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Involving citizens in the development and planning of multimodal city quarters is crucial for achieving a high level of well-being in a city. In the cities.multimodal project the partner cities are testing different kinds of citizen involvement methods targeting a wide range of citizens.

Växjö is participating in the DIACCESS (Digital Acceleration for Medium Sized Sustainable Cities​) project that aims on bringing together municipal services with digital innovators to jointly and in close cooperation with citizens and end-users develop highly effective and relevant digital solutions to meet societal challenges.

The Baltic Sea Challenge is a network initiative that invites organisations to commit in protecting the Baltic Sea and their local waters, to building their own Baltic Sea Action Plan and to implementing it.

A new mobility service will be launched in the City of Linköping. Eight stakeholders will collaborate to build a user friendly digital platform which aims to increase the use of sustainable mobility services and make Linköping the first municipality in Sweden to develop a city-wide MaaS-operation,

A year has gone by since municipality of Kemi did something different, something that no other Finnish Mainland municipality has done. They got an environmental certificate ISO 14001:2015.

It’s a new decade and time to renew ourselves and reactivate our UBC network. The most important element of our network is our members: the cities and municipalities around the Baltic Sea Region. We want to engage you and your city in new ways of meeting and cooperating. Hereby we are launching a call for interest to host a UBC SCC event in your city!

As part of their Mobility Management efforts in the cities.multimodal project, Karlskrona has carried out the first part of their pilot campaign directed towards the mobility of children.

The city’s commitment to using biogas is perhaps the most high profile aspect of the shift towards greater sustainability. A renewable, local and emission-free source of energy, biogas links everyone within the local authority area with the circular economy. The biogas “ecosystem” has been developed in collaboration with a wide range of partner organisations.

In Helsinki, population of naturally breeding sea trout has been restored in many streams. Contaminated urban storm waters threaten these populations, and thus, special attention needs to be paid to quality of storm waters discharged into these streams.

Findings from the stormwater management survey and interviews, city progress with improvements, needs and development prospects, and how HELCOM revises the Recommendation 23/5 on stormwater systems.

What does it take to organize a perfect campaign and how to involve citizens? Here are 5 tips for organizing the events from Rostock, Saint Petersburg, Tallinn and Turku!

The City-Business Alliance is a joint initiative of C40 cities, CDP and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) designed to accelerate climate action through city-business collaboration.