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Public officials from cities and regions of Europe and Latin America shared their experiences about Digitalization and Innovation

https://youtu.be/zakUSi81i3E Last week 6 cities and 3 regions of Latin America and Europe participated in Smart City Expo Curitiba 2022, the most important event in Brazil on digitization and innovation. Delegates shared best practices and lessons learned about digitalization, plus they strengthened their networks. On March 23, 2022, public officials from 6 cities and 3 regions of Europe and Latin...

WEBINAR: “Financing Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities” Part 2 – The role of development banks and private financing

We are very pleased to invite you to join us for the second part of the “Financing Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities" webinar series, on the role of development banks and private financing. The event is organized by the International Urban and Regional Cooperation Latin America (IURC-LAC) Programme on Wednesday, April 6th at 09:00 CDT/16:00 CEST. The webinar will have...

Watch the webinar: Rehabilitation Strategies for Historic Centres: case studies from Manaus, Naples, and Cienfuegos

IURC Latin America organised a webinar on Rehabilitation Strategies for Historic Centres, presenting case studies of Naples, Manaus, and Cienfuegos. The three case studies allowed to learn about different strategies for the regeneration of historic centres, pointing out common challenges such as climate change and contrasting different approaches about participatory methodologies and sources of financing, amongst others. The webinar was...

The city of Hermosillo shared its experience developing and implementing its Green Infrastructure Manual with Debrecen

The city of Hermosillo, Mexico, shared its experience developing and implementing its Green Infrastructure Manual with the city of Debrecen, Hungary, with the participation of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, and Piraeus, Greece. Download the presentation here: https://lnkd.in/eMYy742G The Green Infrastructure Manual seeks to reduce air pollution and improve water quality and living conditions for several species. The 3...

WEBINAR: “Rehabilitation Strategies for Historic Centres: case studies from Naples, Manaus, and Cienfuegos”

We are very pleased to invite you to join us for the webinar "Rehabilitation strategies for Historic Centres: case studies from Naples 🇮🇹, Manaus 🇧🇷, and Cienfuegos🇨🇺", organized by the International Urban and Regional Cooperation Latin America (IURC LAC) Programme on Thursday, February 24th at 09:00 CDT/16:00 CEST. The webinar will have a duration of 1:15 hours. The event will...

Puerto Montt and Piraeus carried out their first technical cooperation activity

The first technical cooperation activity was carried out between the cities of  Puerto Montt (Chile) and Piraeus (Greece), where an interesting experience of participatory urban planning was presented. In this knowledge transfer, many important topics were discussed such as: promotion of social participation through qualitative and quantitative tools, specific methodologies for working with indigenous communities and methods to achieve consensus...

The future of food markets

In the context of the current COVID-19 crisis, food markets appear as an opportunity to foster new strategies to build more resilient cities. Food markets can contribute to provide healthier food options and improve citizens food habits. Moreover, they can improve connectivity for cities to their natural environment by creating urban-rural connections and help consumers, retailers, and vendors better connect...

Watch the webinar: “Smart Strategies for equality and social inclusion”

https://youtu.be/_tHbPyQKVqo On December 9th, IURC Latin America held the webinar “Smart strategies for equality and social inclusion”. The webinar sought to introduce smart strategies and analyse how innovation and digitalization can promote an important shift in regional and urban planning towards more inclusive practices. The event included an introduction to smart strategies by Fernando Tomás Casado (Smart City Practice Manager, IDOM),...

Webinar: Smart Strategies for Equality and Social Inclusion

(EN) We are very pleased to invite you to join us for the webinar "Smart Strategies for Equality and Social Inclusion" organized by the International Urban and Regional Cooperation Latin America (IURC-LAC) Programme on Thursday, December 9th at 09:00 CDT/16:00 CEST. The webinar will have a duration of 1 hour.  The webinar seeks to introduce smart strategies and analyse how...

Bilateral meetings and ‘Partnerships Agreements’ between IURC Latin America cities and regions

Cities and regions participating in IURC Latin America successfully completed two rounds of bilateral meetings in which they talked about their common themes of interest. As a result, Partnerships Agreements are expected to be signed by the end of the month to officialise their collaborative work.