Dear readers,

As the year rounds off, we come to you with the final newsletter of 2020. It’s been a challenging year for us all, which will continue into 2021. These challenges should be faced together, so that we can emerge stronger, more united and more resilient.

Looking back over 2020, there have not only been challenges! A few UAEU highlights have shown a series of successful milestones, which you can read about by following the links below:

• The CITIES Forum
• The Coordinators’ and Action Leaders’ Meeting 2020
• The European Week of Regions and Cities
• The Vienna Partnerships have now entered implementation phase! (Details here and here)
• The New Leipzig Charter was adopted at the informal meeting of ministers responsible for urban and territorial development on 30 November 2020, signalling an important milestone for EU urban development (more below)!

For more information, you know where to look: all our news and resources are readily available on Futurium (which will be back in 2021 with a new look and feel!).

Please feel free to get in touch with us at ua.communication@ecorys.com with any questions or comments, and on this note, we’d like to take this opportunity wish all our readers very happy holidays, and we’ll be back with more updates, resources and news in 2021!

The Urban Agenda for the EU Communications Team