Study Visit - Building a Public Procurement Strategy (Nantes - 1 October 2018)

Public Procurement, as a tool for the overall strategy in cities - The study visit will bring together technicians from european cities, members of the Public Procurement Partnership of the Urban Agenda for the EU and local technicians and economic operators to exchange on Nantes’ Public Procurement Strategy and its implementation. It’s targeted to members of the UA4EU partnership and representatives from cities and organisations. It aims at providing input to the frame and the structture...

Building Social Europe - flagship conference

On the occasion of the first anniversary since the proclamation of the European Pillar of social rights, EU, national and local decision makers will gather in Lisbon for a 2-days conference, together with social partners, civil society and academia.

Building Social Europe - flagship conference

On the occasion of the first anniversary since the proclamation of the European Pillar of social rights, EU, national and local decision makers will gather in Lisbon for a 2-days conference, together with social partners, civil society and academia.

City Metric: If Juncker wants a stronger, more united Europe, he should listen to its cities

People are calling on the EU to change, and cities are a good example of how to do that!

Ghent wins Milan Pact Award 2018

The Milan Pact Awards, part of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, highlights best practices and helps foster the exchange of ideas and solutions for food related issues among cities.

Amsterdam is searching for City Science Officers

The city of Amsterdam is currently preparing an event to be organised in Brussels (November) in collaboration with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the Amsterdam Chief Science Officer (CSO). This event will be a roundtable debate (“Science for the City”), and will focus on the interaction between scientific research and urban challenges. The aim is to involve in this event different city-professionals in Europe who are working as a ‘science officer’.

Collecting data on public procurement

EUROCITIES gets cohesion policy messages through to EU decision makers

How can cohesion policy help bring Europe closer to citizens? What changes are needed in the future regulations to make it work better for cities? This was in the focus of the event EUROCITIES organised jointly with CEMR and the European Parliament’s Urban intergroup on Tuesday 4 September, attracting over a hundred participants.

Concession for the construction and operation of bus shelters in Warsaw

The project comprises the construction (replacement) of 1580 bus shelters in Warsaw by a concessionaire (private company), which finances the investment from its own funds and maintenance of these shelters during the contract period.

Vienna: PPP in educational campuses (public schools, kindergartens)

Rules regarding debt brake, debt ceiling, spending freeze and debt ratio adjustment complicate increasingly a conventional implementation of large infrastructure projects. Therefore, the provisions of the Austrian Stability Pact 2012 (ÖStP 2012) have a decisive influence on the Viennese decision to realize e.g. bigger schools in the form of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP).