Publications & tools

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Instrumente für kommunales Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement (Tools for local sustainability management)

Municipalities at the beginning of their path towards sustainability need field-tested instruments because they face – often for the first time – the task of adapting centralized tools such as sustainability strategies or reports to their specific needs . This publication describes how local authorities can get such processes underway without having to reinvent the wheel.

Guidelines for co-design- ing and co-implementing green infrastructure in urban regeneration processes

These practical guidelines offer general and transferrable guidance on how to initiate, steer and organize collaborative co-design processes for local nature-based solutions (NBS), together with multi-dimensional stakeholders in any given city. They target anyone aiming to lead, organise or facilitate participatory multi-stakeholder engagement processes for NBS, especially municipal representatives. Taking the local and varied co-design processes executed in the EU-funded proGIreg project's Livi...

Ghent, Belgium - Transformative Action Award Winner, 2018

The Transformative Action Award recognises outstanding achievement in transforming cities for a more sustainable future.
The award rewards current or concluded Transformative Actions that address the pathways of the Basque Declaration related to three categories: socio-cultural transformation; socio-economic transformation; and technological transformation.
During an award ceremony held in Brussels at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Ghent (Belgium) was announced as the winner of t...
Press release
14 February 2019

Creating sustainable and just cities through Urban Arenas

A new European research project, UrbanA - Arenas for sustainable and just cities, kicked off in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany last month.
The Urban Arenas will be co-creative spaces designed to generate convincing, specific, and actionable solutions towards sustainable cities that foster deep forms of democracy and citizen empowerment.
Over the coming three years, a series of four Urban Arenas will bring together policymakers, researchers, engaged citizens and others – collectively known...

Open Governance - Making digital tools work for cities and citizens

The experiences and lessons learned from the development of the smarticipate platform are summarised in this document in a series of 12 recommendations.

European sustainability award launched at Change the Change conference

Win 10,000 EUR and be recognised as a European leader of sustainable urban transformation with the 2019 Transformative Action Award

Think beyond the grid: Superblocks (Vitoria-Gasteiz)

Insights from a visit to Vitoria-Gasteiz to learn about sustainable mobility in superblocks
Guidance document

Procuring Zero Emission Delivery of Goods and Services

BuyZET Handbook to help reduce traffic in urban areas, and promote the use of zero emission vehicles in urban logistics.

The tale of Turin's transformative SUMP

Turin was long known as Italy's motor city, but its Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan is now driving a change in mobility in the city.