In order to strengthen dialogue and cooperation between civil society and local as well as national policy makers from the six Western Balkan countries, Germany and other neighboring EU Member States, the Western Balkans EUKI Networking Conference of the EUKI Academy will take place on 25-27 September 2023 in Tirana, Albania.

Agnieszka Sznyk, the president of the Board at INNOWO, a partner in the EUKI Circon4Climate project, shares talks about problems that hinder the usage of secondary materials in the construction industry and what buildings might look like in 15-30 years.

Europe’s natural sinks provide further opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This article explains why and how EUKI projects foster the sustainable managment of peatlands and forests in Europe.

At the start, facilitator Sara Giovannini from Energy Cities stressed: ‘The current energy price crisis has exposed our dependence on fossil fuels and imported energy sources. We want to make sure that local governments and their inhabitants, who are part of the solution, have the necessary means to be active participants in the energy system’. […]

Martin Vladimirov, Director of the
Energy and Climate Program shares his knowledge about Offshore-Windenergy potential in the baltic sea region.

Extending carbon pricing to additional sectors, particularly road transport and construction, is critical to achieving the EU’s long-term climate targets and will constitute a central policy of the European Green Deal framework. A new Social Climate Fund is being developed to ensure that the policy does not leave vulnerable households and transport users behind. Nonetheless, there […]

The EUKI is one of many climate action funding programmes in Europe. Here we give you an overview of other possible instruments to finance your next climate action project.

We spoke with Gediminas Kondrackis from the EUKI project “Climate Change – See, Feel, Change” about his project and the climate policy situation in Lithuania and Latvia. Gediminas is the director of the project and just won the Baltic Sustainability Award.

This EUKI Networking Conference Romania is organised by the EUKI Academy and project partner EPG. Besides strengthening cross-border collaboration, it seeks to formulate recommendations for Romania’s Long-Term Strategies (LTS) to climate neutrality.

Students in the Balkans are developing ideas on how a just transition can succeed in the coal regions. Through the EUKI-funded project “Panda Labs Junior for Just Transition”, they are also trying out green entrepreneurship.