The European Green Leaf Award is a competition aimed at towns and cities across Europe, with a population of 20,000 to 99,999 that recognises a city’s commitment to improving the environment. It is the partner competition of the European Green Capital Award for cities over 100,000 inhabitants. G...
'Applying the degree of urbanisation — methodological manual to define cities, towns and rural areas for international comparisons' has been produced in close collaboration by six organisations — the European Commission, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Unit...
Ecorys is pleased to present this draft final report for the Ex-post Evaluation of the 2019 European Capitals of Culture (ECoC). The report provides final findings for the two ECoC based on evidence gathered during the course of the study. The cities of Matera and Plovdiv were the two ECoC citie...
The Green City Accord is a movement of European cities committed to safeguarding the environment. In signing the Green City Accord, city leaders agree to take further action to make their cities greener, cleaner and healthier places....
Lisbon set out to become a European Green Capital by 'choosing to evolve'. That vision has driven the city towards transforming itself to become a sustainable southern European city. Because of the global Covid-19 pandemic, Europe faces unparalleled challenges. This year has pushed all of us to ...
Although the mainstream understanding of sustainable development has focused particularly on economic, social and environmental dimensions, an increasing number of academics, organisations and cultural industry leaders have stressed the essential role of cultural aspects. Policy approaches empha...
With the European death toll from COVID-19 approaching 200 000 at the time of writing, the global pandemic is no doubt a crisis of historic proportions. Though unevenly, the whole of the European Union was affected by the pandemic, which upended priorities and became the overriding focus of publ...
This study investigates the role that the Joint Research Centre (JRC) can play in supporting urban policymaking within the framework for sustainable urban development proposed by the New Leipzig Charter (NLC). It analyses how the core urban activities of the Territorial Development Unit of the J...
Created in 1994 following the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, the European Committee of the Regions is the EU's assembly of 350 regional and local representatives from all 28 Member States, representing over 507 million Europeans. Its mission is to involve regional and local authorities and th...