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New ATELIER Story: Krakow City Tour & Meet the Team!

ATELIER's Fellow City Krakow takes us on a tour through the famous city, shows us the most important landmarks, the future PED area and invites us to the office of the local team. Will the team manage to unite all three cubes from the ATELIER logo? Find out!  ...

Urbanisation work of square finished in Bilbao

Bilbao advances in the urban regeneration of Zorrotzaurre and work on the island progress at a steady pace. As a clear example of this, the Bilbao City Council has just finished the urbanisation work on the square that leads to the Beta 1 and Beta 2 buildings in...

Mini citizens assembly in Amsterdam

In 2021, it became clear that additional measures are needed to achieve the 55% CO2 reduction in 2030 in Amsterdam, instead of the forecast of 37%. To take action, the Amsterdam municipality organized a mini citizen consultation to advise on extra measures to meet...

Budapest: towards sustainable new neighbourhoods

The Municipality of Budapest decided to ensure affordable housing and healthy, green environment, liveable and vibrant neighbourhoods in Budapest, and has launched the ‘Home in Budapest – Medium-term urban development strategy’  to reach these goals. The...

Lots of pro-climate activities in Krakow

The last months in Krakow were marked by pro-climate, green activities. Recently, we shared the news about our campaign "Krakow in a good climate". The campaign is divided into four thematic sections, focusing on the most important elements of life, e.g. rational...

Promoting energy retrofits to support PED development in Riga

Energy security is gaining special relevance in the current geopolitical situation. Also, recently elaborated “Riga Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan – 2030” highly prioritizes the role of energy retrofits and uptake of renewable energy generation...

Matosinhos SWOT Analysis & Climate Action

Matosinhos had its first Atelier workshop on March 11th, 2022, where there was time to discuss the SWOT analysis together with various stakeholders which gave their contribute sharing their knowledge and experience in six main topics: Buildings, Governance,...

2nd Capacity Building event in Copenhagen

On 29-31 March, the ATELIER consortium met in the Fellow City Copenhagen in Denmark for 3 intense days filled with workshops, presentations and site visits. The focus of the event was capacity building for the cities – especially for the 6 Fellow Cities Budapest,...

Blog: Congestion in the electricity grid

By Rudy Rooth, City of Amsterdam What is congestion? Congestion is well known in relation to traffic. Jams develop when the capacity of the road network is insufficient to cope with the amount of vehicles. Congestion in electricity grids is generally known as an...