About EUROCITIES

What is EUROCITIES? EUROCITIES Activities EUROCITIES is the network of major European EUROCITIES works along 3 complementary strands of VISIBILITY cities. activities: Created in 1986, EUROCITIES brings together the EUROCITIES brings forward its policy priorities by democratically elected local governments of 134 NETWORKING developing Europe-wide campaigns on issues of cities including cities in the European Union (Full common concern, such as sustainable mobility and Members) and cities in other European countries EUROCITIES members benefit from taking part in responsible consumption. These campaigns are (Associate Members). Membership is open to the trans-national projects, research activities, policy aimed at raising awareness and changing behaviour municipal governments of cities which are seminars and workshops with regard to a wide range both within municipal authorities and also among recognised as important regional centres with an of urban issues and challenges. Through networking citizens, whose active support and cooperation is international dimension, and normally having at cities can learn from each other by sharing often essential for achieving policy objectives, least 250 000 inhabitants. knowledge, exchanging experiences, comparing especially at the local level. different approaches, testing innovative solutions The city of Warsaw is currently the president of and analysing best practices. Alongside the EUROCITIES. advantages for the participating cities, these thematic activities also provide a sound and solid EUROCITIES is committed to working towards a basis for the development of EUROCITIES policy Contact common vision of a sustainable future in which all positions and proposals. EUROCITIES asbl citizens can enjoy a good quality of life. Square de Meeûs, 1 INFLUENCING B-1000 Bruxelles In this framework, EUROCITIES aims at achieving a European context where cities can be inclusive, EUROCITIES provides a strong voice for cities in the Tel : +32 2 552 08 88 prosperous, creative, and sustainable, with European Union, and actively contributes to the Fax : +32 2 552 08 89 democratic and effective governance, and where all development and implementation of European citizens can be provided with opportunities for policies, legislation and programmes which are [email protected] participation in all aspects of urban life - including relevant for cities. EUROCITIES is an important political, cultural, social and economic aspects. partner for dialogue with the European Commission, www.eurocities.eu both on the political level and on the technical level. EUROCITIES also maintains close contacts with the Committee of the Regions, the European Parliament and the Member States.

Updated 12/11/2012 For more information: www.eurocities.eu

EUROCITIES members EUROCITIES has 135 member cities in 36 European countries

ALBANIA Tirana FYR MACEDONIA Skopje ARMENIA Yerevan THE NETHERLANDS Amsterdam, BrabantStad Metropolitan Area, AUSTRIA Vienna* Eindhoven, Parkstad Limburg, Rotterdam, The BELGIUM Antwerp, Brussels Capital Region, Brussels Hague*, Utrecht City, Charleroi, Ghent* NORWAY Bergen, Oslo BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Banja Luka, Sarajevo POLAND Bialystok, Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Katowice, BULGARIA Burgas, Sofia, Varna Krakow, Lodz, Lublin, Poznan, Rzeszow, CYPRUS Nicosia Warsaw*, Wroclaw CROATIA Zagreb PORTUGAL Lisbon, Porto CZECH REPUBLIC Brno, Pilsen, Prague ROMANIA Timisoara DENMARK Aarhus, Copenhagen* SLOVENIA Ljubljana ESTONIA Tallinn SLOVAKIA Bratislava FINLAND Espoo, Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere, Turku, SERBIA Nis, Novi Sad Vantaa SPAIN Barcelona*, Bilbao, Gijon, Madrid, Malaga, FRANCE Angers Loire Metropole, Bordeaux, Grenoble Murcia, Seville, Terrassa Metropolitan Area, Alpes Metropole, Lille Communaute Urbaine, Zaragoza Lyon, Marseille, Grand Nancy, Nantes SWEDEN Gothenburg, Malmo, Stockholm* Metropole*, Nice Cote d’Azur, Paris, Rennes SWITZERLAND Geneva, Zurich Metropole, Saint Etienne Metropole, TURKEY Bursa, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Izmir, Konya, Strasbourg, Toulouse Sanliurfa GEORGIA Tbilisi UKRAINE Kharkov, Kiev, Lviv, Odessa GERMANY Berlin, Bonn, Chemnitz, Cologne, Dortmund, UNITED KINGDOM Belfast, Birmingham*, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig*, Mannheim, Manchester, Newcastle/Gateshead, Sheffield, Munich, Munster, Nuremberg Sunderland GREECE Athens HUNGARY Budapest* IRELAND Dublin ITALY Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Turin*, Venice LATVIA Riga LITHUANIA Vilnius

Updated 13/11/2012 * Executive Committee members For more information: www.eurocities.eu

EUROCITIES partners

ASSOCIATED PARTNERS ASSOCIATED BUSINESS PARTNERS

BELGIUM GREECE PORTUGAL TURKEY AUSTRIA / SWEDEN Kortrijk Amaroussion Matosinhos Bakirkoy Kapsch Heraklion Sintra Beyoglu CROATIA Nilüfer DENMARK Rijeka ITALY RUSSIA Osmangazi IBM Cesena Barrier free city foundation Pendik CYPRUS Pisa Sahinbey FRANCE Turkish Cypriot community Salerno SLOVAKIA Serdivan GDF Suez of Nicosia Kosice VEOLIA LUXEMBOURG UNITED KINGDOM CZECH REPUBLIC Luxembourg SPAIN Derry GERMANY Ostrava Fuenlabrada Merseytravel ATOS THE NETHERLANDS San Sebastian-Donostia LB Ealing FRANCE Almere Santiago de Compostela LB Lewisham TURKEY Amiens Metropole Netwerkstad Twente Preston Sampas Brest Metropole Oceane SWEDEN Wolverhampton Reims Metropole Karlstad UNITED KINGDOM Saint Denis de la Reunion Linkoping Microsoft Tours Ronneby Umea GERMANY Bremen Hagen

Updated 29/10/2012 For more information: www.eurocities.eu

EUROCITIES - forums & working groups

Cooperation - Nantes ENP & enlargement EU budget taskforce Governance Public services Vienna Warsaw Strasbourg Vienna

Culture Forum - Bologna Economic Development Forum - Liverpool Environment Creative industries Forum - Birmingham Knowledge Society Ghent City attractiveness Forum - Ghent Mobility Genoa Air quality, climate change Cultural access & entitlement Forum - Mannheim & energy e ciency Social Aairs Riga Cohesion policy Cyber-security Birmingham & London Tallinn Forum - The Hague Leipzig Barrier-free cities for all Berlin Culture & young people eInclusion Employment Rotterdam Entrepreneurship & SMEs Clean cities Rotterdam Copenhagen Sunderland Glasgow Developing a new Mobility of artists mobility culture ESF Green areas & biodiversity Open data Nantes Innovation Berlin & Ghent London Birmingham Manchester Stockholm & Utrecht International accessibility Resources for culture Smart cities Health inequalities Integrated urban Greening the local economy Netwerkstad Twente Amsterdam Bologna Barcelona & Manchester development Vienna & Zurich

Munich Road safety Homelessness & housing Noise Camden Vienna International economic Rotterdam relations Transport & energy e ciency Copenhagen Inclusion through Education Utrecht Waste Nantes Genoa Metropolitan areas Oslo & BrabantStad Migration & integration Water Barcelona The Hague & Eindhoven Roma inclusion Ghent

Smart social inclusion The Hague

Updated Feb 2013

EUROCITIES forums

Culture forum Economic development forum Environment forum chaired by Bologna chaired by Liverpool chaired by Birmingham Culture is a source of inspiration, provides Europe's cities are engines of economic activity and For people living in cities, a good quality of life opportunities, improves health and wellbeing, centres of growth and innovation. Economically depends largely on the quality of the urban contributes to education and life long learning and successful and prosperous cities are essential for environment. Europe's cities are therefore striving generally improves the quality of life of citizens. It creating employment, increasing cohesion and to provide their citizens with clean air, safe water, is a strong element for social cohesion in cities. strengthening Europe's competitiveness. EUROCITIES and a healthy habitat including plenty of trees, is committed to promoting sustainable urban parks and green spaces. EUROCITIES supports its Culture in cities should be regarded not only in economic development and supporting the creation member cities in their efforts to bring about a terms of its artistic dimension but also as a of new employment opportunities. better environment and work towards achieving mechanism to stimulate and promote social sustainable development, by developing and sharing inclusion and urban regeneration and to assist the knowledge and expertise. creative economy in general. Culture is therefore a 2013 priorities: transversal policy framework that contributes in a number of ways to the objectives of the Europe 2020 . EU funding to support cities' economic 2013 priorities: strategy. development . Green Growth . Boosting the local economy and leading 2013 priorities: on innovation processes . Air Quality and Health . new governance models . Integrated development and place-based . Climate Adaptation approach, including metropolitan governance . new funding models

. innovation and culture

Contacts Contacts Contacts Julie Hervé Marie Ranty Michael Klinkenberg Policy advisor - EUROCITIES Brussels office Policy advisor –EUROCITIES Brussels office Policy advisor - EUROCITIES Brussels office [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Giorgia Boldrini Martin Eyres, Sandy Taylor City of Bologna – Head of Unit City of Liverpool - Head of European Affairs City of Birmingham - Head of climate change & [email protected] [email protected] environment [email protected]

Updated 23/11/2012 For more information: www.eurocities.eu

EUROCITIES forums

Knowledge society forum Mobility forum Social affairs forum chaired by Ghent chaired by Mannheim chaired by The Hague The rapid development and increasing use of The increasing amount of road traffic in urban areas Europe's cities are engines of growth and prosperity, information and communications technologies (ICTs) leads to a wide range of problems including but at the same time they are the places where has transformed our societies and our economies, congestion and accidents, air pollution and noise, poverty and social exclusion hit the hardest. Cities how we do business and communicate with each harming the environment and undermining citizens' must strive to be inclusive, helping the most other, and how we work and learn. EUROCITIES health. EUROCITIES members are committed to vulnerable groups and individuals to participate fully members are committed to ensuring that everyone promoting more sustainable and integrated urban in society, with access to health care, housing, can have access to ICTs and participate in the transport systems, providing citizens with education and employment. With reduced public information and knowledge society. New convenient and accessible public transport, and finances this implies finding innovative and efficient technologies are also transforming public protecting the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. solutions that respond to the new and emerging administration at all levels, as citizens are learning needs of people living in cities. EUROCITIES and its to expect easy access to real-time information and members are committed to tackling the causes of reliable online services. 2013 priorities: social exclusion, eradicating all forms of discrimination and ensuring equal opportunities for . Follow-up on the Transport White Paper all. 2013 priorities: . Financing urban mobility 2013 priorities: . Smart Cities . Smart, connected and inclusive urban mobility . social cohesion in an age of austerity; . Open Data . tackling deep-seated poverty and . e-inclusion worklessness

. inclusion and employment of young

people

Contacts Contacts Contacts George Niland Vanessa Holve Anna Drozd Policy advisor - EUROCITIES Brussels office Policy advisor –EUROCITIES Brussels office Policy advisor - EUROCITIES Brussels office [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Martine Delannoy David Linse Tom Versluys City of Ghent - Programme Director City of Mannheim - Head of department City of The Hague – Policy advisor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Updated 23/11/2012 For more information: www.eurocities.eu