Experts from nine municipalities from Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon participated in the workshop, which marked a milestone in the agile working group. The participants formed four sub-groups and jointly developed roadmaps for solutions in four municipalities.

As part of a wider transformation process, an innovative approach to individual mobility, called the E-Mobility Hub (E-MoHUB) at the Bandery-Chuprynky intersection in Lviv, has been developed within the Connective Cities programme and has high potential for expansion and replication. This was presented as a proposal at ECCA.

Aley Caza in Lebanon was one of the most famous tourist destinations in the Middle East in the 1970s. The civil war and its aftermath has deprived this region from its competitive advantage. A local strategy for promoting tourist destinations in Aley now has the potential to revive the industry.

Together with representatives from Kotor and Podgorica (Montenegro), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the deputy mayor of Cologne, Connective Cities provided a platform to exchange with interested parties and compare good practices on how to better support sexual minorities.

Connective Cities organised a expert mission from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Kampala, Uganda. The aim of the trip was to develop a strategy for cooperation in the field of social entrepreneurship together with partners from the city administration in Kampala and to explore cooperation opportunities. In addition, the French city of Strasbourg also participated in Kampala. Further tripartite cooperation is now planned.

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