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Rostock took a big step towards multimodal mobility opening of the first three mobility points, combining car sharing and cargo bike sharing.

First locally produced electric buses joined the public transport system in Klaipėda. The buses are made of composite materials that include recycled PET bottles, and electricity is purchased from wind farms.

Turku Upper Secondary School challenges schools in particular to eat the Baltic Sea clean on Baltic Sea Day 27 August 2020. The challenge was born out of the desire to work even harder for the wellbeing of the Baltic Sea and the Archipelago Sea.

The business community stands for a great amount of the carbon emissions in the world, but also for many of the solutions. Linköping aims at becoming carbon dioxide neutral as early as 2025, but also to reduce the global climate impact overall. The network established in 2018 brings together various actors that make a vow to lower their emissions of carbon dioxide.

The City of Kemi develops urban farming – planning an edible park and aiming to discover the possibilities the edible park could offer the townspeople.

The Finnish cities of Helsinki and Turku have had a common water protection plan since 2007 within the Baltic Sea Challenge. With the purpose of continuous self-reflection and improvement, the cities have wished to evaluate their success in carrying out their water protection plan and the effectiveness of actions implemented according to the plan.

Better control of industrial sewage is in focus in EU-funded project BEST. City of Helsinki leads the project, which aims to find solutions for successful co-treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater at the municipal sewage treatment plants.

Greifswald started a returnable cup deposit system in autumn 2018. Today we can say that the deposit system is established and accepted.

Greifswald is a bicycle city and with a bicycle traffic share of approx. 40% leading in Germany. In September 2019 the city started the first free cargo bike system in Greifswald.

SUMPs-Up has generated an incredible amount of knowledge and resources, it contributed greatly to the mainstreaming and further development of the SUMP concept as well as to active creation of a lively and vivid SUMP community among local authorities.

The project launched a series of exciting topic webinars and will continue with it until the autumn. Coming up next is a session on the electrification of municipal and private electric fleets, featuring the cities of Stockholm and Turku on 27 May 2020!

cities.multimodal‘s 5th project meeting was held virtually during 22nd and 23d of April. Despite not meeting in person the cities.multimodal consortium took part in different sessions using a variety of tools and methods.