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  • Cities for Sustainability Governance

    LEAD PARTNER : Espoo - Finland
    • Braga - Portugal
    • Gabrovo - Bulgaria
    • Košice - Slovakia
    • Tallinn - Estonia
    • Valencia - Spain
    • Jablonec nad Nisou - Czech Republic
    • Agios Dimitrios - Greece
    • Mannheim - Germany

    Timeline

    First transnational meeting on 15-16 November 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia. 

    Stories

    Highlights

    • Article

      Benissa, the first town in Spain adopting One Health

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      David Huberdeau

    • From activation to planning : the Cities@Heart Quarterly Report

      The quarterly report of the Cities@Heart network encapsulates significant progress and initiatives in revitalising city centres across urban

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      Santamaria-Varas Mar

    • Event

      URBACT programos kvietimas gerosioms miestų praktikoms

       

      URBACT programa 2024 m. balandžio 15 d. – birželio 30 d. skelbia kvietimą gerosios vietos praktikos, kuri būtų paveiki, skatinanti dalyvauti

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      Gediminas Cesonis

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    Lead Expert

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      9 Cities – 9 Stories: Cities for Sustainability Governance

      Nine European cities pioneer Sustainability Governance to close the action gap towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

       

      “Cities are as strong as their communities”. This was one of the main lessons drawn by Lead Partner coordinator Ville Taajamaa, responsible for 2030 Agenda work in the City of Espoo, after the first in-person meeting of the Cities for Sustainability Governance (CSG) network held in Tallinn, 15-16 November 2023. “After hours and hours of crunching expert urban sustainability talk, work and walk, the most important thing we had in our mind was our citizens. How cool is that!”, he concluded.

       

      For 2.5 years, nine partner cities – Agios Dimitrios (Greece), Braga (Portugal), Espoo (Finland), Gabrovo (Bulgaria), Jablonec nad Nisou (Czech Republic), Kosice (Slovakia), Mannheim (Germany), Tallinn (Estonia) and València (Spain) – will join forces to discover and design how ‘sustainability governance’ can answer to the well needed renewal of commitment, trust, action and hope, to achieve the world we want by 2030.

       

      Workshop Tallinn

      Stina Heikkila

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    Ongoing

    Cities are urged to set ambitious ecological goals for climate and biodiversity while managing social and economic sustainability. No European city has yet achieved the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), although they are a great fit for cities to develop their governance. There is an “action gap” between the ambitions set and what is being achieved. Cities for Sustainability Governance (CSG) will use the SDGs as a vehicle for implementing strategic urban governance and deliver on the promise of transforming our world, as set out in the UN 2030 Agenda.

     

    Holistic sustainability through strategic use of SDGs
    URBACT IV

    Global Goals for Cities

    The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call of action to protect our planet, end poverty and ensure peace and prosperity for all by 2030. "Global Goals for Cities” is a pilot network and

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    Localising the 2030 Agenda

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