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3 August 2023

Unlocking opportunities : Guide to EU Funding 2023 edition

The European Union offers financial support to regional and local authorities, NGOs, businesses, professionals, and citizens through a wide variety of funds. The European Parliamentary Research Service has compiled a comprehensive 'Guide to EU funding,' offering easily accessible information about t

1 August 2023

Becoming a resilient city: what can we learn from the Greek city Thessaloniki?

Tune into Episode 4 of our Podcast series on Adaptation to discover the actions, big and small, behind Thessaloniki’s path to climate resiliency.

26 July 2023

How the City of Bydgoszcz is implementing an ambitious renewable energy project with the help of Smart Cities Marketplace

The Smart Cities Marketplace helps cities implement their Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs). Discover how the Polish city of Bydgoszcz is benefitting from their services to bring actions from their plan to life.

20 July 2023

Energy Caravan, Freiburg’s path towards futureproof building stock

Freiburg’s climate goal is to reach climate neutrality by 2035. In this context, the city is implementing two main strategies: increasing the available funds and subsidies to approximately 120 million euros by 2028, and promoting renewable energy and refurbishment of the building stock. Freiburg has

19 July 2023

Local staff for the energy and climate transition: what is needed and how do we get there?

Insights from local, national and European initiatives working on filling the skills gap at local level, presented at this year’s European Sustainable Energy Week.

19 July 2023

Harnessing Talent Platform: A new boost for EU Regions

The Harnessing Talent Platform (HTP) is a newly formed knowledge-building and experience-exchange platform, which seeks to support regions in addressing the consequences of the demographic change and in mitigating the challenges associated with the decline of tertiary educated populations across the

5 July 2023

Knowledge exchange to build resilience: what cities can learn from one another as they adapt to climate change

Throughout the PSF’s twinning programme, eight municipalities from Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Germany were paired together to offer opportunity to exchange on best practices, lessons learnt, and to evaluate what could be applied in their city.

30 June 2023

New funding opportunities for actors on local and regional level across Europe - LIFE CALL 2023

The Clean Energy Transition sub-programme of LIFE is dedicated to facilitating the transition towards an energy-efficient, renewable energy-based, climate-neutral and resilient economy.

30 June 2023

Do you need financial support, guidance and project assistance? Green Deal Funding Alert - June 2023

The monthly Green Deal Funding Alert have highlighted three programmes that offer financial support, guidance and project assistance to European cities and regions as well as companies.

27 June 2023

How to foster energy democracy and renewables in your city? This community energy toolkit will help!

Do you want to support your citizens’ energy projects? Do you wish to start your own energy community? Are you looking into financing options for your RES project or information on how to improve the legal framework in your country? A new toolkit is now available to guide you in this process.