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Integrated Stormwater Management (iWater) project held its final conference on 7–8 May 2018 in Riga and Jelgava, Latvia. iWater aims at improving urban planning by development of integrated and multifunctional stormwater management, thus creating higher quality, cleaner and safer urban environment and increasing urban sustainability. The event successfully concluded the project that has engaged over 500 stakeholders and produced several tangible outputs.

The “Status of SUMPs in EU Member States” report summarises the status of SUMP and national SUMP programmes in all 28 EU Member States and elaborates recommendations for countries interested in developing their national programmes. Find the report here: sumps-up.eu/reports 

Are you a mobility practitioner, working in a city administration, a NGO, company or at a research institution? Are you interested in sustainable urban mobility planning or already experienced with SUMPs?

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.