Learn how to advance your city’s transition in your language!

Are you an Italian, Croatian, French, Portuguese, Lithuanian or Spanish-speaking civil servant, planner, or technician tasked with supporting your city’s green transition?

Starting today, you can finally learn how to combine energy transition, climate resilience, and circular economy goals with actionable strategies in your language!

In addition to the English version, the free SPARKLE e-learning Planning the Energy and Climate Transition for Cities, is now available in these six new languages, thus making it easier for you to fully understand the topics, gain new knowledge and take the tests.

Planning the Energy and Climate Transition for Cities is composed of three courses:

1. Integrated energy and climate transition planning – Learn how to integrate energy, climate, and circularity into spatial planning for a more resilient and sustainable future.
2. Data for a clean energy transition – Create data-informed climate strategies by using energy and emissions data to set targets, guide decisions, and engage citizens.
3. Transition Management: a process for co-creating transformative change – Discover how to apply transition management to co-create inclusive, sustainability-oriented roadmaps.

All six linguistic versions will be available on the Local Transitions Learning Centre by mid-November.

From online learning to in-person schools

To further enrich your competencies and allow you to exchange experiences, challenges and solutions with other European peers, you can join one or more SPARKLE Schools, taking place from March to June 2026 in our pilot cities:

• From Renewables to Resilience: Building Stronger Communities and Cities – Thriving together – 18-19 March 2026 in POREČ (Croatia) 
• A green transition for all: how to empower participatory governance for future-proof cities – 28-29 April 2026 in GUIMÃRAES (Portugal) 
• When circular economy meets local climate strategies –  5-6 May 2026 in CALENZANO (Italy) 
• Decarbonising buildings and energy districts for the benefit of all: how cities can drive the change – 27-28 May 2026 in VILNIUS (Lithuania) 
• Eat better, waste less, produce locally: developing sustainable food systems for resilient cities –  11-12 June 2026 in ALBERTVILLE (France).

Don’t miss the opportunity to be selected for the fully funded scholarship programme. To be eligible, you need to: 

1. Complete the SPARKLE free e-learning Integrated energy and climate transition planning course and at least one among Data for a clean energy transition and Transition management.
2. Fill out the application form 
3. Provide a Letter of Commitment demonstrating your municipality’s ambition to develop or improve a SECAP or similar plans and to participate in the chosen SPARKLE school
4. Indicate 2 representatives (one technical and one political delegate) to join the selected school. 

Click on the button below to discover more about each school and the selection process.