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Urban security

BeSecure-FeelSecure - Holistic Urban Security Governance Framework for Monitoring, Assessing and Forecasting the Efficiency, Sustainability and Resilience of Piraeus

Piraeus - Greece

Final Event | BeSecure-FeelSecure shares the successful results of a Holistic Approach to Urban Security in the City of Piraeus

Urban security
The European Project BeSecure-FeelSecure (BSFS) of the Municipality of Piraeus held its final event at the Municipal Theater of Piraeus..
Culture and cultural heritage

Kosice 2.0

Košice - Slovakia

Urban Talk Anička: Anička Park As a Naturally Inclusive Space

Culture and cultural heritage
At the end of August, as part of the Košice 2.0 project, a discussion took place in Anička Park. The discussion was part of the Urban T..
Culture and cultural heritage

CUP 4 CREATIVITY - Cultural Urban Platform to nurture creativity and fight digital loneliness

Budapest Újbuda - Hungary

CUP4Creativity Journal #2

Culture and cultural heritage
This journal by expert Levente Polyák accompanies the UIA project CUP4Creativity in its development. This second issue serves as a summ..
Urban poverty

EPIU - Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit

Getafe - Spain

Making the Transition Affordable for all UIA report: EPIU as a case study

Urban poverty
There is a pressing need to identify effective policy solutions to inspire locally driven low-carbon transitions in EU cities. UIA has ..
Culture and cultural heritage

ForwArt - Moving forward with the power of art: from a place to hide to a place of pride

Tilburg - The Netherlands

How to empower young residents - interview with Paul Cornelissen

Culture and cultural heritage
I asked Paul Cornelissen, thematic project manager of ForwArt about his vision on youth empowerment and how is he turning it into reali..
Urban security

BeSecure-FeelSecure - Holistic Urban Security Governance Framework for Monitoring, Assessing and Forecasting the Efficiency, Sustainability and Resilience of Piraeus

Piraeus - Greece

The Local Council for Crime Prevention: an experiment in good governance to prevent crime

Urban security
One of the project's milestones was the establishment of the Local Council of Crime Prevention - an exercise in good governance. Let's ..
Air quality

INNOAIR - Innovative demand responsive green public transportation for cleaner air in urban environment

Sofia - Bulgaria

The city of Sofia is a finalist in the European Mobility Week Awards 2022!

Air quality
We are happy to announce that Sofia is among the three finalists in the European Mobility Week competition for 2022 among two other Eur..
Digital transition

DARE - Digital Environment for collaborative Alliances to Regenerate urban Ecosystems in middle-sized cities

Ravenna - Italy

DARE Ravenna Zoom-in #2 - Towards a tactic for the Darsena

Digital transition
The Urban Innovative Actions-funded project DARE is a non-conventional urban regeneration project that instead of focusing uniquely on ..
Digital transition

WESH – We.Service.Heerlen

Heerlen - The Netherlands

WESH: Highlights & Achievements

Digital transition
For the capitalisation of WESH we are looking back on the project in three key ways; firstly on the highlights and achievements of the ..

UIA latest news & events

eui

UIA in Perspective

Reaching the end of the 2014-2020 programming period, implementing UIA and transitioning to EUI is a moment to summarize ambitions that were behind es...
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gree

Building green cities: accessible and affordable to all!

Climate change affects and will continue to affect all Europeans. However, the magnitude of its consequences is not equitably distributed among people...
UIA Article
eui

The European Urban Initiative for your city!

With the official agreement signed between the Region Hauts-de-France and the European Commission, we shift from UIA to the new European Urban Initiat...
UIA Article
EFZ

The European Urban Initiative: official agreement signed between the Region Hauts-de-France and the European Commission

The Region Hauts-de-France and European Commission have now officially signed an agreement for the management of the European Urban Initiative....
UIA Article
euwrc

Join us at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2022

We are back at the annual European Week of Regions and Cities 2022! Register now for our sessions and find out more details about what we have planned...
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NEB

New European Bauhaus: 20 small and medium municipalities to receive support for frontrunner projects

The Commission announces the 20 winners of the first call of the New European Bauhaus dedicated to place-based transformative projects led by small an...
UIA Article
ueau

New Call for Partners: Urban Agenda for the EU Partnerships on Greening Cities and Sustainable Tourism

New call for partners to form two new Thematic Partnerships under the Urban Agenda for the EU: Sustainable Tourism and Greening Cities ...
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16 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023

Cities Forum 2023 – Together for green and just cities

The European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy is organising its biennial major event, the CITIES FORUM, on 16-17 March, ...

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