• UVCW - Union of Cities and Municipalities of Wallonia (Belgium)
• AVCB-VSGB - Association of the City and the Municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium)
• CERDD - Centre Ressource du Développement Durable (Nord-Pas de Calais, France).

The partnership is to be enlarged to cities and expert organizations from Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland

Our strategy is based on the establishment of a transnational system for the diffusion, adoption and appropriation of Sustainable Development concepts applied to the design, management and functioning of the city. As a result:

Aim: work in a participative way on the modes of city functioning and management in order to foster more sustainable ways of life and a better general control of the use of resources.

Objective: enlarge the innovation opportunities and capacities of the cities (in the NWE area) in favour of a sustainable urban development.
This means at the same time:
·          a process objective, through a pilot mechanism that organizes effectively and efficiently transpositions of good practices between partner cities brought together within learning groups;
·          a sustainable development objective, through the acquisition and appropriation (within neighbourhoods in the partner cities and municipalities) of innovative ways of functioning.

At a local level: exemplary changes in the ways of designing and managing cities or in the ways of functioning and living into them.

The Sustainable Neighbourhoods project is based on the capitalization of existing experiences within the partner municipalities. The project objective in their case is to contribute to generalize the adoption of innovative practices in the field of sustainable urban development in the NWE area. It is here a driving force that is being looked for.