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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
In addition to distributing heat without any carbon emissions, Hot Heart will offer citizens and tourists tropical forests and hot water pools
Last week, the Mayor of Helsinki Jan Vapaavuori announced the four Award Winners of the Helsinki Energy Challenge: HIVE, Beyond Fossils, Smart Salt City, and The Hot Heart. The challenge tasked teams with finding a solution to one question: “How can we decarbonise the heating of Helsinki, using as little biomass as possible?”
While all four teams found innovative solutions to this problem, the Hot Heart project received particular praise and attention.
The Hot Heart system comprises of 10 cylindrical reservoirs of 225m diameter. These reservoirs will be filled with approximately 10 million cubic metres of hot water. To do this, Hot Heart will first use energy from existing renewable sources, converting them into heat using seawater heat pumps. Then, it will store this thermal energy in the reservoirs for when it is needed.
Finally, the reservoirs will be connected to Helsinki’s existing district heating system in order to distribute heat across the city at lower prices, without any carbon emissions. On its website, the Helsinki Energy Challenge explains that by the end of the decade, Hot Heart expects to cover the full heating demand of the city (6,000 GWh).
In addition to decarbonising the city’s heating, the project will also attract tourists as four of the ten cylinders will house all-year tropical forests and hot water pools at sea. Taking this idea further, the Hot Heart system will also perfectly embody various elements of Finnish Culture: islands, nature, etc.
The Hot Heart project aims to become known as “the Helsinki model” by 2028. In other words, it hopes that by the end of the decade, other countries will be able to apply the system to their own cities in order to benefit from its numerous advantageous features.
The Hot Heart project video (Carlo Ratti Associati)
This project has been developed by a diverse and multidisciplinary team as Carlo Ratti Associati (Italy) collaborated with Ramboll (Finland), Transsolar (Germany), Danfoss/Leanheat (Finland), Schneider Electric (Finland), OP (Finland), Schlaich Bergermann Partner (Germany) and Squint/Opera (UK).
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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
