The nominees for the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Awards, Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP Award) and the EU Urban Road Safety Award have been announced. All awards are presented in recognition of remarkable activities conducted in 2021.

Covenant of Mayors Office is organising a FREE online workshop, “Leveraging the potential of local innovation - Covenant cities showing the way”, which will take place on 24 February 9:30-11:30 CET. The aim of the workshop is to learn how Covenant signatories are translating innovation in the local context and to discuss common challenges.

Smart Cities World is hosting an expert panel of city practitioners on 20 January 2022 to discuss where their cities’ stand on climate action plans following COP26 commitments and how they’ll progress throughout 2022.

The World Urban Forum (WUF) is the premier global conference on sustainable urbanisation. WUF was convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in 2001 to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanisation and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. This is the first time the event will take place in Eastern Europe. 

WUF11 will be held in the Polish city of Katowice from 26-30 June 2022.

The Opening Ceremony of Grenoble European Green Capital is scheduled for Saturday 15 January 2022 at 16:30 CET and will be a virtual event. A link to access the event virtually will be sent a few days before 15 January 2022.

The City of Grenoble hopes that as many of you as possible will be able to join them and looks forward to inviting people in-person in the near future to take part in the many events that are scheduled to take place in the city this year.