Climate Breakfast 4 was organized in collaboration with Drive Sweden and focused on different pieces of the puzzle that are necessary in the transition to a transport system that is sustainable, safe and accessible to all.
The Climate Smart Cities Challenge is an invitation to cities around the world to participate in a competition aimed at stimulating and scaling up innovative solutions for the climate transition. The competition gives cities the opportunity to work with a global pool of experts to stimulate and scale up innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create other social benefits in cities.
Transition Lab Forum 4, which was organized together with the City of Gothenburg, focused on how digital tools can help us move faster on the road to climate-neutral cities.
We offered practical inspiration and good examples from Sweden and abroad, reflections with politicians and experts, and a digital study visit to Gothenburg.
Our third climate breakfast was about financing the climate transition. Viable Cities' Finance and Procurement Strategist Charlotta Möller introduced the topic, followed by a discussion with Fedra Vanhuyse, Head of Unit Societal Transitions, Stockholm Environmental Institute, and Björn Bergstrand, Head of Sustainability, Kommuninvest.
Several Swedish cities are working on the transition to climate-neutral cities in 2030 within the framework of Viable Cities. During Climate Breakfast 2, Umeå, Uppsala and Malmö shared their experiences from the work of visualizing the climate transition based on some development projects where different tools have been used.
Lund municipality has achieved its climate targets for 2020 - they have reduced their emissions by 50 percent between 1990-2020 for the entire geographical area of the municipality. Thea Ohlander Arfwidsson, Project Manager Climate Neutral Lund 2030 and Therese Ek, Communications Strategist, tell us more about what is happening in Lund Municipality right now on our blog.
Edward Andersson, Democratic Society, spoke at Viable Cities' first climate breakfast on the theme of citizen involvement in the climate transition - for real. On our blog, he and his colleague Namita Kambli develop their thoughts on this topic.
On September 30, Viable Cities held its first climate breakfast. Guests were Edward Andersson from Democratic Society, who gave concrete tips on how to develop citizen engagement and Charlotte Gustafsson-Brynielsson from Växjö reflected on how they work with it in Växjö.
"It always seems impossible until it is done." Maria Vassilakou, EU mission board on climate neutral cities, quoted Nelson Mandela when she attended Transition Lab Forum 3, September 16-17.
She was one of many speakers who, over two days, gave strength and inspiration to continue working on the mission: Climate Neutral Cities 2030.
The municipality of Enköping is testing new solutions at Myran, a 74 hectare development area in the municipality, to learn and achieve the goal of a completely climate-neutral municipality by 2030. They are also giving young people a voice in urban development. On our blog, project manager Thomas Adlercreutz explains the current situation.
Achieving the profound climate transition we need requires cooperation between all members of society at a level never seen before. Citizen engagement and local Climate City Contract is the theme of the Viable Cities Transition Lab Forum 3, on September 16-17 (press release).
At regular intervals, our chief storyteller Per Grankvist will write about his reflections on storytelling as a tool, based on what we do, meetings we have and ideas from people and projects we are inspired by. The article series is part of the development of a model for engaging storytelling, the first version of which will be completed before the end of the year.
In this article, Kes McCormick, program coordinator for the Sharing Cities Sweden initiative, briefly present the mission's approach with a focus on climate-neutral cities, which raises both exciting opportunities and vexing questions.
Enköping, Gothenburg, Järfälla, Lund, Malmö, Stockholm, Umeå, Uppsala and Växjö. These nine Swedish cities will lead the way, testing and experimenting to inspire and accelerate the work towards the mission: Climate Neutral Cities 2030 - with a good life for all within the limits of the planet. In a series of blog posts from the nine cities, we can follow their work. First up is Växjö municipality.
The city of Helsingborg is one of 12 finalists in the European Capital of Innovation 2020. The winning city, announced during the European Research and Innovation Days (September 22-24), will receive one million Euros. We keep our fingers crossed.
Through the strategic innovation program Viable Cities, Sweden has become internationally visible as a country at the forefront of climate and sustainability in cities. This is shown by an evaluation three years after the start of the program.
Within Viable Cities, we have felt the need to develop a text that can frame the work we do together to achieve our common mission: climate-neutral cities with a good life for all within the boundaries of the planet. Our Chief Storyteller Per Grankvist has formulated this in the Declaration.
To support the local implementation of the SDGs, the Local 2030 Sweden Hub has been formed, a network of organizations in Sweden and the Nordic region that will work together to promote local sustainable urban development. Viable Cities is one of the members.
Nordic Innovation has granted NOK 3 million to the project "Nordic Transition partnership", which aims to accelerate the transition to climate neutrality by 2030 in small and medium-sized municipalities. In the project, Viable Cities collaborates with Tampere in Finland, Reykjavik in Iceland and Smart Innovation Norway in Norway.
Clearly, the coronavirus crisis can teach us something about transition work. But what? That we should do what the experts say? This is what researchers Sofie Joosse and Martin Westin from the Viable Cities project Sustainable urban lifestyles through nudging and citizen participation discuss on our blog.
Currently, Viable Cities has two calls open, one is a European collaboration and the other is about strengthening the innovation capacity of cities.
Within the framework of Viable Cities, eight cities are now inspiring and inspiring other cities, in Sweden and around the world, so that as many as possible reach climate neutrality by 2030.
On Thursday, April 23, eight Swedish cities will take a big step forward to accelerate the climate transition - Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Lund, Växjö, Uppsala, Umeå and Enköping. They want to lead, test and experiment to become climate neutral by 2030.
The Viable Cities annual report for 2019 is ready. A lot happened during the year, we launched the Viable Cities Transition Lab, many new exciting projects received funding and we organized and participated in many events.
On 11 December 2019, Viable Cities and the European Commission organized the European Viable Cities Day for the second year in a row. This is the same day that the European Commission's Chairman Ursula von der Leyen presented The European Green Deal.
We now need a team player for the program office at KTH Campus who can act strategically as well as quickly and efficiently.
Urban cultivation with waste heat from data centers and models of climate-smart music and sports events are examples of 12 projects receiving a total of €28 million to accelerate the climate transition.
A newly launched anthology that deepens and problematizes the discussion on innovation in cities, with a specific focus on Swedish conditions.
It looks at the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable the sustainable smart cities of the future.
One of Sweden's largest strategic innovation programs is Viable Cities, with a budget of over SEK 1 billion for research and innovation on smart, sustainable cities. The program, coordinated by KTH, aims to make cities climate neutral by 2030. Viable Cities has...
The European Commission has appointed Allan Larsson, Chairman in the Swedish innovation program Viable Cities, as vice Chairman in the steering group that will lead the work within the EU on Climate Neutral and Smart Cities. - That the European Commission appoints our Chairman to such an important role...
About fifty early morning Almedalen visitors gathered for Thursday breakfast at Teaterskeppet to summarize the week's discussions on the transition to sustainable cities. The organizers were Sustainable Innovation, Viable Cities, Future Position X, Botkyrkabyggen, IoT Sweden, Smart Housing Småland, Visual Sweden and IQ Samhällsbyggnad. The expert panelists,...
Climate-neutral cities in 2030 were the focus of Viable Cities' participation during Almedalen Week 2019. A theme that was very topical. During the week, 3,700 events were held, bringing together 42,000 participants from a wide range of interest areas in society. Sustainability...
The climate challenge is a critical issue where cities have a key role to play. From Lund in the south to Umeå in the north, nine cities are now receiving funding for projects that can accelerate the climate transition. The aim is to become climate neutral by 2030. The funding...
On June 12, a final seminar was held within the innovation project Mo-Bo, funded by Viable Cities. In connection with this seminar, the report "Mo-Bo | Mobility services pave the way for innovative architecture" and a short leaflet "Steering towards new goals Residential blocks with parking...
This year, Viable Cities is participating with its own events and as a co-organizer in others and in some cases as a speaker. Among other things, a seminar focusing on climate-neutral cities will be held on Monday, July 1 at 16.15 with the directors general of Vinnova,...
Strategy Day 11 April 2019 MISSION: Climate neutral cities 2030 During the last year the program's focus has been sharpened and clarified and now has a strong focus on what we call our MISSION: Climate neutral cities in 2030. This...
Read the Viable Cities annual report for the first programming period between September 2017 and December 2018. In the report you can find a description of the activities across the first period of the program. Download the report
Viable Cities will shortly open its fourth call for proposals and now invites you to a webinar to inform about the call. We must act together quickly and forcefully to meet the climate challenge. Cities are central to the transition and digitalization and citizen engagement are...
Illustration: Anders Westerberg On the theme of "a more human city", KTH's Jill Klackenberg has interviewed Viable Cities program manager Olga Kordas in an article published on KTH's website. In the interview Olga says, among other things: - That people living in cities are...
Car traffic in the city needs to be reduced - both to create a more attractive city, and to reduce the climate impact of traffic. With funding from Viable Cities, "car-free living" is being demonstrated in the Xplorion property at Södra Brunnshög in Lund by offering...
In cooperation with the European Commission's Representation in Sweden, Viable Cities organized the European Viable Cities Day on 11 December in connection with Nobel Day. The theme was Research and innovation for Carbon Neutral Cities and a round table discussion was held with Jean-Eric Pacquet, Director General of the European Commission...
As people acquire more digital tools, cities need to be redesigned. So says Olga Kordas who, with SEK 1 billion in her pocket, is leading Sweden's largest project to create smart and sustainable cities. Imagine that digital technology can...
Information and opportunity to ask questions about the calls: "From research to practice - methods and tools in the field of sustainable spatial planning" and "Climate neutral cities 2030" within the strategic innovation program Viable cities.
In 2018, a co-creation workshop on AI was organized by the Liquid Roadmap strategic project for members of Viable Cities. The report, with contributions from almost 20 partners, is now available for download below as a Foresight Technical Report... The title of...
Are you curious about the Viable Cities project portfolio? Now you can try the new visualization tool ViableCitiesViz and navigate among projects, partners and cities funded by Viable Cities. At the Viable Cities Outlook Day on 5 December, ViableCitiesViz was launched in a first...
We have now held our first program conference in Stockholm on 5 November. The conference focused on the portfolio of Viable Cities projects and provided an opportunity to exchange experiences and identify synergies. The same day, in the afternoon, we had...
Viable Cities and the European Commission are proud to invite you to our first European Viable Cities Day December 11th 2018 in connection to the Nobel Day. Our focus is on research and innovation for carbon neutral cities in Europe....
Our third call for proposals, focusing on climate-neutral cities in Sweden by 2030, is now open. The call welcomes project proposals that focus on cities that want to accelerate the transition to become viable and climate-neutral already by 2030. Project consortia will focus on...
Do you want to help move from words to action and create a transport-efficient society that is equal, accessible and resource-efficient? There is a lot of knowledge today about what needs to happen to reach national and local energy and climate targets....
