IEU Smart Cities Monitoring 17 February 2021

Our IEU Monitoring headlines today*: 

REGIONAL POLICY: 

  • New Action plan of the EUSBSR macro-regional strategy for boosting resilience and recovery in the Baltic Sea Region +++ 
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question - EU Recovery Funds for regions and cities - E-005887/2020(ASW) +++

EUROCITIES: 

  • EU calls on member states to #TalkWithCities +++

URBACT: 

  • News from the Urbact networks – 12 February 2021 +++

SMART SERVICES

  • New Initiative: Digital Twinning To Tackle Complex Urban Issues - Open & Agile Smart Cities
  • 5 Ways COVID-19 Pushed Digital Services into the Spotlight - Data-Smart City Solutions
  • Digital Life - Digital State: Digital Monitoring in COVID-19 Response Raises Privacy Concerns - Data-Smart City Solutions

SMART ENERGY

  • Smart Regions: a small French village leads the way for energy transition

SMART ENVIRONMENT

  • Green Deal: cities and regions define 2021 roadmap
  • New waste sorting system in Lighthouse City Sonderborg
  • Celebrating the most active cities in C40 regions in 2020

SMART MOBILITY

  • SUITS Final Digital Conference
  • Bitkom: Großstädte treiben nachhaltige Mobilitätswende voran
  • Open Public Consultation accompanying the Impact Assessment for the revision of the TEN-T Regulation
  • New CIVITAS project RECIPROCITY focuses on multimodality in cities
  • New booklet reveals success stories of CIVITAS cities
  • The Sustainable Transport Forum Handbook for recharging point tenders is now available
  • Big Messages brochure: Lessons for co-creative mobility initiatives in neighbourhoods

SMART LIVING

  • EU Joint Research Centre analysis reveals divergent population growth, decline and ageing across Europe

USA

  • Smart Cities Council Announces 2021 Readiness Challenge Winners

GERMANY

  • Bundesinnenministerium fördert mit dem Innovationsprogramm Zukunft Bau Klimaschutzforschung im Gebäudebereich

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