April 14, 2021 CROSSROADS EUROPE Dialogue: Virtual strategies for citizen participation https://www.fundacionxul.org/crossroadseurope/ Crossroads Europe aims at fostering cross-cutting dialogue about the EU, the challenges facing it and its future through a series of offline events dedicated to main forms of organized civil society and policy makers. Javier Burón (Collaborative) was
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April 22, 2021
Andy Bäcker presented Sestao’s urban regeneration project through the European + CityxChange program to create smart cities. With this, the European Union has proposed that by 2025 there will be 100 districts that produce more energy than they consume. In the program, the Basque city is the only Spanish representative.
Six innovative ‘Energy Positive’ projects to start in Limerick City this summer
April 20, 2021
Businesses, Community Groups and Students among those funded by the +CityxChange project. Six innovative ‘energy positive’ projects are to begin in Limerick City this summer following an open call for novel energy ideas in the heart of Limerick’s Georgian Neighbourhood. The +CityxChange (Positive City Exchange) project is working to develop
Students from Colegio Kueto visit the District Heating of Txabarri
April 15, 2021
6th grade students from Colegio Kueto visit the District Heating of Txabarri On March 22, a score of students from the sixth grade year of the Kueto public school in Sestao visited the facilities of the District Heating, or neighborhood heating promoted by Sestao Berri in the lower area of
+CityxChange Newsletter – April 2021
April 7, 2021
+CityxChange‘s sixth newsletter has been distributed in April 2021. Please, feel welcome to read the newsletter online here and distribute it to your network. This month’s newsletter contains the most important news and updates of the last four months from our project, focusing on how +CityxChange is entering its project
Písek joins the EneMaS project on energy management systems
April 6, 2021
Implementation of the energy management system and ISO 50001 certification – Obtaining Písek city certification for ISO 50001 Reducing CO2 emissions is one of today’s most pressing issues. Every organization can make some contribution to reducing its CO2 emissions. The fact that this can reduce costs also makes it attractive
Positive Energy Champions – Help realise Limerick’s positive energy potential!
April 1, 2021
Join a team of Limerick Positive Energy Champions by incorporating Positive Energy Actions into your daily routine for twenty weeks. A small change can have a big impact on your energy consumption, on your carbon footprint and can help create a pathway to Limerick becoming a Positive Energy City by
Climathon 2020, Sestao
March 3, 2021
Sestao was the official Climathon organizer for the 2020 event in Sestao. It also invited to participate in two neighbouring municipalities: Portugalete and Santurtzi. It, therefore, branded the event towards the public as Climathon SPS (SPS standing for Sestao, Portugalete, Santurtzi). An agreement was reached that every year, one of
RESPONSE joins the Smart Cities and Communities Lighthouse projects
February 18, 2021
A new project has joined the Smart Cities and Communities Lighthouse projects. We want to welcome RESPONSE which aims to establish a strategic vision for Smart Cities Energy Transition: Climate-neutral cities by 2050. Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, RESPONSE is a 60-month project. RESPONSE aims to
Creative ways of collaborating: Smart Písek joins Urbania
February 4, 2021
Like many other cities in Europe, Písek has had to rethink how to organize meetings and spaces for collaboration during the times of COVID-19. One of the affected events is the Bold City Vision programme organised by our +CityxChange partner Smart Písek. The programme intended to kick off in the
