The 100 Neighbourhoods Platform brings together the trajectories and experiments of 10 pioneering cities and municipalities in a learning and development platform. By exchanging experiences, by activating collective intelligence, and by adding expertise on the level of process approaches and specific breakthroughs, we support and strengthen these pioneering projects. Mechelen, Turnhout, Mortsel, Ghent, Leuven, Bruges, Beringen, Temse, Zoersel and Antwerp are all working in one or more specific neighbourhoods to realise concrete breakthroughs in terms of energy system, housing renovation, climate adaptation and/or mobility transition.

Today, a year and a half after its launch date, the 100 Neighbourhoods Platform is producing a Harvest Note with policy recommendations from the field. This identifies thresholds, missing frameworks and incentives that hamper the realisation of energy and climate districts today. For households to opt for sustainable heat, we will need to set targets not only for energy efficiency, but also for the fossil-free transition.  If we want to achieve neighbourhood transformations that tick off not just one goal, but several goals at once, this requires a supportive framework and cooperation that transcends domains.