The \u201cFuture Cities of Southeast Europe\u201d project is financially backed by the \u201cClimate-KIC\u201d organization, a community of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology, and is being implemented in 5 pilot cities which, according to assessments, have the capacities for a systemic transformation of the cities: Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Skopje (North Macedonia), Kri\u017eevci (Croatia), Maribor (Slovenia), and Ni\u0161 (Serbia).<\/p>\n
The project is supposed to provide qucker and easier systematic changes through innovations, in order to achieve a better quality of life for citizens and the necessary decarbonization in the activities which critically affect the emission of greenhouse gasses. Since technological innovations by themselves will not achieve structural changes necessary for progressive growth over time, the project will combine different innovative methods in the fields of finances, business models, legislative frameworks, behavior perception and social norms, education and skills, new and existing technologies, citizen participation, market structure, etc.<\/p>\n
The \u201cFuture Cities of Southeast Europe\u201d should help the City of Ni\u0161, as well as other partner cities, to deal with these challenges and, as a response to them, conduct the process of transformation. Progress, quality of life, and climate resistances form the vision \u2013 which is possible to achieve by using natural and human resources with the right combination of ambitions, innovations, and other resources.<\/p>\n
The agreed common mission is that the partner cities of the project become some of the best possible places in Europe for living, working, and staying in by 2025. Within the mission, the following radical goals were set:<\/p>\n