Kick-start your smart city idea with our experts by taking part in this year’s first matchmaking event. This conference with plenary sessions, workshop sessions as well as matchmaking & networking opportunities is for you.

This Forum will show how Smart Cities act as frontrunners for the EU Action Plan toward a Zero Pollution Ambition as a key action of the European Green Deal.

What do the recasts of the Renewable Energy Directive, the Directive on common rules for the internal market for electricity and the new Regulation on the internal market for electricity imply for smart and sustainable city development? Find out more in our respective report.

In 12 solution booklets the Smart Cities Marketplace has covered technologies such as PEDs, Heat Pump Driven District Heating Systems (to name a few) or a concept such as Building Envelop Retrofit or Energy communities in around 30 pages.

With a call for videos, the Smart Cities Marketplace is asking members of its Community, the Action Clusters and Initiatives as well as other EU funded Smart City projects to share videos of their smart solutions, services and ideas.

The Smart Cities Marketplace team would love to get your feedback on our website. Therefore, we have created a VERY short survey to take in your views – these will guide the further development of the platform.

The "Big Buyers for Climate and Environment" initiative aims to promote collaboration between big public buyers in implementing strategic public procurement for sustainable solutions. The initiative, supported by ICLEI and Eurocities, is currently establishing working Groups.

On March 19th, 2021, EIT Urban Mobility launched a call for the Innovation Programme 2022 focused on our City Challenge Areas. This year the focus is set on the areas Active Mobility, Sustainable Logistics, Energy and Mobility and Future Mobility.

In the beginning of February 2021, the European Commission launched a new phase of the Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat. In this second phase, the Secretariat will build on the results of Phase I to continue its support to energy transition of islands in the EU.

The new cycle of European green city awards has seen 30 cities from across Europe competing to become Europe’s next European Green Capital and European Green Leaf Award winners.

The cities Thessaloniki (Greece) and Le Havre (France) are on a voyage towards increased citizen participation and digitisation of public administration.

In the ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) Call, 16 national research and innovation funding agencies from 14 European countries (namely members of the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe) together with the European Commission have earmarked a global budget of about 18.4 M€.