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Welcome to Transition Lab Forum 20 Live and Eskilstuna Climate Evolution. The theme this time is circular steps and local energy transition in collaboration with the business community.

After two years of intensive work, the results of the Visioner i Norr (Visions in the North) innovation project, stage 2, are now being presented.

We must act quickly, decisively, and together to meet the climate challenge. We currently have an open call for proposals that will complement and empower Swedish cities to accelerate climate transition in their work toward the mission of Climate Neutral Cities 2030. The call for proposals is open until April 24, 2026, and aims to strengthen the new work with joint commitments between cities in the Climate City Contract process. Join us for a consultation on the call for proposals.

We must act quickly, decisively, and together to meet the climate challenge. We currently have an open call for proposals that will complement and empower Swedish cities to accelerate climate transition in their work toward the mission of Climate Neutral Cities 2030. The call for proposals is open until April 24, 2026, and aims to strengthen the new work with joint commitments between cities in the Climate City Contract process. Join us for a consultation on the call for proposals.

We must act quickly, decisively, and together to meet the climate challenge. We currently have an open call for proposals that will complement and empower Swedish cities to accelerate climate transition in their work toward the mission of Climate Neutral Cities 2030. The call for proposals is open until April 24, 2026, and aims to strengthen the new work with joint commitments between cities in the Climate City Contract process. Join us for a consultation on the call for proposals.

Carbon storage involves, among other things, strengthening and maintaining natural carbon sinks. An important area is carbon sinks in the soil, which can also improve soil health. During this climate breakfast, you will learn more about how actors in a municipality, not least the agricultural industry, can work together for sustainable land use in the long term.

We must act quickly, decisively, and together to meet the climate challenge. We currently have an open call for proposals that will complement and empower Swedish cities to accelerate climate transition in their work toward the mission of Climate Neutral Cities 2030. The call for proposals is open until April 24, 2026, and aims to strengthen the new work with joint commitments between cities within the Climate City Contract process. Join us for an information meeting about the call for proposals.

Welcome to UniCities Transition Lab Forum II on January 29, 2026. The forum focuses on the role of universities as catalysts for sustainable, resilient, and climate-neutral urban development, and builds on experiences from Viable Cities and citiES2030, among others.

How can we make progress on the climate transition visible and drive real systemic change? Harald Rohracher shares lessons learned with Stockholm and Linköping and shows how indicators can become a driver for faster climate transition.

Viable Cities and the European Commission Representation in Sweden are pleased to invite you to the eighth European Viable Cities Day on December 5, 2025.

COP30 will focus on the actions needed to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C, the presentation of new National Development Plans (NDCs) and the follow-up of the funding pledges made at COP29.

Accelerating the transition to climate-neutral and climate-resilient cities is not only a climate investment - it is also an investment in our resilience and preparedness. This is the theme of the Viable Cities Transition Lab Forum 19 Live that we are broadcasting from Karlstad.

During the Innovation Week, smart solutions are shared and disseminated between different parts of public organisations. The program for the week is created together with the stakeholders and includes activities both digitally and locally.

How do we scale up energy-positive neighborhoods in Europe? The DUT PED conference on Oct 1-3 in Milan brings together key actors from cities, business and research to share lessons and shape the way forward.

EUREKA call for sustainable cities
Welcome to the digital information meeting on Sept 15 at 10:00

The fourth call for proposals in the Driving Urban Transitions - DUT Partnership is coming up soon. Don't miss the Swedish information meeting on September 5.

On August 7, Greentopia - the live music industry's annual climate summit - will be held for the fourth year in a row! Way Out West's VIP stage will be visited by researchers, artists, music industry leaders and social commentators. We challenge and explore, dream and tremble, discuss radical futures as well as idiotic systems based on the transformative power of music and events.

Meet Viable Cities and many of the 2030 cities and climate transition partners in Visby during Almedalen Week.

Linköping Municipality, Mjölby Municipality and Viable Cities invite you to Transition Lab Forum 18 Live where we delve into mobility for climate-neutral cities. 

Rhösska Museum & digital

Climate transition is a complex area that cuts across sectors. What conditions are needed to increase the capacity and pace of the transition?

Urban Lunch-time #94 will present the results of a new feasibility study exploring how municipalities, with the support of other regional actors, can organize themselves to strengthen their resilience.

The Energy Fair with Sweden's Energy Forum is a conference and exhibition for future energy solutions. The fair takes place on May 21-22, 2025 at Kistamässan in Stockholm and brings together industry, government agencies, politicians and experts.

On May 20, SEI will launch the Consumption Compass 2.0, a web-based and interactive tool that illustrates and analyzes the climate impact of household consumption in detail. Digital event.

On May 8, CoAction Lund will talk about its climate collaboration between 25 actors and what the initiative does in each focus area: collaboration, energy and mobility. In addition
a future image will be launched, consisting of a fictional cultural podcast from 2060 that looks back on Lund's transition journey. Lund Municipality and Lund University are organizing the event.

Climate Breakfast is a simple meeting place. You can drink your morning coffee, while we, together with some change leaders, offer in a very short time an insight into a topic that accelerates the climate transition in cities.

Vinnova invites you to information about calls within EU Cities Mission and how to apply. The national contact person for Cities Mission and Swedish participants in the projects REALLOCATE and NetZeroCities (Viable Cities Carina Aschan) will participate.

The 2030 Secretariat invites you to a webinar providing three positive examples of how heavy transport can become climate smart - quickly, easily and profitably.

This weekend, the 2025 Climate Justice Day will take place in Stockholm. Over two days, ideas, strategies and alliances will be formed to promote a rapid and fair climate transition ahead of the 2026 elections. Viable Cities is one of the co-organizers.

Transition requires collaboration and knowledge. Welcome to an active full-day conference focusing on how we can work together to create sustainable and climate-neutral societies for the future.

Viable Cities and Lund Municipality warmly welcome you to Transition Lab Forum 17 Live on how to finance the climate transition.

On Saturday, March 8, Snowtopia will take over the Holiday Club in Åre for an après-ski with talks and music. Meet skiers, artists, activists and business profiles who unite in the fight for climate justice and white winters! Snowtopia will feature artists Lisa Miskovsky and Magnus Carlson, elite skiers from the World Cup, activists and researchers from Protect Our Winters and the head of sustainability for SkiStar. Snowtopia is a collaboration between the World Cup in Åre, the Swedish Ski Association, LiveGreen and the Stockholm Resilience Center. It is part of the Nordic Sustainable Arena, which will be held for the first time on March 7-8.

Welcome to Umeå and Changemakers for Impact: Transforming Cities, a meeting place for changemakers who are passionate about creating beautiful, inclusive and sustainable cities.

Equity is a key dimension of both adaptation and transition. This climate breakfast will explore questions such as: How might the structure and content of the economy be changed by climate change? What do we mean by equity in the climate context?

The Council for Sustainable Cities invites you to present innovative ideas for long-term sustainable living environments in Norrbotten and Västerbotten. Six creative teams present their work within the initiative Visions in the North, stage 2.

Vinnova, Formas and Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien invite you to a seminar on Living Labs within the EU Mission Soil and the EU partnership AGROECOLOGY. The seminar will take place on site at KSLA's premises in Stockholm, but it can be followed digitally. You will hear from several Swedish actors who run and participate in Living Lab projects at European level.

Vinnova's digital fika offers information about the calls within the Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Mission in Horizon Europe's work program 2024.

Formas invites you to a digital information meeting about the call Enabling finance and investment for a sustainable climate transition. The meeting will be held in Swedish, but it is possible to ask questions in Swedish and in English.

Viable Cities and the European Commission's representation in Sweden are pleased to invite you to our seventh European Viable Cities Day on December 6, 2024 - a bridge between the Swedish and European efforts towards the mission of climate neutral and sustainable cities by 2030.

The commitment to the climate transition is bubbling among citizens - both within municipalities and at the national level. Inclusion of residents is a prerequisite for a fair climate transition, and throughout the country, various forms of local citizens' councils and dialogues are now being tested to get more people involved in climate work. Welcome to a full-day workshop where we meet to share experiences and knowledge about local citizens' councils for the climate. Together, we can learn about the opportunities and challenges of the methods we have tested - and how we handle the results.

Resilient and sustainable food systems are an important part of achieving climate-neutral and climate-adapted cities and communities. How can we move from research to transition? How do we collaborate to build knowledge and understanding of the system together, and create a common vision? And how can cities contribute to food production?

The Smart City Expo attracts industry leaders, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs to work with and for cities. Viable Cities will be represented in Barcelona and, as always, eager to discuss and engage in conversations about the central role of cities in the climate transition.

The World Urban Forum (WUF) was established in 2001 by the United Nations to address one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and politics. The Forum, convened by UN-Habitat, is an open and inclusive high-level platform to address the challenges of sustainable urbanization. Viable Cities is on hand to engage in discussions and drive the development of sustainable and inclusive cities and communities forward.

Each year, Viable Cities holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) for all member organizations to discuss the programme's activities. The AGM decides on Viable Cities' strategy within the framework of the Swedish Energy Agency's program decisions. At the AGM, each member organization is represented by one person on the voting list, but more people from the same organization can participate without voting rights. 2024 is the program's seventh AGM.

This fall's first Climate Breakfast will focus on procurement to accelerate the climate transition. Procurement can be a powerful tool to drive a faster transition to climate-neutral and sustainable cities, but how? How can local authorities take a leading role? What are the key areas? What examples of new ways of working on this exist today?

Vinnova together with Viable Cities organizes an information meeting on 2 October 13:00-14:30 with the latest in the EU Cities Mission. There will also be information about calls from similar EU programs relevant to Cities Mission. Register by October 1.

Climate, environmental and sustainability issues are more important than ever, and municipalities have a key role to play in transforming society. Sustainable Cities 2024 focuses on the most pressing sustainability issues for Sweden's municipalities on topics such as combating illegal waste, climate adaptation, budget challenges, and AI and technology. Viable Cities is participating with representation from both the program office and the cities. 

public organisations need to get better at scaling and deploying smart solutions. Innovation Week is an initiative to help with that. Innovation Week is an initiative of SSKR, Vinnova and the Swedish Public Procurement Agency, and Viable Cities is a partner. During Innovation Week, we explore governance, system innovation, AI, procurement, scaling, internationalization and much more.

The 2030 cities have high climate ambitions, but are in many ways dependent on neighboring municipalities and the regional level to achieve their climate goals. Structures that affect the climate often span municipal boundaries. Prudent public actors need to strengthen their ability to act strategically, in the long term and in collaboration to create and use a common scope for action.

Join us at the Impact Innovation Summit, where Viable Cities, NetZeroCities and the City of Helsingborg come together to focus on climate action, citizen engagement, and the green transition - the key pillars of the summit.

In the fall of 2024, the third European call for urban development within Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) will open. Formas, the Swedish Energy Agency, Vinnova and Viable Cities are organizing an information meeting to explain the content of the partnership, the direction of the call and practicalities of applying.

The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions welcomes you to this year's conference for environmental and climate strategists. The theme of this year's conference for environmental and climate strategists is "Governance and management for climate and sustainable transition" and the conference offers interactive exercises, time for conversation and dialog and current information from SKR.