The Urban Transitions Mission (UTM) launches City2City, a new global twinning initiative connecting UTM cohort cities in dynamic peer-learning to co-create practical solutions for net-zero people-centered urban futures.
Why City2City?
With a 106 cities strong cohort, we want to facilitate small groups to solve common challenges and accelerate innovative solutions together.
Cities engaging in the twinnings will support each other to boost sustainable urban development towards net-zero strategy through a practical exchange on how to design, implement and manage sustainable urban practices in an integrated and ambitious way.
Boost your innovation through collaboration
“Community is at the core of how we are working with cities, institutions and the private sector at UTM, we are aiming for people and localities powering change through innovation and focusing on implementation mechanisms,” shares Giorgia Rambelli, director of UTM. “City2City is UTM’s nudge to further facilitate these connections and implement solutions on the ground.”
This novel twinning programme will help UTM’s cohort not only create a wider sense of community, but also experience innovation in urban transitions, define new training needs and research and innovation, as well as identify and scale new pilot actions.
City2City: a programme focused on global concrete action
Each City2City pairing will be structured as a combination of 4 sessions and representatives from each city will take part in a series of interactive sessions:
- Interactive webinars & online workshops: to present and facilitate knowledge sharing on challenges faced, best practices, access expertise from academia and innovative solutions.
- Virtual Networking Sessions: to foster partnerships between cities, researchers, and businesses engaged in the pairing.
- In-Person Exchange: arranged to the side of the Global Innovation and other key international events hosted in or attended by UTM cities. When relevant, UTM will facilitate study visits to a leading city to observe successful urban transition initiatives, meetings with local officials, and interactive work sessions.
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Partners with ambitious goals and a drive to replicate inspirations which withstood practical testing and/or implementation are highly encouraged to apply for this twinning programme!
As a successful candidate you will be paired with up to 2 other cities sharing the same topic of interest, allowing all parties to build up cooperation and share experiences.
Boost your innovation through cooperation
By joining the UTM Twinning programme, your city will:
- LEARN: Get access to new ways of approaching challenges and benefit from knowledge from global experts and from a wider pool of urban good practices to draw upon
- SHARE: Help others to solve issues by sharing your own experiences, testing innovative solutions and relaying lessons you have learned
- EXCHANGE: Open your city to dialogue and partnership with new global peers and relevant stakeholders (public and private)
- SHOWCASE: Profile your best practices and achievements internationally
- PILOT: Work in a deep exchange environment with new partners who include academia and the private sector to make your vision of sustainable urban development a reality.
This is not training. This is co-creation.
City2City is a space for mutual support, exchange, experimentation and innovation.
City2City illustrates that a local solution can have a global reach.
Cities are encouraged to apply as soon as possible – the deadline is 7 August!
