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Wiener Wäldchen: Mini Forests for Urban Climate Adaptation

Wiener Wäldchen: Mini Forests for Urban Climate Adaptation

Vienna is planting small, dense mini forests on underused green spaces to strengthen biodiversity, support climate adaptation and bring urban nature closer to children and residents.
Vienna’s mini forests join USE as a new climate adaptation case study

Vienna’s mini forests join USE as a new climate adaptation case study

A new USE case study shows how Vienna is using small, dense urban forests to support biodiversity, local cooling and environmental education.
USE puts urban climate adaptation in focus as Europe faces extreme heat

USE puts urban climate adaptation in focus as Europe faces extreme heat

Over the next six months, USE will examine how cities can prepare for growing climate risks.
That's a wrap on 2025!

That's a wrap on 2025!

700+ citymakers, 440+ cities, one shared mission.
Closing the Digital Divide

Closing the Digital Divide

An interview with citizen participation expert Adrià Duarte (UCLG), exploring how cities can use digital tools to strengthen local democracy, and put human rights at the centre of digital transformation.

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Valladolid, Spain

CreArt

Networking creative cities
Local Solidarity Governance: Strategies in Promoting Social Inclusion
Porto Alegre, Brazil

Local Solidarity Governance: Strategies in Promoting Social Inclusion

This program focuses on a change of culture and the way of considering citizens and political agencies.
Digital Welcome
Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

Digital Welcome

An ICT and technology skills training programme to improve migrant and refugee integration.
Werkstadt Junges Wien (Young Vienna Workshop)
Vienna, Austria

Werkstadt Junges Wien (Young Vienna Workshop)

A participative process to develop a Children and Youth Strategy for Vienna.
Cost sharing and multi level collaboration for social inclusion : Rusken
Oslo, Norway

Cost sharing and multi level collaboration for social inclusion : Rusken

Oslo like every city maintains and cleans its public green spaces as part of its greening activities. At the same time the city is providing vulnerable people with inclusive employment opportunities through two programmes.
The Capucins eco-district
Brest, France

The Capucins eco-district

The Urban renewal of an industrial heritage site.

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ANTONIOS KARVOUNIS
Athens, Greece

ANTONIOS KARVOUNIS

Individual | CIVIL SERVANT
Maholi Innocent
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Maholi Innocent

Individual | Director
Seoul , South Korea

Jae hyun Park

Individual | Programme Officer
Juan Valle Robles
Madrid, Spain

Juan Valle Robles

Individual | Urban planning
San Salvador, El Salvador

Karla Miranda

Individual | Subdirectora de Planificación e Investigación
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Simon Dickinson

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