Cities turning climate ambition into action: Climate Budget Summit in Brussels
How can cities turn climate ambitions into concrete investments and measurable action? This question brought around 50 city leaders, climate experts, researchers and local practitioners together at the Climate Budget Summit in Brussels on 14 October 2026, to exchange...From different realities to a common approach
How can a common approach to regenerative tourism work across destinations with very different starting points? As REDIRECT moves from developing its Toolkit to testing it in practice, experiences from across the partnership are helping answer that question. REDIRECT...
Creating room for connection: two perspectives on SmartAging
Feeling welcome, making everyday choices and having someone to talk to are essential parts of living well as we grow older. SmartAging brings design, care, research and technology together to explore how living environments can better support these experiences. The...
What does City Blues leave behind for European cities?
Instead of looking for a single solution, the partner cities explored how nature-based stormwater solutions could be adapted to local conditions. Tampere, Aarhus, Malmรถ, Tartu and Stavanger each worked with a local pilot site, giving the cities an opportunity...
Takeaways from the #2 EnTRA Energy Transtion Talks: Practical paths to energy-efficient buildings
On 14 October 2026, the second EnTRA Energy Transition Talk explored practical ways to improve building energy efficiency. Experts from the Tartu Regional Energy Agency and the Renowave project in Vรตru shared insights into renovation measures, digital tools and...
NELE IVASK: Community energy helps Estonia cope in crises
Opinion article by Nele Ivask from Tartu Regional Energy Agency.ย Estoniaโs energy security cannot be built only on large power plants, external interconnections and reserve capacity. An important part of it is also the ability of local communities to produce and...
Easy to buy, easy to return: reusable lunch jars in Gdaลsk
What if your office lunch came in a glass jar, and you got your deposit back by returning it to the machine? As part of the Change(K)now! project, Gdaลsk start-up Venloop tested this in four companies. More than 8 in 10 jars came back. The real obstacles turned out to...From plans to decisions: How Baltic cities use evidence to improve sustainable urban mobility planning
The harder questions come next: What is changing? Is a measure working? What can the city realistically measure, and how will the results shape its next decision? These questions are especially difficult for smaller municipalities with limited staff and fragmented...