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The Sustainable Cities Index explores the three demands of People, Planet and Profit to develop an indicative ranking of 100 of the world's leading cities.

After the release of the Surabaya Draft of the New Urban Agenda at the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the Habitat III Conference in Surabaya, Indonesia in July 2016, the New Urban Agenda has finally been agreed on at the Habitat III Informal Intergovernmental Meeting which took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 7 to 10 September 2016, and it will be adopted in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016.

Policymakers pledged on 9th September 2016 to take the key actions needed to achieve a successful transition to Smart Sustainable Cities in the "Montevideo Declaration", which was adopted by ministers, city mayors, businesses and academics meeting at the 6th annual ITU Green Standards Week in Uruguay's capital.

The Executive Agency for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) has published a call for tenders in relation to building up regional and local capacity in digital transformation. This invitation to tender aims to help build up regional and local capacity in digital transformation, by offering hands-on policy advice, coaching and support to some 15 regions and cities in Europe — the so-called model regions and cities — that wish to make bold steps on the digitisation scale.

Innovate UK is to invest up to £15 million in innovation projects addressing technical or commercial challenges relevant to the health and life sciences sector that will lead to increased UK SME competitiveness, growth and productivity.

The Health and Life Sciences sector has a focus on agriculture, food and healthcare, underpinned by technologies developed in bioscience and medical research and enabled by expertise in engineering and physical sciences.