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Rennes Metropole: Inclusive employment through waste management
Rennes Metropole, France

Rennes Metropole: Inclusive employment through ...

Rennes Metropole is using social clauses in public procurement for its waste management activities to tackle long term unemployment among low skilled people.

Glasgow Green Wardens scheme: Greening the council and boosting employability
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Glasgow Green Wardens scheme: Greening the coun...

Glasgow gives employment opportunities in the green sector to people with a low employability profile through a traineeship scheme with the city council.

Brussels' Village Finance: Grants to create jobs and improve the local environment
Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

Brussels' Village Finance: Grants to create job...

In Brussels Capital Region, micro-grants have been used to support the growth of green businesses in disadvantaged areas, and encourage new and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Barcelona: Inclusive employment in park maintenance
Barcelona (ciudad), Spain

Barcelona: Inclusive employment in park mainten...

Successful collaboration between a team specialising in the employment of people with disabilities and the municipal park company has helped provide support to individual employees and made the company itself more responsive to their needs.

EcoHouse Antwerp - Fighting poverty and unemployment while reaching city climate targets
Antwerp, Belgium

EcoHouse Antwerp - Fighting poverty and unemplo...

Antwerp is running an advice and demonstration centre for residents to improve energy efficiency of homes.

Social clauses in public procurement for sustainable employment
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Social clauses in public procurement for sustai...

Amsterdam uses public procurement to support its young people at risk of exclusion to obtain a formal engineering qualification and work experience. It combines training measures with creating job placements specifically for this target group.

Local strategies to implement national energy efficiency schemes in Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Local strategies to implement national energy e...

Through building partnerships between the public and private sectors, the city of Newcastle has improved the energy efficiency of its housing stock, decreased fuel poverty and created jobs and training opportunities for vulnerable young people.

22@ Barcelona
Barcelona (ciudad), Spain

22@ Barcelona

22@ Barcelona is an urban transformation project with the aim of creating a new innovation district.

The Madrid Río Project
Award
Madrid, Spain

The Madrid Río Project

The Madrid Río project aims at converting the zone alongside the Manzanares River into green areas to make the city eco friendlier.