9th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns

The conferences call for the acceleration of bottom-up action and change, to ultimately push and accelerate the ambition of global frameworks for sustainability and climate change. Held every three years, the conference is the multi-level interface between the European Union and sustainability action at local level.

On the agenda:

• What is the change we need and what can cities do to make this happen? 
• How can a European Green Deal become a true opportunity for change? 
• What is the social and environmental impact of digitalisation and what is its public value?
• What is the perspective for a sustainable economy we need? 
• How local and how global are the perspectives for a new economic model? 
• Who is responsible? And who pays the bill? 
• How can integrated urban development and management respond to the challenge?
• What do our citizens want and what can they do themselves? 
• How can we step up citizen mobilisation for positive transformation? 
• How can this become the transformation that we all want? 
• How can we scale up local action to the national and European levels? 
• How do we go mainstream? 
• Who else do we need to make this happen?