Category: News from NA

Our webinar series, Sustainable Urban Mobility and Transport, brings together a cohort of IURC cities and metropolitan areas in a peer-to-peer learning environment to discuss and share challenges and best practices related to the main topic as they build long-term learning, networking, and working relationship amongst the participants. These webinars build upon topics of interest emerging from the cooperation among...

Our webinar series, Cities Supporting Cities: Towards Circular Economy Concepts, Frameworks, and Actions led by IURC NA in partnership with Fort Collins, USA, intends to guide participants on how to start or advance circular economy in their cities. In each session, Fort Collins shares its story and learnings, as they move through the process to establish its own plan for implementation....

The IURC NA program organized the return learning exchange study visits to Zaragoza, Mannheim, Braga, Madrid, and the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona during the fall of 2022. The agendas focused on sharing common challenges and solutions on a selection of Joint Areas of Cooperation, ranging from Urban Planning to Renovation Wave and Sustainable Urban Mobility & Transport, amongst others. Below are the...

10 - 11 November 2022 On 10th-11th November, a cohort of 14 IURC cities gathered in Zaragoza, Spain, to create professional connections and networks while facilitating knowledge sharing on Sustainable Urban Mobility & Transport topics such as public transport for zero emissions, shared & micro-mobility strategies, autonomous delivery vehicles, and low-emission zones. The event started with an official welcome from Sara Fernández...

Bergamo has won the Urban Award 2022, the prize that the National Association of Italian Municipalities gives to the city that stands out for the best sustainable mobility projects. A first prize resulting from the many initiatives that the city has put in place in recent months to encourage the use of bicycles in the city, with ad hoc communication...

20 - 24 June 2022 The cities of Bergamo and Rimini, Italy, and Aurora, USA, undertook their second study visit as part of the IURC program. Two delegates from each city visited Bergamo and Rimini for a week to continue their work on the agreed thematic areas of cooperation: Sustainable Urban Mobility Nature-Based Solutions Culture and Tourism On Monday, June 20th,...

29 June - 1 July 2022 Last year, Climate Action KC joined the European Union’s International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC) program and was matched with an EU counterpart region as part of a city-to-city exchange. Kansas City’s selected partner was Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metro (GZM), located in the Silesia Voivodeship (think: province) in southern Poland. The GZM consists of 41 cities and communes where...

IURC NA, in partnership with the City of Ottawa and the EU-funded project Reducing Plastic Waste in Canada, held on June 2nd and 3rd, 2022, the Waste Management & Circular Economy Networking Event in Ottawa, Canada. Approximately 50 representatives from Spain, Poland, Italy, the USA, and Canada gathered to work on managing plastic at various levels of government level, developing strategies...

31 May – 2 June 2022 Three delegates from Madrid, Spain, traveled to San Diego, USA, to complete their first study visit to learn best practices and share challenges on: Sustainable Urban Mobility and TransportNature-Based Solutions The morning of Tuesday, May 31st started with a welcome from the San Diego delegates, who provided a general overview of the city's geography,...

23 – 25 May 2022 The cities of Bergamo and Rimini, Italy, undertook their first study visit as part of the IURC program in Aurora, Illinois, in the US. The five Italian delegates focused for three days on their agreed thematic areas of cooperation: Sustainable Urban MobilityNature-Based SolutionsCulture and Tourism On Monday, May 23rd, Mayor Richard C. Irvine welcomed the...