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...
Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches
The project focuses 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 everyday lives.
Bringing together a multi-disciplinary consortium of lea...
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
The Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis (German Sustainability Award) is an annual award for sustainability that recognizes outstanding achievements by companies, local governments and individuals.
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...
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...