Category: News from IURC

IURC China Webinar: Tourism & Culture in Green and Digital Transition

On 04 March 2022, the thematic webinar on Tourism & Culture in Green and Digital Transition was successfully held as a part of the IURC China thematic cluster working session, aiming to share how cities and regions achieve green and digital transformation and resilience of the tourism & culture sector and discuss how EU-China cooperation can help them to reach...

Watch the webinar: Rehabilitation Strategies for Historic Centres: case studies from Manaus, Naples, and Cienfuegos

IURC Latin America organised a webinar on Rehabilitation Strategies for Historic Centres, presenting case studies of Naples, Manaus, and Cienfuegos. The three case studies allowed to learn about different strategies for the regeneration of historic centres, pointing out common challenges such as climate change and contrasting different approaches about participatory methodologies and sources of financing, amongst others. The webinar was...

NOW OPEN! ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity Sino-European call

For this new ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) call, JPI Urban Europe and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) will address the urban mobility, accessibility, and connectivity challenge in the Sino-European cooperation, with a focus on knowledge and impact. In answer to the global urbanisation challenge, JPI Urban Europe and the National Natural Science Foundation of...

The city of Hermosillo shared its experience developing and implementing its Green Infrastructure Manual with Debrecen

The city of Hermosillo, Mexico, shared its experience developing and implementing its Green Infrastructure Manual with the city of Debrecen, Hungary, with the participation of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, and Piraeus, Greece. Download the presentation here: https://lnkd.in/eMYy742G The Green Infrastructure Manual seeks to reduce air pollution and improve water quality and living conditions for several species. The 3...

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...

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...

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....

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...