Join our urban revolution

Join our urban revolution

The Eyes Hearts Hands project is ready to host a groundbreaking seminar on the 13th of October in Rome entitled 'The challenges of Green Deal transition: climate-neutral cities and...

New association

New association

Energy communities represent an immense value – economically, environmentally, and socially. And now a decisive step has been taken in Denmark. We are proud to be part of a new...

RE-Energising Europe

RE-Energising Europe

Don't miss 'RE-Energising Europe', taking place on 24-25 October in Brussels. This two-day event is bringing together speakers from EU institutions, project representatives and key...

Financing Models Workshop

Financing Models Workshop

Come along to learn more about how housing companies can benefit from ESCO financing models for energy renovation initiatives. The workshop is carried out in collaboration with BL -...

See You

See You

Thank you to all partners, speakers, and visitors to our stand who made our participation at the UIA World Congress in Copenhagen such an important experience. The congress concluded...

Meet a resilient community

Meet a resilient community

The 6th of July from 14-17 CEST in Greater Copenhagen. Join our guided walking tour in Avedøre with free bus from UIA at Bella Center to our resilient community in Avedøre. The drive is...

Gender Equality Workshop

Gender Equality Workshop

Gender Equality to Support Resilient CommunitiesAdvancing the renewable heating and cooling (RHC) landscape Join our workshop aimed at promoting gender equality and fostering inclusive...

Energy Communities Workshop

Energy Communities Workshop

European Green Cities and Vedvarende Energi invite you to a workshop on Energy Communities Tuesday 23 May from 11-15 in Vartov, Farvergade 27, Copenhagen. The workshop focuses on...

Diversity Recruitment

Diversity Recruitment

In today’s world, jobseekers won’t settle for any less than diverse and inclusive workplaces. Diversity also brings more ideas, more talents, and more skills. The fact is that the energy...

Power Performance

Power Performance

Humans have needs. Buildings too. How do we know what our homes need if they can't talk? We want to make sure that your home works for you and uses the right amount of energy. That will...

Financing Energy Initiatives

Financing Energy Initiatives

Come along and learn more about how housing companies’ can benefit from ESCO financing models for energy renovation initiatives. Boligselskabernes Landsforening…

Value and Reality

Value and Reality

How can we create better frameworks and conditions for energy communities as a part of the green transition? What is the potential of a joint organisation of energy communities?…

New job

New job

Do you want to be a part of accelerating the sustainable transition of the built environment through dissemination, innovation and strategic...

New Office

New Office

This is the view from our new office in central Copenhagen: Bright and bold. Quiet and yet complex. Alone and all together. Like urban development. Like life. To all of our previous,...

Focusing on renters

Focusing on renters

Energy prices are rising - and tips for how to save money and energy are being sought out and tested across Europe. In Avedøre, representatives from Energistyrelsen - SparEnergi.dk,...

Save your seat

Save your seat

We're proud to be Knowledge Partner at The UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen 2023 with the important and needed theme: Sustainable futures – leave no one behind. Save your...

New Light

New Light

October is the official start of EYES HEARTS HANDS Urban Revolution – one of five selected lighthouse demonstrators of the New European Bauhaus. The initiative connects the European...

Spreeding the seeds

Spreeding the seeds

It is abundantly clear that the transition to more renewable energy is moving too slowly. The XPRESS project has worked with both physical and organizational frameworks to promote the...

Be an Ambassador

Be an Ambassador

Avedøre Green City is now offering a Green Ambassador course: Gain knowledge about sustainable living, and be equipped to make a difference for the...

Vital Innovation

Vital Innovation

The Heating and Cooling market represents 50% of the total energy consumed in Europe per year. The W4RES project aims on scaling-up the involvement of women in the market deployment and...

DK’s first energy community receives attention

DK’s first energy community receives attention

Energifællesskab Avedøre (Energy Community Avedøre) was founded as the first energy community in Denmark in collaboration with European Green Cities. Now the benefits are described in an...

SUPER-i

SUPER-i

Together with Danish Association of Social Housing Organisations (Boligselskabernes Landsforening) and six other partners from Italy, Spain, the UK and Belgium, European Green Cities is...

Aarhus Study Tour

Aarhus Study Tour

Just before the Corona crisis out an end to all study tours - at least for a while, European Green Cities had a visit of 32 persons from Grøn By Stavanger. On their homepage, they inform...

WEBINAR: CO2-savings with Energy Communities

WEBINAR: CO2-savings with Energy Communities

European Green Cities invites to a free lunch webinar on citizen-energy communities on Tuesday 26 April at 12-12-30. What potentials are there in supporting the realization of local...

ELENA

ELENA

The two large social housing organisations, Avedøre South and North are implementing energy renovation projects as part of the Avedøre Green City project. In parallel, Avedøre District...

W4RES

W4RES

Do you work with renewable energy? Do you have a project with a high level of women engagement?  European Green Cities is supporting the applications of Danish projects as a part of the...

RINNO

RINNO

As part of EU project RINNO (Innovation in Renovation), and together with interested residents in StoreHus, managed by Avedøre Boligselskab, we have installed ten measuring devices...

Smart Energy Green Cities

Smart Energy Green Cities

There is huge potential for summer solar energy storage in groundwater which can be utilised in winter. Supplemented with heat pumps, even outlying areas and villages can be supplied...

Charging stations make green choices easier

Charging stations make green choices easier

​It was the citizens' day on August 19th, when a new charging station in Avedøre Green City was inaugurated. Since the summer holiday, citizens with electric cars have been able to...

Green Transport Under Green Roofs

Green Transport Under Green Roofs

"We really want our students and staff to cycle to work instead of taking the car - especially if the car runs on gas or diesel! That's why it's great that we've received money from...

Women for renewable energy sources

Women for renewable energy sources

We are pleased to announce that W4RES, a new Horizon 2020 project, has just kicked off and will run until October 2023 by an international consortium of 12 partners coming from 8...

Launch of XPRESS website

Launch of XPRESS website

NEW ON XPRESS WEBSITE - discover all calls for tenders related to Renewable Energy Sources in Europe! See more here and subscribe to the newsletter here Read more on the project here

45 Norwegians on study tour in CPH

45 Norwegians on study tour in CPH

The Norwegians, all members of Grøn Byggeallianse (the Norwgian Green Building Council), were interested in learning more about circular economy in the building sector. Circular economy...

New Smart City project: POCITYF

New Smart City project: POCITYF

POCITYF is one of the European Union's "flagships". Together with Hvidovre Municipality, EGC is going to demonstrate Danish Smart City solutions in Avedøre Stationsby by Copenhagen.  The...

Seminar on Active Facades

Seminar on Active Facades

IEA Task 56 and “Smart Energy Green Cities” inviteres to an afternoon seminar in Copenhagen.  Join and get wiser on active solar facades' technologies and local energy communities.  See...

RentalCal Tool

RentalCal Tool

The RentalCal project has launched the result of 3 years work.  The result is a tool that can support property owners and managers in calculating, how much an energy renovation project...