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This year, the prizes honoured the spirit of togetherness as an agent of transformation
Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), Munich (Germany) and Grenoble Alpes Metropole (France) have scooped the top prizes at the Eurocities Awards 2022. Each demonstrated outstanding commitment to this year’s theme, ‘an era of new beginnings,’ which focused on the way cities can dream, act and lead together to fight climate change.
“Our cities constantly strive to promote the vitality and well-being of their community and to work for a sustainable future. Yet, two years of pandemic have taken their toll, and now is time to reset our course. The Eurocities Awards celebrate the triumphs of cities and can help provide inspiration for some of our best ideas to be more widely shared, and benefit more people,” said Dario Nardella, President of Eurocities and Mayor of Florence.
The awards were selected by a panel of expert judges across three categories:
“First we must dream together, because social exclusion and disconnection have increased among many groups, but especially children and youth these last years,” said Nardella.
The ‘dream together’ category sought projects that follow new approaches to increasing social cohesion and a sense of belonging among children and/or youth.
“Secondly, we must act together. In cities across Europe, there is a significant mismatch between the supply of labour and the demand for new skills and competences. If we want to emerge from this crisis and target something more than recovery, we must bridge this gap,” added Nardella.
The ‘act together’ category sought projects that were developed alongside local communities to boost the skills and competencies, and put more people into meaningful jobs.
“Thirdly, we must lead together. Cities have a key role to play in ensuring that common targets of the European Green Deal and Agenda2030 will be reached,” explained Nardella.
The ‘lead together’ category sought participatory projects that lead the transformation toward low-carbon, resilient, biodiverse and ultimately climate-neutral cities.
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