The municipality of Matosinhos was one of the participating cities in the Seminar "HORIZON Program: Innovation and Development for Cities," promoted by the Municipality of Maia, to witness its journey within the framework of the ATELIER project. On March 20th, the...
On 28-29 February 2024, ATELIER's sister project Stardust hosted its Final Conference in its Lighthouse City Pamplona. With this event, the project comes to an end after six years of work on climate neutrality in cities. The event involved keynote speeches, panel...
On 6 November 2023, ATELIER Fellow City Matosinhos hosted a debate with leaders from the municipality's biggest industry players. The main topic of the day was the role of the private sector in Matosinhos' pathway towards carbon neutrality in 2030. The meeting also...
In May 2023, the Innovation Atelier workshop took place, examining and further analysing three important tasks within the project. One of the tasks consisted of creating a PED overview and supplementation of Replication Methodology considering new social, economic...
On February 7, the first edition of the ATELIER webinar series on urban energy transition with Positive Energy Districts took place and aimed at showcasing the concept of Innovation Ateliers, as a method for bringing together a cities innovation eco-system to...
Spotlight on PEDs is a webinar series created by the EU-funded Horizon 2020 Innovation project ATELIER which focuses on the creation and replication of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs). Each edition focuses on a different aspect of PEDs, hosted by ATELIER partners...
Every November, the city of Barcelona is flooded with smart city professionals from all over the world to visit one of the most important events of the sector: the Smart City Expo World Congress. Since 2022, key EU-funded Smart City projects showcase their...
In Kraków, the year 2023 was mainly devoted to discussions about energy transition, including, among other things, building awareness about energy communities. The energy and climate crisis that we are currently facing mobilize residents, entrepreneurs, scientific...
Demonstrating that energy-positive cities are possible is the main ambition of the Atelier project, with measures implemented in Bilbao and Amsterdam as lighthouse cities, and replicated in six other European cities. When we think of Bilbao (Spain), two distinct...
In the framework of Bilbao Lighthouse, Bilbao Innovation Atelier (BIA) is a meeting forum aimed to involve relevant stakeholders in fine-tuning the innovations accomplished to the context of Bilbao city, disseminate the project progress and provide knowledge and...
