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  • Policy papers

    Mental health is under the local spotlight

    What can cities do to address mental health issues? A lot. From Helsinki to Cluj-Napoca to Milan, municipalities are taking decisive action to support the wellbeing of urban communities..

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  • Policy papers

    Gender equality lessons from cities

    Eurocities publishes a report mapping cities’ existing policy measures that align with the European Pillar of Social Rights principles, including gender equality.

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  • Publications

    A year in cities 2021-22

    The online Eurocities Annual Report 2021-22 presents stories of city successes and updates from the last 18 months.

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  • Publications

    The past, present and future of culture and heritage

    A new publication will bring you insights into present challenges and future trends in cultural heritage – and great examples of how cities around Europe are approaching them.

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    Trends and challenges in cultural heritage

    How can cities involve local people in governing cultural heritage, merge it with other policy areas and leverage it to help us through the Covid recovery? This new publication will serve as a guide.

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    Stronger urban policy in the EU and China

    The Chinese word ‘市‘, ‘shì’, translates only loosely into English as ‘city’, but despite differences, European and Chinese cities face many of the same policy-making challenges. Here are the tools to meet those challenges.

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    How can cities ensure resilient labour markets?

    The Covid-19 outbreak altered the patterns of the world of work and had a strong social economic impact at local level. Cities have designed emergency responses to support job retention, as well as long term measures for an inclusive and fast recovery.

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  • Publications

    The city of tomorrow

    Welcome to ‘Eurocity’, a place made of the best actions of real cities all over Europe. The animated online report ‘Reinventing cities’ shows how cities work for a better future.

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  • Podcast

    Podcast – Covid and culture

    Covid crushed the culture sector, but it also showed us how essential culture is in our lives. Our latest podcast presents the cases of Bologna and Lisbon.

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  • Policy papers Publications

    City actions and policy response to social and economic impacts of COVID-19

    Eurocities has compiled two overviews of COVID-19 responses by cities – on policy responses to mitigate the socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis, and cities actions on emergency measures and adapting social services.

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