Connective Cities

Network in Germany

Our network

Building on its pool of experts, the German network of Connective Cities brings together German urban practitioners who are willing to share their technical expertise with their international colleagues and exchange their experiences in Germany and in the world regions. Exchange formats are personal network meetings and workshops as well as virtual webinars.

Our focus

Connective Cities in Germany

The focus of our work changes annually and is based on the needs of German cities as well as partner cities worldwide. They range from waste management and climate adaptation, to inclusion and dealing with migration, to liveable neighbourhood development and low carbon mobility concepts.

Get involved?!

Interested? Would you also like to contribute your expertise? For further information, please contact Ricarda Meissner, ricarda.meissnder(at)giz.de, Connective Cities Project Manager at GIZ, or Thiago Garcia, Thiago.Garcia(at)engagement-global.de , Connective Citites Project Manager at the Service Agency Communities in One World of Engagement Global.

Our activities

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Accommodation for evacuees and the use of volunteers

12/04/2024

The Learning process for disaster management

Smart Connected Cities

11/03/2024

Harnessing Ecosystem Potential for Digitalization

Events

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Resilience in Times of War

16/07/2024 - 18/07/2024

Call for Participation: Municipal Exchange to Strengthen Resilience and Capacity for Rebuilding…

Exploring Renewable Energy Solutions: Connective Cities’ Workshop in Sarajevo

11/06/2024 - 13/06/2024

Empowering Municipalities for Sustainable Energy Initiatives

Climate-friendly construction with organic and recycled materials

13/11/2023 to 15/11/2023
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , Potsdam, Germany

Steel and concrete are the most widely-used construction materials around the world, but producing and using them in…

For more than one night: Emergency accommodation for evacuees

20/03/2023 to 22/03/2023

Municipalities are often well prepared to accommodate evacuees in the short term. However, if those affected cannot…

Lörrach plans Germany’s first timber-built commercial area

06/03/2024

There is more than enough wood available in the town of Lörrach and its proximity to the Black Forest. The idea was born…

Tackling the challenges of municipal waste management

11/01/2024

Padang is a city of over one million inhabitants located on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The Arau River flowing…

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Network in Germany

Our network

Our focus

Connective Cities in Germany

Get involved?!

Our activities

News

Accommodation for evacuees and the use of volunteers

Smart Connected Cities

Building Resilience: Insights from the Project Planning Workshop

Hosting a SDG Partnership Conference in 2024

City-to-city collaboration is key to streamlining climate neutrality and decentralized energy production

Rebuilding, but better!

Climate-friendly construction with organic and recycled materials

Renewable Energy Options on the Municipal Level

Cooperation in disaster management: German and Philippine experts share their experiences

German-Ukrainian Municipal Partnership Conference 2023

Green Urban Islands

The Day of Ideas: Augsburg and Diedorf meets Brazil

International municipal peer exchange creates benefit for all!

Cooperative Urban Development – Open Society and Normativity in Urban Development

Empowering Municipalities to Protect the LGBTQIA+ Community

Strengthening Climate Action in Garowe: Rapid Appraisal Training and Bottom-up Development Initiatives

Volunteering in disaster management

Strengthening the resilience and capacity to rebuild cities and critical municipal infrastructure in times of war - 2nd part

Peer-to-peer learning and networking - in the focus of municipal development cooperation

The learning process on flood management for risk-informed urban development has begun

Urban Democracy. Open Society and Normativity in Urban Development

Cross-border municipal cooperation on climate protection and climate adaptation measures

Strengthening the resilience and capacity to rebuild cities and critical municipal infrastructure in times of war

Municipalities stand together

Hosting a SDG Partnership Conference in 2023

Action for Cool Cities: Pathways for carbon reduction in buildings and improvement of outdoor thermal comfort

"Zero-waste city: an elusive goal for municipalities?"

Learning experiences with construction waste management in crisis areas

Call for participants: The Role of Rain and Storm Water Management in Water Sensitive Urban Planning

Good practice: Euroregion Pomerania

New potentials in urban planning for a more liveable future

Municipal Policy Award of the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation 2023

QuattroPole city network: Together against the pandemic

Cooperative Climate Action – Municipal Policies from G7 to COP27

Brescia – Darmstadt: Together against the pandemic

Exchange on the latest sustainability and social standards in land use planning

Connective Cities goes World Urban Forum 2022

Invitation: International local government networking meeting on support for Ukraine

Video: Pop-up bike lanes during the Pandemic

Invitation: Peer to peer consultation: Bringing the SDGs closer to the citizens

Call for themes 2022 / 2023

Green Urban Development: learning from inspiring examples of implementation

Urban Diplomacy Exchange

Climate Partnerships are looking for participating cities

Municipal Waste Management in Times of COVID-19

Goerdeler Prize awards strategies for coping with the Corona pandemic

A new normality: unforeseen climate-related risks

Kiel - the true champion of social entrepreneurship

Knowledge transfer and cooperation between Jordan and German water operators

Good Practice from Landshut, Germany: Assisted Learning

Wiesbaden: sustainable urban logistics

Municipal experts wanted: Dialogue event on Covid-19 and urban mobility

Sustainable, Informed and Participatory Land Management and Land Use Planning in Rapidly Growing Cities

'Digital Shop Window', Darmstadt

Call for Participants: Social entrepreneurship – An area for local business development?

Presidents award German-Italian Municipal Partnership Prize

Covid-19: The local implementation of vaccination strategies and related communication in municipalities

Interview with Henning Schulz: Digitalisation

Self-study course: Crisis Management

Call for participants: Strengthening the local implementation of SDGs through local reviews and monitoring

New Connective Cities Themes in Germany

Podcast with Armin Berger: Digital Innovation

Kiel: Entrepreneurship and Digitalisation

Weimar: Economic response to COVID-19

Happy New Year 2021!

International exchange of experiences: lessons learned in the Covid-19 crisis

Municipal services in the pandemic

Communication in the crisis: citizens, passengers & customers

Announcement: Prize of the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation 2021

Digitalisation of Municipal Services in Southeast Europe (SEE) and Caucasus

Urban Gardening: Urban green spaces for social and economic resilience

Call for themes 2021

Municipal responses in the COVID-19 crisis: Experiences with contact tracing and outbreak management