CIVITAS Network celebrates 200th member
With the addition of the City of Villach, Austria, the CIVITAS Forum Network is now 200 strong.
Nearly a decade after the launch of the CIVITAS Initiative, the network now represents nearly 80 million city residents in 31 countries. These include large metropolises such as Barcelona, Madrid, Athens and Berlin (with populations over 3 million) and small towns such as Valetta (Malta) and Biograd na Moru (Croatia) (with approximately 6,000 inhabitants each).Italy leads Europe in the number of CIVITAS signatory cities: 31!Over the years, the network has grown by nearly two cities a month. The most recent additions have been Tampere (Finland), Aachen (Germany), Izmir (Turkey), Ferrol (Spain), Thessaloniki (Greece), Ferrol and Malaga (Spain), Aveiro (Portugal), Friesach (Austria), and Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Poland).To date, CIVITAS has funded 13 cooperative projects involving 58 cities, each one carrying out multiple measures to achieve sustainable mobility in an integrated approach. Besides the demonstrations cities, 142 “non-demonstration” members take part to exploit lessons learned from the measures carried out in CIVITAS’s “living laboratories.” Representatives of network cities meet up every year to share lessons at the CIVITAS Forum Conference. The ninth conference will take place in Funchal, Portugal, in October. A highlight of the two-day event is the presenting of the CIVITAS Awards, with 21 city recipients so far.
Author: CIVITAS Secretariat
