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Finland / Helsinki

Increasing the share of public transport in urban traffic

The Finnish system of local government differs from most European models in that there’s no government vs. opposition arrangement, but a proportional model in which all City Council groups (apart from the one-delegate groups) have representation in the City Board. This means that majorities have to be created separately for every major decision, and it…

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Czech Republic / Prague

Heat pump is using heat from wastewater from the sewage network

In 2008 the pilot project of the heat pump was commissioned in the Primary Art School, Na Popelce 18, Prague 5. The heat pump is using heat from wastewater from the sewage network for heating of the building of this school.

The project of the new boiler was conceived with the intention of the installation…

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Frankfurt / Germany

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Systematic Implementation of Small Scale CHP-Plants

The City Council decided in 1990 that distributed co-generation should become a major part of the City’s climate protection programme. Following resolutions of the City Council, the Energiereferat started to perform systematic studies on potential sites for distributed co-generation systems in 1990. For the project a…

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Saving Art Cinemas

Budapest / Hungary

Saving Art Cinemas

Saving Art Cinemas

Cuts to the budget for culture and the arts by the Mayor of Budapest threatened to force the closure of a unique network of art cinemas that had been serving the public of the capital for decades. Just as other cultural institutions such as museums and theatres, art cinemas are unable to rely on ticket…

Advertising on Public Transport

Budapest / Hungary

Advertising on Public Transport

Advertising on Public Transport

In Budapest, the advertising on vehicles and in public spaces controlled by BKV, the city-owned public transport company, is managed by a sub-contractor, which keeps most of the income from the adverts. With around 10,000 advertising spots, the city only receives an income of around €178,000 per month (50 million Forints).

Local councillors from LMP…

Hearing the Population, Building the Future

Portugal / Setúbal

Hearing the Population, Building the Future

Hearing the Population, Building the Future

The main goal of this project is to cultivate direct contact between the municipality and the local population, organisations and others, and to collect information in order to find solutions to the problems that these groups face.

This project began in February 2010, with councillors, including the Mayor and Vice-Mayor (who is a green member)…

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5th European Local Councillors’ Meeting 5th European Local Councillors’ Meeting

5th European Local Councillors’ Meeting

3-day event is at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin.

There'll be discussions on how to further develop democratic participation, how to better integrate migrants and minorities and the challenge of ensuring fair and sustainable public procurement.