives. Cities play an...

ENPOWER

ENPOWER strives to transform traditional passive energy consumers into active energy citizens enabling them to take full control on their energy usage. The project engages with all the principal actors of the energy value chain, allowing them to achieve energy savings, increase their energy efficien...

MULTICLIMACT

MULTI-faceted CLIMate adaptation ACTions to improve resilience, preparedness and responsiveness of the built environment against multiple hazards at multiple scales

MULTICLIMACT enhances resilience in built environments, providing tools for stakeholders to assess and improve their infrastructure against climate risks, ensuring safer, sustainable communities while prioritizing human wellbeing and quality of life.

Crete Valley

Co-funded by the European Union, CRETE VALLEY is a project that will transform the Greek island of Crete into a secure, sustainable, and decentralised energy system. To accelerate a just energy transition, CRETE VALLEY will create a Renewable Energy Valley ‘Living Lab’ (REV-Lab), which will enab...

CULTIVATE

CULTIVATE is an EU-funded project aiming to increase awareness and knowledge of foodsharing initiatives (FSIs), understand what drives or hampers their practice, and foster sustainability, inclusion, and resilience in urban and peri-urban food systems through food sharing. Many FSIs already provide ...

Big Buyers Working Together

Public procurement can be a key tool in driving the development of innovative goods and services within the European market. Following the successful edition of Big Buyers for Climate and Environment, the European Commission (EC) decided to launch the ‘Big Buyers Working Together’ projec...

Adaptation AGORA

A Gathering place to cO-design and co-cReate Adaptation

AGORA aims to enhance collective resilience against climate change by establishing community-based adaptation practices in various social, economic and political contexts.

UPPER: Unleashing the Potential of Public Transport in Europe

UPPER aims to strengthen the role of public transport as the cornerstone of sustainable and innovative mobility. The project will implement a combination of measures looking to push people out of private cars and to pull them closer to public transport in cities across Europe.

WeBuySocialEU: Training and Awareness-raising Activities in Socially Responsible Procurement

The Training and Awareness-raising Activities in Socially Responsible Public Procurement is an EU-wide initiative on how to use public procurement to achieve social goals.

NetworkNature

NetworkNature gathers nature-based solutions communities, resources, projects, best practices and tools under one roof.

RECREATE

Reliability and effectiveness of integrated alternative water resources management for regional climate change adaptation

RECREATE aims to improve the resilience of water supplies and protect the status of natural water resources by facilitating the assessment and inclusion of Alternative Water Resources(AWR) in water management planning for water-scarce regions, and to increase awareness and acceptance of and trust in...

ICC Phase II

Intelligent Cities Challenge Phase II

The Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) supports cities to tackle the twin - i.e. green and digital - transition by developing Local Green Deals (LGDs). It provides them with ongoing advisory support and develops a peer-to-peer community. ICC has outlined the following key objectives:
Supporting cit...

TurnaroundMoney II

Rethinking Municipal Finance

A large part of the necessary investments for sustainability transitions, especially to reach net zero and other environmental goals, must be made at the municipal level. In many European countries, however, there are no adequate financing mechanisms to support municipal actors. Against the backgrou...

WeGenerate

Co-creating People-Centric Sustainable Neighbourhoods through Urban Regeneration

WeGenerate seeks to infuse the elements of people and co-creation in the urban regeneration processes. It fully embraces the paradigm shift from building for the people to building with the people. We – cities, citizens, communities, businesses, researchers, and practitioners – take owne...

Urban ReLeaf

Citizen-powered data ecosystems for inclusive and green urban transitions

Urban ReLeaf delivers citizen-powered data ecosystems to support cross-sectoral innovation and political agenda setting for climate change adaptation and green infrastructure planning in urban environments.
Nature-based Solutions, such as the expansion of urban greenspace and planting of trees, can...

LAND4CLIMATE

Utilisation of private land for mainstreaming nature-based solution in the systemic transformation towards a climate-resilient Europe.

LAND4CLIMATE aims to deploy and demonstrate the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) on private land. NBS are inspired by nature or natural processes. They promise to enhance the resilience of landscapes and urban settlements. However, the implementation of NBS is still in its infancy, esp...

Re-Value

Re-Valuing Urban Quality & Climate Neutrality in European Waterfront Cities

Inspired by the New European Bauhaus’ aesthetic approach to sustainability and undertaken to support the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, Re-Value takes a holistic approach to urban development considering not only the physical infrastructure but also the well-being of communities ...

NBRACER

Nature Based Solutions for Atlantic Regional Climate Resilience

NBRACER strives to enhance and foster innovative and tailor-made nature-based solutions (NbS) in the ‘Atlantic Biogeographical Area’ in Europe, building toward a climate resilient future. The project consortium gathers 30 partners representing universities, think tanks, public companies,...

European Heritage Hub

The European Heritage Hub will position cultural heritage as a driving force for Europe's climate, social and digital transformations.

Fairville

Facing inequalities and democratic challenges through co-production in cities

Fairville intends to address embedded urban inequalities and the challenge this poses to democracy in large cities and urban regions. It will do so by intervening in low-income neighbourhoods that face a growing distance from the institutions and processes of representative democracy. Fairville reim...

EcoDaLLi

ECOsystem-Based Governance with DAnube Lighthouse Living Lab for Sustainable Innovation Process

The 2030 & 2050 Green Deal goals push the EU towards integrated solutions & clear targets. EcoDaLLi, embedded in the Mission ‘Restore our Ocean, seas & waters by 2030’ will help achieve freshwater targets of the European Green Deal, integrating a systemic approach for restora...

CIVITAS MUSE

As the current Coordination and Support Action for the CIVITAS Initiative, MUSE primarily engages in support activities to boost the impact of CIVITAS Community activities on sustainable urban mobility policy. 
Its main objectives are to:

Act as a destination for knowledge developed by the ...

REALLOCATE

Rethinking how we move

REALLOCATE transforms streets into inclusive, green, safe and future-proof urban spaces, where communities live and thrive. The project enables researchers, mobility experts,  urban planners and local citizens to collectively re-imagine our cities and redesign how we move from one place to anot...

INHERIT

Next Generation Solutions for Sustainable, Inclusive, Resource-efficient and Resilient Cultural Heritage

The overall vision of INHERIT is to create a systematic methodology, accompanied by leading-edge Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and (big) data analytics, and associated social/ behavioral practices, towards sustainabl...

EUCF

European City Facility

Municipalities, local authorities, and local public entities are the driver of the European sustainable energy transition. With tremendous potential to build comprehensive sustainable investment programmes, they also play a key role in pooling smaller projects into larger investment portfolios and i...

R4C

Regions4Climate

The Regions4Climate project aims to collaboratively develop and demonstrate a socially-just transition to climate resilience. Based on cross-sectoral roadmaps developed together with regional stakeholders, the project will create and implement innovations combining sociocultural, technological, digi...

ZeroW

Systemic Innovations Towards a Zero Food Waste Supply Chain

Food waste is an enormous burden on the global food system, with a third of all food produced globally going to waste. This has a big impact on resource exploitation and world hunger. The EU-funded ZeroW project aims to reduce Food Loss & Waste (FLW) along the food supply chain, contributing to ...

B4R

Biomodel4Regions

Supporting the establishment of innovative governance models to achieve better informed decision-making processes, social engagement and innovation in the bio-based economy.

CircularInvest

Powering access to investment for next generation circular economy initiatives in cities and regions

CircularInvest will provide project development assistance to cities and regions across Europe with the aim of implementing circular economy projects and secure investments for more than €20 million.

AfriFOODLinks

Transforming Africa’s urban food environments through strengthening linkages between food system stakeholders in cities across Europe and the continent

Launched in December 2022, AfriFOODlinks is an EU funded project that aims to improve food and nutrition security, while delivering positive outcomes for climate and the environment, and building social and ecological resilience in 65+ Cities in Africa and Europe. Coordinated by ICLEI Africa, the pr...

CHORIZO

Changing practices and Habits through Open, Responsible, and social Innovation towards ZerΟ fοod waste

CHORIZO stands for Changing practices and Habits through Open, Responsible, and social Innovation towards ZerΟ fοod waste and aims to improve the understanding of how social norms (rules or expectations that are socially enforced) influence behaviour related to food loss and waste (F...

FoodCLIC

Integrated urban food policies: developing sustainability Co-benefits, spatial Linkages, social Inclusion and sectoral Connectivities to transform food systems in city-regions

FoodCLIC is a four-years EU-funded project, running from September 2022 to February 2027 and dedicated to support the development of integrated urban food policies across Europe to improve the accessibility and availability of healthy and sustainably produced food for all people and in particular fo...

FEAST

Food systems that support transitions to hEalthy And Sustainable dieTs

FEAST aims to support the EU's just transition towards healthy and sustainable dietary behaviour. This will be achieved by identifying barriers and facilitators that influence the dietary behaviour of different groups accounting for geographical, socio-economic, behavioural, gender and cultural diff...

UrbanCommunity

UrbanCommunity for Sustainable Just Cities

The UrbanCommunity project provides several rounds of micro-grants to support "urban experimenters" work building sustainable and just cities.

UTMC

Urban Transitions Mission Centre

The Urban Transitions Mission Centre (UTMC) is a global platform that promotes urban sustainability and facilitates climate-neutral transitions. The UTMC helps cities to bridge knowledge and capacity gaps by linking cities with policy, implementation, and funding solutions via exchanges that transce...

CapaCITIES

Advancing national support for climate-neutral cities

A support action for national and regional authorities to advance their governance structures and strengthen dedicated support for cities to achieve the climate-neutral Cities Mission. The project is funded under the EU Missions programme of Horizon Europe.
CapaCITIES coordinates actions across cli...

SHARED GREEN DEAL

Social sciences & Humanities for Achieving a Responsible, Equitable and Desirable GREEN DEAL

ACCTING

AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal

The ACCTING project produces knowledge and innovations to advance behavioural change for an inclusive and equal European Green Deal.

Naturance

NATURANCE is a 3.5-year Horizon Europe project which examines the technical, financial and operational feasibility and performance of solutions built on a combination of disaster risk financing and Nature-based solutions investments.
Nature-based solutions (NbS) can help to sustainably manage natur...

REDOL

Aragon's REgional Hub for circularity: Demonstration Of Local industrial-urban symbiosis initiatives

REDOL will help the city of Zaragoza (Spain) become a circular economy hub and a zero-residues city by 2040. The project will redesign five value chains for solid urban waste to reuse and valorise resources.

H4C ECoP

Hubs for Circularity European Community of Practice

Hubs for Circularity (H4C) aim to be European resource efficiency beacons, driving circular resource use and emissions reduction through industrial-urban symbiosis. The European Community of Practice (ECoP) supports H4C demos and fosters knowledge sharing for widespread adoption across Europe.

DEFINITE-CCRI

Deal Engine with finance, investment and technical expertise for the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative

DEFINITE-CCRI will launch an assistance programme dubbed a “Deal Engine Mechanism” to provide technical and financial assistance to circularity projects, demonstrate their bankability and increase the investors’ trust in circular economy innovation. Investments are expected to exceed €80 mil...

SchoolFood4Change

Shifting school meals and schools into a new paradigm, addressing public health and territorial, social and environmental resilience

Schools have the potential of being the place where young people learn about healthy diets and where a sustainable food culture can be promoted and experienced.
The EU-funded “SchoolFood4Change” (SF4C) project builds on this potential, seeing schools and school meals as catalysts for sy...

ALLIANCE

Alliance for Local green deaLs and Innovative Action for resileNt Cities and Enterprises

ALLIANCE brings together the cities of Espoo (Finland), Mannheim (Germany) and Umea (Sweden) and their local SME organisations and social economy partners into a “Local Green Deal Leadership Group”, a platform to exchange good practices, discuss challenges and support each other in the implement...

CLIMAA

Collaborative Local Impact in Aalborg and Amsterdam

CLIMAA brings together the cities of Aalborg (Denmark) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands), and the Network for Sustainable Business Development (Aalborg), MKB Amsterdam and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability to:
• Co-create a working methodology to engage and onboard local SMEs regarding...

Fair Local Green Deals

Fair Local Green Deals

The Cities of Valencia, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Wroclaw, Lodz and Ghent have joined forces with ICLEI Europe to implement the Fair Local Green Deals Project. The project puts participation at its core, aiming to find a unique tailored approach for involving citizens and other local stakeholders in each of ...

AEGIR

DigitAl and physical incrEmental renovation packaGes/systems enhancing envIronmental and energetic behaviour and use of Resources

Responding to the urgent need for a Renovation Wave to future-proof Europe's buildings, the AEGIR project develops solutions to make renovations quicker, faster and less disruptive. To this end, project partners are pioneering industrialised and modular systems as well as digital tools. Amongst othe...

SYMSITES

SYMSITES aims to develop new technologies and solutions through Industrial-Urban symbiosis (I-US), for local and regional collaborations to improve the sustainability of the use of industrial and societal resources resulting from wastewater and waste materials.

P2GreeN

P2GreeN will develop, test and adapt the use of human sanitary waste to produce safe, bio-based fertilizers for agriculture. The objective is to foster nutrient recovery of phosphorous and nitrogen between urban and rural areas.

NBS EduWORLD

NBS EduWORLD is a Horizon Europe project aimed at nurturing an NBS-literate society by supporting a just transition to a sustainable future. For this, NBS EduWORLD will create an NBS community that facilitates synergies between NBS professionals and education providers, and ensures free and easy acc...

Cultuur&Campus Putselaan

Cultuur&Campus Putselaan is a pilot for sustainable and inclusive urban development, (art) education, culture and socially relevant research, from neighborhood residents, local entrepreneurs and (art) education, schools and the municipality of Rotterdam, in the heart of Rotterdam South. Cultuur&...

RescueME

Equitable RESilience solutions to strengthen the link between CUltural landscapEs and coMmunitiEs

RescueME focuses on a landscape approach to resilience, aiming to protect cultural heritage and landscapes.

FOODPathS

Prototype Partnership for Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) for people, planet and climate’

The EU-funded project FOODPathS aims to set up a prototype of the European “Partnership for Sustainable Food Systems for people, planet and climate” - a new European governance model to co-fund future research and innovation activities at local, national and EU level. As European Food Sy...

Be.CULTOUR

Be.CULTOUR - Beyond CULtural TOURism: human-centred innovations for sustainable and circular cultural tourism

Be.CULTOUR stands for “Beyond Cultural Tourism” and aims to develop human-centred innovations for sustainable and circular cultural tourism. Led by the italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS), the project responds...

Sun4All

Energy communities for a fair energy transition in Europe

Through the Sun4All project approach, four European ‘pilot cities’ aim at facilitating access to renewable energy generation (and its economic and environmental benefits) for vulnerable households, which suffer from energy poverty and which otherwise would not have the capacity of invest...

NetZeroCities

NetZeroCities is a four-year project designed to help cities overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they face in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.

CAMPAIGNers

Citizens Acting on Mitigation Pathways through Active Implementation of a Goal-setting Network

Low-carbon lifestyles – from eating less meat, swapping a car for a bike, and switching to energy efficient devices – can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The EU-funded CAMPAIGNers project aims to revolutionise the way lifestyle transformation research is conducted and how it inform...

ENLIGHTENme

Innovative policies for improving citizens’ health and wellbeing addressing indoor and outdoor lighting

The modern urban environment has impacted human life in many ways, both positively and negatively. An often overlooked aspect of urbanisation is increased exposure to artificial light. Various artificial light sources can negatively impact the human circadian rhythm – our body's natural biolog...

FastTrack

Fostering the Acceleration of Sustainable Transport To Regions and Authorities through Capacity and Knowledge

FastTrack works with 24 local areas to help them accelerate their deployment of sustainable mobility innovations.

PSLifestyle

Co-Creating a Positive and Sustainable Lifestyle Tool with and for European Citizens

The PSLifestyle project aims to deeply engage with and mobilize citizens in eight European countries to close the action gap between climate awareness and individual action. PSLifestyle (where PS stands for “positive and sustainable”) supports data-driven momentum for sustainable behavio...

Act!onHeat

Thermal decarbonisation strategies for urban transitions

The Act!onHeat project will provide practical support to local energy planners to translate their heating and cooling strategies into action. The project will offer planners practical guidance and tools to strategically plan the decarbonisation of their local heating and cooling sector and initiate ...

BUS-GoCircular

Stimulate demand for sustainable energy skills with circularity as a driver and multifunctional green use of roofs, façades and interior elements as focus

The overall aim of BUS-GoCircular is to address and overcome the challenges of the stimulation of demand for green energy skilled workforce, along with hands-on capacity building to increase the number of skilled workforce across the value chain.

nZEB Ready

Enhancing Market Readiness for nZEB Implementation

nZEB Ready aims to increase market readiness for "near-zero energy building" (nZEB) implementation.

NICE

Innovative and Enhanced Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Water Cycle

NICE increases the availability of nature-based solutions (NbS) for circular urban water solutions, by generating knowledge for the design and implementation of NbS to create sustainable closed urban water loops.

MULTISOURCE

MULTISOURCE focuses on the intersection of nature-based solutions with the four key areas of environment, circular economy, society, and policy.

SESA

Smart Energy Solutions for Africa

SESA is a collaborative project between the European Union and nine African countries that aims at providing energy access technologies and business models that are easily replicable and generate local opportunities for economic development and social cohesion in Africa, also using European know-how...

Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

The Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine aims to help countries and regions to move away from coal towards a carbon-neutral economy, while ensuring that this transition is just. It fosters dialogue across regions and between stakeholders through knowledge-shar...

ePlanet

European Public Local Authorities’ Network for driving the Energy Transition

One of the main challenges to achieve the Energy Transition objectives is to improve the coordination between local authorities and regional governments in order to optimise the decision-making process, coherence and consistency of the implementation of energy transition measures in towns and cities...

REGILIENCE - Resilience Strategies for Regions

REGILIENCE aims to foster the adoption and wide dissemination of regional climate resilience pathways, following a demand-driven approach and bearing in mind the expertise and knowledge acquired, as well as the solutions available from Innovation Packages and other sources.
The project will develop...

CIRCULAR BIOCARBON

CIRCULAR BIOCARBON presents a first-of-a-kind flagship biorefinery designed to valorise the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) and Sewage Sludge (SS) into high added-value end and intermediate products.

UPSURGE

City-centered approach to catalyze nature-based solutions through the EU Regenerative Urban Lighthouse for pollution alleviation and regenerative development

The UPSURGE project is addressing the multitude of interconnected problems faced by cities (e.g., climate crisis, high competition for space, lack of resources, inequality, lack of regenerative governance, pollution, mental and general health) by introducing the European Regenerative Urban Lighthous...

EC2

Energy Citizenship and Energy Communities for a Clean Energy Transition

The active involvement and empowerment of the people in the energy sector is crucial to the transition to a clean energy society. Therefore, EC2 seeks to scale-up energy citizenship and energy-communities. The project provides evidence-based practical guidance to strengthen energy citizenship and th...

DREEM

Designing useR centric E-kickscooters & business models for Enhancing interModality

The use of different and optimally combined transport modes in a seamless way is one of the key challenges to achieve greater sustainability in smart cities transport systems.
Each mode of transport has its own advantages and satisfies different mobility purposes and needs. The core of new electrif...

Save the Homes

One-Stop Shops as Citizens' Hubs to support the decision making process for integrated renovations.

Data-driven Environmental and Climate Action

ICLEI Action Fund

The ICLEI Action Fund, supported by Google.org, aids local sustainability initiatives. Launched in May 2020, phase one funded six projects totalling 2.5 million euros. In 2022, phase two offered 7 million euros for seven projects focusing on climate and environmental action.

MICAT

Multiple Impacts Calculation Tool

MICAT – Multiple Impacts Calculation Tool aims to develop a comprehensive approach and user-friendly online tool to estimate the multiple impacts or multiple benefits of energy efficiency measures at three governance levels: EU, national, and local/regional.

BuiltHub

Dynamic EU building stock knowledge hub

Capturing the potential of big data to create a comprehensive and reliable community knowledge hub on the EU building stock.

MATRYCS

MATRYCS aims to utilize innovations in machine learning and big data to develop a decision-making and data analysis solution for energy efficient building.

ICC

Intelligent Cities Challenge

As a unique smart city initiative from the European Commission, the Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) has entered its second phase with a focus on the green and digital transition. It will provide its participants with technical support and knowledge-sharing opportunities to develop and implement L...

SALSIFI

Supporting Advanced Learning for Stakeholders Involved in sustainable Food systems Initiatives

SALSIFI aims to develop and implement an innovative transnational education programme reinforcing the capacity of CSA networks and civil servants at local, regional, national and EU levels to engage in collaborative public food policy-making processes. The education and training programme will parti...

COACH

Collaborative Agri-food Chains: Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers

COACH is a three-year EU-funded project which aims at facilitating collaboration between farmers, consumers, local governments and other actors to scale up short agri-food chains which rebalance farmers’ position, create win-wins for producers and consumers and drive innovation in territorial ...

SUMP PLUS

" ‘SUMP-PLUS’ is a three-year RIA, designed to address urban mobility related challenges and to exploit new opportunities, by developing a strong, rigorous evidence base through a co-created City Laboratories approach (to be demonstrated in different EU cities) building on the strengths ...

CINTRAN

Carbon Intensive Regions in Transition - Unravelling the Challenges of Structural Change

The CINTRAN project studies the complex patterns and dynamics of structural change in those carbon-intensive regions across Europe.

Big Buyers for Climate and Environment

Big Buyers for Climate and Environment is a European Commission Initiative for promoting collaboration between big public buyers in implementing strategic public procurement for sustainable solutions.
Public procurement can be a key tool in driving the development of innovative goods and services o...

POWERPOOR

Empowering Energy Poor Citizens through Joint Energy Initiatives

Energy poverty represents a serious challenge today. As a result, supporting programmes and alternative financial initiatives have emerged as a viable means to mitigate its effects on energy-poor citizens.
The EU-funded POWERPOOR project will develop support programmes/schemes for energy-poor citiz...

Uplift

Urban PoLicy Innovation to address inequality with and for Future generaTions

UPLIFT seeks to establish an innovative approach to urban policy design for reducing socio-economic inequalities.

CONEXUS

CO-producing Nature-based solutions and restored Ecosystems: transdisciplinary neXus for Urban Sustainability

Urban ecosystem renewal in EU and CELAC cities
The EU-funded CONEXUS project will co-produce, structure and promote access to contextualised knowledge by co-creating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to support the restoration of urban ecosystems.
Cities and regions in Europe (EU) and Community of Lati...

GoGreenRoutes

GO GREEN: Resilient Optimal Urban Natural, Technological and Environmental Solutions

A natural way to foster urban mental health and well-being

SAICM

Global Best Practices on Emerging Chemical Policy Issues of Concern under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is supporting a SAICM project on global best practices for emerging chemical policy issues of concern. The project overarchingly aims to achieve the sound management of chemicals throughout their lifecycle by 2020 and sound management of chemicals and waste beyo...

DECIDE

Developing Energy Communities through Informative anD collEctive actions

The focus of the project is to gain a better understanding in how to set up and roll out energy communities and energy efficiency services. The project builds on the knowledge and work within the EU Bridge initiative, ETIP SNET and others. In order to deliver this project successfully, the consortiu...

AI4CITIES

AI accelerating Cities' transition to carbon neutrality

Artificial Intelligence (AI), one of the fastest growing technologies in recent years, has the potential to play a mission-driven role in cities’ climate action plans. The AI4Cities project aims to harness this potential by bringing together leading European cities looking for energy and mobility ...

UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL ECONOMIC GROWTH

The OECD is launching a new project to support selected cities/regions in using public procurement as a strategic tool to achieve their policy objectives and priorities. The project will be implemented with the support of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability. It is open to ICLEI members, Glo...

CityLoops

Closing the loop for urban material flows

Høje-Taastrup and Roskilde (Denmark), Mikkeli (Finland), Apeldoorn (the Netherlands), Bodø (Norway), Porto (Portugal) and Seville (Spain) are the seven European cities that will pilot a series of demonstration actions on construction and demolition waste (CDW) and organic waste (OW) with the aim o...

Green City Accord

The Green City Accord is a movement of European mayors committed to safeguarding the natural environment. The Accord focuses on mobilising cities to step up their ambitions to achieve cleaner and healthier environments, thereby improving the quality of life of citizens.
The Green City Accord is a E...

Financing Greener Cities

"Financing Greener Cities" was a capacity-building event, which focused on "Strengthening the capacity of local authorities and practitioners for making informed decisions on financing nature-based solutions."

EXCESS

FlEXible user-CEntric Energy poSitive houseS

The EXCESS project builds on nearly-zero energy multi-storey building residential concepts of the four main EU climate zones towards fleXible Energy user-CEntric poSitive houseS.

Initiative for coal regions in transition

Assisting coal-intensive regions in preparing, developing and implementing just transitions to low-carbon economies.

ARCH

ARCH – Advancing Resilience of historic areas against Climate-related and other Hazards

ARCH explores climate resilience in historic parts and features of urban areas.

Big Public Buyers Initiative

The Big Public Buyers Initiative is as a platform for promoting and enabling collaboration between big public buyers on strategic public procurement to help drive the market for innovative goods and services. The main aim of the initiative is to enhance the uptake of strategic public procurement in ...

UrbanA

Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities

UrbanA synthesises innovative solutions for sustainable and just cities, building on the results of prior EU-funded research and a co-creative distillation process - a series of four Urban Arenas involving diverse city-makers.

#WeBuySocialEU

Collecting good practices and raising awareness on socially responsible public procurement

The European Commission (EC) has produced a report that collects good practices on socially responsible public procurement (SRPP), and ICLEI has supported the EC to identify these outstanding examples from local, regional, national and European buyers. ICLEI is also contribute to a raising awareness...

SONNET

Social Innovation in Energy Transitions

Co-creating a rich understanding of the diversity, processes, contributions, success and future potential of social innovation in the energy sector.

REGREEN

Based on the understanding of drivers and pressures that challenge future urban sustainability, REGREEN will substantially improve the evidence and tools for supporting co-creation of nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban settings, implementation of decision support systems for planning and governan...

EIC

European Innovation Council

The European Innovation Council (EIC) is part of the European Commission's effort to give innovative companies better opportunities to become world-leading enterprises. The EIC pilot phase was launched on 27 October 2017 as part of the Horizon 2020 work programme 2018-20. The EIC pilot will be actin...

Buying Social

ICLEI is developing an updated version of the EU Commission's Buying Social - a Guide on taking account of social considerations in public procurement

RURITAGE

Rural regeneration through systemic heritage-led strategies

Cultural heritage as a driver for sustainable growth

proGIreg

Productive Green Infrastructure for post-industrial urban regeneration

At the centre of proGIreg will be Living Labs in Dortmund (Germany), Turin (Italy), and Zagreb (Croatia) to co-design and co-implement nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban areas facing the challenge of post-industrial regeneration. Four further cities in Eastern and Southern Europe will closely int...

TripleA-reno

Attractive, Acceptable and Affordable deep Renovation by a consumers orientated and performance evidence based approach.

The project's aim is to make acceptance and decisions on deep renovation attractive for consumers by clear and meaningful information and communication on proven impact on energy, indoor environmental quality and personal health in practice.

EVERYWH2ERE

EVERYWH2ERE is a five-years “demonstration to market” project aiming to prove FC equipped gensets’ reliability via a robust and EU widespread demonstration campaign.

Handshake

Enabling the transferability of cycling innovations and assessment of its implications

Handshake supports the effective uptake of the integrated cycling solutions successfully developed by Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Munich.

C-Track 50

Putting regions on track for carbon neutrality by 2050

The project's aim is to mobilise and guide public authorities at all levels in defining long-term energy policy priorities and support local and regional authorities in developing, financing and implementing sustainable Energy and Climate Policy Plans.

OpenHeritage

Organizing, Promoting and Enabling Heritage Re-Use through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment

OpenHeritage tests selected best practices of adaptive heritage management in six Cooperative Heritage Labs established in Berlin, Lisbon, Pomaz, Rome, Sunderland and Warsaw. Drawing on the Lab’s experience, the project develops an inclusive governance model of adaptive heritage re-use.

KeepWarm

Improving the performance of district heating systems in Central and Eastern Europe

The KeepWarm project aims at accelerating cost-effective investments in the modernisation of District Heating Systems in Central and Eastern Europe, including the promotion of switching to less-polluting energy sources like renewables.

SMARTEES

Social and Market Approaches to Realizing Transition to Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Decarbonising Europe can only succeed if consumers and citizens are recognised as actors with diverse needs and interests. This is the starting assumption of the SMARTEES project. By analysing five case study clusters across Europe, the project will improve our understanding of the role of citizens ...

InnoBrokers

Innovation Procurement Brokers

The Innovation Procurement Brokers project aims to facilitate the procurement of innovative goods and services by strengthening the links between public buyers on the demand side and innovative companies on the supply side.

PROSEU

Prosumers for the Energy Union: mainstreaming active participation of citizens in the energy transition

The aim of the project is to gain knowledge about and enable the mainstreaming of the Prosumer phenomenon into the European Energy Union.

LEA Learntech Accelerator

Smart, inclusive and sustainable demand-based development of learning technology

The LEA project aims to develop a critical mass of European procurers demanding innovative learning/educational technology (learntech) solutions.

CLEVER Cities

CLEVER Cities

Hamburg, London and Milan will co-create locally tailored nature-based solutions for urban regeneration as part of the European-funded CLEVER Cities project.

European Green Capital Network - Pilot Project

Assistance in supporting and enhancing the network of European Green Capital winners and finalists

BioVoices

BIOVOICES overall aim is to ensure the engagement of all relevant stakeholder groups and tackle bio-based related challenges by establishing a multi-stakeholder platform, involving a plurality of actors (voices) with different perspectives, knowledge and experiences by animating open dialogue and mu...

GreenCharge

GreenCharge

GreenCharge will empower cities and municipalities to make the transition to zero emission/sustainable mobility with innovative business models, technologies and guidelines for cost efficient and successful deployment and operation of charging infrastructure for EVs.

EC GPP Training and Toolkit

ICLEI, together with a series of organisations from across the EU, is updating the European Commission's GPP Training Toolkit, and organising 10 training programmes for procurers in seven EU countries.

Procure2Innovate

European network of competence centres for innovation procurement

Procure2Innovate aims to improve institutional support for public procurers implementing innovation procurement in information and communication technologies (ICT) and other sectors. It will do this by establishing five new competence centres, and enlarging the scope of support offered by five exist...

EC LCC tools

EC LCC tools

Life Cycle Costing (LCC) tool development in priority product sectors such as ICT and lighting..

Connecting Nature

Connecting Nature

Coordinated by Trinity College Dublin, Connecting Nature is a partnership of 29 organisations from 16 countries which includes local authorities, communities, industry partners, NGOs and academics. Our partnership will work with 11 European cities who are investing in multi–million euro large sca...

Compete4SECAP

The Compete4SECAP project aims at helping local authorities put their existing Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) into action.

ROBUST

Rural-Urban Outlooks: Unlocking Synergies

ROBUST aims to advance our understanding of the interactions and dependencies between rural, peri-urban and urban areas and to identify and promote policies, governance models and practices that foster mutually beneficial relations.

MONAKO

Monitor nachhaltige Kommune (Sustainable City Monitor)

The project aims to support the development of effect-oriented sustainability management in communities.

NATURVATION

Nature Based Urban Innovation

We seek to develop our understanding of what nature-based solutions can achieve in cities, examine how innovation can be fostered in this domain, and contribute to realising the potential of nature-based solutions for responding to urban sustainability challenges by working with communities and stak...

ENABLE

ENABLE-Enabling Green and Blue Infrastructure Potential In Complex Socio-ecological Regions

The project aims to develop new methods and tools to maximise the capacity of green and blue interventions in neighbourhoods and metropolitan
regions, taking into account local stakeholders’ perspectives.

Urban Water Agenda 2030

UWA2030

The Urban Water Agenda 2030 process is an initiative to encourage, support and enable local governments and their water utilities to take voluntary action for complementing Member States' efforts to meet EU water policy.

CIRC-PACK

Towards circular economy in the plastic packaging value chain

CIRC-PACK will develop, test and validate a better-connected plastic packaging value chain, using a combination of alternative biobased raw materials and eco-design packaging.

Make ICT Fair

Reforming manufacture and minerals supply chains through policy, finance and public procurement

This project is a three-year EuropeanAid project aiming at improving the lives of workers and those impacted along different stages of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supply chain through research, campaigning, capacity building and advocacy.

Innopaths

INNOPATHS is a four year EU funded research project that aims to work with key economic and societal actors to generate new, state-of-the-art low-carbon pathways for the European Union.

STARS

Shared mobility opportunities and challenges for european cities

The goal is to close the gap between the potential benefits of shared vehicle services and their real impacts in terms of congestion mitigation, environmental footprints and social inclusion.

CLIC

Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural heritage adaptive reuse

The CLIC project addresses significant challenges faced in cultural heritage and landscape adaptive reuse.

WinWind

WinWind - Winning social acceptance for wind energy

The overall objective of WinWind is to enhance the socially inclusive and environmentally sound market uptake of wind energy by increasing its social acceptance in 'wind energy scarce regions' (WESR) .

PlastiCircle

Improvement of the plastic packaging waste chain from a circular economy approach

PlastiCircle aims to increase recycling rates of packaging waste in Europe by improving systems of segregation available and the environmental awareness of citizens.

ROCK

ROCK - Cultural Heritage leading urban futures

ROCK is a innovative EU project that views historic city centres as extraordinary laboratories to demonstrate how Cultural Heritage can be a unique and powerful engine of regeneration, sustainable development and economic growth for the whole city.

Circular PP

The road to circular public procurement

Circular PP aims to use public procurement in the Baltic Sea Region as a catalyst for the transition to a circular economy.

NGO Network

European NGO Network on Green Public Procurement

NGOs are well-placed to provide information to local, regional, and national governments, making them better equipped to engage in GPP. To make it easier for NGOs to work with public procurers to enhance GPP uptake, a network was established in 2016 with the support of the European Commission.

IMA-Stadt

Interministerieller Arbeitskreis „Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung in nationaler und internationaler Perspektive

Local governments play an important role within the framework of the Agenda 2030. What are the issues related to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals at the local level in Germany?

RUN

Rural Urban Nexus: Global nachhaltige Landnutzung und Urbanisierung

Developing approaches and policy recommendations directed at an integrated and sustainable rural and urban development.

INCOVER

Innovative Eco-Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater

The INCOVER project is an Innovation Action contributing to move wastewater treatment from being primarily a sanitation technology towards a bio-product recovery industry and a supplier for recycled water.

RUGGEDISED

RUGGEDISED is a smart city project that brings together three lighthouse cities: Rotterdam, Glasgow and Umeå and three follower cities: Brno, Gdansk and Parma to test, implement and accelerate the smart city model across Europe.

CIVITAS ECCENTRIC

ECCENTRIC focuses on sustainable mobility in suburban districts and innovative urban freight logistics, two important areas that have previously received less attention in urban mobility policies.

HRE

Heat Roadmap Europe

Heat Roadmap Europe (HRE) is a Horizon 2020 financed programme bringing together 24 partners (universities, research institutions, industry and city associations and a variety of relevant businesses) to map and model the heating and cooling energy systems of the 14 largest users of heat in the EU. T...

smarticipate

The smarticipate project aims to make engaging in the urban planning process easier than ever before.
By harnessing the possibilities of open data, smarticipate has created an innovative platform that puts the right information at users’ fingertips, allowing them to have their say on urban p...

BuyZET

Procuring zero emission urban delivery of goods and services

BuyZET brings together the cities of Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Oslo to develop innovative procurement plans for the zero emission urban delivery of goods and services. Four areas will be addressed: waste collection services, maintenance and repair contracts, consolidation approaches, and constructio...

CIVITAS SUMPs-Up

SUMPs-Up assists planning authorities to overcome barriers to the adoption of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs): capacity building and advice during SUMP development and implementation equip them with the knowledge and skills to do so.

CIVITAS SATELLITE

CIVITAS is a network of cities for cities dedicated to cleaner, better transport in Europe and beyond. Over 800 innovative urban transport measures and solutions in over 80 Living Lab cities across Europe since 2002 show why CIVITAS stands for City VITAlity and Sustainability.
SATELLITE functions a...

Innovative strategic plans for urban waste reduction and management

UrbanWINS

UrbanWINS aims to develop and test methods for designing and implementing Strategic Plans for Waste Prevention and Management. Cities involved will enhance urban environmental resilience and shift towards sustainable production and consumption.

Rural Urban Nexus (RUN)

Global nachhaltige Landnutzung und Urbanisierung (Global Sustainable Land Use and Urbanization)

Concepts and strategies for a global sustainable land use in context of the urbanization. Integrated concepts for a sustainable rural-urban nexus.

THERMOS

Thermal Energy Resource Modelling and Optimisation System

THERMOS is an EU Horizon 2020 funded research project which will provide advanced energy system data and models in a user-friendly open-source application to make heat network planning faster, more efficient, and more cost effective.

InnProBio

Forum for Bio-Based Innovation in Public Procurement

The InnProBio project aimed to raise awareness and increase the knowledge base of public procurement practitioners about the potential of purchasing products and services made from bio-based materials.

SPP Regions

Regional Networks for Sustainable Procurement

SPP Regions promoted the creation of regional networks of municipalities collaborating on the implementation of sustainable procurement. The seven regional networks in the project launched 40 eco-innovative tenders, saving almost 400,000 tonnes of CO2

RESIN

RESIN - Climate Resilient Infrastructures and Cities

RESIN is an interdisciplinary, practice-based research project investigating climate resilience in European cities. Through co-creation and knowledge brokerage between cities and researchers, the project is working on developing practical and applicable tools to support cities in designing and imple...

CEPPI

Coordinated energy-related PPIs actions for cities

CEPPI aims to build capacity in cities to achieve more sustainable energy solutions through a pro-innovation procurement approach. The objective is to save at least 33GWh/year and develop the capacity of public authorities.

SMR - Smart Mature Resilience

Smart Mature Resilience

The Smart Mature Resilience project responds to the need for enhanced resilience in European cities.

GrowSmarter

The cities of Stockholm, Cologne, and Barcelona are demonstrating 12 smart city solutions in energy, infrastructure and transport, with the aim of encouraging other cities across Europe and the world to then replicate these solutions

GLCN

The Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement

The Global Lead City Network on Sustainable Procurement is a group of 14 cities, from all regions of the globe, committed to drive a transition to sustainable consumption and production by implementing sustainable and innovation procurement. All participating cities are acting as ambassadors of sust...

PPI4Waste

PPI4Waste

The PPI4Waste project explored mechanisms to overcome barriers to public procurement of innovation in the waste sector.

Buying Green!

Buying Green! Handbook - 3rd Edition

European Commission's flagship handbook 'Buying Green!' serves as a practical tool to assist public authorities in implementing GPP, The third edition, written by ICLEI in cooperation with PPA, took into account the revised EU Procurement Directives which were published in April 2014.

Water PiPP

Water Public Innovation Procurement Policies

Water PiPP explored new public innovation procurement methodologies and tested them in the water sector where European innovation potential is blocked by a number of bottlenecks. The project contributed to facilitating real innovation, mobilising public authorities, public and private purchasers, wa...

GreenS

Green public procurement supporters for innovative and sustainable institutional change

The main goal of GreenS was to strengthen capacity of public authorities to successfully apply GPP with priority, enhancing their ability and capacity to save energy, reduce CO2 emissions and costs by applying innovative solutions on GPP.

SOLUTIONS

Sharing Opportunities for Low Carbon Urban Transportation

SOLUTIONS aims to support the exchange on innovative and green urban mobility solutions between cities from Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean. The project brings together a wealth of experience and technical knowledge from international organisations, consultants, cities, and experts...

GPP 2020

GPP 2020 - Mainstreaming low-carbon procurement

GPP 2020 aimed to mainstream low-carbon procurement across Europe in support of the EU’s goals to achieve a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20% increase in the share of renewable energy and a 20% increase in energy efficiency by 2020.

To this end, GPP 2020 implemented more than 100...

AdoptIUWM

Adopting Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) in Indian cities

The AdoptIUWM supported two cities each in Maharashtra and Rajasthan in familiarising themselves with the concept of Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) and in plan and implementing integrated water pilot actions at local level. Key output of the project has been a step-by-step Toolkit on IUWM ...

PASTA

Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches

The PASTA - Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches project focused on the promotion and factors enabling active mobility (i.e. walking and cycling including in combination with public transport use) in cities as an innovative approach to integrate physical activity into our every...

PROBIS

PROBIS - Supporting Public Procurement of Building Innovative Solutions

The PROBIS project implemented a series of innovative energy efficient building refurbishment solutions within four pilot public procurement processes.
Solutions were implemented in Torino, Lombardy, Borlänge and Miskolc.

INNOCAT

Procurement of eco-innovative catering

INNOCAT aimed to bring together a group of public and private buyers to publish a series of tenders for eco-innovative catering products, services and solutions.

GREEN SURGE

Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy

Between 2013 and 2017 GREEN SURGE has worked on identifying and developing ways of planning, creating and managing urban green spaces whilst at the same time strengthening their biodiversity, making them accessible and available to all groups of society and promoting an economy based on green infras...

European Urban Transport Roadmap 2030

European Urban Transport Roadmap 2030 provides user-friendly policy-support tools for cities to identify which transport policies are most suited to their local context and can help them to achieve the European urban transport policy goals. More specifically, it helps cities develop the first scenar...

Eltis

The urban mobility observatory

Eltis facilitates the exchange of information, knowledge and experiences in the field of sustainable urban mobility in Europe. It is aimed at individuals working in transport as well as in related disciplines, including urban and regional development, health, energy and environmental sciences. Creat...

ENIGMA

ENIGMA - Enlightenment & Innovation Ensured through Pre-Commercial Procurement in Cities

ENIGMA is a FP7 project that aims to implement a joint transnational pre-commercial procurement (PCP) procedure in the field of public lighting. Coordinated by the city of Eindhoven, the project’s 5 partner municipalities (Eindhoven, Malmo, Stavanger, Espoo and Bassano del Grappa) cooperate on pro...

PRIMES

PRIMES - Green Public Procurement

The project aims to develop basic skills and provide hands-on support for public purchasing organisations in order to overcome barriers and implement Green Public Procurement. This will support a reduction in energy use and CO2 emissions.

Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis

The Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis (German Sustainability Award) is an annual award for sustainability that recognizes outstanding achievements by companies, local governments and individuals.

RFSC

Reference Framework for European Sustainable Cities

The Reference Framework for European Sustainable Cities (RFSC) is an online toolkit designed to help cities promote and enhance their work on integrated sustainable urban development.

E²STORMED

Improvement of energy efficiency in the water cycle by the use of innovative storm water management in smart Mediterranean cities

E²STORMED promoted the use of SuDS to improve energy efficiency in the urban water cycle and in buildings in mediterranean cities.

RAMSES

RAMSES - Science for Cities in Transition

RAMSES was a European research project which aimed to deliver much needed quantified evidence of the impacts of climate change and the costs and benefits of a wide range of adaptation measures, focusing on cities.

Clean Fleets Project

Clean Fleets was aimed at assisting public authorities and fleet operators to purchase clean and energy efficient vehicles, in line with the requirements of the Clean Vehicles Directive (CVD)

Poly-SUMP

Planning sustainable mobility together

Poly-SUMP, Polycentric Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, aims to develop a sustainable mobility planning methodology in polycentric regions – areas characterised by several centres, where services and goods, and therefore transport needs, are scattered in different towns.
Planning mobility in...

EUROPEAN MOBILITY WEEK

European Mobility Week is a European Commission awareness-raising campaign designed to highlight the benefits of active forms of transport to improve public health and quality of life!

iNSPiRe

Systemic energy renovation of buildings

The objective of iNSPiRe is to tackle the problem of high-energy consumption by producing systemic renovation packages that can be applied to residential and tertiary buildings. The renovation packages developed by iNSPiRe aim to reduce the primary energy consumption of a building to lower than 50 k...

HAPPI

Healthy Ageing Public Procurement of Innovations

HAPPI´s objective is to link European health public procurers to work together in order to detect and purchase innovative and sustainable which will improve ageing well. The HAPPI project brings together an original consortium of 10 partners from 6 Member States of the European Union and it is...

PPI Platform

European Public Public Procurement of Innovation Platform

The potential for the use of public procurement as an instrument to stimulate innovation has received growing emphasis in Europe in recent years. Representing 16% of European GDP, public procurement is a key source of demand and a major area in which governments are striving to improve effectiveness...

COLGEI

Coalition of Local Government for Environmental Initiative

Survey of European sustainability indicators and local implementation

WWWforEurope

WWWforEurope:Welfare, Wealth and Work

The WWWforEurope research project proposed a comprehensive strategy to set Europe on a dynamic path to a socio-ecological transition.

ISEAL Research

ISEAL Research Consultancy - The use of sustainability standards in sustainable public procurement

ISEAL Alliance, the global association for sustainability standards, in collaboration with ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, is conducting a series of interviews with a worldwide range of public sector entities. The purpose of these interviews is to undertake field-level research in or...

LOWCAP

LOWCAP-Low Carbon Regions in the North Sea

Partners from the UK, Germany, Belgium and Norway are working together to deliver a common approach towards carbon reduction and energy efficiency within the North Sea Region.
The Low Carbon Regions in the North Sea (LOWCAP) cluster project reviews and exchanges knowledge and experiences from four ...

The LANDMARK project

Moving towards socially responsible procurement

The LANDMARK project enabled European local authorities to act as key drivers for the promotion of fair working conditions in global supply chains for certain products purchased by the European public sector. By changing the consumption patterns of public authorities, the living and working conditio...

Sustainable Timber Action (STA)

Promoting fair and sustainable forestry through procurement

Sustainable Timber Action (STA) assisted European public authorities in making sure the wood/timber products they buy are produced and traded in a sustainable and fair way. Public authorities purchase significant amounts of timber products, from construction material to furniture, from packaging to ...

"Creating Landmarks" in Germany on green procurement

Anchoring green public procurement principles in curricula of training academies

The project will provide a customised and user-oriented training concept on green public procurement (GPP) for teachers and curriculum leaders from public administration training institutions in the form of train the trainer approach.

Lecturers and trainers from training academies across Germany...

URBAN-NEXUS

Furthering strategic urban research

URBAN-NEXUS will build upon and strengthen the relationship between researchers, urban policy makers, research policy makers, practitioners, SME's, and civil society organisations through engagement, collaborative prioritisation, integral dialogue and knowledge transfer.
URBAN-NEXUS will comprise t...

Realising DReAMS

Realising Development of Resources and access to Municipal Services

Both environmental degradation and poverty alleviation are urgent global challenges that are too often treated separately. With pressing development needs in Least Developed Countries, and with a growing population, approaches to such global challenges require rethinking. But when new approaches are...

EU GPP Helpdesk

Operation of an EU Helpdesk for the support and promotion of Green Public Procurement

The main idea behind the GPP Helpdesk is to promote and disseminate information about GPP, and to provide timely and accurate answers to stakeholders' enquiries. Stakeholders can send their questions by email to gpp-helpdesk@iclei.org Part of the GPP Helpdesk service are the publication of monthly n...

Asian Cities Adapt

AsianCitiesAdapt

The project aims at reducing the impact of Climate Change in target cities in India and Philippines through an integrated and cyclical management approach. In addition, the awareness about the potential risks resulting from climate change is to be strengthened and a knowledge exchange between cities...

PrimeEnergyIT

Supporting the market for energy efficient central information technologies (IT)

Supporting the market for energy efficient central information technologies (IT)

Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC) partnership

Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC) partnership – focus on Burgenland

As part of the 3-year Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC) partnership running from late 2008 – co-funded by the INTERREG IVC Programme) - ICLEI Europe has engaged in early 2010, focussing on developments in Burgenland (Austria). ICLEI Europe addressed the analysis of Burgenland carbon emissions a...

Update and revision of Buying Green!

Update and revision of Buying Green! A Handbook for environmental public procurement

Since its publication in 2004, Buying Green! has become one of the most influential documents in the promotion of GPP across the EU. It serves not only as a practical tool to assist public authorities in implementing GPP, but also has been of considerable use to national governments and other Europe...

ICT for EE

The contribution of ICT to Energy Efficiency: Local & Regional Initiatives

This project was commissioned by European Commission (DG Information Society and Media) in collaboration with the Committee of the Regions. It is a pan-European research and dissemination project focusing on local and regional initiatives for promoting energy efficiency through the direct and enabli...

Energy Efficiency in Chisinau and Sevastopol

Increasing energy efficiency of Chisinau and Sevastopol municipalities based on existing positive experiences

Urban development in Moldova and Ukraine traditionally did not deal with issues of energy efficiency (EE) since Soviet times, when energy security was not endangered and energy resources were extremely cheap. Unfortunately, since independence and with prices worldwide increasing for energy resources...

SCI-Network

Sustainable Construction and Innovation in the European Public Sector

The SCI-Network aimed to drive innovative and sustainable construction through public procurement. The project produced a guide containing a series of procurement recommendations, together with an accompanying "snapshot" case study collection.

The project was a collaboration between European cit...

ACCESSanitation

Accelerating City-to-City Exchange for Sustainable Sanitation

ACCESSanitation promoted and initiated local sustainable sanitation solutions in ten cities in the Philippines and India, thus improving health conditions, fostering the local economy and increasing food security. The project also increased the awareness of local stakeholders in Asia and Sub-Saharan...

Euro-Topten

Euro-Topten Plus

Topten is a consumer-oriented online search tool, which presents the most energy efficient appliances in various categories of products. Within the current phase of the initiative ICLEI is developing guidance for public procurers, to help them purchase the most efficient products on the market.

Informed Cities

Informed Cities Initiative

The Informed Cities initiative - making research work for local sustainability - is a European initiative driven by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability which aims to bridge the gap between research, policy-making and action in sustainable development, at and for the local lev...

GPP Training in Germany

Training seminars in Green Public Procurement in German Public Authorities

Sponsored by the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), the training sessions on green public procurement (GPP), geared towards public procurers, were developed and carried out across five urban clusters in Germany.

LAKs

Local Accountability for Kyoto goals (LAKs)

The LAKs project demonstrated the potential of cities in using existing opportunities and synergies to actively contribute to the achievement of the Kyoto Protocol goals, and support the European Union targets set in the Climate and Energy package of 2008. It focused on two issues which are the keys...

LG Action

Networking action to involve Local Governments in the EU and international energy and climate debate

LG Action was a networking action to involve Local Governments (LGs) in the EU and international energy and climate debate. This project was co-financed by the Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Programme, and dealt with municiplaities and their associations in 30 countries.

The aim was to mobilise...

EE Regionen

RE-Regions: Socio-Ecology of Self-Sufficiency

With five building blocks managed by different project partners, the German EE-Regionen (RE-Regions) project explores regional self-sufficiency through renewable energy.

Municipalities and regions have the capacity to create the basic conditions necessary for overcoming implementation barriers,...

TEEB

TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) Study - D2 Report for Administrators

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) was a major international initiative - financed by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, the European Commission, UNEP and several other partners - evaluating the global economic benefits of sustainable use of ecosystem services and cons...

CARE-North

Carbon responsible transport strategies for the North Sea Area

The aim of CARE-North was to develop a comprehensive, strategic and practical approach to urban and regional transport/accessibility in the North Sea Region in the context of climate change and declining oil supplies.

CHAMP

Local Climate Change Response

CHAMP's aim was to train and support local and subregional authorities in implementing an integrated management system for climate change mitigation and adaptation and to promote the method and the model Europe-wide.

It was a follow-up project of the Managing Urban Europe-25 project that ended i...

SMART SPP

Innovation through Sustainable Procurement

SMART SPP – innovation through sustainable procurement promoted the introduction of new, innovative low carbon emission technologies and integrated solutions onto the European market by the pre-procurement phase of public tenders. Read about the guidance, tools and case studies produced here.

Input to the Quality of Life Report of the European Environment Agency (EEA)

Ensuring Quality of Life in Europe's Cities and Towns tackling the environmental challenges driven by European and global change

Contribution to the development of the "Ensuring Quality of Life in Europe's Cities and Towns tackling the environmental challenges driven by European and global change" Report

CIVITAS VANGUARD

Advancing Sustainable Urban Transport in an Enlarged Europe through CIVITAS

CIVITAS VANGUARD assists the coordination and dissemination of results of the CIVITAS-Plus phase of the CIVITAS Initiative for cleaner and sustainable urban transport. Activities include conducting a needs assessment conducted among the CIVITAS-Plus demonstration projects and a broader audience. The...

European Climate Conference 2008

Climate Protection and Renewable Energy: Medium and Small Communities Facing the Challenge

The European Climate Conference in April 2008 in Rovigo, Italy, built on the results of the conference ‘A future with Zero CO2 Emissions’ held in Stockholm in 2006. Rovigo 2008 focused on practical climate protection planning and actions in European communities, in particular those start...

Promotion of EU Ecolabel to public procurers

Raising awareness of the EU Ecolabel Brand amongst Procurement Practitioners in the Member States and promoting the use of the EU Ecolabel criteria throughout the procurement lifecycle

The project is directed towards both public purchasers and their regular suppliers and aims to raise awareness and promote the use of the EU Ecolabel criteria in public procurement, and throughout the supply chain. The project intends to support the ongoing work of the European Commission on the rev...

MAKE-IT-BE

Decision Making and Implementation Tools for Delivery of Local & Regional Bio-Energy Chains

The MAKE-IT-BE project dealt with bio-energy. Its objective was to increase the bioenergy share in regional energy portfolios and enhance communication between relevant stakeholders.

Important actors in this field include rural bio-business, land and forest owners, waste companies, local governm...

Green Meeting Guide

Green Meeting Guide 2009

In co-operation with UNEP and IAMLADP, ICLEI has produced a Guide to assist any organisation in reducing the environmental impacts of small and medium sized meetings (for up to 200 participants), and help leave a positive legacy in the host community.

EUPOPP

Policies to promote sustainable consumption patterns

Leading research institutions from across Europe are taking part in a groundbreaking project analysing the impacts of policy strategies and instruments on consumption patterns in order to examine how sustainable consumption (SC) policies can successfully tackle the problems caused by unsustainable c...

GPP Costs & Benefits

Collection of evidence related to the costs and benefits of green public procurement (GPP)

The overall goal of this study was to collect evidence on the economic and administrative costs and benefits of GPP versus procurement of non-green (or conventional) products by national governments and individual purchasing authorities.

PRO-EE

Public Procurement Boosts Energy Efficiency

The project aims to harness the buying power of public authorities to drive the market for innovative environmental technologies. A partnership of public authorities from 6 European countries will undertake large-scale joint procurement of technologies to secure a higher market share for the most en...

Sustainable Procurement Guidelines for UNEP

Sustainable procurement guidelines for IT equipment, Office Furniture, Stationery, and Cleaning Products and Services

In co-operation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), ICLEI developed guidance for sustainable procurement by the United Nations. The guidance is specifically for office IT equipment, office furniture, office stationery (paper, paper consumables, writing implements, and toner cartrid...

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Mobilising action for Fair Trade Public Procurement

The overall objectives of this project are to help progress towards the eradication of poverty in the developing countries and to contribute to sustainable global development. The specific objective is to reach a critical mass of public authorities using public procurement as a tool for sustainable ...

Fostering SPP in Brazil

Fostering sustainable public procurement in Brazil (Fomentando Compras Públicas Sustentáveis no Brasil)

The project aims to implement sustainable public procurement (SPP) policies and measures in three pilot governments: State of São Paulo via the Secretary of Environment, State of Minas Gerais via the Secretary of Planning and the City of São Paulo via the Secretary of Environment. The project focu...

LG climate mobilization post-2012

Local Governments’ mobilization and backing for the development and implementation of a global and comprehensive post-2012 climate change agreement

The project "Local Governments’ mobilization and backing for the development and implementation of a global and comprehensive post-2012 climate change agreement” (Europe Aid) is co-funded by he European Commission and the Norwegian government.

This project has seven emerging economy countries...

SWITCH

Sustainable Water Management Improves Tomorrow's Cities' Health

Led by UNESCO-IHE the SWITCH project was implemented by a consortium of 33 partner organizations from 15 countries that contributed to developing sustainable urban water systems through a combination of research, technological development, demonstration activities and training within a Learning Alli...

RESPIRO - Responsibility in Procurement

Procurement promoting Corporate Social Responsibility - Exchange Forum between the Public and Private Sector

To increase the inclusion of social requirements in public and private sector purchasing activities through: - Encouraging an exchange of experiences between public and private sector procurers, - Encouraging an exchange between public procurers and potential suppliers.

Marrakech Task Force Toolkit

Status Assessment Toolkit for the Marrakech Task Force (MTF) on Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP)

The project aims to promote and support the implementation of SPP by developing tools and supporting capacity building in both developed and developing countries. Specifically, the project involves the development of an online toolkit for stakeholders involved in the public procurement process to as...

BYPAD

Bicycle Policy Audit

BYPAD is an instrument enabling municipalities to evaluate and improve the quality of their local cycling policy. The instrument is based on the methods of total quality management. Target groups in the current project BYPAD Platform (2006-2008) are regions (BYPAD-region) and small towns (BYPAD-loca...

Biofuel Cities

Biofuel Cities - Co-Ordination Action Biofuel Cities European Partnership (CAB-CEP)

Biofuel Cities is a forum for the application of biofuels. Open to all stakeholders in the area of biofuels for vehicles, it seeks to integrate European research and pilot application of biofuels for vehicles with a focus on application at the local level. Biofuel Cities works to build a European pa...

EU GPP Training Toolkit

Development of a Training Toolkit on Green Public Procurement

A toolkit designed to provide any European public authority with advice and information on the straightforward implementation of GPP, including a management model for gradual implementation, advice on the legal framework, and purchasing recommendations for 11 high-priority product groups

SP in Germany

Sustainable Procurement in Germany

The project Sustainable Procurement in Germany aied to raise awareness on sustainable procurement in Germany and was carried out together with the German-based organisation agenda-transfer. ICLEI’s role in the project was to assist in the preparation and organisation of a multi-stakeholder roundta...

Highlights and Results of the conference ´A Future with Zero CO2 Emissions´

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Stockholm jointly organised a successful conference 'A Future with Zero CO2 Emissions' from 15 - 17 May 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden. One main outcome of the conference is the report with hightlights and results from the conference, presenti...

Managing Urban Europe 25

Managing Urban Europe 25: Preparation of environmental management systems for urban areas

The Managing Urban Europe-25 Project utilized and improved on the elements of the most recognised environmental management systems (EMS) to overcome the “structural failures” at the local level in 14 European municipalities.

DEEP

Dissemination of energy efficiency measures in the public buildings sector

The DEEP project promoted opportunities in improving energy efficiency through high environmental standards for public office buildings. European public procurement criteria and guidance for building materials, insulation standards, and green electricity were developed. The project also produced the...

LoGo Water

Towards effective involvement of Local Government in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in river basins of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region

LoGo Water supported the capacity of local governments in the Southern African region to fulfil their role in the adoption of sound integrated water resources management solutions and thus contributed to the achievement of the water-related Millennium Development Goals.

Buy Fair

European Public Procurement guidelines for Fair Trade

Buy Fair served to develop practical guidelines for public procurers in Europe that wish to purchase fair trade products. The guidelines were developed through detailed consultation process with key stakeholders in Europe and from developing producer countries.
To complement the guidelines, a train...

Nottingham Conference 2005

Second National Councils' Climate Conference

A one day conference on climate change held in Nottingham, UK. It will see the launch of of a revised Nottingham Declaration with a much improved support package.

Nanning (China): International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development

Research for Local Action towards Sustainable Human Settlements (RELAy)

The Nanning International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development - From Research to Action was an event of the European Union and UN-HABITAT research initiative in support of sustainable human settlements, which was the core activitiy of the RELAy Project (Research for Local Action towards Sust...

Downstream Impacts of Sustainable Procurement

Development of an Evidence base to Evaluate the Downstream Impacts of Sustainable Procurement for the UK Government

The overarching objective of this project is to develop a robust evidence base on the outcomes that can be achieved from sustainable procurement in the public sector. This will focus on the impacts sustainable public procurement policies and contracts have on market supply and wider market demand.

"A Future with Zero CO2 Emissions" Conference 2006

15 - 17 May 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden - European conference for local governments on climate protection

The conference aimed to intensify political commitment and present practical
strategies that have been effective, encouraging replication in the region and throughout the world. Attended by local stakeholders, the business sector and youth were highlighted as groups essential for involvement in v...

Procura+

Procura+ European Sustainable Procurement Network

Initiated and co-ordinated by ICLEI, Procura+ is a network of European public authorities and regions that connect, exchange and act on sustainable and innovation procurement.

Training in Ghana: Environmentally and Socially Responsible Procurement

Pilot client capacity building for Environmentally and Socially Responsible Procurement

This training project for "Environmentally and Socially Responsible Procurement (ESRP)" was a cooperation between the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability towards the development of a training resource package on sustainable pro...

SIPTRAM

Sustainability in the Urban Public Transport Market

The SIPTRAM project aimed to encourage local and regional authorities across Europe to improve the environmental and social standards in urban public transport through the competitive tendering process.

LEAP

Local Authority Environmental Management Systems and Procurement

LEAP developed tools for local authorities to systematically, effectively and efficiently deal with green procurement as part of an Environmental Management System (EMS). 
Tools developed included:

Developing a green procurement policy
Implementing joint procurement
Incorporating sustaina...

SusCom

Sustainable Communities and Renewable Energy

The main objectives of this project are to review and develop a better understanding of the policies, mechanisms and strategies which have led to improvements in the integration of renewable energy sources (RES), the rational use of energy (RUE) and the use of clean energy for transport (CET) in Eur...

PICOLight

Public Internal Performance Contracting

Public Internal Performance Contracting (PICO) is an innovative concept for management and funding of energy efficiency in public buildings.

CAFE

Clean Air For Europe

A research project providing an evaluation and recommendations regarding responses to short-term and localised air pollution in the CAFE project context.

GreenMed

Greening public procurement in Mediterannean local authorities

The GreenMed project is a joint initiative of Greek and Portuguese municipalities to promote the environmentally friendly purchasing of products and services.

GUIDEMAPS

Gaining Understanding of Improved Decision Making and Participating Strategies

The principal objective of this research project is to identify procedures and tools for improving decision-making in order to achieve sustainable mobility throughout the European Union.

XENIOS

XENIOS- Developing an Audit Tool for Hotel Buildings and the promotion of RUE and RES

The aim of this project is the promotion of solar thermal applications in hotels, increasing awareness of the possibilities for using renewable energy sources installations promoting this to local authorities, hotels and their associations.

Eco-Procurement Survey

Survey on the State of Play of Green Public Procurement in the European Union

The main objectives of the survey were to find out the proportion of public authorities including environmental criteria into calls for tender, the geographical trends, and the extent of green purchasing activities practised.

RELIEF - European research project on green procurement

Environmental relief potential of urban action on avoidance and detoxification of waste streams through green public procurement

The RELIEF project demonstrated for the first time the environmental relief potential of green public procurement in the European Union - i.e. what environmental benefits could be achieved if European public authorities were to procure green products, services and works. The project also launched t...

Hidden Subsidies

How much does your municipality invest in traffic?An ICLEI Study to uncover hidden subsidies towards motorised private transport

The aim of this project was to identify how much a municipality subsidises motorised private transport.

PROST- Europe

Public Procurement of Energy Efficient Technology in Europe

This project aimed to discover ways in which the day-to-day procurement of public sector entities in Europe can be directed towards buying energy efficient products.

NABESI - German Research Project on Sustainable Procurement

NaBeSi - Realising the Potential of Sustainable Procurement and implementation Instruments

This project identifies hurdles for green purchasing, explores the legal framework and quantifies the environmental relief potential for Germany.

AQUA-Water Resources Protection at the Local Level

Water Resources Protection at the Local Level. Activities and Contacts

To collect existing information and technical expertise on local water management and transform it for adequate communication to relevant stakeholders and the general public involved in Local Agenda 21 processes in order to promote sustainable water management.

Good Practice Guide

Green Purchasing Good Practice Guide

The Guide provides local government purchasers with practical information and good practice examples on how to carry out green public procurement in practice.

Local ecoInstruments

European Commision Advanced Study Course on Local ecoInstruments Environmental Management and Economic Instruments for Local policy

Check It

Check It- Austrian criteria catalogue for Green Purchasers

A consortium of Austrian institutions has set up a green criteria catalogue to serve as a detailed guide for both public and private purchasers.

The European Green Fleets Project

The European Green Fleets Project,- Buying Efficient-

This project was developed to enable local authorities reduce CO2 emissions from their vehicle fleets.

LAREM Online

Local and Regional Energy Management Online Information Service

The project involved developing an online database to provide a central access point where experiences of local and regional energy agencies in Europe could be documented. It was designed to disseminate good examples of local and regional energy management to as wide an audience as possible. It is...

European CCP Campaign

European Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign

The European Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign forms part of a worldwide movement started in 1993. It addresses climate change mitigation (minimizing the human impact on global warming by reducing the release of harmful emissions) and adapting to climate change at the local level. The CCP...

European Circular Cities Declaration

The European Circular Cities Declaration is a commitment document from cities and regions to use the levers at their disposal coherently across the organisation to transition from a linear to a circular economy.

ICLEI Circulars

ICLEI Circulars gathers knowledge on circular economy at local and regional levels, provides materials for awareness raising and advocacy, offers implementation support on circular actions and policies and facilitates exchange.

Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI)

The CCRI offers support to stakeholders across Europe’s cities and regions and aims to increase synergies among projects and initiatives, disseminate relevant knowledge, and give greater visibility to best practices.

Pathways2Resilience

Pathways2Resilience - Co-developing pathways towards climate resilient regions in Europe

Pathways2Resilience supports regions in developing transformative solutions to foster regions’ climate adaptation.

ABRACADABRA

Assistant Buildings’ addition to Retrofit, Adopt, Cure And Develop the Actual Buildings up to zeRo energy, Activating a market for deep renovation.

ABRACADABRA is based on the prior assumption that non-energy-related benefits play a key role in the deep renovation of existing buildings. In particular, ABRA actions focus on the creation of a substantial increase of the real estate value of the existing buildings through a significant energy and ...

UP2030

UP2030: Urban Planning and design ready for 2030

UP2030 aims to support cities in driving the socio-technical transitions required to meet their climate neutrality targets by leveraging urban planning and design.

UPPER

Unleashing the Potential of Public transport in EuRope

UPPER aims at spearheading a Public Transport (PT) revolution that will strengthen the role of PT as the flagship of sustainability and innovation of mobility in cities, leading the transition towards a zero emission mobility which will become the cornerstone of climate neutrality by 2030, in line w...

One Planet Network Sustainable Public Procurement Programme

ICLEI is a co-lead and active supporter of the worldwide uptake of socially responsible, environmentally friendly and economically sound purchasing via the United Nation's One Planet Network on Sustainable Public Procurement.

Procurement Forum

The Procurement Forum is the meeting point of international stakeholders to discuss, share, learn from one another, get a better understanding of procurement issues and improve public procurement practices.
The Forum includes over 5,000 members and offers an open space in which members are free to ...

Innovation Procurement Platform

Innovation Procurement Platform

The Platform brings together all the latest news and events on public procurement of innovation.
The Platform includes information on innovation procurement by featuring a few introduction pages on definitions of and reasoning for innovation procurement. It includes information on the legal framewo...

SP Platform

The online hub for sustainable procurement

The Platform is bringing together all the latest news, events, and resources on sustainable procurement