International partnerships

2024 - 2028

The ACROSS (Aligning public and CoRpOrate Sustainability goalS) project aims to establish a long-term cooperation between economic actors and local authorities, and improve local development policies. This will involve developing a public-private cooperation model, leveraging companies' CSR policies, and contributing to carbon neutrality goals of the EU by 2050.

2024-2027

The NATURGO (NATure Based Solutions and URban Water GOvernance) project helps to understand how nature-based solutions (NBS) can be integrated into urban water governance strategy documents, planning processes and how they can be translated into practice and improved.

2024 - 2025

The Arany János Kindergarten building will be equipped with a wireless sensor network to measure energy performance and environmental quality parameters.
A study will be carried out on the energy cost and comfort gaps resulting from the use of the building, and how to transform the kindergarten and its surroundings into a positive energy balance district.

2023-2024

Set up under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation of the European Union, and being co-funded as part of the LIFE programme, the EUCF supports municipalities, local authorities, their groupings in Europe with tailor-made, fast and simplified financial support and related services to enable them to develop relevant investment concepts related to the implementation of actions identified in their climate and energy action plans.

2022-2027

By joining the programme Debrecen's involvement focuses on:
1. Positive Energy Districts (PED) - Enhance energy efficiency, resilience, local renewable energy production, transition to sustainable energy, climate neutrality, and integrate these into urban planning.
2. Circular Urban Economies (CUE):
Circular Urban Economies (CUE) fosters the design of urban places characterized by regenerative urbanism, by which it drives to the development of liveable, inclusive, and green communities and neighbourhoods that are sustained by circular urban economies and resource flows.

2023

The Covenant of Mayors – Europe piloted a Policy Support Facility (PSF) to assist local and regional authorities with intensive technical assistance. Participating cities have the opportunity to learn about adaptation planning through monitoring from experts, exchange with peers through national focused workshops, implement adaptation solutions with the tailored support of experts across three week-long sessions, and share lessons learned with the CoMmunity.

2022-2023

IURC aims to lead and develop a form of decentralised international urban and regional cooperation in the fields of sustainable urban development and innovation, in key partner countries and regions in line with the external dimension of “Europe 2020.”

2020

The challenge is motivating end users to change mobility habits towards active modes in order to help shape more sustainable and COVID19-resilient cities in line with a green economy. Main Objective: Contributing to the improvement of air quality in cities through active mobility and guiding citizens in taking COVID-19-safe mobility decisions.

2019-2023

The PROSPERA (PROmoting Sustainable development and regional attractiveness through PERi-urban Areas) project’s overall objective is to improve regional policies on protection and promotion of natural heritage in peri-urban areas threatened by urban sprawl. The ultimate aim is to prevent biodiversity loss, soil consumption and further degradation of natural assets, by in parallel leveraging on those challenges as a way to favour regional attractiveness and economic sustainable development.

2019-2022

The Thriving Streets project aims to promote sustainable mobility from an economic and social perspective. Thriving Streets links mobility with economic prosperity, accessibility, inclusion, participation and health to encourage change towards more resilient and attractive cities. As an action planning network, this project aims to improve sustainable local policies through integrated action planning and an organised exchange and learning process of good practice between European cities.

2019

EUROCITIES is a network of major European cities, aiming to support the advocacy of cities regarding EU policies and programmes, as well as to provide a platform for knowledge sharing between member cities. The advantages of the membership for Debrecen: participation in EU-funded projects, widening international relations, gathering experiences and good practices for more effective management of socio-economic challenges, e.g. in the field of environment, mobility, digitization, and housing.

2018-2021

This Transfer network focuses on higher education and the knowledge economy, both have become a global talent competition. Medium-sized cities, like Groningen, need a policy to attract talent and to keep them economically active. In this project, the best practice of Groningen, a welcoming policy for International Students and skilled workers, is transferred to other cities. Based on the adaptation of good practices and the transformation of the methodology, the Welcoming policy of Debrecen has been developed.

International partnerships

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