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During the past weeks and months, we have received good news: three new projects will start! One will be led by UBC SCC, in the two others we are involved as a partner.

The cities.multimodal city partners are testing different kind of measures for increasing multimodality and for changing mobility behavior in their pilot areas.

In mid-September the UBC Sustainable Cities Commission gathered in the Baltic Sea coast city Klaipeda, Lithuania for the annual commission meeting! This year’s meeting on sustainable urban mobility gathered representatives from 16 different UBC cities.

Back in 2016, UBC and CDP agreed upon collaboration between the two organizations with the first cooperation activities taking place in spring 2017. As a result, UBC doubled the number of cities reporting to CDP from 6 to 20. This year, the number of the cities disclosing to CDP grew to 28 in despite of the busiest holiday season.

Baltic Urban Lab Final Conference on ”Dealing with the Past & Planning for the Future – turning urban brownfields into possibilities” was held 6-7 September 2018 in Riga, Latvia.

UBC Sustainable Cities Commission will be continuing with the UBC webinar series, this time returning with the topic of urban planning.

The IWAMA project organized its last capacity development workshop on “Constructional and operational challenges” in wastewater treatment sector. The event was held in Gdańsk, Poland, on 19–21 September 2018, attracting more than 70 participants from the water sector in the Baltic Sea Region.

The report and all the presentations from the Commission meeting held in Klaipeda 13-14.9.2018 can now be found here!

ERRIN and Inova+ are supporting ESPON (working closely with Vassilen Iotsov) in organising a series of transnational outreach events across Europe.

The IWAMA project focusing on smart wastewater management has published two large reports that highlight current trends and benchmark the state of energy and sludge management in wastewater treatment in the Baltic Sea Region.

Are you interested in how cities are supporting their citizens in making sustainable mobility choices? Or how the use of multiple mobility modes in commuting and moving around the city can be improved?

The CIVITAS ECCENTRIC project is holding a workshop from 17-18 September in Stockholm, Sweden, that will give participants insight into the innovative work being undertaken in its five project cities. City representatives are invited to come the Swedish capital and learn about the selection, development, and implementation of sustainable urban mobility measures from cities currently going through these processes.