Event

We are happy to announce that the main sessions of the 5th edition of the Cities Forum will be web streamed! Follow online the plenary sessions on our website on 16 and 17 March through the link provided below. A dedicated agenda for the webstreamed sessions is available. For the latest news and interviews from the event, do not hesitate to check the #CitiesForum on Twitter, the Facebook page and corresponding Event page.

The 5th edition of the Cities Forum will take place in Torino on 16-17 March 2023. We are pleased to announce that the official website for the event is online. This is the main information portal for interested participants. You can already find online the draft agenda of the event and a brief description of the workshops and thematic sessions. Registration to attend the event on site will open in January on the website. To remain updated on future news, participants are invited to follow our Facebook event #CitiesForum 2023.

This year’s – eleventh – session of the World Urban Forum will take place in Katowice, Poland. In order to present European perspective, within the WUF11 programme there will be a special group of events called the European Track. As part of a dedicated building block of the European Track, the series of 14 events organised or co-organised by the European Commission aims to highlight the EU approach towards integrated sustainable urban development through various dimensions. Please also take time to visit the European Commission Joint Research Center’s stand if you join the forum. More information can be found below.

Urbact will be present in Poland and organise two events at the WUF 11: a training on gender equality in cities, and a panel session based on the work of the pilot network Global Goals for Cities, supporting the localization of SDGs. Find more information below through the below link. Do not hesitate to also take the opportunity visit their strand.

Register here to this Urban Development Network webinar, taking place on 25 November from 10.00 to 12.00. The event focuses on the Self-Assessment Tool for Sustainable Urban Development strategies (SAT4SUD), an online tool developed to assess your urban strategy, recognising strengths and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Two freshly released reports will be presented during the webinar on November 23rd. The first includes an evaluation of funding structures of European public libraries as result of a survey carried out by the Action Group. The other presentation is a pre-synthesis of the second European report on sustainable development and libraries, a survey carried out by EBLIDA in the course of summer 2021. Register here!

Equinet is hosting a conference on the 25-26 October to explore cooperation, in particular with local authorities, to promote equality and tackle discrimination at the local level. Registrations are open until 20 October, 2021. For more information follow the link below.

The German Federal Ministry of the Interior for Building and Community (BMI) and the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) are organising an online expert discussion, in the framework of the Partnership on Culture and Cultural Heritage in the Urban Agenda for the EU, on Wednesday, 20 October 2021 from 15:00-18:00 CET. You can view further information and find out how to register by following the link.

You can now register to the 19th EURegions Week! You can expect 300 sessions spread over 4 days, almost 850 speakers from all over the EU and beyond, 365 hours of interactive conferences, more than 100 video clips and 30 stands, as well as sessions from some of the Urban Agenda Partnerships! Register now via the link.

Save the dates (20 September, 27 September, 4 October) and register for our series of webinars, organised in line with the Green, Just and Productive city dimensions established under the New Leipzig Charter (NLC), showcasing examples from cities on how to develop resilience and further the implementation of these dimensions at the local level.

Join Efus's web conference in the framework of Action 2 and 4 of the Partnership on Security in Public Spaces on EU funding opportunities for local and regional authorities concerning the topic of urban security. The event will take place on Zoom, with the participation of expert Thijs Fikken (Action 2) on the 25 June at 10h (CET).

This is the final Event of the Efus-led BRIDGE - Building resilience to reduce polarisation and growing extremism project, entitled Preventing polarisation - European Perspectives. Follow the link to register!

This event will take place on 22 and 23 April 2021, gathering a number of high level speakers including the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Parliament, several Commissioners, and key stakeholders involved in this initiative. Register here!

UIA & URBACT are organising a final event featuring the main results of the culminating activity of Cities Engaging in the Right to Housing, paving the way to future knowledge sharing within the European Urban Initiative. Event takes place on 22 April at 10.00 CET, register here!

Register to learn about the International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC) programme and what it can bring to cities and regions! The webinar will take place on 14 April, 10:00 - 11:00 CEST.

This Policy Lab is organised in close cooperation with the Directorate-General for Territory and will take place on 15 April 2021 (14:00 - 17:00 CET). Register here!

This exhibition presents some of the results of the H2020 research project REPAiR - Resource Management in Peri-Urban Areas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism.

In 2020 UIA and Ecorys explored different approaches of ongoing UIA projects to measure their innovative interventions. This event will share the findings! Follow the link below to register and gain insight into innovative and flexible monitoring processes, taking place on 11 March 2021 from 10:00-12:00 CET.

The Urban Agenda Partnership on Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement is hosting an online webinar on Tuesday, February 2nd, from 10.00 to 11.30 CET, where you can gather information on it's free E-learning module on Public Procurement.

On the same topic, this webinar series on ‘Six building blocks to sustainable urban development’ is also based on the Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies. The 6 sessions target Managing Authorities and Local Authorities of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies as well as other interested urban stakeholders, and will be held on the 3, 9, 13, 17, 19 and 25 November. More information coming soon!