The latest edition of IUC Asia’s December newsletter covering the programme’s component 1 has just been released. This component encompasses the EU-China cooperation on sustainable and innovative cities. The newsletter begins with how, in spite of the challenges faced with meetings during the COVID pandemic,
The City of Mannheim has released a video summarising cooperation on innovation with China. The video includes testimonials by Jia Song, the China Desk Officer at Mannheim City, Anja Hüttl from Next Mannheim and Felix Kurz from the German Chinese Friendship Association Rhein Necker and
The garden pavilions designed by the IUC pilot cities of Barcelona, Rome and Bologna Metropolitan / Nuovo Circondario Imolese are currently under construction in Yangzhou, which is located in the Jiangsu Province of China. The construction is scheduled to be finished by April 2021, when
The City of Granada has just produced a video summarizing the cooperation with China on the opportunities and challenges that blockchain technology represents for cities. The video refers to three webinars dealing with smart city, circular economy and health/biotechnology that were implemented in October and
The IUC team has just finished the Malaysia Blueprint for Circular Cities, a proposal to complement the Malaysia Circular Plastics Economy Roadmap 2020-2030, which is expected to be finished in the first half of 2021. The blue print has been elaborated by Jacqueline Chang, Senior
With the support of the IUC Asia programme, Rome’s Sapienza University CITERA just delivered four results of the cooperation with China on integrated urban design, focusing on energy efficiency and cultural heritage. All results are available on a special website drafted by CITERA’s to summarise
The IUC Asia programme has just released its EU-China Regional Innovation Joint Study. The aim of this study is to compare the European and Chinese approaches to regional innovation carrying out a comparative analysis at a general level and also analysing six best practices of
Today the IUC Asia programme held its final webinar on climate action planning at the local level in Vietnam. Since February 2020, the IUC Asia programme of the European Union has been providing technical assistance and support to three pilot cities in Vietnam (Can Tho,
Today the EU Covenant of Mayors (CoM) Office, in collaboration with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Energy and Climate (GCoM) Secretariat, held a meeting with the aim of fostering dialogue and exchange of good practices among GCoM signatories across the world. The event took
Today the IUC held its 4th (and final) City-to-City Event, reflecting on the progress made by the programme as a whole, which involved 166 participants from cities and regions across the globe. The conference provided an opportunity to celebrate successes, understand challenges faced and collectively
Today, the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission (ENER) and the IUC Asia team participated in the 3rd International Forum on Renewable Energy, on the topic of Green Energy and New-Deal Industry of Gwangju and Jeonnam (Gwangju Metropolitan City and Jeonnam Province, Republic of
Today, the European Commission’s DG REGIO and China’s NDRC held the high-level EU-China Regional and Urban Cooperation Seminar 2020. More than 80 experts from European and Chinese cities as well as high level representatives of the European Commission and the Chinese National Development and Reform
Today the IUC-Asia held its final webinar on technical assistance of Climate Action Plans (CAPs) development in 4 pilot cities in Malaysia, consisting of Penampang, Tawau, Muar and Hang Tuah Jaya. The meeting was a chance to present the final products (CAPs) and discuss the
The City of Granada held its final of three webinars on the opportunities of blockchain innovations for cities. Today’s focus was on Biotech, eHealth & Medical Solutions, and involved more than 25 experts from Europe and China. The webinar was part of Granada’s pilot project awarded
The Closing Ceremony for the annual EU Climate Diplomacy Week Indonesia (24 October – 6 November 2020) was held today, in a festive atmosphere with remarks by high-level officials, program partners and a fun lineup of entertainment acts. The online event involved over 250 participants.
Today, the City of Granada held its second of three webinars on Circular Economy and Blockchain Innovations with more than 25 experts from Europe and China, as part of its pilot project within the IUC Competitive Fund, awarded to Granada. Today’s webinar was opened with words
Today, the IUC Asia project held its final webinar on Technical Assistance on Climate-Action-Plans Development in Indonesia with more than 125 participants. In discussion were the so called “final products”, the Climate Action Plans and respective lessons learned during the process of developing them for
Today the IUC Asia participated in the Virtual Discussion Session on Asia-Pacific Regional Guidelines on Voluntary Local Reviews organized by UNESCAP with the objective to raise awareness on the guidelines, discuss its coherence with other global guidance on VLRs, and generate interest amongst stakeholders to conduct
This morning, the IUC Asia held a Memorandum of Understanding virtual signing ceremony between Yantai University (YTU) in China and Tuscia University (UNITUS) in Italy, to engage in cooperative educational and research activities for the mutual benefits of both institutions. Opening words were delivered by
Today the IUC Asia participated in the Virtual Expert Group Meeting on Vertical Integration of Climate Action in Asia and the Pacific organized by UNESCAP with the objective to identify priority policies, actions and desired futures for Asia and the Pacific. UNESCAP is the United
Today the IUC Asia held its first of three webinars on Smart Cities and Blockchain Innovations with more than 30 experts from Europe and China, as part of its pilot project with the Granada Competitive Fund. These webinars will present the main challenges that blockchain
The IUC team co-organised the webinar “International cooperation for innovation in urban development policy and practice: results and perspectives from EU – Asia Cooperation“. The event – which involved over 60 experts from Europe and Asia – was held within the European Week of Regions
The IUC team participated in the experts meeting that aimed to identify and discuss sustainable approaches to support Asia-Pacific cities to build back better from COVID-19. The meeting featured around 50 participants from Asia-Pacific states, cities, stakeholders, development partners and experts. The interactive discussion provided
More than 20 representatives from Liuzhou City and Barcelona discussed today the implementation of a preliminary action plan to develop comparable urban experiences related to the values of the Sustainable Development Goals and linked to 2030 Agenda, especially focusing on 3 main topics: smart mobility,
In cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the IUC team organised an onsite and online workshop for 50 Chinese practitioners from Yancheng City (Jiangsu Province). The event was a follow-up to the online discussion between Chinese and European Experts organised on 28
Today the IUC Asia held its final stakeholder consultations webinar on Designing Circular Cities in Malaysia. On the call were 82 experts from the EU and Malaysia, comprised of representatives from government, private sector, research and civil society. Experts exchanged views on circular economy challenges
Experts from Rome’s Sapienza University (CITERA – Interdepartmental Center for Territory, Building, Restoration, Environment, Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture) held an online meeting with Chinese urban technology partners to identify concrete business and research cooperation in Chinese cities. The event was also joined by
The IUC-Asia programme held an online session today with Chinese and European experts in preparation of a large workshop scheduled to take place in China in September 2020 (TBC). At that workshop, the purpose will be to exchange policy views and best practices on resilience
The Paris Agreement recognises the role of non-Party stakeholders in addressing climate change, including cities. Part of the role of the IUC-Asia is to create opportunities to promote enhanced, strategic and sustained approaches supporting transformational change and enabling cities’ stakeholders to build the capacities needed
The IUC-Asia programme held an online session today to present its progress on the ongoing EU-China Low Carbon City Study, along with case studies of several cities. On the call were senior experts from both China and Europe. The study is being jointly drafted by
To follow up the Climate Action Plan (CAP) development , Makassar and IUC-Asia met online on Thursday 21 May 2020 to discuss the progress of the project. The interactive session focussed on the data collection to be used for the Green House Gases (GHG) inventory
The IUC Asia, in partnership with the CCROM – IPB, conducted a capacity building workshop with Malang’s official agencies as part of its climate action plan development. The workshop was designed to provide the knowledge for developing a climate change adaptation plan, emphasizing climate risk
The Government of Indonesia launched the Low Carbon Development Initiative (LCDI) during the 2018 International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bali, Indonesia. LCDI is a process for identifying development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets, while
The IUC-Asia team today hosted experts from the CITERA Research Center of Sapienza University of Rome, Yantai University, Tuscia University and IoT Smart City Lab of Rome, who agreed on a research-based cooperation between Italy and China in terms of Cultural Heritage, Silver Economy, Digital
Experts from Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute (EIRI) at Tsinghua University, University Sapienza CITERA (Interdepartmental Center for Territory, Building, Restoration, Environment), Sapienza’s Department of Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture, the Renewable Energy Association FREE and the IoT Smart City Lab of Rome held an
The virtual meeting among Hang Tuah Jaya stakeholders, IUC Asia team and UTM took place on 08 May 2020. The meeting aimed to identify mitigation climate change projects that could be developed in Hang Tuah Jaya’s concept note for the GCoM Gap Fund. The project
Vietnam suffers from routine extreme weather events such as typhoons and tropical storms, sea level rise, land subsidence, and seawater intrusion. Over the past five decades, changing precipitation patterns have been visibly observed in different regions, average temperature has increased by 0.5°C throughout the country.
NOTE: FOR DETAILS ON THE BILATERAL COOPERATION VISITS AS WELL AS ON THE CLUSTER MEETINGS, PLEASE SEE HERE More than 200 representatives of local and regional governments from the Americas, Asia and Europe met in Brussels on 21 November for the third annual City-to-City Event
As part of the IUC competitive fund, two experts from Mannheim joined the Education+ 2019 Summit, which took place last week in Xi’an, China. Mannheim’s participation was part of the “Mannheim-China Advanced Manufacturing Roadshow”, which was awarded by the IUC project for the period 2018-2019.
The Paris Peace Forum was launched last year on 11 November 2018, the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. There were 65 Heads of States and Governments in attendance, as well as high-level representatives from the European Commission. This year, from
IUC-Asia partners from Europe and China met on 25 October 2019 in Haikou, Hainan Island, China for a one-day workshop to exchange experiences on Circular Economy & Resilient Cities and further build project cooperation. The morning part was specifically dedicated to concrete city-to-city cooperation and
The IUC ASIA Programme participated at the Seventh Asia-Pacific Urban Forum (APUF-7), held in Penang, Malaysia, from 15-17 October 2019. The programme organised a series of activities including: IUC Training on Municipal Finance for Malaysian Pilot Cities (C2) A series of Presentations by EU Cities
IUC-Asia project partners are showing a strong presence at the China International Circular Economy Exhibition & China Circular Development Forum – which is currently taking place in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The flagship event is aimed at establishing a global platform for displaying and trading technologies,
IUC-Asia participated at the Asia-Pacific Forum on Green Low-Carbon Development 2019, held in Changsha, Hunan Province, PR China, from 16-18 October 2019 (http://en.aplctsummit.com/). The Forum brought together policymakers and technology developers to showcase global, regional and country-level success stories. This year’s theme was “Low-Carbon Solutions
From 15 to 16 October 2019, representatives of the City of Nice met with four delegates from Liuzhou and Haikou within the Innovative City Conference and Exhibition (www.innovative-city.com). Nice Metropole hosted a business promotion event focusing on concrete pilot projects in the areas of smart
The second mission of EU cities to China took place from 21 to 28 September 2019 – with delegates from the following European cities: Barcelona (Spain), Bologna (Italy), Granada (Spain), Manchester (UK), Mannheim (Germany) and Rome (Italy). The programme begun with a visit to Guangzhou,
The third mission of EU cities to China will take place from 20-26 October 2019 and will focus on circular economy. Delegates from Manchester (UK) will visit Nanjing, the capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu Province, Ningbo, a sub-provincial city in Zhejiang Province, and Haikou, the
