Community of Practice on Cities

Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton  will engage in a dialogue with EU Mayors from the Living-in.EU movement and the Intelligent Cities Challenge on the green and digital transformation and socio-economic resilience of cities and communities.  

The dialogue will focus on the cities’ priorities, challenges, and expectations in relation to the transition pathway of the city and community towards a sustainable future.

Our JRC colleagues will present the findings from the JRC Exploratory Research Activity on "International Migrants in Functional Urban Areas", the agenda includes:

the presentation of the JRC report; interventions of representatives of the European Commission on measures supporting migrants’ integration at local level; a discussion with distinguished scholars concerning the integrated urban strategies of five urban case studies.

On October 13th, our colleagues from the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy, organized a Participatory Lab to address the following question: “What does it take to mainstream citizen engagement and deliberative democracy in public institutions?”

The Smart City Expo World Congress was held from the 15th to the 17th of November in Barcelona. It brought together city representatives and industry partners from across the globe to help empower cities and collectivize urban innovation.

On the 11th of October the Collective Housing Solutions Platform hosted a debate on Collective Housing transformation to discuss learnings from their report on Upcycling Buildings.

From the 16th to the 18th of November, the OECD held its annual forum on Green Growth & Sustainable Development. The main theme this year was "A green recovery: rethinking the build environment and transport".