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City actions with creative and practical approaches to shifting our energy system.
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Smart city Vienna
Vienna has a well-established Smart City Framework Strategy putting an emphasis on citizen’s participation and life quality in addition to more “traditional” technology driven approaches. […]
Smart city Lyon
Lyon is constantly evolving and becoming an innovative, sustainable and vibrant smart city. Lyon Confluence – the Smarter Together project demonstration area – is one […]
From citizen engagement to citizen ownership – Living Street in La Rochelle
La Rochelle is a touristic city on the French Atlantic coast that aims to become a slow town, meaning that 80% of the streets will […]
From spinning yarn to carbon budgeting
Manchester Climate Change Strategy 2017-2050 : How a centre of the industrial revolution becomes a centre of the energy revolution:
The city of Manchester played a key role in the industrial revolution in the 19th century. As a former textile capital, the city has a […]
Citizens’ Solar Power Plant
Wien Energie elaborated an innovative model to allow its citizens to take part in the installation of photovoltaics on public buildings’ roofs or just beyond […]
Citizen Engagement at the core of the energy transformation
The Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole Region consists of 49 municipalities, among them the capital Grenoble. The metropolitan area is home to ca. 500,000 inhabitants, out of which more […]
Rethinking urban lifestyles to transform San Sebastián into a carbon-neutral city in 2050
The Basque city of San Sebastián (Spanish), home to about 186,000 inhabitants, is the administrative capital of the province of Guipúzcoa and a major culture […]
From citizen engagement to citizen ownership – Living Street in Milton Keynes
In Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, the citizens are not yet ready for Living Streets as the city is a new town built for the individual […]
Mouscron’s community energy model
As part of its commitment to the EU Covenant of Mayors, the city of Mouscron, Belgium, teamed up with its citizen to launch the “Coopem” […]
From citizen engagement to citizen ownership – Living Street in Brussels
In Brussels, Belgium, based on a call for applications 8 Living Streets were organised in different neighbourhoods between 2016 and 2018. They tackled various problems such as safety and street prostitution, the need for positive facilitation of public spaces and ownership by the inhabitants, green spaces, public works and need for silence, a ‘residential zone’ for meeting, sharing between inhabitants and a public space shared between pedestrians and cars.
Soft Loan Scheme for Photovoltaics
A Soft Loan Scheme with favourable terms for the installation of photovoltaic systems on homes has been co-developed by Aradippou Municipality and the Cyprus Cooperative […]
Incentive Programme for Solar Energy Generation
This project is part of a wide-ranging strategy that involves reclaiming energy sovereignty by promoting public and citizen energy production. This strategy aims to leave […]
