Last updated: 2021/01/19
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Eurocities is the network of major European cities. Our members are the elected local and municipal governments of major European cities. Eurocities was founded in 1986 by the mayors of six large cities: Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam.
Eurocities awards showcase outstanding achievements by our member cities in the delivery of local activities or practices which improve the quality of life for citizens. The theme of the awards changes every year in line with the Eurocities annual conference.
- innovation: innovation in the planning and implementation of activities or practices by a local authority
- participation: activities or practices of a local authority which are successful in actively promoting citizen participation
- cooperation: awarding cooperation efforts undertaken by a local authority together with partner organisations
The Eurocities awards have been running since 2006. Past examples of winning projects include a project encouraging citizens to become successful community leaders in Bristol; a cultural network designed to improve quality of life for elderly citizens in Espoo; and the renewal of an old industrial island in Bydgoszcz to become a centre of culture, leisure and entrepreneurship.
Many of these projects have gone on to achieve further success at national and European level.
Each shortlisted award entry is required to submit a short video of its project. You can browse the shortlisted entries and winners using the awards menu on the Eurocities website: www.eurocities.eu
Case studies from Eurocities Awards
Tampere, Finland
Tampere: Making heritage housing more energy ef...
Tampere supports actions to make its heritage housing more energy efficient while assisting young people to gain the technical skills needed to carry out these works.
Milan, Italy
Sharing mobility strategy in Milan
A mobility strategy is enabling Milan, which has one of the highest car ownership rates in Europe, rise to its congestion challenge.
Gothenburg, Sweden
Gothenburg’s entrepreneurial hub
Entrepreneurial West Hisingen aims at developing entrepreneurial capacity in a multicultural district with high unemployment and low aspirations.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh in Bloom
By mobilising support and coordinating action, Edinburgh in Bloom is setting a new standard for conserving and enhancing historic and natural environments in imaginative and sustainable ways.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Rotterdam Businesscase (De Rotterdamse Zaak)
De Rotterdamse Zaak is a work-based learning company in which both students and senior entrepreneurs support and consult entrepreneurs in marginal economic areas to improve their economical independence.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The Edinburgh Guarantee
Edinburgh has inspired cultural change across the public, private and third sectors to address unemployment among school leavers. A shared vision and strong partnerships are helping them find a job, modern apprenticeship or training, and make successful transitions into the world of work.
Oslo, Norway
Oslo’s Traffic Agent app - Game to improve road...
Oslo has turned to mobile technology to tackle traffic security issues affecting parents’ willingness to let their children walk to school. Its pioneering app, ‘The Traffic Agent’, provides child’s eye feedback to enable improved road maintenance and infrastructure planning.
Utrecht, Netherlands
City talks on sustainable energy: the silent ma...
Utrecht initiated a democratic experiment to share and broaden responsibility for creating an energy plan to help it become climate neutral by 2030.
Glasgow, United Kingdom
OPEN Glasgow – City Data Hub
Glasgow’s City Data Hub is home to 400 datasets, published with support from 60 partner organisations. The data gives citizens and businesses insight into life in their city, and allows them to get more involved in decision making.
Liverpool, United Kingdom
REECH initiative
Through REECH, Liverpool works with a range of partners, including social housing providers and local authorities, to improve the energy efficiency of social housing and SME business premises in its most deprived communities.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Marketplace for Mobility ("De Verkeersondernemi...
Through two successive calls for tenders, De Verkeersonderneming looked for providers of mobility services that could provide peak traffic avoidance in the Rotterdam region.
Tampere, Finland
ITS Factory
ITS Factory is a collaborative space where developers, companies, research organisations and individuals come together to create new intelligent transport systems and services (ITS).
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Auld but not Reekie – transforming transport en...
Edinburgh's municipal bus company, Lothian Buses, is going a long way to combat this image with ‘Auld but not Reekie’, an initiative that by the end of 2014 will see 65 hybrid buses in service and 45 buses retrofitted with low emissions exhausts.
Oslo, Norway
The electric vehicle capital
With 60% of emissions in Oslo coming from the transport sector, encouraging people to use electric vehicles (EVs) has the potential to make a real difference. In 2008, Oslo adopted a ten-point plan to reduce CO2 emissions, to which the large scale introduction of EVs plays a big part.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Interactive energy classification map
An innovative interactive energy map lets Vilnius citizens access and compare energy performance data for every apartment block in the city, online.
Dortmund, Germany
Masterplan for Energy Transition
Dortmund’s Masterplan for Energy Transition brings all sorts of stakeholders together to develop a vision for the city’s energy future.
The Hague, Netherlands
Sustainability in The Hague neighbourhoods; par...
The Hague is harnessing the commitment, time and skills of citizens to help achieve its goal of becoming climate neutral by 2040. Practical support and grants for cooperative action at grassroots level are turning good ideas into reality across the city.
Gijon, Spain
Gijon’s Citizen Card
A single card, Gijon’s Citizen Card, allows Gijon's citizens to pay their bus fare, hire a bike and take out a library book. Today, 250,000 of Gijon’s citizens – 80% of the city’s population - carry this card, unlocking services and facilities across the city.
Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
BEACH - online employability advice
BEACH (Brighton & Hove Employability Advice and Careers Hut) is a website that was developed to improve young people’s employment chances. It offers employability advice specifically relating to the local situation and was designed for young people, by young people
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Entrepreneurs for the Future (e4f )
Young startup businesses benefit from tailored support and being part of a community. That’s what makes Birmingham’s ‘Entrepreneurs for the Future’ (e4f) programme stand out: it offers bespoke support and the chance to join a network of like-minded startups.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh Outdoors
Edinburgh Outdoors is a digital service launched in February 2013 providing a new way for locals and tourists to enjoy Edinburgh’s parks and green spaces.
Greater Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Region Infoshare (HRI)
In 2010, the cities of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area began sharing public data for anyone to use freely. These open datasets, available through a web platform (www.hri.fi), make it possible for citizens to develop applications and follow public decision making.
Berlin, Germany
Youth election project U18
The U18 initiative is a simulated vote that takes place nine days ahead of real ‘adult’ elections, either local or national. The project is designed to generate an interest in politics amongst young people and supplement their political education.
Zaragoza, Spain
La Colaboradora: a P2P co-working space promoti...
A co-working space where a community of some 200 entrepreneurs, freelancers and creative professionals each dedicate four hours of their time every month in return for support with launching their projects. The principle is an exchange of services, ideas and knowledge through a ‘bank time’ approach.
Athens, Greece
SynAthina: a social innovation platform
Citizens, policy-makers and private sector representatives come together to build a collaborative, grassroots vision for change in Athens.
Leeds, United Kingdom
Migrant Access Project
A citizen-led initiative to build relationships between newly arrived migrants and service providers.
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Co-operative Glasgow
The City of Glasgow is identifying effective and sustainable ways of addressing economic and social challenges by supporting cooperatives and social enterprises and devolving power to residents.
Nice, France
27 Delvalle: an urban health living lab
The City of Nice is responding to a growing community need for providing senior citizens with quality at home healthcare by establishing a centre dedicated to digital health innovation.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
OpenBorough: active citizenship via e-participa...
The City of Amsterdam has embarked on a project to make democracy more dynamic and interactive by developing a digital participatory platform to engage with residents.
Greater Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Climate Street project
The Climate Street project involves public agencies, residents and businesses working together to convert sustainable ideas into practical, replicable and scalable actions.
Utrecht, Netherlands
Utrecht Smart Solar Charging project
The city of Utrecht has capitalised on the high take-up by residents of electric cars and solar panels to develop the Smart Solar Charging project.
Gijon, Spain
Knowledge Society - citizen participation and o...
Gijon City Council in Spain has responded to the need for greater efficiency, transparency and participatory democracy by implementing a digital platform enabling residents to share responsibility for governing and managing the city.
Munich, Germany
Halle 2: recycling, repair and reuse using a ci...
The city of Munich has taken its ambitious waste reduction strategy to the next level by developing an innovative reuse lab and shop concept.
Gothenburg, Sweden
Smart Map: rent, share, exchange, borrow
The city of Gothenburg's Smart Map platform shows residents where they can find things to hire, borrow, share or swap while simultaneously helping to reduce consumption based emissions and create services for the sharing economy.
Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Brussels regional programme for a circular econ...
The circular economy is providing an innovative and sustainable way for the Brussels-Capital Region to address environmental, social and economic challenges.
Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Be circular - Be Brussels
A call for projects encourages local entrepreneurs to develop creative business initiatives that use circular economy concepts with support from local government agencies.
Antwerp, Belgium
Inside Out
The city of Antwerp has turned the challenge of integrating refugees into the labour market into an opportunity to transition to a circular economy.
European Metropolis of Lille, France
La Lainière Project House
La Lainière Project House demonstrates the cradle-to-cradle (C2C) philosophy in action.
Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
The city of Brighton & Hove reuse model
The Brighton & Hove council has implemented a programme to keep reusable goods out of the bin.
Almere, Netherlands
Paper and furniture from aquatic plants
The city of Almere, working with the business sectors and local stakeholders has developed an innovative circular economy partnership.
Oulu, Finland
The CHAOS Challenge
The City of Oulu has developed a community-driven model for generating and testing creative solutions to city problems.
Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
Our Future City
Growing creativity and improving wellbeing for children and young people through culture.
Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
Brighton & Hove Affordable Food
Providing fresh local food to residents in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
RePoPP Circular Markets
Implementing a circular economy for food and food policies
Copenhagen, Denmark
Cloudburst Initiative Copenhagen
Climate adaptation and environmental improvements through nature-based solutions
Nice, France
La Recyclerie des Moulins
Using a circular economy model to increase environmental protection and resource efficiency
Rzeszów, Poland
The City of Rzeszów – a new home for Ukrainian ...
Local residents and government work together to welcome refugees
London, United Kingdom
Seen and Heard
A campaign to change the face of public space – for and by young people
Bilbao, Spain
DIVERSITOURS
Onsite and immersive virtual reality tours changing perceptions one tour at a time.
