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With the aim of continuing inspiring and informing European neighbourhoods on sustainable mobility practices, the SUNRISE project has opened a call for application for cities in Europe to join the take-up city (TUC) Group.

On October 8, during the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels, the first three projects in the Horizon2020 funded Smart City Lighthouse Programme, REMOURBAN, Triangulum and GrowSmarter, will present their key findings at a joint event in Brussels.

Do you want to make your city a better, greener place to live and work? Join the speed-dating session for cities during the European Week of Regions and Cities on Tuesday 8 October 2019.

The CIVITAS Awards highlight some of the most ambitious, innovative, and successful sustainable urban mobility work currently being carried out.

They provide a prime platform for towns and cities to demonstrate their excellence in the field, both in terms of policymaking and implemented measures, whilst also having their efforts recognised by the European Commission.

Winners serve as role models to other towns and cities across Europe, inspiring them in their own initiatives to make cleaner and better urban transport.

The much awaited Guidance for Cycling Projects in the EU was finally presented to the public in June 2019 and published on the Commission's website. It  aims to foster the implementation of measures to promote cycling which are appropriate to the local context of cities.

The NeMo project consortium – Hyper-Network for Electromobility – organizes the NeMo Final Conference and Exhibition “From project to market: Seamless electromobility services in Europe” in Barcelona on Thursday 19^th September 2019.

From 2 – 30 September 2019, the European project SUNRISE will offer an interactive, self-paced e-course for practitioners in city administrations, who want to initiate and coordinate a co-creative process in one of their neighbourhoods.

The International Conference of Walking and Liveable Communities will be organised in Polis member Rotterdam from the 7th to the 10th of October 2019. Polis is participating with the contribution of our Secretary General Karen Vancluysen in a session about walking in MaaS. The result of the ISAAC project’s survey will be presented as well.

The European Commission is co-designing its next EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe (2021-2027): you can now contribute with you feedback until 8 September 2019.

On the 17th and 18th September 2019, the GO SUMP project organizes the MED Urban Transports Community's final event taking place at OMAU - Urban Environment Observatory in Malaga (Spain), within the European Mobility Week 2019.