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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Come along and learn more about how housing companies’ can benefit from ESCO financing models for energy renovation initiatives. Boligselskabernes Landsforening…
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
Do you want to be a part of accelerating the sustainable transition of the built environment through dissemination, innovation and strategic...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Hackathon to increase diversity in renewable energy
Do you work with renewable energy from a business, research, policy, or civil society perspective? Are you interested in making connections across sectors and business types in order to...
Stakeholder Café on Samsø presents experiences from the EU-project XPRESS
Too few municipalities take advantage of the innovation that lies in collaborating with SMEs in public tenders. In XPRESS, European Green Cities has identified, with...
XPRESS webinar in cooperation with Bornholms ‘Energi & Forsyning’
The EU-supported XPRESS project (www.xpress-h2020.eu) has researched in how to support Green Public Procurement and the integration of Small and Medium Enterprises – to use the potential...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Charging stations sheltered by power-producing roof in Avedøre Green City to be ready for use
Electric car owners from inside and outside the area can look forward to charging up in the shade of solar cells: The pioneering project in Avedøre Green City is almost built and will...
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...
XPRESS-webinar about the Energy Community on Samsø
The role of energy communities in Denmark is a hot topic. The role of citizens in the green transition is the subject of heated debate, and there are a lot of projects and activities...
Women for Renewable Energy has a new Advisory Board
European Green Cities has administered the compilation of nominated experts from around the world, for the Europe-wide Women for Renewable Energy project. The W4RES Advisory Board is now...
Charging points sheltered by power-generating roof in Avedøre Green City
A ground-breaking project in Avedøre Green City is taking form. Being the first of its kind, a new sustainable and aestethic solution for sheltered charging points, is about to build....
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
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
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
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
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
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...