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Barcelona to host the Eurocities social forum in May 2022
. Barcelona is a founding member of Eurocities, along with Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam.
Barcelona will host the Congress of the International Union of Architects and will be the World Capital of Architecture in 2026
. The Catalan capital was also the venue for the World Congress of Architecture in 1996.
Ada Colau is elected to lead in Europe the global network of cities that face the climate emergency
. Ada Colau takes over from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in the leadership of the C40 Cities network in Europe.
Barcelona, London and Amsterdam create the Global Observatory of Artificial Intelligence to facilitate the application of ethical AI systems in cities
. It is an initiative promoted within the framework of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights and will have the collaboration of UN-Habitat and CIDOB.
Ada Colau highlights the importance of the arrival of the European funds and Barcelona's international position at the annual meeting of the Círculo de Economía
. Ada Colau took part in the opening of the annual meeting of the Círculo de Economía together with the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonés, and the president of the entity, Javier Faus.
Ada Colau highlights cooperation between cities at a conference at the London School of Economics
. Ada Colau stressed to the LSE audience the importance of creativity and cooperation between cities as ways of dealing with the lack of resources of local governments.
The Barcelona City Council launches Barcelona reAct, an international conference and a dialogue to reactivate a more competitive and resilient city
City Council. The city brings together over a hundred leading voices from home and abroad from 13 to 16 April.
Microredes de inteligencia urbana: “Archivos de ciudad: memoria y transparencia”
. El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y el CIDEU impulsan la cooperación municipalista.
Espai Arcadi Oliveres - Casa de la Justícia Global
. The agreement with the City Council sees LaFede.cat change the name of its headquarters in recognition and appreciation of Aracadi Oliveres.
Twenty-five years of cooperation between Barcelona and Sarajevo
Cooperation. Barcelona declared the Bosnian city as its eleventh district in 1995. The gesture was the start of the international cooperation projects promoted by the city.