As cities across Europe continue to digitalise public services, mobility systems, governance mechanisms, and citizen engagement, understanding and accessing EU funding opportunities becomes increasingly essential. Programmes such as Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe Programme, NetZeroCities, and the New European Bauhaus support cities to accelerate digital and green transformation through funding, capacity building, and cross-border collaboration.

The Local Digital Twins for Smart and Sustainable Communities (LDT4SSC) initiative has officially launched its second round of Open Calls: Potential stakeholders can now inform themselves about the calls and receive support at a dedicated info session.

The Living-in.EU community invites you to kick off the new year together and look at us what is ahead of us in 2026!

You will hear presentations from the following initiatives:

The European Commission is hosting an online info session to help stakeholders build consortia for the call for proposals on a coordination and support action (CSA) to build an ecosystem of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in public administrations. Following the first info session in December 2025, this second session will focus on sharing information about the call, answering questions and facilitating consortia-building.

The Permanent Representation of Slovenia to the European Union in Brussels is hosting the conference “The Future of Cities: EU Initiatives and Smart Solutions”, which will take place on 3 February 2026, from 09:30 to 12:30 CET.