City-to-City pairings

City-to-city pairings

Through the IUC programme, cities and regions across Europe have entered into partnerships on sustainable development with counterparts from around the globe. For a full list of city pairings so far, see the table below:

CITY PAIRINGS SEARCH RESULTS - 1

Country
EU City
Link
Paired city
Country

Pavlos Melas

San Justo

Nikolai Karaneschev, Wikimedia

Population

99 245

Area

23.8 km2

Mayor

Dimitrios Demourtzidis


Frodar [CC BY-SA 4.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Population

24 096

Area

26 km2

Mayor

Nicolas Cuesta


Topics

Circular economyIntegrated urban-rural developmentSustainable use of land and nature-based solutions
Water, waste management and sanitation

Sustainable Development Goals


Description

Pavlos Melas and San Justo are concentrating their partnership on two thematic areas: sustainable use of land and waste management. Through doing so, they are gaining an appreciation of different approaches to economic, legislative and financing issues.

Implementation

Development of a peri-urban protection plan from the initial analysis of current situation to the funding strategy. Connecting existing components of green infrastructure, propose new and secure environmental protection

Awareness raising on recycling, definition of a marketing mix affecting the recycling chain, feasibility study on solid waste disposal in San Justo