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The City of Turku, Sitra and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability are releasing today the report Circular Turku: A blueprint for local governments to kick start the circular economy transition.

The five CIVITAS ECCENTRIC partner cities Madrid, Stockholm, Munich, Ruse and Turku are preparing to proudly present the project’s outcomes and results of over 50 measures and the lessons learned from four years’ experience. In addition to final publications, series of videos and some creative art projects, also last minute measures are being carried out, such as the car sharing pilot, e-mobility plan and cycling barometer in the ECCENTRIC city of Turku. 

UBC member cities of Riga (Latvia), Pärnu (Estonia) and Gdansk (Poland) are participating in an interesting project that aims to minimise the emissions of hazardous substances from the urban areas in our region.

The upcoming mid-term e-publication summarizes the findings and results of the project so far. It serves as an example of an innovative way to respond to the challenges related to climate change via a cross-sectorial approach.

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.