A €4.99M Horizon Europe programme coordinated by Eurocities pairs 12 Ukrainian 'Flagship Municipalities' with EU Climate-Neutral Mission Cities for structured climate-action mentorship, …
Chernihiv, Ukraine
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 83%52/100
Hungary's largest public applied-research institute, founded in 1993, runs nine sites nationwide with about 160 researchers and staff, serves 200+ corporate clients, …
Budapest, Hungary
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 83%52/100
Established in 1991, ARC Fund is Bulgaria's leading innovation-policy institute, pioneering its Regional Innovation Strategies and publishing the annual Innovation.bg report — …
Sofia, Bulgaria
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 83%52/100
North Macedonia launched Vezilka, a EUR 6.2m EU-co-funded national AI centre run jointly by government and university, dedicating one of five priority …
Skopje, North Macedonia
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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 74%47/100
An 18-partner EU Horizon 2020 project (2016–2019, €7.28m), led by Spain's Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, piloted a face/voice/keystroke authentication and plagiarism-forensics system …
Treated wastewater from 2.5 million Israelis is filtered through sand-basin soil-aquifer treatment for six months, then pumped 100 km south to irrigate …
Rishon LeZion, Israel
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 70%40/100
North Macedonia's first National AI Centre, 'Vezilka', launched in 2026 with a ~€6.2m budget (EU Horizon Europe/EuroHPC plus state co-financing) to give …
Researchers at Université de Yaoundé I built YembaEGRA, a 69-speaker speech corpus in Bamendou, Cameroon, to train AI models diagnosing which reading …
Bamendou, Cameroon
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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%33/100
Lithuania launched one of the EU's first AI Act regulatory sandboxes, administered jointly by the Innovation Agency and the Communications Regulatory Authority, …
CitizenAct goal was to empower senior citizens with new knowledge and necessary skills about digital tools, such as wearable sensors measuring health …
Barcelona, Spain· Transnational
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 89%27/100
Athens planted nearly 7,500 trees in 18 months and built microforests and cooling gardens across the city; monitored sites recorded surface-temperature drops …
Athens, Greece
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 94%27/100