Madrid Micro Missions (MMM)

Madrid Micro Missions (MMM) is an urban intervention program designed to accelerate the transition toward more sustainable and resilient cities through targeted, small-scale actions in specific locations. By focusing on three key areas—urban regeneration, community energy, and climate adaptation—MMM brings together public, civic, and private actors to implement solutions at the neighborhood level.

Why It Matters

For cities to reach climate neutrality, we collectively need to make a transition that is unprecedented in terms of speed and scale, and we need to do so in a context of complexity, stark inequality, as well as other socio-political challenges.

This mission towards decarbonization is ambitious and difficult to assume from the level of citizens and local communities. That is why the concept of Micro Missions was created. Specific actions in specific spaces, addressed by a network of actors (public-civic-private) that allows facing different challenges and implementing solutions at the neighborhood scale, an intermediate scale that welcomes the intervention of residents and in turn affects the construction of the city.

Objectives

The overarching goal is to explore and design new approaches to get to tangible solutions in the decarbonization of a city.

Regarding the 3 Madrid Micro Missions we are looking for the following:

• Construction of three spaces for dialogue and effective work that have actors from the public, civic and private spheres, where giving voice and space for decision and understanding to actors from different contexts that normally do not intersect well due to lack of desire, spaces of dialogues or capacity for it.
• Consolidate an effective network in the district through the three pilots.
• Introduce the methodology tested in the pilots as a standard protocol within the public administration.