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EU and Vietnamese cities discuss flood control and mitigation of urban heat island effect
On 19 February 2022, city officials from Da Lat and Ha Tinh in Vietnam met with those from Stuttgart in Germany and Colleferro and Latina in Italy to share their…
Exchanging thoughts on micro-mobility, walking, and cycling with EU and Korean cities
As part of the IURC programme, Sejong, Sofia, Seoul, and Dublin started the New Year with two bilateral meetings. Sofia and Sejong leapt into 2022 with a bilateral meeting on…
Puerto Montt and Piraeus carried out their first technical cooperation activity
The first technical cooperation activity was carried out between the cities of Puerto Montt (Chile) and Piraeus (Greece), where an interesting experience of participatory urban planning was presented. In this…
EU and Vietnamese cities discuss flood control and mitigation of urban heat island effect
On 19 February 2022, city officials from Da Lat and Ha Tinh in Vietnam met with those from Stuttgart in Germany and Colleferro and Latina in Italy to share their…
Exchanging thoughts on micro-mobility, walking, and cycling with EU and Korean cities
As part of the IURC programme, Sejong, Sofia, Seoul, and Dublin started the New Year with two bilateral meetings. Sofia and Sejong leapt into 2022 with a bilateral meeting on…
1st bilateral meeting between Semarang and Sofia
Representatives from Semarang City of Indonesia and Sofia City of Bulgaria met online on 13 January 2022 to discuss possible cooperation with a focus on urban mobility. The representatives had…
IURC-China Pilot Cities Won Awards in Yangzhou International Horticultural Expo!
Rome, Nuovo Circondario Imolese of Bologna, and Barcelona, who participated in the Yangzhou IHE last year, have won respectively the Golden, Silver and Bronze awards for Outdoor International Gardens. Whereas…
Greetings from Liuzhou, IURC China
As the year 2022 approaches, Mr YANG Zhuangzhi, the Deputy Director from the Development and Reform Commission of Liuzhou, China, sends the best wishes of the city of Liuzhou to…
IURC China Cities and Regions Revealed!
The twenty-two cities and regions across Europe will collaborate with twenty-two Chinese counterparts in IURC Programme. Between 2021 and 2023, they will cooperate in the areas of ecological transition and…
Puerto Montt and Piraeus carried out their first technical cooperation activity
The first technical cooperation activity was carried out between the cities of Puerto Montt (Chile) and Piraeus (Greece), where an interesting experience of participatory urban planning was presented. In this…
The future of food markets
In the context of the current COVID-19 crisis, food markets appear as an opportunity to foster new strategies to build more resilient cities. Food markets can contribute to provide healthier…
Watch the webinar: “Smart Strategies for equality and social inclusion”
https://youtu.be/_tHbPyQKVqo On December 9th, IURC Latin America held the webinar “Smart strategies for equality and social inclusion”. The webinar sought to introduce smart strategies and analyse how innovation and digitalization can…
Kick-off IURC-NA Thematic Cluster on Education, Jobs and Skills: Urban Regeneration & Innovation
The IURC-NA team organised a kick-off webinar on the 10th of November 2021 for the regional thematic cluster on Education Jobs and Skills, with a specific focus on the…
IURC Annual Event: registrations are open!
Join us for the first International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC) Annual Event, where over the course of two days you will have the chance to deep dive into the…
Baltimore and Turin Consolidating Exchange of Innovative Business Solutions for Social Impact
Baltimore City, through the Baltimore Development Corporation, has entered into a formal partnership with the City of Turin through the Torino City Lab to promote social innovation in both cities. The…
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