News Archive

07.04.2014

Neighbourhood projects support adaptation in Arnhem

5.000 people living and working in the densely built quarter of Arnhem-Coehoorn are offered to take the active role to develop their neighbourhood. A group of ‘established organisations’ like the municipality or the grid company...[more]


26.03.2014

Exhibition RIVER ARCHIVE opened on 21 March 2014 in Dortmund

The water boards Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband own a broad archive of photographs from 1899-2014 that shows the river catchments of Emscher and Lippe. About 200.000 pictures are included, of which 40.000 are historic...[more]


14.02.2014

New EU initiative for cities on adaptation

EU DG Climate Action is launching a new network initiative for climate change adaptation of European cities. Future Cities partners helped to shape the initiative in two consultation workshops in December 2013 and January 2014....[more]


09.12.2013

Adaptation - so what? Better visualisation tools to communicate adaptation

Project findings have made very clear that inhabitants and citizens will only assume responsibility to act and support the financing of measures when they understand what climate change means to them and what will be the...[more]


09.12.2013

How to finance adaptation measures? New participation processes will explore new options

Tight public budgets on local and regional level lead to scant budget made available for adaptation measures. The Future Cities partners as public local and regional bodies are experiencing this problem intensely: New...[more]


01.10.2013

Future Cities participated in the World Summit on Sustainable Cities 2013

The 10th edition of the world summit ECOCITY was held for the first time in the European Union in the European Green Capital 2013 – Nantes in France, from 25-27 September 2013. ECOCITY 2013 understands itself as “the collective...[more]


15.07.2013

Cool Nature Park in Tiel opened

The Cool Nature park in the Dutch city of Tiel opened on 16 June 2013.This former land fill has been transformed into a park where children can play and learn about the effects of climate change. The location, hidden in the...[more]


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