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

News

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Avoiding vacancy by opening buildings to interim use

13/03/2025

Review of the online expert meeting on 12 March 2025

Expert exchange on the interim use of public buildings

04/03/2025

Online meeting – 12 March 2025 from 9:00 to 10:30 am (CET)

Events

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Exploring the opportunities of green transition for local economic development

15/04/2025 - 17/04/2025

Potential of renewable energies, especially green hydrogen

Deep Dive: Heat in the city

10/04/2025 - 06/05/2025

Three-part series of learning capsules

Action planning for sustainability reporting

02/12/2024 to 04/12/2024
Deutscher Städtetag (Association of German Cities) Hausvogteiplatz 1, Berlin-Mitte Germany

When adopting the 2030 Agenda, the member states of the United Nations (UN) committed to working closely with local and…

More sustainable than demolition

24/09/2024 to 27/10/2024

Public buildings from the 1960s and 70s are a common feature of many cityscapes around the world. Today, they no longer…

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

Avoiding vacancy by opening buildings to interim use

Expert exchange on the interim use of public buildings

Ukraine Conference of the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) with Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine)

Towards a more sustainable building sector

Urban Thinkers Campus in Amman, Jordan

Kampala, Karlsruhe and Strasbourg join forces to strengthen social entrepreneurship

Strategies and tools for successful municipal election campaigns

Bonn benefits in the long term from expert exchange on SDG monitoring

Six municipalities join forces to combat increasing heat in cities

Working group Kickoff: Women’s leadership in municipalities

Promoting Sustainable Mining Industries

Call for Entries to the Competition “Municipality moves the World” 2024

Climate-positive cities: circular economy and carbon accounting

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