The Municipality of Budapest has established its brand-new institution, the Budapest Climate Agency, to accelerate energy efficiency investment projects in the city. The agency will begin operations on June 1 and aims to support Budapest's climate neutrality...
The energy crisis is related to many factors, such as low energy reserves, rising production costs, and climate change. As a result, more and more cities and communities are now looking for alternative, sustainable energy solutions. Krakow is also facing these...
On March 12 and 13 2024, the second technical site visit took place in Amsterdam. It was initiated by the technical partners of the Lighthouse cities to meet their counterparts. The focus of the first day was on the Innovation Ateliers and how to sustain the...
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...
