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A Handbook to boost your urban strategy

An EWRC workshop focusing on the relevance of European Structural and Investment Funds in implementing urban development strategies. There will be a presentation on the Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies recently published by the JRC, offering methodological support to cities, managing authorities and relevant stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of urban strategies under cohesion policy.

 
9th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns

30 September - 2 October: ICLEI and the City of Mannheim will bring together local and regional leaders, European and international institutions and some of the brightest minds working on cutting edge research, businesses and the civil society to forge a more sustainable Europe.

 
European Mobility Week

The EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK campaign will run from 16-22 September, and provides the perfect opportunity to present sustainable mobility alternatives to local residents and to explain the challenges that cities and towns are facing.

 
Urban Mobility Days 2020

From 29 September - 2 October this inline conference will allow policymakers, local authorities, academics, NGOs, urban transport practitioners, urban planners and all those putting the SUMP concept into practice to share their experiences using a virtual forum.

 
Urban Development Group (UDG)

The next meeting will take place on the 17 September to present and discuss the Draft Action Plans of the Vienna partnerships, as well as progress on the implementation of actions, and the Implementation document accompanying the New Leipzig Charter.

 
Save the date for UDN webinars: six building blocks to sustainable urban development

On behalf of Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission, we invite you to save the date for six webinars to take place in the month of November. The aim is to provide insights on how to tackle the main challenges policy-makers face when designing and implementing sustainable urban development strategies supported by Cohesion Policy. Further information will follow in the next newsletter!

 
8th International Conference on Sustainable Development

The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Development will take place in Rome on 9 - 10 September 2020, and is inspired by the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning present and future generations in a global context.