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Barcelona City Council presents a strategy for the international promotion of a post-pandemic city
City Council. The measure is based around values such environmental sustainability, inclusion, social justice, diversity in production and competitiveness.
Institutional Declaration of the 41 councilors of the Barcelona City Council on the invasion of Ukraine
. The declaration was made with the unanimity of all the groups that make up the Plenary of the Barcelona City Council.
Barcelona signs a twinning agreement with the Chinese city of Shenzhen
. The agreement promotes collaboration in areas such as trade, investment, biotechnology, information technology, environmental sustainability and renewable energy.
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.