Year: 2021

Watch IURC’s LA Webbinar #14 “Repair, Recycle, Re-use: International experiences on the upcycling of electronic waste”

On April 25th, IURC Latin America held its webinar #14 "Repair, Recycle, Re-use: International experiences on the upcycling of electronic waste". The webinar sought to share inspiration about circular economy best practices, focused on the re-use, recycling, and repair of electronic waste and other materials. It discussed three international experiences (Essen, Fortaleza, and San Diego) on the creation of recycling...

Water for the future

As the effects of climate change are felt across the world, it is becoming clear that water will be a key topic in the coming decades - from flooding to drought, from providing clean drinking water to dealing with wastewater. The UN 2023 Water Conference brought players from across the world to address their ideas and concerns regarding this vital...

Cooperation between Stuttgart Urban Region and Taicang (Suzhou) on Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Productive City Development

On April 17th, 2023, the pilot cities of the IURC China - Stuttgart Urban Region and Taicang (Suzhou) - held a working session to discuss potential cooperation on Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and productive city development, energy efficiency measures, and important cultural and business activities. The meeting was moderated by Ms. Wang Qian, the Team Leader of IURC China. Presentations Mr....

Delegation from Silesia signs an important agreement with Paraná

On April 17th, 2023, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed at Palácio Iguaçu between the regions of Paraná and Silesia, represented by Paraná’s Vice Governor, Darci Piana and its General Superintendent, Keli Guimarães, and Silesia’s Vice Marshall, Anna Jedynak. The drafting of this agreement began last year with the support of the International Urban and Regional Cooperation Programme (IURC –...

Fuenlabrada and Hangzhou Met for Cooperation in Digital Skills

On March 22, 2023, the representatives of Fuenlabrada and Hangzhou met online to discuss potential collaboration on e-commerce education and training for SMEs. The meeting was attended by the city representatives and delegates of the vocational training providers in both cities. The purpose of the meeting was to share experiences and ideas on supporting SMEs for digitalisation and internationalisation and...

IURC China Team Visited the Pilot City Fuenlabrada

On March 21 – 22, 2023, the IURC China team conducted a technical visit to Fuenlabrada (Spain), a municipality that has experienced a remarkable transformation in the past decades, with a population growth of 985% between 1975 to 2021. Fuenlabrada's success in urban planning, circular economy, and social integration has made it one of the best practice models in IURC...

EU-Japan Region-to-Region Innovation Cooperation: Webinar on Smart Specialisation Strategy for Startups and Open Innovation

Today, in the 21st century, the rapid progress and diffusion of IT and digital technology has enabled many products and services to be digitalized, propagated and provided worldwide, and speedily disseminated to hundreds of millions of people around the world. In line with this, the content and significance of innovation itself, as well as the forms of its realisation and...

Master Class Series Nature-Based Solutions

Our webinar series, Nature Based Solutions, brings together a cohort of IURC cities and metropolitan areas in a peer-to-peer learning environment to discuss and share challenges and best practices related to the main topic as they build long-term learning, networking, and working relationship amongst the participants. These webinars build upon topics of interest emerging from the cooperation among cities and questions...

Turin Delegation visits Nagoya on Cooperation on the City as a Laboratory for Open Innovation

Turin City, Italy and Nagoya City, Japan are cooperating on the promotion of the city as a laboratory for open innovation. In November 2022, a delegation of Nagoya City visited Turin City to observe Torino City Labo, an open-air laboratory for co-developing and testing solutions to urban challenges and studied Turin’s CTE NEXT project and the activities of Torino Social...

IURC Korea Cities meet EU Ambassador at ICP Conference in Incheon

Delegates from the IURC Korea pilot cities of Seoul and Sejong met Ms. Maria Castillo Fernandez, Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Korea, during the ICP-AGIR Final Conference held in Incheon, Korea, on 3 April 2023. The EU-funded ICP project has promoted city-to-city (C2C) cooperation between EU and non-EU cities on the topics of energy transition, air quality,...