Within the framework of the European NetZeroCities project, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid participated, together with Viable Cities and the Politecnico di Milano, in the organization of the NZC Spring School 2024, held in the city of Stockholm between April 24 and 26, 2024. The event took place at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH).
Forty-six representatives from twenty-five European cities, all of which are part of NetZeroCities, attended the school. The cities attend the Seasonal Schools with the aim of acquiring tools for the elaboration of their Climate City Contract. In total, more than eighty European cities have already attended these trainings in the last two years.
Among the topics of the workshops were transition teams in the climate transition in cities, social innovation and stakeholder engagement, climate investments, designing a portfolio of efforts, transition pathways and indicators. All with the intent of accelerating the climate transition in cities.
Philippe Froissard, Head of Unit at the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, opened the conference along with Olga Kordas, host and programme director at Viable Cities, Thomas Osdoba, programme director for NetZeroCities and Julio Lumbreras, programme director for CitiES2030 and principal researcher for NetZeroCities at UPM level.
Also, the Spring School included an opportunity to visit the Stockholm Royal Seaport hosted by the City of Stockholm. Stockholm Royal Seaport is the largest urban development area in Sweden, with plans for at least 12,000 new homes and 35,000 workplaces. It has won several international awards for sustainable urban development and is an important innovation hub in the work of the City of Stockholm to become climate positive by 2040.
During the whole experience of the Spring School, the participants from all the cities had opportunity to get to know each other and share experiences from: Aarhus, Copenhague, Cork, Differdange‚ Dunkirk‚ Elbasan‚ Gabrovo‚ Groningen‚ Helsingborg‚ Ioánnina‚ Istanbul‚ İzmir‚ Kosice‚ Łódź‚ Lund‚ Munich‚ Oslo‚ Prato‚ Reykjavík‚ Rome‚ Sofia‚ Stavanger‚ Trondheim‚ Umeå‚ Warsaw and Wrocław.
The NetZeroCities consortium is currently planning more events in the framework of the training program, both virtual and face-to-face, to offer city representatives more opportunities to learn together on their path to climate neutrality.
NetZeroCities is the European project that supports the EU Mission Cities. It works with the 112 European cities known as “Mission Cities” in drastically reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate neutrality. EU Mission Cities is part of the European Green Pact in building a low-carbon and resilient future through research and innovation.
Within the framework of the European NetZeroCities project, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid participated, together with Viable Cities and the Politecnico di Milano, in the organization of the NZC Spring School 2024, held in the city of Stockholm between April 24 and 26, 2024. The event took place at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH).
Forty-six representatives from twenty-five European cities, all of which are part of NetZeroCities, attended the school. The cities attend the Seasonal Schools with the aim of acquiring tools for the elaboration of their Climate City Contract. In total, more than eighty European cities have already attended these trainings in the last two years.
Among the topics of the workshops were transition teams in the climate transition in cities, social innovation and stakeholder engagement, climate investments, designing a portfolio of efforts, transition pathways and indicators. All with the intent of accelerating the climate transition in cities.
Philippe Froissard, Head of Unit at the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, opened the conference along with Olga Kordas, host and programme director at Viable Cities, Thomas Osdoba, programme director for NetZeroCities and Julio Lumbreras, programme director for CitiES2030 and principal researcher for NetZeroCities at UPM level.
Also, the Spring School included an opportunity to visit the Stockholm Royal Seaport hosted by the City of Stockholm. Stockholm Royal Seaport is the largest urban development area in Sweden, with plans for at least 12,000 new homes and 35,000 workplaces. It has won several international awards for sustainable urban development and is an important innovation hub in the work of the City of Stockholm to become climate positive by 2040.
During the whole experience of the Spring School, the participants from all the cities had opportunity to get to know each other and share experiences from: Aarhus, Copenhague, Cork, Differdange‚ Dunkirk‚ Elbasan‚ Gabrovo‚ Groningen‚ Helsingborg‚ Ioánnina‚ Istanbul‚ İzmir‚ Kosice‚ Łódź‚ Lund‚ Munich‚ Oslo‚ Prato‚ Reykjavík‚ Rome‚ Sofia‚ Stavanger‚ Trondheim‚ Umeå‚ Warsaw and Wrocław.
The NetZeroCities consortium is currently planning more events in the framework of the training program, both virtual and face-to-face, to offer city representatives more opportunities to learn together on their path to climate neutrality.
NetZeroCities is the European project that supports the EU Mission Cities. It works with the 112 European cities known as “Mission Cities” in drastically reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate neutrality. EU Mission Cities is part of the European Green Pact in building a low-carbon and resilient future through research and innovation.
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