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Luxembourg / Luxembourg / Development / Public Spaces

Luxembourg is looking for urban farmers

A new pilot project in the capital will try out multi-faceted farming in a built-up setting as a source of food and environmental awareness

Feb 2, 2023 17:07
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Denmark / Germany / Development / Mobility

World’s longest underwater rail-road tunnel to connect Germany and Denmark

The work is already underway from both sides and completion is expected at the end of the decade

Feb 1, 2023 17:58

Economy and Finance

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Denmark / Economy and Finance / Green City

Danish deposit-return system for bottles and cans is now 100% circular

The solution which has been progressing to that end for the past several years proves that there can be a circular business model

Jan 31, 2023 17:47
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Germany / Berlin / Economy and Finance / Green City

Berlin to issue sustainability bonds worth 750 million euros

This move will open green and social public projects to wider investments

Jan 30, 2023 13:19

Politics and Reforms

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Netherlands / Amsterdam / Culture and Tourism / Politics and Reforms

Free tickets for Amsterdam art venues in February

The city has launched a 'buy 1 get 1 for free' scheme to lure people back to the local cultural scene

Feb 1, 2023 17:28
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Greece / Athens / Politics and Reforms / Welfare and Health

Attica Region to invest 1.5 million euros in Roma start-ups

The initiative focuses on building an integration policy from the perspective of small businesses within the community

Feb 1, 2023 16:03

Innovation and Research

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France / Germany / Italy / Digital transformation / Innovation and Research

EU funds AI and Robotics in agriculture in Germany, France and Italy

The Agri-Tech centre in Osnabrück has a lab, workshop and test field all rolled into one

Feb 2, 2023 13:03
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Bulgaria / Sofia / Green City / Innovation and Research

Sofia launches drones against air pollution

The flying machines will help pinpoint polluted districts much more accurately

Feb 1, 2023 13:23

Digital transformation

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Spain / Barcelona / Digital transformation / Welfare and Health

Barcelona has a digital map of its health and care centres

Search for health, search for well-being - in any sense and category of these terms

Feb 2, 2023 17:37
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France / Germany / Italy / Digital transformation / Innovation and Research

EU funds AI and Robotics in agriculture in Germany, France and Italy

The Agri-Tech centre in Osnabrück has a lab, workshop and test field all rolled into one

Feb 2, 2023 13:03

Energy efficiency

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Portugal / Development / Energy efficiency

2025: Europe’s largest solar farm will operate in Portugal

It will supply electricity to a population twice the city of Porto

Feb 1, 2023 13:22
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Czechia / Energy efficiency / Innovation and Research

Robots make the beer come faster – Pilsen’s new take on tradition

Plzeňský Prazdroj’s new brewery warehouse launched an automated rail system capable of storing more beer and loading it onto trucks much more efficiently

Jan 30, 2023 16:09

Mobility

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Denmark / Germany / Development / Mobility

World’s longest underwater rail-road tunnel to connect Germany and Denmark

The work is already underway from both sides and completion is expected at the end of the decade

Feb 1, 2023 17:58
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Belgium / Mobility / Public Spaces

This mediaeval gem in Ghent will become public bike parking lot

Local authorities say that this is a good way to preserve the 15th-century market building while providing a public service

Jan 31, 2023 17:13

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Luxembourg / Luxembourg / Development / Public Spaces

Luxembourg is looking for urban farmers

A new pilot project in the capital will try out multi-faceted farming in a built-up setting as a source of food and environmental awareness

Feb 2, 2023 17:07
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France / Paris / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces

For Valentine’s Day, you can use Paris info boards as love letters

Let your amorous intentions be known throughout the French capital, because if not there, where else?

Feb 2, 2023 16:13

Culture and Tourism

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France / Paris / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces

For Valentine’s Day, you can use Paris info boards as love letters

Let your amorous intentions be known throughout the French capital, because if not there, where else?

Feb 2, 2023 16:13
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Netherlands / Amsterdam / Culture and Tourism / Politics and Reforms

Free tickets for Amsterdam art venues in February

The city has launched a 'buy 1 get 1 for free' scheme to lure people back to the local cultural scene

Feb 1, 2023 17:28

Education and Sport

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Denmark / Aalborg / Education and Sport / Welfare and Health

Aalborg school first to try a 4-day week in Denmark

No more blue Mondays in this educational institution

Feb 2, 2023 13:30
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Belgium / Development / Education and Sport

Belgium will host Europe’s biggest sportainment park

The facility will be located in Hasselt and is set to welcome its first visitors this spring

Jan 25, 2023 17:39

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Spain / Barcelona / Digital transformation / Welfare and Health

Barcelona has a digital map of its health and care centres

Search for health, search for well-being - in any sense and category of these terms

Feb 2, 2023 17:37
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Denmark / Aalborg / Education and Sport / Welfare and Health

Aalborg school first to try a 4-day week in Denmark

No more blue Mondays in this educational institution

Feb 2, 2023 13:30
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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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Netherlands / Utrecht / Green City / Interviews

Sharon Dijksma: Without cities, it will be impossible to tackle global warming

Nov 21, 2022 13:41
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Interviews / Politics and Reforms

Vasco Cordeiro: The European project is at stake when solidarity is at stake

Aug 1, 2022 11:34
Denis Balgaranov
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Interviews

Cities Mission has made citizen engagement and participatory processes an important part of its functioning

Jul 14, 2022 14:57
ICLEI Europe
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Portugal / Matosinhos / Interviews

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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Interviews

EBRD's aim is to support increased climate ambition within cities

May 18, 2022 13:33
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Greece / Athens / Interviews / Welfare and Health

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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Bulgaria / Blagoevgrad / Interviews / Politics and Reforms

Ilko Stoyanov: Municipalities face the brunt of global crises

Apr 28, 2022 10:43
Denis Balgaranov
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Portugal / Matosinhos / Interviews / New European Bauhaus

Catarina Selada on the first-ever platform that assigns credits for saved carbon emissions

Apr 26, 2022 13:25
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov

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Since its foundation in 1550, Helsinki has been a trading city. Its founders had grandiose plans for the location, but the city was devastated by illness and poverty. For a long time Helsinki remained a relatively small center of trade. About 150 years later the black plague killed a large portion of the population, just when the territory was annexed by Russia, the whole country began to develop as the Great Duchy of Finland. In 1812 the capital of Finland was moved from Turku to Helsinki. At that time, the only university in the country was also moved to Helsinki. Factors such as industrialization and infrastructure development were becoming essential for the growth of the city.

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Finland / Helsinki / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces

Helsinki light festival features burnt cars from Ukraine

It’s an art installation that brings the horrors of war in the midst of the comfort felt by a European capital

Jan 06, 2023 17:04
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Finland / Helsinki / Education and Sport / Social City

Helsinki tackles menstrual poverty with free pads in schools

This is a pilot project for the time being, and it represents a growing range of concerns around the idea of “poverty” in society

Sep 16, 2022 10:23
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Finland / Helsinki / Mobility

Helsinki declares war on street dust…by using friction tires

Fine particles are the most challenging piece of the air quality puzzle for this Nordic capital

Sep 13, 2022 18:00
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Finland / Helsinki / Green City

For cleaner winter: Helsinki to test a new snow-melting device

Although we are still in the grip of summer, authorities in the Finnish capital are already thinking about the challenges of the icy season

Aug 31, 2022 11:06
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Finland / Helsinki / Green City

Helsinki’s emissions not dropping fast enough to meet 2030 horizon

As a response, the authorities of the Finnish capital have decided to update the local Carbon Neutral program

Aug 15, 2022 17:51
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Finland / Helsinki / Green City / Welfare and Health

How Helsinki’s air quality has improved over the past 30 years

Dust particle concentrations can still present a tough challenge to beat, though

Jun 24, 2022 15:55
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Finland / Helsinki / Welfare and Health

Helsinki inspires female immigrants to become entrepreneurs

The Finnish capital will hold ‘Entrepreneur Day for Women’ next month

May 23, 2022 12:09
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Green City

Helsinki to test a fully electric garbage truck

It should reduce noise and air pollution in the heart of the city

May 18, 2022 15:00
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Education and Sport / Welfare and Health

Helsinki offers refugees discounts for cultural and leisure services

One must present their residence card or a certificate confirming they have received asylum to be eligible for the discounts

May 13, 2022 11:51
Svilena Iotkovska
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Belgium / Finland / Brussels / Helsinki / Culture and Tourism / Politics and Reforms

European cities are starting to recognize English as an official language

In increasingly multi-cultural environments, the 21st-century lingua franca is hard to ignore

Apr 27, 2022 17:40
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Finland / Helsinki / Innovation and Research

Modern device uses seawater heat to melt snow in Helsinki

The new technology has proven to be cost-effective and environmentally friendly

Apr 27, 2022 16:02
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Espoo / Helsinki / Vantaa / Education and Sport

Helsinki Metropolitan Area offers residents 125 guided tours in nature

Excursions will be free of charge

Apr 26, 2022 14:36
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Culture and Tourism / Welfare and Health

Helsinki invests in cultural activities for its elderly citizens

It has set aside EUR 1.3 million for arts and culture projects that promote the inclusion of older people

Apr 20, 2022 11:11
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Digital transformation / Education and Sport

Augmented Reality game teaches Helsinki’s pupils about rainforests

The Finnish capital and Korkeasaari Zoo included schoolchildren in the game’s design process, asking them to devise the plot and characters

Mar 21, 2022 15:32
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Green City / Welfare and Health

Helsinki advises residents how to cope with poor air quality

The concentration of dust can be 10 times higher than usual during this time of the year

Mar 14, 2022 15:23
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Politics and Reforms

Helsinki condemns discrimination against Russian citizens

Mayor Juhana Vartiainen stressed that “Russian citizens and Russian speakers are not to blame for the war”

Mar 08, 2022 17:00
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Pirkkala / Tampere / Politics and Reforms

Finnish cities join forces to support Ukraine

Together, they will assist the country with around EUR 1.5 million

Mar 01, 2022 11:36
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Green City

Travelling comics teach Helsinki’s residents about hazardous waste

Check out the gallery above to see the cartoons

Feb 23, 2022 16:52
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Cities in Pictures

Gallery: Delicacies lure Helsinki’s bears out of their winter dens

Korkeasaari Zoo aroused the animals' appetites by building snowmen decorated with food

Feb 11, 2022 11:27
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Mobility / Public Spaces

‘Summer streets’ to enliven Helsinki’s city centre

The Finnish capital plans to make more space for pedestrians, outdoor dining areas, and greenery

Feb 09, 2022 11:52
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Culture and Tourism / Development

Finland’s first event space dedicated to dance opens in Helsinki

Tanssin talo (Dance House) was officially inaugurated on 2 February

Feb 03, 2022 17:00
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Green City

Helsinki’s Salmisaari power plant to stop using coal 5 years ahead of schedule

It will officially shut down on 1 April 2024

Dec 22, 2021 14:27
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Culture and Tourism

Helsinki Airport becomes the first in the world to name itself after passengers

Finland’s biggest airport now offers a unique customer experience

Dec 10, 2021 17:14
Svilena Iotkovska
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Austria / Denmark / Netherlands / Amsterdam / Copenhagen / Helsinki / Development

Here are the most English-proficient cities and countries in the world

The 2021 EF English Proficiency Index is out, and the top ranks are hardly surprising

Dec 02, 2021 10:52
Aseniya Dimitrova
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Denmark / Finland / Spain / Barcelona / Copenhagen / Helsinki / Green City

26 European cities are on CDP’s A List of environmental leaders this year

They have scored high for transparency and climate action

Nov 30, 2021 11:08
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Tampere / Turku / Energy efficiency

Real estate developer to slash energy consumption and CO2 emissions of Finnish buildings

It has secured a loan worth EUR 80 million from the European Investment Bank

Nov 26, 2021 14:59
Svilena Iotkovska
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Finland / Helsinki / Development

Helsinki to build a 1.6-kilometre-long tunnel worth EUR 180 million

The Sörnäistentunnel project has received both praise and criticism

Nov 25, 2021 11:59
Svilena Iotkovska
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Czechia / Finland / Greece / Athens / Helsinki / Prague / Welfare and Health

3 EU cities that are working hard to eradicate homelessness

The capitals of Finland, Greece, and Czechia have launched numerous initiatives to support homeless citizens

Nov 18, 2021 17:14
Svilena Iotkovska
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Belgium / Finland / Luxembourg / Portugal / Spain / Barcelona / Helsinki / Luxembourg / Porto / Public Spaces / Social City

Finalists competing for Access City Award 2022 announced

The winners will become known on 3 December

Nov 12, 2021 15:20
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Finland / Helsinki / Digital transformation / Mobility

An autonomous robot delivers parcels to Helsinki’s residents

The trial of the delivery vehicle will run until 10 December

Nov 03, 2021 12:02
Svilena Iotkovska

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