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To officially inform our local and national stakeholders, a kick-off for the project was held on Thursday June 13th. This coincided with a national day on jobs and skills in the Netherlands were initiatives of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and other cities and organisations, like Schiphol Airport were showcased.

During September, the selection process for BC Labs was executed and finally 131 people are being trained.

Testing of the carbon trading application CitiCAP for mobility emissions has begun.

Over the past 3 years - in other words - in the past 36 months, 156 weeks or 1095 days - 5 project partners have worked together within the framework of the CORE project in order to make life and settling in the city easier for refugees in Vienna. Integration services from public institutions, organizations and civil society initiatives were brought closer together and refugees were actively involved in the development of integration services. CORE put the focus on refugees and their diverse competences and made them experts in their own cause.

During my morning run along the Canal du Midi, the channel which was built to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea, a source of local pride for people from Toulouse I was contemplating on the importance of connections. How important is that employees should get to their workplaces on time, but also how important is it that different type of institutions are working together for this goal. Both projects presenting their goals and achievement, I listened today were keen on public-private cooperation and were enthusiastic with their successes, but in both cases, it was not easy to buy the partners in. Are private companies and public administrations as far away from each other in terms of internal logic, reasoning, way of thinking as the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea?

The project APPLAUSE addresses unsolved questions with regard to invasive alien plant species in terms of the zero waste approach and circular economy in the City of Ljubljana. Watch their latest video to learn more!

Just over the first half of project implementation, partners within SASMob project are thinking about how to maintain the momentum, how to keep the Smart Alliance working after the end of funding from Urban Innovative Actions. The University of Szeged is busy to make contacts with new employers in the city, making appointments, explaining, persuading them. Whether the partnership will be able to replicate and expand itself, is a strong indicator of project success.

On a sunny Saturday afternoon, the CALICO project partners introduced themselves to their future neighbours.

During the previous edition of the Gentse Feesten a new phase of TMaaS got underway and it was finally possible to test the dashboard.

An ENEA (New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development Agency - Italy) researcher presented AirHeritage project with a keynote speech at the 7th edition of WeBioPatr international conference on particulate matter measurement and research.