Member city DEMO
Bologna
Italy
Italian regional capital running a shared municipal cyber programme for schools and social services.
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European Union
Cities in EU Member States (17)
Member city DEMO
Brno
Czechia
Second city of Czechia, with a concentrated research and industrial base and a long-running municipal data programme.
Member city DEMO
Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Regional centre in north-western Romania, combining rapid growth with an ageing district heating system.
Member city DEMO
Eindhoven
Netherlands
Dutch technology region city with an operational kerbside management platform in service since 2024.
Member city DEMO
Gdansk
Poland
Baltic port city facing combined coastal flood and cloudburst risk across a dense historic centre.
Programme participant DEMO
Ghent
Belgium
Flemish city with an established circular economy strategy and a constrained construction waste stream.
Programme participant DEMO
Iasi
Romania
Eastern Romanian regional centre exposed to flash flooding along the Bahlui corridor.
Programme participant DEMO
Kosice
Slovakia
Eastern Slovak city preparing separate collection infrastructure to meet EU recycling targets.
Programme participant DEMO
Leipzig
Germany
Fast-growing eastern German city with distribution grid constraints on new connections.
Observer DEMO
Lyon
France
French metropolitan authority extending one of the largest municipal heat networks in the country.
Programme participant DEMO
Ostrava
Czechia
Post-industrial city with large recoverable heat sources adjacent to the municipal network.
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Porto
Portugal
Atlantic metropolitan core running one of the earliest large public transport electrification programmes in Iberia.
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Tampere
Finland
Nordic industrial city with a large municipal housing stock entering a deep renovation cycle.
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Tartu
Estonia
University city testing open mobility data standards at a scale small enough to iterate quickly.
Observer DEMO
Thessaloniki
Greece
Mediterranean port city under increasing summer heat stress in its densest residential districts.
Member city DEMO
Valencia
Spain
Large Spanish city modernising permitting and licensing after sustained backlogs.
Programme participant DEMO
Zagreb
Croatia
Capital with high non-revenue water losses across a network built in successive unrecorded phases.
Accession Europe
Cities in candidate countries (7)
Listed on the same terms and in the same taxonomy as cities in Member States. That comparability is part of what the Accession Cities programme is for.
Programme participant DEMO
Chisinau
Moldova Candidate country
Capital of Moldova, rebuilding water infrastructure while aligning procurement with EU rules.
Observer DEMO
Izmir
Turkiye Candidate country
Aegean metropolitan municipality with a large coastal adaptation exposure.
Programme participant DEMO
Lviv
Ukraine Candidate country
Western Ukrainian city coordinating emergency response for a population enlarged by displacement.
Programme participant DEMO
Novi Sad
Serbia Candidate country
Serbian regional centre consolidating fragmented municipal e-services.
Observer DEMO
Podgorica
Montenegro Candidate country
Montenegrin capital preparing its first structured municipal energy programme.
Programme participant DEMO
Skopje
North Macedonia Candidate country
Capital in a basin with severe winter particulate pollution and limited monitoring coverage.
Observer DEMO
Tirana
Albania Candidate country
Albanian capital with rapid motorisation and no consolidated mobility plan.
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Join the cities preparing Europe's next generation of urban projects.
City membership covers project structuring, the readiness assessment, the Academy at member rates, and the working groups where requirements are discussed before they are fixed.