Upcoming Events
Urb.Energy Final Conference “Energy Efficiency and Urban Future”
1./2. December 2011, Riga, Latvia
Host of the Final Conference is the City of Riga. The Urb.Energy target area in Riga Jugla and its integrated urban development concept will be topic of a project workshop a day ahead of the conference. In close combination with the results insights of financing issues regarding integrated urban development and energy efficiency of high interest will be discussed.
The Final Conference will present the results and findings of the Project Urb.Energy. The project work and findings will be reflected by the views of European, national and local stakeholders on integrated urban development and energy efficiency.
EU research and innovation: What role for regions and ci-ties after 2013?
13. December 2011, Brussels, Belgium
In the Europe 2020 strategy as well as in long-term policy programmes of regional and local authorities, great importance is given to research and innovation. The EU is currently putting this priority into an ambitious ‘common strategic framework’. Its budget for 2014-2020 for research and innovation has increased around 46 % compared to the current budget. By December 2011, the European Commission will have adopted its legal proposals for the future EU funding of research and innovation, namely through the structural funds, and Horizon 2020 (the new framework programme for Research and innovation and the new programme replacing the former CIP).