It's au revoir from Cities4Europe

On Europe day, one year after its official launch, it is now time to wrap up and celebrate our Cities4Europe – Europe for citizens campaign!

EUROCITIES presents to Council of Europe good practices from cities on Roma housing inclusion

EUROCITIES was invited to present good practices from cities on preventing evictions and securing access to adequate housing at the Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller Civil Society that took place on 11-12 April in Strasbourg.

Culture forum in Chemnitz: sharing effective ideas

Chemnitz hosted 92 representatives from 61 cities on 10-13 April to discuss the role of city administrations in developing and supporting local cultural networks and the lessons and impact of local networking examples.

People make the city!

EUROCITIES principles on citizen data: 10 data principles for the common good

Where does our data go? How can citizens take back some control over what will become one of the most valuable resources of our society?

74 cities have already signed the Declaration on citizens engagement

74 cities have already adopted the EUROCITIES Declaration on citizens' engagement

Cities in action: Oulu's chaos challenge

Oulu has developed a community-driven model for generating and testing creative solutions to city problems. By making collaboration with the city an appealing and empowering process, Oulu is strengthening social inclusion among 15-29 year olds, citizens’ social capabilities and the role of non-governmental organisations in urban development.

A wake up call for those who care about Europe

It is a critical time for Europe, ahead of the European elections. The success or failure of the European project will be decided in and by our cities’ ability to shape and implement policy locally.

Athens reinventing the Agora

Athens has faced the challenges inherited from its crisis years – unemployment, brain drain – with creativity and ambition by investing in a bottom-up and collaborative methodology in cultural sectors. The challenges brought by the crisis also sparked new initiatives from citizens and the need for a more effective approach in municipal governance.

Bologna - Let's do it together!

In the last 5 years, Bologna has successfully trialled an urban innovation model based on circular subsidiarity and civic collaboration, the ‘collaborative city.’ This means public administrations governing not only on behalf of citizens, but also with citizens, basing their policies on the two concepts of city as commons and citizens as a great source of energy, talent, resources, capabilities and ideas in support of urban regeneration.