City Layers’ Post

Excited to share this post in a series about the NORO GREEN CITIES project—a bold initiative driving sustainability, fostering public-private partnerships, and advancing the green transition in urban areas. With a focus on digital technologies and smart city solutions, this Norwegian-Romanian collaboration tackles key urban challenges. #smartcities #billateralcooperation

The NORO GREEN CITIES project: This is the first of a series of posts covering the partners in the NORO GREEN CITIES project, an ambitious initiative to promote sustainability, strengthen public-private partnerships and accelerate the green transition in urban areas. The Norwegian-Romanian Green Cooperation Initiatives Towards Innovation and Environmental Sustainability will use digital technologies and smart city solutions to solve critical urban challenges. The project is a collaboration between two Norwegian partners: European Digital Innovation Hub Oceanopolis and Nordic Edge, and three Romanian organisations: DANUBE ENGINEERING HUB, CITY CLUSTER, and the Institute of National Economy. The next post in a week will profile European Digital Innovation Hub Oceanopolis – stay tuned!

👉🏼 Remember to register for Trondheim Hackathon: 5 – 7 September ✅ EU Sparks for Climate Citizens and researchers across Europe join forces to develop new solutions for climate. To participate, simply propose a climate problem affecting your area, whether it’s small or large, and collaborate with others to find technological or social innovation solutions. ✅ Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities aims to create climate-positive cities and communities in cooperation with public and private sectors, community and grassroot organisations, art and culture, academia and other societal stakeholders. We coordinate several projects with Norwegian, Nordic and European cities and stakeholders. In CrAFt (Creating Actionable Futures), we support more than 70 European cities, their stakeholders and their students, in making their climate transitions inclusive, sustainable and beautiful. The NEB-STAR New European Bauhaus Lighthouse project is one of the six first NEB demonstrators supported by the European Commission, with Stavanger as NEB Lighthouse to showcase in practice how a city can transform from an oil-based to a climate-neutral, inclusive, beautiful and sustainable city in cooperation with its commercial and societal stakeholders. NEB-STAR cooperates closely with the Danish-led DESIRE project and other Nordic stakeholders. In the Re-Value innovation project, we work with 9 waterfront cities, local stakeholders and transversal partners on re-valuing urban design and planning in the face of climate change. In ENHANCE+, we work with 10 universities to explore how we can better support our cities and communities in becoming climate-positive. https://lnkd.in/eMQMWbdF

Horizon 2020 NetZero Cities Eu funded projects supporte 112 selected cities under EU Cities Mission to reach climate neutrality by 2030!

#Event2024 I 👉 EMBRC will be at the DOORs Stakeholder Conference We’re excited to be joining the first Horizon 2020 DOORs Stakeholder Conference (Black Sea Futures: Science, Prosperity, and People) in April. 📅 23-24 April 2024 📍 Bucharest, Romania (on-site only) This unique forum will offer: 👉 Opportunities to discuss challenges and opportunities for the Black Sea’s blue economy, the Digital Twin of the Ocean, training and capacity development, and policy 👉 A Black Sea research and innovation showcase The Black Sea’s biodiversity is highly threatened by poor water quality, eutrophication and litter so this region is an important area of focus for EMBRC. We’re highly supportive of research and innovation looking to mitigate the area’s most pressing issues and we’re keen to work with more people across the scientific community, as well as in industry, so we can boost the move towards a sustainable blue economy and find positive solutions. For more information and to sign up, visit 👉https://lnkd.in/eHSBGHq6 #DOORS #Horizon2020 #DoorsStakeholderConference #MarineScienceConference #BlackSea #SustainableBlueEconomy Mery Piña Kamila Sfugier Tollik Tosca Sala EuroGOOS, European Global Ocean Observing System Euro-Argo ERIC EMSO ERIC DANUBIUS-RI LifeWatch ERIC DOORS Black Sea MARCO-BOLO

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„So how other cities in Europe work with SUMP? What to do after we realise SUMP?” If we want to propose examples of urban mobility in polish cities, we have to look how the other cities make it and what were the main problems. We are currently in Oslo kommune at the conference "Planning Urban and Trans-European mobility together" to see how projects from national level which are realised in refer to SUMP. Discussion includes governance level of collaboration and examples of transport projects in cities and functional urban areas. POLIS Network MOVE21: Zero Emission 21st Century Eurocities

[PROJECT UPDATE] Third project meeting - Nürnberg, Germany Last week our third project meeting took place! This time in #Nürnberg where our German partner Energieagentur Nordbayern GmbH is based. 🇩🇪🥨 The meeting gave us an opportunity to reconnect with partners 🌐, discuss our progress, and engage in productive discussions around smart data hub📊, sustainable #building criteria🧱, and #greenfinancing. 💼💡 We look forward to implementing the planned actions and driving our project forward. 🚀✅ #ProjectProgress #TeamWork #Hackathon #SmartDataHub #MESTRI #MESTRICE #Interreg #Interregce #CentralEurope #Euproject #smartdatamanagement #sustainablebuildingstandard #greenfinancing

Summarizing interconnection capacity in a single number is tricky. Assuming physical capacity, this picture shows a very uneven distribution across European bidding zones. 🔗🇪🇺🔗 More relevant, however, is how that capacity is used. From the (very) long term, to day ahead and intraday, over balancing to the very real time, system operators calculate how much of this capacity is available (or will be available when delivery approaches), for exchanges between zones. ☘️"No transition without transmission" is a catchy phrase, but building lines and infrastructure without optimizing how we use them isn't the way forward. That's why the CREG - Commission for Electricity and Gas Regulation - Belgium, and other European regulators, work daily to ensure that TSOs use your (🫵) interconnection capacity as efficiently, as fairly and as safely possible. Because really: what's the point in building interconnection lines up to 37÷ of your average annual consumption, if you only use 1/3rd of that 37÷ to really exchange electricity with your neighbours? 🤔

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