Cities worldwide are still experiencing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic throughout all their municipal departments. In addition to public health care, municipal services must be maintained during the crisis. Local governments must also ensure their own ability to function properly. Some consequences of the pandemic, such as halting economic development, hit local authorities first. Municipalities are currently having to learn to cope with new situations very fast. But the crisis has also shown how important the resilience of municipalities is: this directly applies to local crisis management and disaster preparedness as well as the need for continually adaptive urban planning and development towards increasing the resilience of cities. The current crisis has shown and proven once again that resilience is an essential capacity of municipalities.
Many cities and municipalities have found solutions to the new challenges and developed new strategies. In order to better address the issues related to the pandemic, it is now necessary to share and possibly develop these solutions and strategies together.
From August to December 2020, Connective Cities organised a series of virtual dialogue formats in cooperation with committed municipal stakeholders on measures, challenges and approaches to overcome the Corona crisis. In 2021, the focus is on "Recovery / Urban Renewal" with and after COVID-19. Built.Back.Better!
For more information - latest news, announcements of events, good practices and publications - please visit our COVID-19 topic pages.
15/03/2022
Review of the Insight Session about strategies for safer public spaces in cities on 09 March 2022
28/02/2022
Review of the Insight Session on 16 February 2022
21/01/2022
Digitalisation is is key in the municipal recovery from the impacts of the pandemic
18/01/2022
The Connective Cities COVID-19 Programme Working Groups Gender sensitive urban development & Gender…
07/01/2022
Review of Network Events held under Covid-19 Program in November and December of 2021 in SEE
01/12/2021
Review of a Connective Cities Virtual Response Dialogue on 9 and 11 November 2021
05/11/2021
Insights into the work of the Digitisation Working Group in South Eastern Europe
04/11/2021
Insights into the South East Europe (SEE) Crisis Management Working Group
18/10/2021
Review of the Kick-off Event, Working Group on Digitalisation, on 21 September 2021
14/10/2021
Review of the Crisis Management Working Group Kick-off Event on 20 September 2021
07/10/2021
Review of the Insight Session "The importance of disaster preparedness in cities and municipalities:…
04/10/2021
Review of the Insight Session "Pop-up bike lanes" on 8 September 2021
24/09/2021
Review of the COVID Gender Cluster Kick-off on 02.09.2021 and open call for participation
02/09/2021
Insights into the Biodiversity event in MENA on August 09, 2021
02/09/2021
Review of the Insight Session "Digital Literacy and Digital Municipal Service Design" on August 18,…
01/09/2021
Review of the virtual meeting of the working group on climate change/climate-proof urban development…
05/08/2021
Impacts of the pandemic and prospects for a post-pandemic future.
30/07/2021
Review of the kick-off event on COVID-19 Recovery & SDG 11
27/07/2021
Urban practitioners working together on the municipal pandemic recovery
16/06/2021
Video of Connective Cities Network MENA activities from July to December 2020
14/06/2021
Review of the Online Workshop on May 27, 2021
12/05/2021
Review of the Online Workshop on April 29, 2021
10/05/2021
Review of the Online Workshop on April 28, 2021
07/04/2021
Review of the virtual expert exchange on March 22nd and 25th, 2021
06/04/2021
Review of the virtual expert exchange on March 12, 2021
10/03/2021
Review of Connective Cities Virtual Global Exchange on 3 February 2021
01/02/2021
Review of the virtual exchange for Sub Saharan Africa on 12th November 2020
29/01/2021
Review of the virtual exchange for Sub Saharan Africa on 10th November 2020
25/01/2021
Review of the virtual exchange for Sub Saharan Africa on 29th October 2020
18/01/2021
Review of the virtual exchange for Sub Saharan Africa on 27th October 2020
05/01/2021
Review of the virtual exchange for Latin America on 14.10. and 05.11.2020
14/12/2020
Connective Cities global exchange series on ”Municipal Response to COVID-19”
11/12/2020
Documentation of the global event series from 23 November to 3 December 2020
04/12/2020
There are still many open questions regarding how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. But there are…
17/11/2020
Review of the international virtual expert exchange on November 4, 2020
13/11/2020
Review of the international virtual expert exchange on October 28, 2020
07/11/2020
Review of the virtual expert exchange for the MENA region on October 14, 2020
02/11/2020
Connective Cities international virtual exchange of experiences: lessons learned in the COVID-19…
14/10/2020
Review of the virtual expert exchange on October 7, 2020
12/10/2020
Review of the virtual expert exchange for the MENA region on August 27, 2020 | Outlook on further…
09/10/2020
Review of the virtual expert exchange for the MENA region on August 25, 2020
08/10/2020
Review of the virtual expert exchange, 22nd September 2020
01/10/2020
Review of the virtual expert exchange on September 28th, 2020
18/08/2020
Connective Cities virtual learning event on 26 August 2020
27/03/2020
Connective Cities Dialogue Event in Frankfurt, Germany