Year: 2021

EU and Vietnamese cities discuss flood control and mitigation of urban heat island effect

On 19 January 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 best practices in flood management as well as nature-based solutions to combatting the urban heat island effect. The Stuttgart Regional Association supports its municipalities by developing mandatory regulations, providing reliable...

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 12 January 2022. Reflecting the previous meeting, the two cities are now narrowing down their interests and sharing in-depth knowledge on the topic of micro-mobility. Seoul and Dublin followed them...

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 knowledge transfer, many important topics were discussed such as: promotion of social participation through qualitative and quantitative tools, specific methodologies for working with indigenous communities and methods to achieve consensus...

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 an exchange on various projects, looking at the current challenges of both cities and sharing their solutions, some of which also involve the private sector. Elitsa Panayotova, Coordinator of SOfiaGREEN...

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 Stuttgart received Certificate of Honour for its participation in the International Pavilion. [caption id="attachment_13564" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Rome, NCI of Bologna and Barcelona's Award Certificates[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13574" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Stuttgart's Award...