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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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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

Economy and Finance

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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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Italy / Development / Economy and Finance

Italian government greenlights bridge between Sicily and mainland

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

Mar 17, 2023 18:02

Politics and Reforms

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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 / Rome / Culture and Tourism / Politics and Reforms

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

Innovation and Research

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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

Digital transformation

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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

Energy efficiency

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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

Mobility

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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

Public Spaces

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Spain / Barcelona / Public Spaces / Social City

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

Culture and Tourism

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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

Education and Sport

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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

Welfare and Health

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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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Interviews

Kaisa Karjalainen: “It’s better to be an imperfect zero waster for the rest of our lives than a perfect one for two weeks”

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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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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France / Lyon / Digital transformation / Public Spaces

Lyon metro tests an occupancy warning system

The system uses a simple tri-colour traffic light code to let commuters know the best place to enter a train

Dec 02, 2022 14:56
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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France / Lyon / Education and Sport / Green City

For 3 days, sheep will take over Lyon

The urban transhumance event aims to make the pastoral practices of the countryside familiar to the city denizens

Sep 28, 2022 17:40
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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France / Lyon / Interviews

Grégory Doucet: Prosperity means a clever use of resources, respectful to inhabitants and the Earth

Interview with Grégory Doucet, Mayor of Lyon, France

Jan 17, 2022 13:45
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Aalborg / Lyon / Mobility

10,000 youngsters in Lyon will ride bicycles for free

The French city wants to open sustainable transport to everybody, regardless of their means

Oct 22, 2021 13:37
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Development / Public Spaces

Lyon to adopt the first “gender budget” in France

Objective: to ensure that each budget line benefits men and women equally

Mar 11, 2021 15:33
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Energy efficiency

Lyon saves millions of litres of water by properly disposing of cigarette butts

Over the course of just a single year

Nov 13, 2020 15:12
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Energy efficiency

Lyon’s pupils to enjoy more greenery and a more peaceful environment

Pedestrianisation of school surroundings and more natural environments to play in barely scratch the surface of the new municipal team's plans

Sep 03, 2020 12:58
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Mobility

Lyon tests self-cleaning fabric on metro trains

A French company developed a tissue destroying viruses and bacteria in just one minute

Jun 10, 2020 09:32
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Culture and Tourism

Lyon: citizens create giant paintings together in real time

Lockdown cannot put the brakes on creativity and collective spirit

Apr 10, 2020 12:20
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Education and Sport / Energy efficiency

Lyon considerably reduces plastics at school canteens

A drop of 75% in the plastics used is expected

Jan 08, 2020 10:40
Aseniya Dimitrova
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Austria / France / Lyon / Mobility

Lyon launches shared electric bicycles

Over half of the existing Vélo’v could become hybrids powered on external batteries

Dec 20, 2019 09:23
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Mobility

Lyon launches an autonomous shuttle as part of its public transport network

It will service the Parc Olympique Lyonnais stadium

Nov 19, 2019 10:18
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Culture and Tourism / Development / Smart City

Lyon – European Capital of Smart Tourism 2019

Together with Helsinki, Lyon will be the first city ever to hold this title

Dec 31, 2018 10:41
Aseniya Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Smart City

Lyon Confluence is the largest urban regeneration project in Europe

It has became a model for smart positive energy buildings, which produce more energy than they consume

Mar 28, 2018 13:32
Monika Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Innovation and Research / Smart City

Lyon - the first city in France to create a dedicated position of Chief Digital Officer

The French city is using loT to create open innovation ecosystem

Mar 23, 2018 08:30
Monika Dimitrova
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France / Lyon / Development

Lyon rewarded with 2018 Access City Award

Improving the quality of life and ensuring that everybody - regardless of age, mobility or ability - has equal access to all the resources and pleasures cities have to offer

Feb 27, 2018 09:26
Olya Georgieva

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