Our mainly EU-funded projects generate innovative ideas and foster knowledge sharing between European cities to develop a common, better future.
SCALE-UP will bring together three advanced urban nodes – Antwerp, Madrid, and Turku – around one main goal: developing data-driven and user-centric strategies to accelerate the take-up of smart, clean, and inclusive mobility, by means of well-connected and multi-usage urban nodes, and to the level needed to meet EU climate and transport objectives.
About the projectFastTrack will support the transfer, financing and implementation of innovative transport solutions amongst 24 cities and metropolitan regions.
About the projectThe Green City Accord is a movement of European mayors committed to safeguarding the natural environment and stepping up their ambitions to achieve cleaner and healthier environments.
About the projectUPPER aims to lead a public transport revolution to achieve EU carbon neutrality goals. 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.
About the projectUrban Logistics as an On-Demand Service (ULaaDS), aims at accelerating the deployment of innovative, shared, zero-emission logistics while addressing the impact of the on-demand economy.
About the projectBy working together, cities and other public buyers can maximise their market power and impact, promoting the creation of new solutions more targeted to their needs.
About the projectThe project puts into action the user-centricity principles for design and delivery of digital public services laid down in the Tallinn Declaration, putting citizens truly at the heart of governments' digital transformation at cities and regions level.
About the projectIURC will lead and develop a form of decentralised international urban and regional cooperation.
About the projectPutting cities at the heart of food system transformation.
About the projectDramatic embodied carbon reduction and increased use of biobased materials is required to mitigate further climate breakdown, requiring changes to what we build and where, how projects are chosen and delivered, and how materials are made, recycled and utilized.
About the projectFAME (Framework for coordination of Automated Mobility in Europe) aims to develop common methodologies and tools to facilitate the sharing of best practices to support Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) stakeholders.
About the projectA swift transition to zero-emissions and climate-resilient transport systems requires that passenger and freight transport are no longer addressed separately and in isolation from one another. MOVE21 will tackle policies, infrastructure (physical and digital), vehicles, and energy in an integrated and coherent way in six urban nodes.
About the projectThe sustainable transition is possible, with mayors and cities on board.
About the projectLiving-in.EU charts the ‘European way’ for the digital transformation of cities and communities through multi-level collaboration between all levels of government, to ensure technological leadership while respecting European values and diversity, as well as individuals’ digital rights.
About the projectUNITES – UrbaN InTEgration Strategies through co-design, trains and accompanies local authorities to co-design integration strategies with other stakeholders and migrants.
About the projectWant to get to grips with innovative financing for energy efficiency? Would you like to be coached directly on financial tools and structures that get the best out of limited budgets to improve local sustainability, and how to implement them locally?
About the projectLooking for a Europe where electric vehicle charging is widespread, efficient and works for users? Look no further.
About the projectCultural heritage in action will allow over 100 local and regional policy makers to exchange knowledge on cultural heritage, with a focus on participatory governance, adaptive reuse and quality principles for interventions.
About the projectThrough this work, cities can deliver EU social policy objectives at local level and help mitigate the socio-economic consequences of the pandemic crisis on the most vulnerable people, driving a fair and inclusive recovery and making a tangible difference for the lives of over 36 million Europeans.
About the projectThe project aims to create a blueprint for the data space for smart communities including include recommended actions for standardisation, business models and strategies for running data spaces, and a vision for the federation of platforms.
About the projectCitiMeasure focuses on the application of citizen science in creating more smart, sustainable, and inclusive European cities.
About the projectNetZeroCities will support European cities to drastically and rapidly cut their greenhouse gas emissions through systemic and transformative actions to achieve climate neutrality.
About the projectEuropean Mobility Week is the Europe-wide awareness-raising campaign on sustainable urban mobility, which aims to facilitate behaviour change by promoting smart, clean and intelligent ways of moving within your city.
About the projectIn cities along the Danube River, industrial land and spaces lay abandoned or forgotten. But this doesn’t mean they have lost their value.
About the projectThe Covenant of Mayors is the world's largest movement for local climate and energy actions. Signatories endorse a shared vision for 2050: accelerating the decarbonisation of their territories, strengthening their capacity to adapt to unavoidable climate change impacts, and allowing their citizens to access secure, sustainable and affordable energy.
About the projectSHared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption (SHOW) will test shared, connected and electrified automation in urban transport, to advance sustainable urban mobility.
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