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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 ...

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

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.