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The idea behind the scheme is to offer cheap options for would-be homeowners during a time of intense housing shortage
The Cross-Border Cooperation Congress is a meeting place for practitioners of cross-border cooperation from the EU and the Eastern Partnership countries
The new route will take only 45 minutes, which will reinvigorate the region and create dozens of commuters between the two regional capitals of Styria and Carinthia
Shall we refer to that Iberian region as “Video Game Valley” from now on?
With expensive or unavailable fuel and damaged infrastructure, aid workers need bikes to travel long distances
The award was established in the memory of Paweł Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdansk, Poland, who was assassinated in 2019, during a Christmas charity event for healthcare
The city’s hilly layout will provide a perfect testing ground for the new electric waste truck eEconic
The taxis are a warm-up for the city’s requirement that all new taxis after 2025 be CO2 neutral
The project is set to cost the city around 6 million euros and reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills
Shall we refer to that Iberian region as “Video Game Valley” from now on?
It was developed especially for the needs of the city of Rotterdam
Târnăveni is one of the first cities in the EU with all LEDs and since the switch it has seen a drop of 68% in energy consumption
With expensive or unavailable fuel and damaged infrastructure, aid workers need bikes to travel long distances
The new route will take only 45 minutes, which will reinvigorate the region and create dozens of commuters between the two regional capitals of Styria and Carinthia
During European Mobility Week, many EU cities instituted car-free Sundays, becoming more accessible for public transport and cycling
The move is supposed to help reduce knife crime in cities like Stuttgart, Freiburg and Mannheim
The Italian capital is increasingly leaning on virtual reality as the new tourism frontier
The iconic basilica will feature Open Days during the La Mercè festival, 23-25 September
The goal is to boost recycling rates and teach children the principles of circularity
This is a pilot project for the time being, and it represents a growing range of concerns around the idea of “poverty” in society
Urban noise pollution can be a driver behind health issues like insomnia and cardiovascular disease, as well as a cause of decreased productivity
The campaigners argue that the event will be scary and stressful to the city's animals as well
The name of the tactic is ‘targeted grazing’ – it feeds the animals and starves the wildfires
The City of Barcelona has recently wrapped up a pilot project, which saw the introduction of goat and sheep herds grazing on the slopes of the Collserola park as a way to prevent wildfires from happening or spreading. The animals boosted the firefighting team by doing their prophylactic work and getting nicely fed in the meantime.
The project was launched in April after seeing that it has been applied with success in other parts of Spain and the world. The methodology is in fact as simple as it gets, and probably because of that – fairly effective.
The flocks graze and stomp on the grassy meadows of the park as part of what is called ‘targeted grazing’. The result is that it leaves open spaces and gaps in the vegetation mass, which prevent fires from spreading and taking over large territories. That makes them more manageable if they arise, and easier to put out.
The animal fire brigade consists of 290 sheep and goats. Their job was to eat their way through about 70 hectares of the Collserola park – the entire surface of the park is 8,000 hectares making the small mountain one of the largest urban parks in the world.
The idea of course was never to cover the entire area of the park but to just strategically graze down enough spots to create barriers for the fires. This method is simple, ancient and very organic in its approach. It is also cheap.
According to The Guardian, the Andalusian government had also implemented a program where they paid shepherds to target graze their flocks in certain areas, which resulted in 75% savings on the costs of having the land cleared mechanically. The same approach has also been used in other parts of Europe and in places as distant as California.
As for Barcelona, plans are now underway to expand the project to as many as three flocks and potentially cover more of the city’s green spaces.
With expensive or unavailable fuel and damaged infrastructure, aid workers need bikes to travel long distances
The new route will take only 45 minutes, which will reinvigorate the region and create dozens of commuters between the two regional capitals of Styria and Carinthia
The award was established in the memory of Paweł Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdansk, Poland, who was assassinated in 2019, during a Christmas charity event for healthcare
The project is set to cost the city around 6 million euros and reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills
The city’s hilly layout will provide a perfect testing ground for the new electric waste truck eEconic
The taxis are a warm-up for the city’s requirement that all new taxis after 2025 be CO2 neutral
With expensive or unavailable fuel and damaged infrastructure, aid workers need bikes to travel long distances
The new route will take only 45 minutes, which will reinvigorate the region and create dozens of commuters between the two regional capitals of Styria and Carinthia
The goal is to boost recycling rates and teach children the principles of circularity
The goal is to boost recycling rates and teach children the principles of circularity
Urban noise pollution can be a driver behind health issues like insomnia and cardiovascular disease, as well as a cause of decreased productivity
The railway operator Renfe is starting a pilot program for the sale of tickets for man’s best friend
These will be spread across 11 EU countries and will serve to support the EU Missions
The European Commission has accepted to develop the idea
An interview about AYR, one of the 2021 New European Bauhaus Prize winners
A conversation with the President of the European Committee of the Regions, about energy, climate change and the underrated importance of cohesion policy
Interview with Herald Ruijters, Director, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission
A conversation with the Mayor of Matosinhos, Portugal’s first UN Resilience Hub
