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The Facilitator for Smart Cities in Europe Join us on the journey to a better urban life!

BABLE Smart Cities is Europe’s leading Public Sector Innovation Accelerator, empowering communities to implement smarter and climate-neutral urban solutions. Born from the need to streamline public sector innovation, we bring years of expertise and a deep understanding of the challenges facing modern cities. Our mission is to accelerate change by providing the tools to plan, fund, upskill, procure, and disseminate innovative solutions 50% faster and more cost-effectively. With over €2 billion in Smart City projects facilitated, we help public sector bodies drive impactful urban development, ensuring faster implementation and measurable results. With 6+ regional offices across Europe, we combine local knowledge with global best practices to implement more projects faster.

04/11/2026

What does a child walking to school on a dark winter morning need from their city? Often, it’s simply a lit path.

The London Borough of Hounslow wanted to open up a footpath so pupils could reach their local school all year round. Full street lighting was out of reach, with rising electricity prices and a limited budget. So the borough worked with Solareye to install solar ground lights along its network of shared-use footpaths. They need no grid connection and have been tested to work in UK weather year round.

The lights now guide cyclists, pedestrians and mobility-impaired people, and give children a safer route to school, even in the depths of winter.

Sometimes the most useful upgrade a city can make is also one of the most modest. Where could a small, low-cost fix open up a route in your city? 💡

Explore the full use case on BABLE: https://ow.ly/JWnY5102Rfa

02/11/2026

What does a smart city need more of: new technology, or people ready to run it?

Across Europe, cities are piloting platforms, digital twins and climate plans faster than they can build the in-house skills to own them. The technology is rarely the bottleneck. Capacity is.

That is the gap SMARCO is working to close, and we are glad to now be part of it.

👉 BABLE has joined the SMARCO Smart Communities Skills Partnership. It is the Europe-wide network of an Erasmus+ project that builds skills, training and certification for smart city professionals and public-sector staff.

🔹 Erasmus+ project running 2025 to 2029
🔹 Coordinated by the European DIGITAL SME Alliance
🔹 21 partners across 14 countries, including OASC
🔹 Focus on training pathways and certifications for the people who plan, procure and deliver urban innovation

👉 This fits closely with what we see in our work with cities on funding, procurement and EU projects. A solution only scales when the team behind it is ready to take it on.

Thanks to [] for making this happen. We look forward to exchanging with the cities, SMEs and training bodies in the network.

So, back to where we started: which skill is your city’s team missing most right now?

29/10/2026

Europe’s biggest buyer of smart city tech isn’t a corporate. It’s the public sector.

More than 250,000 public authorities across the EU buy works, services and technology every year. Together they spend around 14% of the EU’s GDP, roughly €2 trillion.

Mobility platforms. Energy retrofits. Digital twins. Water sensors. Waste routing. EV charging. Right now, someone in a town hall is writing a tender for one of them.

So why do the same few players keep winning?

Usually it isn’t because smaller companies have worse solutions. It’s because they never see the tender in time. Notices are spread across thousands of national, regional and local portals in two dozen languages, and deadlines close within weeks.

We built Tender PRO to close that gap. It pulls from 100,000+ procurement portals across Europe, including every TED notice, updates every hour, and matches tenders to what your company actually does. You can also query the data from your own AI tools.

We’ve put a few open smart city tenders in the first comment. Which one would you go for? 👇

28/10/2026

Cities are where climate ambition meets the hard question of who pays for it. 🌍

This November, the UN Climate Change Conference, COP31, comes to Antalya, Türkiye, and BABLE will be there for Finance and Trade day on 13 November.

Our colleagues Melike Nur Ülsever, Senior Climate & Funding Advisor, and Ecem Olhan will be in the Green Zone, connecting with Turkish and international city leaders, financiers and partners on how cities can turn climate plans into projects that investors are ready to back.

It’s a topic close to our work in Türkiye and across Europe, from helping cities build bankable climate investment pipelines to bringing them together with the funding that makes delivery possible.

📍 COP31, Antalya, Türkiye
📅 Friday 13 November 2026

Will you be in Antalya? Melike and Ecem would love to meet. Feel free to reach out to them directly to find a time.

27/10/2026

26/10/2026

La movilidad sostenible empieza en el barrio.

La manera en la que diseñamos nuestros barrios influye mucho en la movilidad activa, el comercio de proximidad, o la logística de última milla, entre otros aspectos. Cuando nuestros barrios son de calidad, inclusivos, accesibles, la ciudadanía se convierte en la propia capacitadora de una vida local más amigable donde caminar o ir en bici pasa a ser la opción más conveniente.

El 12 de noviembre organizamos el webinar gratuito "La Nueva Bauhaus Europea como capacitadora de una movilidad próxima e inclusiva", una sesión práctica de 90 minutos para profesionales de la movilidad del sector público de España y Portugal, miembros y no miembros de la red CIVINET Iberia.

Veremos:
✅ Qué es la NEB, sus principios y la brújula NEB (NEB Compass)
✅ Herramientas y recursos para aplicarla a nivel local
✅ Nuestro NEB Lab de Barrios Inclusivos y otros ejemplos inspiradores
✅ Cómo participar: los capítulos locales NEB y sus beneficios para los municipios

Sin teoría abstracta: principios, herramientas y pasos concretos para tu municipio.

Con:
Natalia Vera, NEB Programme Officer, Climate KIC
Breogán Sánchez, Experto Sénior en Movilidad y Proyectos Europeos, BABLE Smart Cities

📆: 12 de noviembre, de 12:30 a 14:00 (CET) / 11:30 a 13:00 en Portugal
👉 Inscripción: https://ow.ly/GziS5100plQ

¿A quién de tu red debería llegar este tema? Compártelo o etiquétalo.

22/10/2026

Outstanding transformations don’t only happen in major metropolitan areas. That is precisely what the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Boost for Small Municipalities sets out to reward! 🇪🇺🎊

Congratulations to all 20 winners across Europe, who show how sustainability, inclusion and beauty can come together in public infrastructure. And we can’t resist showing off Betzdorf (LU) and Apfeldorf (DE), two municipalities BABLE supported on their journey - exceptional localities of fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, each now receiving €30,000 to take their project further! 🏆

:small_blue_diamond:Betzdorf (Luxembourg): with its new daycare centre in Roodt-sur-Syre, Betzdorf created a low-tech, circular building using local bio-based materials such as timber and earth. By prioritising non-toxic indoor environments and achieving structural carbon emissions 2.5 times lower than conventional concrete structures, the centre serves as both a healthy space for children and a living model for circular public construction.
:small_blue_diamond:Apfeldorf (Germany): the “Apfeldorf Community Centre” initiative is transforming a former multi-purpose hall into a vibrant meeting place for the community. With the structural renovation nearing completion, the current and crucial phase focuses on designing inclusive outdoor facilities together with residents, combined with the integration of a sustainable district heating network.

These villages succeeded by realizing that building better spaces isn't solely about deploying complex technology, but rather about thoughtful design and active co-creation with the community. Discover more about these projects in the comments!

Does your municipality have a bold vision for local transformation, but lacks the extra hands to handle complex EU funding calls? Let BABLE do the heavy lifting and turn EU bureaucracy into real opportunities for your community! 🌍

21/10/2026

Most smart city ideas never make it past the pilot.
Our CEO Laura Reupke is heading to Barcelona to talk about the ones that do.

At Smart City Expo World Congress, Laura will be listening and digging into the question that keeps coming back in our work with cities: what actually turns a good idea into something residents can see and use?

The answer is rarely the technology alone. It usually comes down to the right partners, funding that fits, and someone willing to make the first move.

If that’s a conversation you want to have, come find Laura and the BABLE team at our stand. We’d love to hear what’s moving (or stuck) in your city.

📍 Gran Via, Hall P2, Stand D81
🗓️ 3–5 November 2026, Barcelona

20/10/2026

Plenty of cities have chargers. The tricky part is getting everything around them to work together. ⚡

Our UKI Lead & Global Urban Futurist Peter Griffiths heads to the London EV Show next month to help work that out. He joins the “Smart Cities & Urban Mobility Transformation” panel alongside John Kavanagh (BusinessLDN), Charlie Allen (Believ) and Kieran Fitsall (Brighton & Hove City Council). Bill Murray, who founded the London to Brighton EV Rally, will chair, so expect things to move along briskly.

On the agenda:
🔹 Scaling charging infrastructure to city size
🔹 Turning mobility data into decisions
🔹 Public-private partnerships that actually last

🔹 18 November, 12:22 at ExCeL London. Come say hi!

So what’s slowing your city down? The plugs, the plans or the partnerships?

Kavanagh Allen Fitsall Murray & Hove City Council EV Show

19/10/2026

What’s really holding cities back? Hint: it’s rarely the technology.

Tamlyn Shimizu, our Head of Markets & Partnerships - Global and Senior Communications Expert, is taking that question to Barcelona for . Here’s where to find her:

🎤 The Implementation Gap: A Forum for Action | The Most Honest Panel Ever

🌍 How are Cities Anticipating, Absorbing and Recovering from Climate Change?
📅 Tuesday 3 November | 13:05-13:50 | Urban Systems Stage
A roundtable on extreme weather, infrastructure stress and what resilient planning really looks like in practice. With Simon Giles (Field States), Trinidad Fernandez (Fraunhofer IAO), Étienne Métais (CDP) and Nigel Bax (Sorigué).

💧 Circular By Design: Water and Waste as a Strategic Urban Asset
📅 Thursday 5 November | 14:10-14:55 | Urban Systems Stage
How cities can protect water resources, cut waste and deliver better services through circular approaches. With Hamid Nikvan (City of North Miami Beach) and Cristhyano Cavali da Luz (Unilivre/City of Curitiba).

Three conversations, one thread: the gap between ambition and delivery, and how cities close it.

Want to catch Tamlyn between sessions? Send her a message and set up a time to meet. 👋

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