Sustainable Places 2025
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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 will be held in the wonderful city of Milan, which has a robust real-estate market and thriving professional community in design, architecture, construction, and built environment transformation, amongst other things.
Event Co-Design Begins!
The Call for Proposals will launch on 30 April and extend through the end of June. The venue will allow us to design the event leveraging:
- A 300 person amphitheater
- Four fully instrumented meeting rooms
- Open space
- Dedicated networking areas
Workshop Clusters
SP2025 will contain the same characteristics as previous years, but in this edition, we’ll work to cluster several of the workshops with similar themes into mini-events, leveraging the amphitheatre and providing the ability to hold roundtable discussions and stakeholder forums and inviting participation from industry, policy, media and other stakeholders.
We look forward to seeing you at Sustainable Places 2025!
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 Programme via the participation of cutting-edge research and innovation projects, the scope of Sustainable Places 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
Sustainable Places 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 hold 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 SP2024, we proposed the list of themes shown to the right. These themes were non-exhaustive and proposals received on other topics related to sustainability were included. The SP2025 themes will be published shortly.
- Energy Communities, Smart Cities and Urban Transition
- Renewable Energy Technologies
- Sustainable Construction & Renovation
- Decarbonization & Circularity
- Climate Change mitigation and adaptation
- Facilitating the energy transition: Policy, Finance, Training
- Sustainable Urban Renewal & Cultural Transformation
- Digital twins, Smartness & Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability
- Resilience and Energy Security
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