Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

The city of Lisbon, is the capital and the biggest city of Portugal, a country with 10.5 million inhabitants and the centre of a Metropolitan Region with a population of 2.8 million. Lisbon city is divided administratively in 24 parishes with a total area of ​​85.87 Km2. The number of city users doubled daily from about 550 to 930 thousand, as a result of pendular movements to work. Lisbon has been implementing its Strategic Charter set out for the period 2010-2024 consistently applied by four consecutive Government Programs 2009-2025 with a City strategy 2014-2020 regarding the use of the European Funding that has been updated for the new Multiannual European Financial Framework 2021-2027 within which already boost a portfolio of more than 400 funded projects submitted by the Lisbon Municipality to 27 different funding programmes (mainly from European Commission), accounting over 1.2 Billion euros of Total Investment from which over 700M€ were funded mainly by European Funds and under Lisbon City Council implementation, some in partnership with over 370 partners from 34 countries. 

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Lisbon City Council) is the executive body of the Lisbon municipality that have municipal services with approximately 12 thousand employees, legally defined as a public body, with functions on city government and has the mission to define and implement public policies that promote the development of the Portuguese capital city in areas such as social services; education and training; environment, energy and climate change adaptation; mobility and transports; international cooperation; culture and heritage; consumer protection; sports and physical activity; land use planning and urbanism; housing; local development and citizens participation; municipal police, fire brigades and civil protection; economic development and innovation; water supply and sanitation and health, waist management and public works construction and maintenance.