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More Living Streets to take place in Croatia, Greece and Portugal!
In time of “social distancing”, discussions on how to adapt and improve local approaches to urban planning are more relevant than ever. The EUKI Living […]
Combining collective self-consumption and energy-based tourism
Mouscron’s latest projects (Belgium)
The city of Mouscron has given us a broad outline of its new projects under way, including one involving collective self-consumption for an entire neighbourhood.
Booming bike use in Brussels as European Mobility Week kicks off
Cycling commuters have doubled in Brussels in the last five years
Cycling in Brussels has been surging in popularity the last few years with 16% more cyclists in 2018 compared to 2017 and an average 13% […]
Intracting, Green bonds, Citizen financing, EPC and much more, on the menu of PROSPECT next learning cycle
As many opportunities for local authorities to find out how to unlock resources for their local projects! Apply before 30 September!
The fourth and last H2020 PROSPECT learning cycle on innovative financing for local energy and climate projects, will start this November 2019, following an ongoing […]
Innovative financing for cities
Five free handbooks to improve your city's energy performance
The PROSPECT H2020 learning programme enables peer-to-peer learning in regional and local authorities in order to finance and implement their sustainable energy and climate action plans. The […]
Energy Cities welcomes 4 new member cities
The cities of Krizevci, Vienna, Valencia and Vilvoorde join the Energy Cities’ network!
The Energy Cities community has recently welcomed some new members. We are very happy and proud to have Krizevci, Vienna, Valencia and Vilvoorde among us! […]
What “Mix and Move” means in the mobility field in Europe!
“Mix and Move” is the theme of the European Mobility Week from 16 to 22 September, focusing this year on multimodality and the mix of […]
Copenhagenize your streets, Paris-ize your buildings, Ghent-ize citizen participation!
About cities and towns’ amazing willingness to change for the better. Anyone who already visited Copenhagen would have been amazed by the local bicycle culture. […]
How deep is your love…for cars? Hamburg’s methods to reduce emissions
Germans are a truly cool people, but when it comes to their cars, some of them can’t take a joke. Germans love their BMWs, VWs […]
Rennes Métropole takes up the challenge of a local … and collective energy transition – Interview with Olivier Dehaese
The City of Rennes and Rennes Métropole have, for several decades, been involved in developing an ambitious energy and climate policy aimed at reducing CO2 […]
What Vienna and Igoumenitsa tell us about using streets differently
The two cities won the European Mobility Week Award!
Last week, the European Commission announced the winners of the European Mobility Week Award 2017 and 6th Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP). Vienna […]
How to finance your SECAP: Join the PROSPECT EU-wide peer-to-peer learning programme
Securing financing for sustainable energy projects remains a great challenge for most EU local authorities. Energy Cities is a partner of the new European H2020 […]
