Covid19

Germany

Summer vacation despite Corona in Kaiserslautern

Creative ideas and hands-on offers for summer vacation program wanted! Summer vacation in spite of Corona - the travel restrictions and the lack of childcare facilities during the summer vacation are a considerable challenge for many Kaiserslautern parents and children. The city is currently working on a concept that should bring variety and benefits during…
Tukuna

TUKUNA donates face shields to hospitals in Quito

100% made with recycled plastic from PET bottles Tukuna is participating in the #HackingCOVID19ec initiative, transforming plastic bottles into filament for 3D printing. This filament is used to produce face shields that later on are donated to hospitals in the city of Quito, in Ecuador, one of the countries most affected by this virus. These…
New Orleans

New Orleans announces launch of ‘reopen every venue safely’ pilot program

REVS is a campaign to develop and disseminate action plans and budgets rooted in a hyper-pragmatic understanding of the challenges ahead. The Mayor's Office of Cultural Economy has announced the launch of 'Reopen Every Venue Safely' (REVS), an international initiative aimed at promoting best practices, work plans and protocols to ensure music venues are able…
Atlanta

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Creates $7 Million Fund to Assist Those Impacted by COVID-19

Signs Executive Order to Fund Child and Senior Food Programs, Homeless Preparedness, Small Businesses, and Hourly Wage Earners Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an Executive Order creating a $7 million emergency fund to provide assistance to those impacted by COVID-19. The resources are designated to fund emergency assistance to food programs for children and seniors,…
Trieste

Trent, top italian city of the Smart City Index 2020

His vision is built around three main goals: Environmental and social sustainability; Ambition to transform itself into an “immaterial factory”; Challenge of developing and promoting its territory and cultural heritage The Smart City Index, the annual analysis by Ernst & Young (EY) which ranks Italian cities according to their infrastructure development, this year expands the…
Resilience challenge

COVID 19 Inspired Competition Seeks City Resiliency Solutions

$125,000 will be awarded for winning submissions Leading Cities, in partnership with QBE North America is pleased to announce the launch of The QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge powered by Leading CitiesThe Challenge was developed to help accelerate innovations that foster a more resilient world which is more important than ever in today’s environment. Around the…
Berezin

There is life beyond COVID

At the Saint Petesburg Dr. Berezin Medical Institute, efforts are made to maintain the attention of all specialties despite the "dictatorship" of the pandemic At the moment, anti-COVID healthcare is rapidly displacing non-COVID healthcare and the volume of specialized cancer care, like other types of specialized care, is rapidly declining. Healthcare professionals note a sharp…
Lathi

LAB University of Applied Sciences and Lahti will develop to develop nature solutions

The joint European Go Green Routes project, with a funding of EUR 10 million, aims to improve the accessibility of recreational areas and to promote nature-based entrepreneurship. The Go Green Routes project is funded by the European Union's most important programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020. More than EUR 600,000 of the total budget…
Majors

Majors’ appeal for economic recovery front COVID 19

Here are the principles for a healthy, fair and sustainable restart: "No return to life as ever" The mayors of the most influential cities in the world have stressed that the recovery from CoViD-19 "should not translate into a return to life as ever, as we live in a world that is experiencing an overheating…
Boston

Boston launches major expansion of covid-19 testing

In this next phase of testing expansion, the City is aiming to reach an average of at least 1,500 diagnostic tests per day to residents Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced that his Administration is moving forward with a rapid expansion of COVID-19 testing, building on his continued commitment to ensure equitable access to testing…

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