Cli-Met Heads to İzmir – Full Workshop Programme Announced

The full programme for the first Cli-Met Workshop with Stakeholders is now available. From 28 to 30 September 2026, project partners, public authorities, researchers, practitioners and local stakeholders will meet in İzmir, Türkiye, for three days of exchange on climate action at the metropolitan scale.

Hosted by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality at Tarihi Havagazı Fabrikası, the workshop will combine keynote sessions, international and local panels, thematic working groups and a field visit, creating opportunities to connect academic knowledge, metropolitan governance and local experience.

Keynote sessions

Keynote session I

If metropolitan governance is the answer, what was the question?

Karsten Zimmermann, TU Dortmund University, Germany

Keynote session II

Addressing the climate challenge at metropolitan scale: from METREX learning to Helsinki’s climate change mitigation and adaptation approach

Alpo Tani, City of Helsinki, Finland

Panel sessions

Panel session I

Climate policy at the metropolitan scale: international perspective and case studies

Speakers:

Roman Kizyma, Municipality of Lviv, Ukraine

Jorge Brito, Metropolitan Region of Coimbra, Portugal

Francesca Framba, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy

Moderated by: Viviana Rubbo, METREX, Belgium

Panel session II

Climate adaptation strategies in İzmir: local experiences and challenges

Speakers:

Nicel Saygın, İzmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye

Ayşe Kalaycı, İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University, Türkiye

Emine Duygu Kahraman, Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye

Moderated by: Deniz Özkut, İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University, Türkiye

Thematic working groups

The second day of the workshop will be dedicated to parallel thematic working groups, giving participants the opportunity to exchange knowledge and develop shared perspectives around four dimensions of metropolitan climate action:

• Climate risks & spatial planning
• Water–Energy–Mobility adaptation
• Social vulnerability & community resilience
• Governance & institutional coordination

Participants will work within the same thematic groups throughout the day, before presenting the main outcomes of their discussions in a concluding session.

Field visit

On the third and final day, participants will visit the Kadifekale community garden, exploring a local experience that connects community-based urban agriculture, social engagement and neighbourhood-level climate resilience.

Organisation

Local Organising Committee
Dr. Çağlar Tükel, Ahmet Dildan, Dr. Gülşah Ünsalan, Yiğit Beydağ, Nilgün Özmen, Aylin Cengiz

With support from the Cli-Met Project Team
Ignazio Vinci, João Igreja, Karsten Zimmermann, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado, Çağlar Tükel, Cinzia Davoli, Peter Agh, Viviana Rubbo

The İzmir Workshop with Stakeholders is the first of two stakeholder workshops organised within Cli-Met and represents an important opportunity to strengthen dialogue between research, public administration and professional practice around the implementation of the climate agenda in metropolitan areas.