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This Belgian town will pay you to protect your home from burglars

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France / Development / Public Spaces

This bench stores water and irrigates plants while you rest

The innovative project received funding from the participatory budget in Lille, France

Jun 24, 2022 14:06

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Bulgaria / Economy and Finance

Three Seas Initiative acquires large share in Port of Burgas

This is the first investment in port infrastructure by the international forum’s development fund

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Lithuania / Vilnius / Economy and Finance

Vilnius honours local start-up unicorns with bus stop name

The symbolism belies the city’s vision to transform the Naujamiestis district into a globally-known tech industry centre

Jun 20, 2022 15:31

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Czechia takes over the Presidency of the Council of the EU

As France’s term of the rotating Presidency ends on 30 June, it is time for the second member of the trio to carry out the European agenda

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Prague getting ready to become the “capital of Europe”

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Jun 23, 2022 16:00

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Finland / Vantaa / Green City / Innovation and Research

Finnish air-fed protein could solve world hunger

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Spain / Innovation and Research / Mobility

Lleida Airport will serve as research centre for drone traffic management

Commercial unmanned aerial vehicles will far outnumber their crewed counterparts by the end of the decade and solutions are urgently needed

Jun 24, 2022 12:58

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Croatian town covers banking fees for utilities in digitalization bid

The town of Makarska has recently launched a new mobile service, aiming to cut down on paper use and stimulate citizens to go contactless

Jun 27, 2022 16:00
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Italy / Rome / Culture and Tourism / Digital transformation

Rome VR Bus will carry tourists 2000 years back in time

Unique technology and design convert the vehicle into a mobile, multi-sensory cinematic hall

Jun 22, 2022 17:52

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Finland to establish a national hydrogen network

The country wants to become a leader in hydrogen production and export

Jun 27, 2022 14:41
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Belgium / Antwerp / Energy efficiency

Antwerp will offer citizens heat without emitting a single gram of CO2

City authorities just announced that they would develop a central heating grid that will use waste energy from industry and will cover half of the city by 2050

Jun 21, 2022 14:22

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Lufthansa cancels further 2,200 flights

The cancellation hits in the middle of the travel season and is caused by serious labour shortages coupled with a sudden rise of Covid cases

Jun 24, 2022 13:33
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Spain / Innovation and Research / Mobility

Lleida Airport will serve as research centre for drone traffic management

Commercial unmanned aerial vehicles will far outnumber their crewed counterparts by the end of the decade and solutions are urgently needed

Jun 24, 2022 12:58

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Turin snatches an ex-mafia castle

The property, together with others that have been confiscated, will be converted for social welfare uses

Jun 28, 2022 16:05
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Lithuania / Vilnius / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces

Vilnius’ bus stops host the city’s largest art gallery

The splendid initiative that turns advertising spaces into art canvases is back for its third edition

Jun 24, 2022 17:56

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Lithuania / Vilnius / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces

Vilnius’ bus stops host the city’s largest art gallery

The splendid initiative that turns advertising spaces into art canvases is back for its third edition

Jun 24, 2022 17:56
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Germany / Munich / Culture and Tourism / Mobility

Lufthansa cancels further 2,200 flights

The cancellation hits in the middle of the travel season and is caused by serious labour shortages coupled with a sudden rise of Covid cases

Jun 24, 2022 13:33

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Portugal / Braga / Education and Sport / Green City

Braga offers а free bio-shredding service

The city also led awareness-raising actions to show the impressionable youths how circularity is created first-hand

Jun 28, 2022 13:31
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Sweden / Education and Sport / Green City

Linköping gets a weather-sensitive air dome

The inflatable sports arena provides flexibility and cost effectiveness and is a good alternative to permanent construction

Jun 22, 2022 15:22

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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
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Spain / Green City / Welfare and Health

It’s official: Seville starts giving names to extreme heat waves

This makes the Andalusian city the first in the world to raise warnings about the harmful weather phenomenon

Jun 23, 2022 15:06
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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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Bulgaria / Blagoevgrad / Interviews / Politics and Reforms

Ilko Stoyanov: Municipalities face the brunt of global crises

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Denis Balgaranov
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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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Croatia / Dubrovnik / Zagreb / Digital transformation / Interviews

Tanja Polegubic: The rise of digital nomads will reshape cities in 3 ways

Mar 23, 2022 11:13
Svilena Iotkovska
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Spain / Interviews / New European Bauhaus

A garden is a laboratory of coexistence, where humans and non-humans interact to create more diverse, rich and resilient environments

Feb 18, 2022 13:44
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Spain / Interviews

Inés Rey: We’ve been a 15-minute city even before the term became widely known

Feb 16, 2022 12:46
Tzvetozar Vincent Iolov
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Zvonimir Novosel: Our main obligation is to serve our citizens and justify their trust

Feb 15, 2022 11:09
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Trikala is one of the oldest settlements in Europe with a long history that dates back to 3,000 BC. It is also the birthplace of Asclepius, the first ancient doctor.

Modern-day Trikala is built upon the ruins of the ancient town “Trika” or “Triki”. The name Trikala derives from the nymph Triki, daughter of “Pinios” or “Aesopos” river.  

The town was of great importance during ancient times due to the fact that Asclepius lived and worked in Trikala. He is also the municipality’s main symbol. In the region you can also find the most important and ancient monuments of Asclepius.

According to the Iliad by Homer, the town appears to take part in the war of Troy on the side of Greeks, having sent 30 ships and various leaders - the sons of Asclepius who became doctors.

Trikala was also the capital of a kingdom during the Mycenean time. Later it became the centre of the state of “Estiotida”.

Throughout history both Trikala as well as the area around the river have greatly developed. In the beginning, it was under Persian rule in 480 BC while ten years later it became part of the Monetary Committee of citizens of Thessaly.

In 352 BC Trikala became one with the Macedonia of Philip II. In 168 BC the people of Macedonia especially Philip V and his son Perseas tried very hard to keep Trikala free from the Romans.

During the first Christian centuries the town of Trikala and the region in general came under attack by many Balkan invaders - the Goths (396), the Huns (447), the Slavs (577), the Bulgarians (976-1025), the Normans (1081) and the Catalans (1309-1311). In 1204 came the Roman Catholics while for a small period Trikala was under the Byzantine empire and the Domain of Epirus.

The town appears for the first time with its modern name Trikala in a book named “Alexiada” of Anna Komnini, in the beginning of the millennium. The town was conquered finally by the Ottomans in 1393 and after a long period of underdevelopment Trikala becomes an important centre of home crafts boasting famous woolly textiles and other leather product.

Trikala was also a very important intellectual centre due to the fact that for a long period of time during Ottoman rule (1543-1854) it was home to the “Triki School” (later called Greek School). There, contemporary famous teachers like Dionysios the Philosopher gave lessons to pupils.

On 23 August 1881 Trikala come under Greek rule alongside other parts of Thessaly and Epirus. Trikala yet again became a part of the Ottoman Empire after the Greco-Ottoman war of 1897 but was reunited with Greece for a final time in 1898.

Trikala played a founding role for the country’s agricultural movements that acted against the powerful landowners during the XX century. Moreover, it also the place where Greece’s first Farmers’ Cooperative was founded in 1906.

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Greece / Trikala / Cities in Pictures

Gallery: Trikala’s new garbage trucks portray cleaners as heroes

The Greek municipality wants to thank the "heroes of everyday life"

Apr 18, 2022 14:05
Svilena Iotkovska
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Greece / Trikala / Digital transformation / Welfare and Health

Trikala provides vulnerable citizens with remote support using new app

Connected Living will make elderly and disabled individuals in the Greek city feel more independent

Dec 21, 2021 14:25
Svilena Iotkovska
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Greece / Trikala / Cities in Pictures / Innovation and Research / Mobility

Trikala tests the use of drones for the delivery of medicine

A drone delivered emergency drugs to a pharmacy in a rural village on 21 September

Sep 27, 2021 13:41
Svilena Iotkovska
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Plzen / Trikala / Innovation and Research

Pilsen, Bilbao and Trikala test terrorist attack readiness

They will use augmented reality, machine learning and AI, among other tools

Feb 27, 2020 11:31
Aseniya Dimitrova
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Trikala / Mobility

Trikala will offer free electric vehicles

As part of a common project with six other EU cities

Apr 19, 2019 07:52
Monika Dimitrova
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Trikala / Interviews

Dimitris Papastergiou: Trikala is internationally known as the Greek smart city flagship

“We enjoy developing and adopting new ideas with creativity and technology”

Feb 16, 2019 18:59
Monika Dimitrova

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