Date: 17 October 2025
Location: AT60, Avenue de Cortenbergh 60, 1000 Brussels
Registration: Follow the link
The Final Conference of the Urban Transitions Mission Centre (UTMC) will take place on 17 October 2025 in Brussels, highlighting the results of UTMC and at the same time giving an outlook of what related initiatives are providing and planning.
Objectives
- Highlight the achievements of the Urban Transitions Mission Centre in supporting the Urban Transitions Mission (MI)
- Promote knowledge exchange and cooperation, foster future partnerships between cities, urban initiatives and organisations supporting the acceleration of urban transitions and upscaling of effective and impactful solutions
- Cheer the good collaboration between UTMC, UTM, UTM cities and related initiatives and organisations
Agenda
9:00-10:00 | Morning coffee and Networking |
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10:00-10:30
Why is a global outreach for urban transitions important? | Ø Welcoming Ø Importance of a global outreach | Ø Elli Tzatzanis-Stepanovic, Coordinator, UTMC, FFG Ø Laura Hetel, Policy officer, European Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, EC Ø Giorgia Rambelli, Director, Urban Transitions Mission |
10:30-12:00
How did UTMC contribute to accelerating urban transitions? | Ø Achievements and results
| Ø Mariem Chakroun, Andrada Barata, UTMC partner, ENoLL Ø Karel van Oordt, Eurocities Ø Nicola Iezza, UTMC partner, GCoM, Ø Alina Mures, Bard Rama, UTMC partner, ICLEI European Secretariat Ø Kanak Gokarn, UTMC partner, ICLEI World Secretariat Ø Gianni Nardone, Nicola Manisi, UTMC partner, LGI |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch break and Networking |
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13:00-15:00
What comes next? | Ø Collaboration with partners and related initiatives Ø Partner initiatives´ outlook Ø Farewell | Ø Tarek El Azzouzi, NetZeroCities, Climate-KIC Ø Marie-Carmen Bex, DUT, INNOVIRIS Ø Marie-Laure Tarot, LEAP-SE, ANR Ø Elena Simion, CapaCITIES, UEFISCDI Ø Jonas Guigonnat, PLATFORM31 Ø Marco Grippa, ERRIN Ø Stefania Mascolo, NEUTRALPATH, Eurocities Ø Matteo Satta, CLIMABOROUGH |
In collaboration and partnership with the following partner organisations and initiatives





