Nantes, the capital of France’s Loire-Atlantique department, is a city with a long history as a port and industrial hub. “This is how innovation works for the benefit of citizens.”Along with the award, Nantes mayor Johanna Rolland was handed a €1 million prize for her city by EU innovation programme Horizon 2020. In 2016 The Local France’s readers ranked Nantes the second best city to work in France after Rennes. Around 53,000 people were involved in defining Nantes’ vision for an energy transition, making use of 100 percent of local renewable resources as part of entirely citizen-led campaign. There’s also the Nantes City Lab, which helps to test out new projects by treating the city as a playground for innovation and experimentation.

Source: The Local September 27, 2019 06:22 UTC