Year: 2021

People-Centred Smart Cities: cities invited to join challenge on e-government and public participation

UN-Habitat invites cities and local governments to join and evaluate pitch sessions from public and private solution providers that build digital platforms for public engagement. Cities will have the opportunity to work with UN-Habitat and partners to identify best practices, learn more about digital platform tools, network with solution providers and other cities, and understand how to evaluate and assess digital technologies that...

EU and Australian cities discuss green urban planning

In order to identify a potential topic for cooperation within the IURC programme, the cities of Barcelona, Florence, Hamburg, Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne held a thematic meeting on 2 February 2022 to discuss their green urban planning strategies and projects. This marked the first of a series of theme-based discussions. The next one will be on innovation precincts. Hamburg’s presentation...

WEBINAR: “Rehabilitation Strategies for Historic Centres: case studies from Naples, Manaus, and Cienfuegos”

We are very pleased to invite you to join us for the webinar "Rehabilitation strategies for Historic Centres: case studies from Naples 🇮🇹, Manaus 🇧🇷, and Cienfuegos🇨🇺", organized by the International Urban and Regional Cooperation Latin America (IURC LAC) Programme on Thursday, February 24th at 09:00 CDT/16:00 CEST. The webinar will have a duration of 1:15 hours. The event will...

Four cities kick-off their collaboration for hydrogen and open innovation under IURC

On 1 February 2022, the cities of Koriyama (Japan), Toyota (Japan), Essen (Germany) and Grenoble-Alpes Metropole (France) officially kicked off their collaboration to develop a hydrogen society and promote open innovation. Hydrogen is an essential vector for freeing our societies from fossil fuels and effectively initiating the energy transition. Dialogue and actions that transcend national boundaries are required to remove...

Making cities walkable with Seoul and Dublin

On 27 January 2022, Seoul and Dublin followed up their meeting from two weeks prior with another meeting. In the previous meeting, Dublin presented on their walking and cycling plan, and during this meeting, Seoul presented on their plans for a walkable city. It is planned that cycling will be discussed in more detail in an upcoming meeting. The featured...

Open Call for city governments and experts to pilot city-wide implementations of digital rights

The Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, UN-Habitat, UCLG and Eurocities, in partnership with the Open Society Foundation, are launching an open call to find city governments and experts in Europe to pilot the Digital Rights Governance Framework. The Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, launched by the Cities of Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York in November 2018 and now with a...

The First IURC-China Networking Event: Learning and Inspiring

The IURC-China team organised the first IURC-China Networking Event on January 26, 2022. The main objectives of this online meeting are to bring together the IURC-China participating cities and regions, to share their vision and solutions, to understand their expectations and resources for successful cooperation, and to learn from the experience and good practices in EU-China urban and regional cooperation....

Busan and Rotterdam discuss joint actions on mobility and logistics

Busan and Rotterdam reunited again in the new year for the first time since the bilateral meetings in October. Both cities presented on their current implementation of mobility solutions and shared ideas about the discussion topics for future meetings and study visits. Busan shared about the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system and its implementation. The BRT system, also known as...

Ranchi and Reggio Emilia discuss mobility solutions during 1st meeting

On 20 January 2022, city officials from Ranchi Municipal Corporation in Jharkhand, India, and Reggio Emilia, Italy, met online for the first time to introduce their cities and discuss the topic of cooperation. Mr. Rajesh Kumar, City Data Officer of Ranchi, helped paint a picture of Ranchi’s mobility scenario. After the formation of a new state, Jharkhand in 2000, Ranchi...