RESILIENT EUROPE

Improving city resilience

Edited on 22/07/2025

15/09/2015 03/05/2018

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  • Action Planning Network
  • Climate action
  • Circular economy
  • Mobility

Becoming more resilient means that a city strives to enhance its ability to bounce back and grow even stronger and better in the face of the chronic stresses and acute shocks. As such, city resilience is a continuous challenge for individuals, communities, institutions, businesses and infrastructure systems to address current trends and future transitions. This Action Planning network looked at the challenges of achieving resilience in and of our cities in a comprehensive and holistic way, by applying the lessons from the innovative governance approach of Transition Management. This approach is a process-oriented and participatory steering that enables social learning through iterations between collective vision development and experimenting.

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Summary

Partners

Lead Partner : Rotterdam - Netherlands
  • Antwerp - Belgium
  • Bristol
  • Burgas - Bulgaria
  • Glasgow
  • Ioannina - Greece
  • Katowice - Poland
  • Malmö - Sweden
  • Potenza - Italy
  • Thessaloniki - Greece
  • Vejle - Denmark

Timeline

Kick-off meeting in September (Katowice).

Transnational meetings in March (Ioanina) and October (Malmo).

Final event in March (Rotterdam).

City of Rotterdam - Coolsingel 40, 3011 AD Rotterdam

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