First New European Bauhaus prizes launched Highlighting inspiring examples that are beautiful, sustainable and inclusive
Applications are now open for the first New European Bauhaus prizes across 10 categories – from ‘products and lifestyle’, to ‘reinvented places to meet and share’ – all themed around the core pillars of the initiative: sustainability, quality of experience, and inclusion. Following the launch of the initiative’s co-design phase
Javier Burón: CROSSROADS EUROPE Dialogue | Virtual strategies for citizen participation
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
Andy Bäcker: Sestao as an Example of Concrete Actions in Circular Economy
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
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
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
+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
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!
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
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
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
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
Trondheim integrating +CityxChange into the local curriculum
The Newton Energy Room at the NTNU Science Museum in Trondheim is a familiar place for all 9th– grade students in the Trondheim municipality: in this science teaching room they spend two days solving tasks and learning about energy as a part of their school curriculum. Now the municipality of
Open Innovation Call #2, Limerick
Do you have an idea that could help transform the way Limerick uses energy? Open Innovation Call #2 is focused on generating and supporting new ideas that contribute to an ambitious ongoing goal for the city: creating a positive energy district, a compact area that actually produces more renewable energy than
Serendipity in the times of a pandemic: experiences from the +CityxChange and Climathon 2020 Sharing Session
Five +CityxChange cities (Limerick, Písek, Sestao, Trondheim, and Võru) worked together with Climate-Kic to develop coordinated Climathon events (WP10), four of them running parallel from October to December (unfortunately, Võru had to postpone their event until January 2021 because of a lockdown). On Wednesday 16th of December all the organizers
+CityxChange Newsletter – December 2020
+CityxChange‘s fifth newsletter has been distributed in December 2020. 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 three months from our project, focusing on how +CityxChange has adopted to a
SCIS Positive Energy Districts solution booklet
The Smart Cities Information System (SCIS) Solution Booklet on “Positive Energy Districts” is out now. Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) are gaining importance, both as urban innovation labs and as concrete, on-the-ground projects for creating future proof, energy-positive and climate-neutral urban living environments. Where do they come from and why should
Võru to switch to a completely LED technology street lighting
Our follower city, Võru, is the first city in Estonia, and as far as we know, in the Baltics, where street lighting is 100% provided with energy-efficient LED lamps. During the last six years, the city of Võru has been working to ensure that street lighting throughout the city is
Sluppen City Lab opening in Trondheim
Over the past year and a half, partners have come together in the EU-project +CityxChange to develop forward thinking solutions within the energy sector. Many partners gathered at Lager 11 in Trondheim on September 10th to exchange experiences so far within the project and to look at new business opportunities.
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