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Brașov will be among the first cities in Romania to have 100% electric public transport The Minister of Environment, Water and Forests, Costel ALEXE, announced that Brașov will be the first big city in Romania to have 100% electric public transport, targeting to change 75% of the total fleet by the end of this year, namely 133 electric vehicles. The Environment Minister tested in Brașov one of the 52 electric buses financed by the Environment Fund Administration (AFM). The bus covered its first…

The metropolitan government of Brest is getting ready to organise a first major event dedicated to the involvement of local players and citizens in the transition at the end of November. How? Read more and find out! After drawing up its Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) in 2019, Brest Métropole, with its 8 municipalities (215,000 inhabitants), wanted to take a step forward and focus on collective mobilisation for the energy, climate and societal transition. Since the spring of…

Energy Cities interviewed Alejandro Ramon Àlvarez, Councillor in charge of the climate emergency and the energy transition for the city of Valencia. He talked about Covid, citizen participation and the keenness to look beyond the city’s borders. Spain has been one of the European countries most affected by Covid. What is the situation in Valencia? And what has been your personal remedy to keep your spirits up? Alejandro Ramon: Indeed, in Spain the situation was and still is very delicate. We are…

We have just released TOMORROW's Workbook for Urban Transition Makers! This workbook presents different tools to analyse the transition dynamics and the actors in a specific system. It will support those who are interested in facilitating social processes underlying sustainability transitions. Thanks to this tools you will be able to: Know how to analyse the dynamics of your system: Arrive at a shared understanding of the different actors in a system and their roles; Bring together and…

Codema, which is the energy agency for Dublin and is representing Dublin as a pilot city in the TOMORROW project, has recently developed another 150 Home Energy Saving Kits, which will be launched into 8 new regions across Ireland, while also adding more kits to existing library networks. The Home Energy Saving Kit was launched by Codema in 2016 as a pilot scheme in Dublin City Council’s Public Libraries and since then has expanded to almost every public library in Dublin, and from a selection…

A local campaign targeting youth mobility makes for an excellent way to involve the schools in their city's transition towards a sustainable future! The sanitary crisis and the increasingly visible effects of the pandemic are likely to overshadow scholars' enthusiastic start of the new school year. The imposed safety conditions and necessary social distancing might cast a haze over the impatience of every beginning, over the curiosity and thirst to learn, over the children’s need to interact…

TOMORROW's partners are involved in the session "Social innovation for energy transitions" Our partner city Dublin will share their experience with stakeholders mapping while Valencia will focus on how to set up a Transition Team in the municipality. 22 Oct, 9:30-11:00

During the lockdown, the social distancing and the disruption of international transport, made us realise the importance of a well organised public space, with walking/biking space, but also easy access to food, products and services. Some cities and regional governments took the occasion to make much needed improvements to their urban environment while fostering healthier habits! Greener urban mobility The Department of Sustainable Mobility and Public Transport Infrastructures of Valencia’s…

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…