Local Governments Finance Summit

Local Governments Finance Summit is an event that aims to use financial resources more efficiently for municipalities and to reach different resources through alternative ways.

Ensuring that Türkiye’s urbanization becomes sustainable requires expanding financial resources. What steps can be taken to meet the financing needs? How can municipalities access low-interest and long-term international loans while increasing their current revenues? What are the main expectations of the finance sector in this regard? What are the expectations of the municipalities from the finance sector?

What is our current situation regarding the financing of urban transformation and what are the best practices in this regard? How can the public and private sector act together to finance cities? How can regulatory barriers to financing be overcome? What alternative financial resources are there? Could capital markets be a source of funding for municipalities?

Local Governments Finance Summit is an event that targets the more efficient use of financial resources for municipalities and accessing different resources through alternative ways.

Marmara Urban Forum (MARUF)

Marmara Urban Forum (MARUF) is an international urban forum organized by Marmara Municipalities Union biennially in the megacity of Istanbul, Türkiye.

Golden Ant Awards

With Golden Ant Awards, evaluations are made in certain project categories within the scope of different administrative categories.

Urban Talks

Urban Talks is a series of talks that allow information, experience sharing and discussion on issues affecting cities and society such as urban space, transportation, environment, culture and arts, development, governance, social inclusion, population movements.

Marmara Sea Symposium

The topics discussed and the papers presented in each of the Marmara Sea Symposiums were compiled and brought together with the readers from Marmara Municipalities Union Culture Publications.

Smart Cities Summit

A smart cities approach that aims to build sustainable cities that use all resources efficiently and offer high living standards to their residents.

World City Network Meeting

With World City Network Meeting, inter-urban relations on both global and regional scales are discussed from various perspectives such as globalization, urban image, real estate market, production of urban space; and qualitative and quantitative research approaches, collection and visualization of urban data, and data-based evaluation systems for cities are discussed.

International Children’s City Congress

MMU carries out its Children’s City studies through a congress program complemented by workshops and seminars, bringing together expert assessments and a participatory framework that enables children to engage in discussions on their own needs and the issues affecting them.

Mayors Summit

Organized by Marmara Municipalities Union, Mayors' Summit brings together the member mayors around an agenda that is determined every year.

Kebikeç Seminars

Set out with questions such as “How are book and library efforts carried out in Türkiye?” and “How can the challenges facing the profession be addressed?”, Kebikeç Seminar series aim to provide a panorama of contemporary perspectives on librarianship. The series features insights into library traditions and models in Türkiye and around the world, alongside personal reflections on diverse perspectives on the book and different approaches to research.