Culture forum in Chemnitz: local networks are enablers of public culture

In Chemnitz, during EUROCITIES Culture Forum (10-13 April 2019) on "Cities developing and supporting networks of local cultural organisations", cultural policy expert Raluca Iacob gave a keynote speech on "local networks, enablers of public culture".

Designing smart and efficient energy policies with citizens at local level

This session proposes to present diverse local and European projects using new methods to face the difficulties that cities have in designing local energy retrofitting services

Lisbon Council – Co-VAL summit ‘Co-creation and design thinking – The next frontier’ (6 June, Brussels)

How can we create clean air in our cities for a better quality of life?

Following the publication of the reflection paper Towards a sustainable Europe 2030 and the current review of the EU Ambient Air Quality Directives we invite you to a seminar on the importance of clean air in our cities.

It's un au revoir from Cities4Europe

On Europe day, one year after its official launch, it is now time to wrap up and celebrate our Cities4Europe – Europe for citizens campaign!

Danube compass launched - an integrated information platform for migrants new to the Danube region

The Danube Compass is an online portal to provide information for new inhabitants of the Danube region, many of which are migrants. It contains information about living and working in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The information is available in many different languages.

EUROCITIES presents to Council of Europe good practices from cities on Roma housing inclusion

EUROCITIES was invited to present good practices from cities on preventing evictions and securing access to adequate housing at the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller Civil Society that took place on 11-12 April in Strasbourg.

Save the date for our autumn Social Affairs Forum in Warsaw

Our Social Affairs Forum will meet in Warsaw on 22-24 October to discuss how to ensure social inclusion and well-being for all ages in view of building inclusive cities for all people.

Our ‘Inclusive Cities for All’ initiative continues – Join NOW with your city pledge!

This February, EUROCITIES launched a new initiative 'Inclusive cities for all: Social rights in my city' and we announced the first 21 city pledges at a high-level political event at the European Parliament. The pledges bring a total investment of over €4.32 billion from cities over the next 5 years to fight poverty and social exclusion by delivering the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights at local level.

CIDOB - Rethinking the ecosystem of international city networks.Challenges and opportunities

It has become widely accepted that the twenty-first century will be an urban century. In recent decades, cities’ ability and desire to cooperate with their neighbours and internationally, coupled with mass urbanisation across the globe, has reinforced the global power of cities. Following these trends, the number of city networks at European and global level has increased over time and they have become so numerous that cities have gotten to a point where they must make choices.