Acquisition opens
05.05.2026
00 // BOOT
LAUNCH PARTNERSHIP · ISSUE 01
European Urban Future Alliance
WELCOME · LAUNCH PARTNERSHIP DECK
Europe doesn’t have a city problem. It has a courage problem.
Across the continent, cities build bike lanes and green roofs — and call it progress. It isn’t. What makes a city actually liveable for the individual person who lives in it is not produced in working groups, it is built by people and companies willing to try something new. The research exists, as do the solutions and the providers to deliver them. The transfer between them does not. So the same mistakes get made again in a different city every year. We built the European Urban Future Alliance because Europe can be way more than that. Because Europe’s cities have everything it takes to become bold, unstoppable engines of innovation.
01 // HERO
→ THE OPPORTUNITY
European Urban Future Alliance.
One continent. One conversation. One future.
The European Urban Future Alliance is where the people who actually run Europe’s cities meet the companies willing to help rebuild them. Issue 01 “Beat the Heat” lands on 30 June 2026, in English, on 30,000 desks across 27 countries, all at once. If you want your company to stand next to that conversation, the rest of this deck is the how.
12 // COVER
→ LOOK & FEEL
Every issue. A single theme.
Iconographic. Reduced. Unmistakable. Every issue tells its thesis already on the cover. Two draft directions for Issue 01, hover to highlight.
#01 // Beat the Heat
#01 // Draft A
13 // INSIDE
→ LAYOUT IN ACTION
Editorially complete. Built for screens, not for shelves.
Topic hub, longform reportage, data spread. Every page sits inside the same grid and speaks the same visual language. The E-Paper lives entirely on screen, with linked sources, downloadable datasets and a continental archive that does not collect dust on anyone’s desk. Hover any spread to zoom.
// Topic Hub
Beat the Heat
p. 10
// Longform
Paris Cooling
p. 24
// Data
Urban Heat Index
p. 36
14 // BEHIND THE ALLIANCE
→ EDITORIAL & TECHNOLOGY
A publishing house. A technology company. One editorial line.
The Alliance is built and operated by GEORG Media and mi media intelligence. Editorial responsibility stays with the newsroom, technology runs on a European stack. Your brand lands in a structure that is built to outlast one campaign.
→ Questions the Alliance will answer
How does a city stop asking permission from its own capital?
Theresa Ramisch
Initiator & Editor-in-Chief, European Urban Future Alliance
Editor-in-Chief G+L & topos magazine, GEORG Media
Editor-in-Chief G+L & topos magazine, GEORG Media
We publish European urban titles every day. The Alliance is how we finally let them speak to each other, in one continental voice, without losing the local depth our readers trust.
Tobias Hager
Initiator & Editor-in-Chief, European Urban Future Alliance
CCO & CTO GEORG Media · CEO mi media intelligence SL
CCO & CTO GEORG Media · CEO mi media intelligence SL
Europe does not need another feed. It needs an editorial layer that is data-driven, technologically durable and trusted by the people who actually build its cities. That is what we are putting in production.
15 // CONTACT
→ YOUR HUMAN CONNECTION
Talk to the people behind this. Before 15.06.2026.
The Alliance is run by real humans, not a contact form. Pick the face that feels like the right door to open. They all answer themselves and they all know every detail of Issue 01.
Andreas Schneider
Sales · Launch Partnerships
Senior partnership lead at GEORG Media. Builds the Alliance’s industry programme across the German-speaking market. Knows mid-market boards from the inside out.
a.schneider@georg-media.de
EN · DE
Julia Sammiller
Sales · Launch Partnerships
Senior partnership manager at GEORG Media. Runs strategic accounts and brand-led collaborations across the Alliance’s industrial partner network.
j.sammiller@georg-media.de
EN · DE
Helena Ramolla
Sales · Launch Partnerships
Partnership lead at GEORG Media for the Alliance’s industrial and architectural ecosystem. Translates editorial relevance into long-term commercial fit.
h.ramolla@georg-media.de
EN · DE
Henning Heckel
Sales · Launch Partnerships
Partnership manager at GEORG Media. Designs the Alliance’s commercial offerings and matches them to brands that want to be in the room when European urbanism gets rebuilt.
h.heckel@georg-media.de
EN · DE
Veronika Minkina
Editorial · European Urban Future Alliance
The editorial voice of the Alliance. Talk to her if you want to discuss themes, editorial fit, or how your work could show up as a case study rather than a placement.
v.minkina@georg-media.de
EN · DE
// Booking deadline Issue 01 · 15.06.2026
One 20-minute conversation is all it takes to become a Founding Partner.