Gdansk, Madrid and Pau have scooped the top prizes at the Eurocities Awards 2024. Each city demonstrated extraordinary commitment to this year’s theme of ‘tackling global challenges,’ which focused on cities’ innovative solutions to overcoming the many crises threatening society and to building a green, resilient and just future for everyone, according to EuroCities.eu.
The 2024 winners impressed the panel of expert judges with their projects to attract skilled workers for the green transition, support sustainable food systems, and mobilise residents to vote in elections.
- Madrid won in the ‘Innovation ecosystems: attracting and retaining talent’ award category with its Centre for Innovation in the Circular Economy, a unique hub fostering innovation and supporting business entrepreneurship to help the city reduce waste and embrace sustainability.
- Pau won in the ‘Sustainable food systems: empowering people’ category, with its Green Belt project, which is shortening food supply chains and increasing the food and drink produced locally. The project aims to settle 100 small farmers, providing them with technical assistance and access to city markets.
- Gdansk won in the ‘Creative election campaigns: mobilising citizens’ category for its viral campaign ‘Don’t sleep, or you will be outvoted.’ Created to inform the public about the 2023 national elections, the campaign sparked a record turnout, motivating first-time voters, young people and women to have their say.
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