Sustainable Places 2025 to Take Place in Milan: Co-Design the Future of the Built Environment

The 2025 edition will mark a new phase of the event’s evolution. SP25 will offer participants a flexible and inspiring environment to co-design sessions, engage in EU project clustering, and forge cross-sector connections.

Call for Contributions Now Open

Sustainable Places 2025 invites contributions from across industry, policy, research, media, and all sectors involved in sustainability. The call for proposals is open, welcoming innovative submissions that support the green transition and address the pressing challenges of today’s urban and regional environments.

Conference Themes for SP25

The 2025 edition will explore key themes shaping the future of cities and the built environment, including:

• Energy communities, smart cities & urban transition

• Sustainable construction & renovation

• Climate change mitigation & adaptation

• Facilitating the energy transition: policy, finance, training

• Sustainable urban renewal & cultural transformation

• Renewable energy technologies

• Decarbonisation & circularity

• Resilience & energy security

• Data centres, digital twins & artificial intelligence for sustainability

This list is not exhaustive. Proposals on additional topics related to building sustainability are welcome and encouraged.

Experience SP25 in Milan

Taking place in December 2025, Sustainable Places will return as a hybrid event, offering both physical participation in Milan and virtual access for broader international engagement. The conference promises to be a unique opportunity to engage with the ideas, people, and solutions that will shape the sustainable transition of Europe’s built environment.

For further information and regular updates, visit: https://www.sustainableplaces.eu/

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