Sustainable Places 2025
8 – 10 October 2025
Milan
Monte Rosa 91 Conference Centre
In collaboration with the Comune di Milano, we are excited to announce that Sustainable Places 2025 (SP25) will be held in the wonderful city of Milan, which has a robust real-estate market and thriving professional community in design, architecture, construction, built environment transformation, etc. We invite SP25 participation from industry, policy, media and other stakeholders.
SP25 co-design begins!
The venue will allow us to co-design the event leveraging a 300 person amphitheater, 4 fully instrumented meeting rooms, open spaces, and dedicated networking areas.
SP scope
Sustainability targets and climate change objectives cannot be met without addressing buildings and the built environment at the building, district and urban scale to include our transport and energy infrastructures. Renowned for showcasing results coming out of the EU Horizon 2020 and EU Horizon Europe Framework Programmes via the participation of cutting-edge research and innovation projects, the scope of SP is captured directly in its name. It involves designing, building and retrofitting the places we live and work in a more sustainable way.
SP concept
SP prides itself on being an ideal platform for the dissemination of research, the conduct of workshops, EU project clustering and networking between stakeholders of all types. SP2024 was held over three days in a hybrid (digital + in-person) event format. Between opening and closing keynote sessions, parallel technical sessions and project-organized workshops explored the various conference themes. Given world events we encouraged submissions on technology transfer, renewable energy implementations and energy security with the aim of facilitating actions that increase the rate of renovation and renewable energy implementations.
SP themes
Each year, Sustainable Places features topics that are shaping how we think about cities and the built environment. Across all editions, Sustainable Places is open to all topics related to building sustainability and most often reflect priorities described in the European Commission Societal Challenges and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
For SP25, we propose the list of themes shown to the right. These themes are non-exhaustive and proposals received on other topics related to sustainability will certainly be considered for acceptance.
- 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
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