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In April, TOMORROW cities were supposed to meet in person in Heerlen, The Netherlands, to attend a conference and a workshop on Energy Transition. Even though all in person meetings and travels were cancelled by the COVID crisis, TOMORROW cities kept learning from each other and they met virtually by participating in two online workshop sessions organised by DRIFT. One of the sessions of the workshop, called "Learning from each other and building resilience in difficult times", aimed at…

Our pilot city Brasov put together a highly involved and motivated team to work together with local stakeholders and progress in its transition towards climate neturality! "Our plan was to establish the team and start collaboration at the beginning of the year, but the COVID-19 crisis pushed us back, while the global lockdown gave us more time to study, research and analyse in depth the transition process, the steps we need to take and how to plan things ahead" said Mrs. Camelia RATA, Head of…

Developing and adopting a long-term strategy for climate and energy transition or towards climate-neutrality requires to develop some science-based strategies or scenarios. Different approaches and tools are available to fix targets and track the progress made along the years. They include “carbon budget” & “climate-proofed budget” among others. We have recently organised a webinar on the topic for the pilot cities of TOMORROW and their transition teams. The aim of this webinar was to get some…

In April, TOMORROW cities were supposed to meet in person in Heerlen, The Netherlands, to attend a conference and a workshop on Energy Transition. Even though all in person meetings and travels were cancelled by the COVID crisis, TOMORROW cities kept learning from each other and they met virtually by participating in two online workshop sessions organised by DRIFT. One of the sessions of the workshop, called ‘Learning from each other and building resilience in difficult times’, aimed at…

Our pilot city Mouscron (Belgium) has just launched a call for projects to foster the ecological transition in their territory. The call is organised in the framework of their parcipatory budget initiative for 2020. Citizens are invited to submit their proposals and contribute to creating the Mouscron of tomorrow! 10 000 euros will be allocated to the citizens' projects. The proposals will be analysed on the basis of several criteria, namely: The definition of clear and precise objectives in…

On March 4th, before the COVID19 measures entered into force, the City of Valencia held a conference in the framework of the initiative “VALÈNCIA CANVIA PEL CLIMA!” - Catalan for “Valencia changes for the climate!”, now in its 3rd year. This initiative aims to share information on all the proposals and actions developed in the city in the field of energy transition and climate action. In 2018, up to 30 conferences, workshops and talks were held over the course of a month, and culminated with an…

In February 2020, the pilot cities of TOMORROW (Nis, Dublin, Brasov, Brest and Valencia) gathered in Nantes to participate in a training with the aim to learn more about theories and practices of “Transition Roadmapping”. As part of this training, they met multiple people that have been involved in the city’s “Grand Debat” (The Great Debate in English), a participatory process to co-create the energy transition roadmap for the region. Nantes hosted the debate “The Energy Transition is All of Us”…

In the framework of TOMORROW, we are supporting 6 European cities to develop their transition roadmaps. This is not an easy process: a lot of efforts are needed in order to develop a roadmap - you can have a look at the first draft of our guidelines to learn more about the metholdology. By developing such roadmaps, cities are designing clear pathways to transform their societies to become resilient, resource-efficient and reliant on clean energy sources. In our toolbox, we collected remarkable…