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Vienna expands bike infrastructure – 20 km for 2023

The big highlights of the project are two cycling highways, one leading to Lower Austria in the south and another leading to Donaustadt

Mar 23, 2023 13:16
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Romania / Development / Energy efficiency

Romanian town starts geothermal project for district heating

Sântana has only 11,000 residents, yet several municipal buildings will get connected to a renewable geothermal reservoir deep underground

Mar 22, 2023 17:06

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Germany / Economy and Finance / Mobility

Despite revenue drop - Leipzig to invest in public transport

With a decline in passengers due to Covid-19 and the energy crisis, among other factors, the city will focus on increasing the quality of service

Mar 23, 2023 16:22
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Italian government greenlights bridge between Sicily and mainland

The idea dates back even to Antiquity, but how feasible is it?

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Luxembourg / Politics and Reforms / Welfare and Health

Luxembourg makes contraception free in April

While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms

Mar 24, 2023 15:47
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Italy’s far-right government OKs construction of Holocaust museum

The cultural and victim remembrance facility will be located in Rome

Mar 21, 2023 17:11

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Bulgaria / Sofia / Development / Innovation and Research

Sofia seeks young people's innovative ideas in Academy for VISIONARIES 2023

The city wants new approaches to developing the urban environment and is willing to fund the best solutions

Mar 15, 2023 17:46
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Germany / Berlin / Economy and Finance / Innovation and Research

Berlin offers targeted support to make more businesses sustainable

Around 75% of German CO2 emissions come from the private sector, yet less than 1% of businesses are considered fully sustainable

Mar 14, 2023 16:59

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Belgium / Leuven / Digital transformation / Welfare and Health

Leuven tries to tackle party noise with smart tech

City officials found that simple messages about respecting residents’ sleep were most effective if coupled with the right presentation

Mar 24, 2023 13:29
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Germany / Hamburg / Digital transformation / Mobility

Germany commits to AI-driven public transport in Hamburg

The city has a strategy of putting 10,000 human-controlled and autonomous shuttles on the streets by 2030

Mar 21, 2023 15:48

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Germany / Hamburg / Culture and Tourism / Energy efficiency

Hamburg sets guidelines for placing green infrastructure on heritage buildings

The city has learned a lot from an ongoing project for a solar roof on the Altonaer Museum

Mar 24, 2023 17:25
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Romania / Development / Energy efficiency

Romanian town starts geothermal project for district heating

Sântana has only 11,000 residents, yet several municipal buildings will get connected to a renewable geothermal reservoir deep underground

Mar 22, 2023 17:06

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Germany / Economy and Finance / Mobility

Despite revenue drop - Leipzig to invest in public transport

With a decline in passengers due to Covid-19 and the energy crisis, among other factors, the city will focus on increasing the quality of service

Mar 23, 2023 16:22
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Austria / Vienna / Development / Mobility

Vienna expands bike infrastructure – 20 km for 2023

The big highlights of the project are two cycling highways, one leading to Lower Austria in the south and another leading to Donaustadt

Mar 23, 2023 13:16

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Barcelona to host Spain’s first pet cemetery

It will open its doors in 2024 and offer cremations and burials

Mar 16, 2023 17:55
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Greece / Athens / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces

Athens to build Greece's first 100% ‘green’ museum

The building will be on the site of Plato’s Ancient Academy

Mar 15, 2023 16:11

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Germany / Hamburg / Culture and Tourism / Energy efficiency

Hamburg sets guidelines for placing green infrastructure on heritage buildings

The city has learned a lot from an ongoing project for a solar roof on the Altonaer Museum

Mar 24, 2023 17:25
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Austria / Culture and Tourism / Welfare and Health

Nursing homes in Graz embrace classical music as therapy

The city has arranged four tailor-made programmes for the different residences as a way to reconnect with patients’ life and memories

Mar 22, 2023 15:51

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Belgium / Leuven / Education and Sport / Social City

Leuven to fight discrimination with role-playing games

The city has developed its own way to teach young people how to react when they witness unjust treatments

Mar 21, 2023 17:24
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Luxembourg / Education and Sport / Welfare and Health

Free and 100% organic sanitary pads - Esch-sur-Alzette has you covered

The city will supply and maintain 138 dispensers in public buildings

Mar 10, 2023 17:19

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Luxembourg / Politics and Reforms / Welfare and Health

Luxembourg makes contraception free in April

While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms

Mar 24, 2023 15:47
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Belgium / Leuven / Digital transformation / Welfare and Health

Leuven tries to tackle party noise with smart tech

City officials found that simple messages about respecting residents’ sleep were most effective if coupled with the right presentation

Mar 24, 2023 13:29
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Mar 14, 2023 12:56
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Digital transformation / Interviews / Politics and Reforms

Online public services as efficient as TikTok: Cluj-Napoca’s Digital Transformation

Feb 16, 2023 13:51
Denis Balgaranov
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Bulgaria / Interviews / Read Twice

Veni Markovski: It's about time the media stopped inviting “experts” who spread false info

Nov 28, 2022 11:30
Denis Balgaranov
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Sharon Dijksma: Without cities, it will be impossible to tackle global warming

Nov 21, 2022 13:41
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Vasco Cordeiro: The European project is at stake when solidarity is at stake

Aug 1, 2022 11:34
Denis Balgaranov
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Cities Mission has made citizen engagement and participatory processes an important part of its functioning

Jul 14, 2022 14:57
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Luisa Salgueiro: Climate resilience work is never completed, it’s a continuously upgraded project

Jun 23, 2022 12:41
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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EBRD's aim is to support increased climate ambition within cities

May 18, 2022 13:33
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Melina Daskalaki: Our mission is to promote the social reintegration of homeless individuals

May 16, 2022 11:04
Svilena Iotkovska
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Sweden / Interviews

Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh: Malmö Resilience Hub will have the potential to connect cities on the Baltic Sea

May 11, 2022 15:26
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov

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Sliven’s history takes us back to the time of the Thracians and then layer upon layer we discover the presence of Romans, Slavs, Greeks, and feel the spirit of the First and Second Bulgarian Kingdoms.

Our ancestors have built the settlement on crossroads and this is one of the great advantages of Sliven, which has played an important role in its past and present development.

Sliven holds a special place in the economic life of Bulgaria. Here the Bulgarian industry has taken its first steps, thanks to favourable geographical and historical circumstances, combined with the entrepreneurial spirit of Dobri Zhelyazkov who, in 1834, set up the first textile factory on the Balkan Peninsula.

Sliven was one of the most important spiritual centers in Bulgaria during the Bulgarian Revival Period. It is the birthplace of the first Bulgarian poet Dobri Chintulov, of the first Bulgarian artist with academic education - Dimitar Dobrovich, of many prominent Bulgarians, whose names are related to the development of Bulgarian and European science and culture.

In the first centuries of the Ottoman rule, Sliven and the Sliven region became the center of the Hajduk movement - one of the most common forms of resistance against the Turkish domination. This gave rise to the glory of Sliven as the City of the 100 Voivodes, the most famous of them being the national heroes Hadji Dimitar and Panayot Hitov.

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Bulgaria / Sliven / Energy efficiency / Politics and Reforms

Bulgarian towns forced to turn off street lights to save on electricity bills

The energy crisis in the European Union is putting strain on municipalities as they see their bills quadruple

Jan 25, 2022 15:52
Denis Balgaranov
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Bulgaria / Sliven / Energy efficiency

Sliven estimates municipal energy bill will double, urgent sustainable measures are needed

Mayor Stefan Radev explained that local authorities are looking into ways to cut consumption, find new revenue streams and sustainable solutions to energy production

Oct 21, 2021 13:12
Denis Balgaranov
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Sliven / Culture and Tourism

Bulgaria's 'Sinite Kamani' Nature Park launches tourist site 'adoption' campaign

An information board will be placed on each "adopted" corner, indicating who takes care of it

Aug 21, 2020 08:39
Monika Dimitrova
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Sliven / Welfare and Health

Sliven Municipality will build and equip two new social centers

Mayor Stefan Radev signed a contract for the provision of a full grant for the social project

Jul 14, 2020 10:37
Monika Dimitrova
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Sliven / Culture and Tourism

Tuida Fortress wins a prize for a unique programme at the annual tourism awards

Bulgarian municipalities performed strongly at the largest tourism fair in Bulgaria

Feb 17, 2020 14:05
Plamen Petrov
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Sliven / Interviews

Stefan Radev: Sliven has a rich history and great potential for development in the future

We talk with the Mayor of Sliven about implemented projects, plans for an industrial park, tourism prospects and the “merger” with Yambol

Feb 03, 2020 14:49
Plamen Petrov

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