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Partnership and shared resilience: Cities stand with Ukraine
As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, partnerships between Ukrainian and European cities continue to deepen. City officers in Leipzig, Warsaw and Tallinn explain how this cooperation has evolved, the challenges Ukrainian colleagues face, and their shared commitment to stand together.
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The oracle for inclusive green mobility
In ancient Greece, leaders travelled on foot or by horse to the city of Delphi to ask an oracle what the future might hold. Today, cities want to know which sustainable mobility interventions will truly work. And for answers, they increasingly turn to a modern source of wisdom: data and artificial intelligence.
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How cities are making the European Cycling Declaration a reality
Over one year on from the adoption of the EU's European Declaration on Cycling, how are cities turning the pledge into safer, more inclusive cycling, and what EU action is needed to ensure lasting urban change?
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Investing in Europe starts with cities: What new EU research reveals
As EU budget negotiations continue, Eurocities is presenting evidence to show why cities must have a stronger role in EU funding. In this article, we share ESPON URDICO research demonstrating that Cohesion Policy works best when cities are full partners.
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Culture, no matter what
Covid-19 was a proverbial gamechanger for Rijeka’s plans as one of the European Capitals of Culture in 2020, yet the city found ways to keep culture going.
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Porto’s Urban Forest
At the end of the 19th century, more than 75% of the territory of the city of Porto was covered by green spaces. 100 years later, these spaces represent less than 30% - a new initiative aims to reverse that decline, and bring nature back into the city.
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Bilbao wins EU Road Safety Award
The city’s 30 km/h city won praise from jurors at the European Sustainable Mobility Awards, along with European Mobility Week winners Moenchengladbach and Lilienthal.
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Open for business
Finland’s six largest cities have joined forces to turn their streets into testing grounds for new products and services – with big success.
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When imagination creates value
Plaine Images is Lille metropole’s world beater, generating a thriving local audiovisual industry.
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Need, not want: User-centric services
Designing online public services that work for people is at the heart of a new project that Eurocities is involved in, based on the principles of the ‘Tallinn Declaration’.
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Covid-19, an urban disease?
Cities have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. Recent research has investigated the reasons, and what cities can learn from them.
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“Welcome to the chaos”
Neighbours, commuters, tourists – Stockholm’s biggest construction site is a hassle for many. The city’s recipe for dealing with it: humour.
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Eurocities in talks to found new city
In the first example of its kind, Eurocities has been entrusted with the planning and development of a brand-new city for the European Union.
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Ctrl+alt+delete borders
Though national governments stay clear of multi-country projects in the National Recovery Plans, cities know that Pan-European projects are our best bet to tackle common challenges.
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