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Satellite event: City Lighthouse for Climate Change and Water Resilience

This event was selected as partner event of EU Green Week 2024 previously by the EC but date had to change due to local elections from designated dates in June 2024 to November 2024.

City Lighthouse for Climate Change and Water Resilience Event is organised under auspices of the EU funded Technical Assistance Project entitled: “Town Twinning Between EU and Turkiye – Phase II- For a Green Future” implemented by Eductrade Consortium.

Beneficiaries are Union of Municipalities, Department for EU Affairs of MFA, Union of Provinces. TA project hosts a Grant Programme of EUR 2.4 million distributed to 26 projects from both EU member states and Turkiye with main theme of Climate Change, Sustainable Cities, etc. Grant beneficiaries are local governments from the EU member states and Turkiye. A high level event with high media profile will be organised on 26-27 November 2024 in Istanbul, Turkiye with participation of grant beneficiaries (local governments/municipalities), Ministries, NGOs, Local and regional governments from the EU member states, International City Networks, Business Associations, SMEs, Corporate actors Policy makers/ decision makers, Scientists/researchers, Youth, Press/media, etc.

Specific objectives of proposed EU Green Week 2024 Istanbul Partner Event are:

  1. To increase synergies and experience sharing between local governments of EU and Turkiye on climate change through on-going grant projects from the EU member states and Trkiye;
  2. Exchange of information on green development and water resilience in local governments;
  3. Best practices of national and international policies, financing for green future through ensuring water resilience among other issues.

Event is an innovative mixture of conference with parallel thematic workshops, whereby Opion Leaders from both the EU and Turkiye will be keynote speakers. While the event will be a physcial one, to enhance its wider outreach, it will be streamed live through official YouTube Channel of the TA Project the “ClimateStoriesTV”. Finally there will be a concert session by a Youth NGO “Doga Icin Cal” dedicated to raising awareness over preservation of nature. This event initially aligned itself with the communications plan of EU Green Week 2024 as its selected partner event to create multipliers through live TV transmissions from CNN, Bloomberg, etc. However due to local elections in Turkiye the event has been postponed to November thus EU Grren Week 2024 could not be pursued despite the approved application to be a partner event. The event organisers are highly motivated in communicating the significance of climate change adaptation in local governments.

Satellite event: City Lighthouse for Climate Change and Water Resilience
  • climate change | water
  • Tuesday 26 November 2024, 09:00 - Wednesday 27 November 2024, 17:00 (CET)
  • Istanbul, Türkiye

Practical information

When
Tuesday 26 November 2024, 09:00 - Wednesday 27 November 2024, 17:00 (CET)
Where
Dedeman Bostancı Hotel & Convention Centre
Istanbul, Türkiye
Languages
English, Turkish, Spanish
Organisers
Eductrade SA
Website
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