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The final version of the TMaaS project Journal...
The present fourth edition of the TMaaS Journal aims to provide interested readers with information concerning the project’s final achievements and re...
TMaaS web article No 5 - The TMaaS products ...
TMaaS web article No 4 - Interview with Sophie Gillaerts, the TMaaS project coordinator...
TMaaS web article No 3 - TMaaS Replicator City program Part 2: lessons learnt...
TMaaS web article No 2 - TMaaS Replicator City program Part 1: process and results...
TMaaS web article No 1 - TMaaS notifications for travellers...
In his first Zoom-In, UIA TMaaS expert Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis, presents an animated story that highlights the decisions that travelers need to take on...
UIA Expert, Sofia Taborda, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
The 2nd TMaaS Journal accompanies the project in its past half year of progress. By giving an account of the main activities and achievements of each ...
This last journal of the UIA Antwerp Circular South project accounts for the evolution of the project after UIA funding was stopped. It details the di...
This Zoom-In presents the different features of the solar energy system in Antwerp Circular South as well as the challenges it has faced due to the cu...
“The Antwerp Circular South project is entering its final stage in strange times. As the rest of society, it has been affected by the current Covid-19...
UIA Expert Marcelline Bonneau reveals that “some specific aspects are becoming more prominent now: showing the added value to both residents and owner...
UIA Expert Marcelline Bonneau reveals how “the Circular South Project started with their “nudging experiments” to test innovative ways of supporting c...
In her latest Journal, UIA Expert Marcelline Bonneau reports that “almost everything is ready, and the experimentation can start. It is finally becomi...
Read the opinion of Marcelline Bonneau, UIA expert for the Antwerp Circular South project, on supporting sustainable consumption practices....
UIA Expert Marcelline Bonneau presents the first steps of CIRCUIT – the Circular South Community Centre. As she explains, “the Antwerp Circular South ...
UIA Expert, Marcelline Bonneau, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
Antwerp Circular South has begun unfolding. ...
You want to capture the change that your project is bringing at local level? The new monitoring and evaluation platform is now online: browse through ...
The Legacy of CURANT is a short video documentary telling the story of what is left of the project after its end. Through a series of interviews to me...
In his 5th journal of CURANT, UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli discusses about the legacy of the project and the concrete things that stay behind - for the ...
Get to know better what Antwerp is doing in this UIA Expert journal!...
With 39 duos of young refugees and local buddies already cohabitating, the delivery of the new modular housing units and a wide range of active inclus...
UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli dives into the details!...
UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Antwer...
In his 4th journal of CURANT, UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli discusses the significance of a holistic approach to integration and the potential contributio...
Multi-screens interactive display where visitors can navigate stories combining museum collections and populations’ memories (photo credit: F. Jégou)...
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“I see many and rich ingredients in this project, but I don’t see how the cake will look like at the end?”. This is the metaphor, slightly provocative...
The Cairgo Bike project is designed to boost measures being applied by Brussels Capital Region to structurally improve air quality in the city. It tar...
The Cairgo Bike project is designed to boost measures, being applied by the Brussels Capital Region to structurally improve air quality in the city. I...
The Cairgo Bike project is designed as a tool to help tackle persistent conditions of poor and damaging air quality experienced in many European citie...
The Cairgo Bike project is designed to boost measures being applied by the Brussels Capital Region to structurally improve air quality in the city. It...
RE/SOURCED is defined by a number of innovative but highly technical aspects of the project. This article presents a different perspective - the proj...
This article presents the second UIA Journal for Renewable Energy SOlutions for URban communities based on Circular Economy policies and DC backbones...
Energy Communities have had considerable press coverage recently and RE/SOURCED always had an Energy Community as one of the integral elements of its ...
This article sets out the regulatory challenges faced by the RE/SOURCED project team and the steps taken to overcome them. It highlights how regulatio...
This article describes the key elements of the RE/SOURCED Smart Grid...
UIA RE/SOURCED Journal - 1...
'La Ruche à projets' has stopped being the APTBC temporary creative hub in central Seraing. However, it will not close its doors and its role as a com...
The third edition of the journal covers almost the entire 2022. The implementation of most of the project actions has been completed and the remaining...
The A Place To Be-Come project is built around one great idea: that inclusion can be promoted by building a community of local citizens eager to devel...
The city of Seraing has a bold plan to redevelop its post-industrial territory after decades of decline. In particular, some urban projects, such as a...
In Seraing, two shelters welcome people experiencing homelessness or great discomfort associated with instable and precarious conditions of life. The ...
This second journal covers the year 2021, between the first year and a half and second year and a half of implementation of the A Place To Be-Come pro...
Last October, a delegation composed by three members of the APTBC project management team, two city officials from Seraing and the UIA expert spent th...
In this journal, UIA expert Francesca Ansaloni provides an account of difficulties, challenges and achievements of A Place To Be-Come's first year of ...
La Maison du Peuple was built in 1916 in Seraing as a gathering place for the working class. “Before, social-democrat activists gathered in the old th...
Julien Bebronne and Lauranne Liégeois are respectively APTBC coordinator and project officer for Arebs, the municipal agency in charge of the project ...
A Place To Be-Come aims to tackle urban poverty in Seraing by investing in people and the enhancement of their well-being. This goal is expected to be...
Although Ghent Knapt Op has come to an end, many participants continue to take on house renovations. Ghent Knapt Op has made a significant positive im...
After almost 4 years of intensive work and challenging times, Ghent Knapt Op came to a successful end in spring 2022. The project started in 2019 as a...
Ghent knap Op celebrates the end of a successful innovative project on upgrading and renovating homes of vulnerable citizens 'captive owners'. Althoug...
More than 500 people from the City of Ghent have been interested in taking part in the Ghent Knapt Op project and on improving their housing condition...
The third Zoom-in dives in the representation of the life cycle of the project through infographic diagrams and explanatory illustrations. The diagram...
Like many cities, Ghent suffers a lack of affordable housing: high-quality and energy-efficient homes. Quality homes that are affordable are scarce in...
As in most countries globally, commodity prices for building materials have risen in recent months. Anyone who is building or renovating has already s...
A view to a life-long living for seniors and vulnerable citizens. The City of Ghent puts at the forefront accessibility by making homes adaptable for...
The Gent Knapt Op (ICCARus) pilot project focuses on the renovation of existing substandard homes of vulnerable homeowners. The project aims to renova...
How to connect people despite the current Covid-19 pandemic restrictions? Ghent Knapt Op is a pilot project that not only sets up a new financial sys...
Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) and URBACT are joining forces to push the right to housing...
UIA Expert Martha Giannakopoulou reveals how “Gent Knapt Op launched a series of open calls (waves) and employed an intense communication strategy. Th...
As Ghent suffers a lack of affordable housing and rising housing prices, the Ghent Knapt Op project aims to renovate houses for vulnerable families an...
UIA Expert Martha Giannakopoulou “focuses on the most intricate and complicated part of the ICCARus (Gent Knapt Op) project so far: the selection crit...
Gent knapt op’ has just concluded successfully its first phase of selection process and 25 households and participants are ready to start renovations....
Gent, a city of 260,000 inhabitants just outside of Brussels, Belgium, is like many cities: it faces the problem of not enough affordable and quality ...
UIA Expert Martha Giannakopoulou shows how the project “addresses not only the provision of adequate healthy housing for vulnerable citizens but also ...
Come to 59-61 rue du Delta, 1190, Forest on the 4th of September, an unexpected sunny day in Brussels, and you will find the building of CALICO celebr...
UIA expert Laura Colini provides a descriptive overview of the project and focuses on the 7 UIA challenges. Furthermore, she explores “the model of th...
The main objective of CALICO is to realise more than a typical Community Land Trust (CLT) but an intergenerational inclusive cohabitation focussed on ...
Across Ghent and beyond......
The RE/SOURCED Project & TRANSFO...
On February 2020, the Centre Public d’Action Social (CPAS) - the local institution that delivers social aid - and the project partner Natagora - a gra...
Ghent_TmaaS_UIAExpertJournal2 (March 2019)
Ghent_TmaaS_Zoom in 1 (March 2019)
Ghent_TmaaS_UIAExpertJournal1 (Nvb 2018)
TmaaS @Ghent - Journal 3
Antwerp_Antwerp Circular South_Journal 3
Antwerp_Antwerp Circular South_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2019)
Antwerp_Antwerp Circular South_UIAExpertJournal1 (Nvb 2018)
Antwerp Circular South_Zoom-in 1_March 2018
ANTWERP CIRCULAR SOUTH project Journal N°4
Circular South @Antwerp Journal 5
Final Evaluation report
Policy recommendations
Antwerp_CURANT_Journal 5 (Octb 2019)
CURANT_Evaluation report Octb 2019_PDF
Antwerp_CURANT_Project brochure
Antwerp_CURANT_Expert Zoom-in 2 (July 2019)
Antwerp_CURANT_UIAExpertJournal4 (June 2019)
CURANT 2nd Evaluation Report
Antwerp_CURANT_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Antwerp_CURANT_Zoom-in 1 (July 2018)
Antwerp_CURANT_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2018)
Antwerp_CURANT_Working paper_PDF
Antwerp_CURANT_Evaluation report_PDF
Antwerp_CURANT_UIAExpertJournal1 (Decb 2017)
Antwerp - Report - Co-housing and case management for unaccompanied young refugees
CURANT @Antwerp - Journal 6
Booklet - Gent Knapt Op
Ghent_ICCARus_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
ICCARUS @Ghent - Journal 2
CALICO Final Evaluation report
CALICO Recommendation Report
Brussels_CALICO_Project brochure
CALICO Programme_EN