IUC Asia News

From IUC-Asia to IURC Asia, Australasia and China
The IUC project has entered into its second phase “International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC)”. In Asia and Australasia, the

IUC-GCoM Publication on Climate Action Support to Cities in South East Asia

Publication: “EU-China Urban Climate Change Adaption: Policy and Practice”
The IUC Asia project contributed to a bilingual publication (English/Chinese) by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) which compares

IUC Asia December 2020 Newsletter available
The latest edition of IUC Asia’s December newsletter covering the programme’s component 1 has just been released. This component encompasses

Mannheim Releases Video on Innovation Cooperation with China
The City of Mannheim has released a video summarising cooperation on innovation with China. The video includes testimonials by Jia

EU Cities Garden Pavilions under Construction in Yangzhou
The garden pavilions designed by the IUC pilot cities of Barcelona, Rome and Bologna Metropolitan / Nuovo Circondario Imolese are

Granada releases Video and Platform on Blockchain Cooperation with China
The City of Granada has just produced a video summarizing the cooperation with China on the opportunities and challenges that

Malaysia Blueprint for Circular Cities has been published by IUC Asia
The IUC team has just finished the Malaysia Blueprint for Circular Cities, a proposal to complement the Malaysia Circular Plastics

IUC Competitive Fund: Rome’s Sapienza University releases Book, Video, Platform and Digital Twin on Integrated Urban Design.
With the support of the IUC Asia programme, Rome’s Sapienza University CITERA just delivered four results of the cooperation with

EU-China Regional Innovation Joint Study
The IUC Asia programme has just released its EU-China Regional Innovation Joint Study. The aim of this study is to

Vietnam: final webinar on IUC technical assistance for development of Climate Action Plans
Today the IUC Asia programme held its final webinar on climate action planning at the local level in Vietnam. Since

IUC Team participates at EIT China Pre-Launching
The IUC team participated at the pre-launch workshop for the EIT Hub China. The initiative is part of the Knowledge

Review Meeting on Korean Progress in Global Climate Change and Local Actions
Today, the IUC team organised a meeting with experts of the European Union’s Foreign Policy Instruments in Asia to take

Global Covenant of Mayors Cross-Regional City Exchange
Today the EU Covenant of Mayors (CoM) Office, in collaboration with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Energy and Climate

IUC’s 4th annual City-to-City Event
Today the IUC held its 4th (and final) City-to-City Event, reflecting on the progress made by the programme as a

Barcelona and Liuzhou Smart City Project: CCDI-GINA Cooperation
Over 25 experts from Barcelona and Liuzhou met today online to discuss the progress of cooperation between both cities including

Korea: IUC Training on Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change for Chungnam Officers
About 25 local climate action officers from municipalities and counties in ChungNam province participated in an online training session on

Korea: DG ENER and IUC Team Participate in 3rd International Forum on Renewable Energy
Today, the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission (ENER) and the IUC Asia team participated in the 3rd International

GCoM Korea – Online Stakeholders Meeting
The IUC Asia team participated in the 3rd GCoM coordination call. Dr. Sang In Kang presented the results of the

EU-China Regional and Urban Cooperation Online Seminar
Today, the European Commission’s DG REGIO and China’s NDRC held the high-level EU-China Regional and Urban Cooperation Seminar 2020. More