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Get to know better what Bilbao is doing on jobs and skills in the local economy in this UIA Expert journal....
UIA Expert Willem Van Winden has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Bil...
UIA Expert Willem van Winden interviews Eduardo Castellano one the architects of a highly innovative approach towards industrial modernisation. ...
UIA Expert Willem Van Winden provides an update on how the project is evolving....
Read the final report with conclusions from the jobs and skills in the local economy capitalisation activities...
In his fourth Journal, Willem van Winden discusses all key activities that you need to know about AS-FABRIK. Most importantly, Willem shares his thoug...
This Zoom-in deals with the issue of co-creation in Bilbao, in the framework of AS-FABRIK project, wherein a physical location that will become the be...
In his 5th Journal, Willem van Winden summarizes the activities that took place in the last months in the AS-FABRIK project. Most importantly, Willem ...
In his 3rd Zoom-in, AS-FABRIK expert Willem van Winden, guides through the innovation hub in the city of Bilbao. Bilbao is now constructing the AS-FAB...
Get to know better what Gothenburg is doing on the topic energy transition in this UIA Expert journal....
UIA Expert Zeno Winkels has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Gothenbu...
The UIA Expert Zeno Winkels has produced a video to discuss what UIA is and explain the main elements of this Energy transition project....
Check out how Gothenburg is implementing effective cross departmental working....
Gothenburg is heading towards a successful closure. ...
On the last day of October 2019, the Fossil-free Energy Districts (FED) project will be completed. The collaboration has, during three years, designed...
UIA Expert Zeno Winkels describes how “at the Chalmers campus in Gothenburg, the 6500 kW steam boiler was installed, as well as the more novel PCM (Ph...
UIA Expert Zeno Winkels provides insights on the legacy of the FED project one year after its successful end. As he mentions: “The main legacy of the ...
UIA Expert, Vanessa Holve, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
Have you ever heard about the “Workplace travel plans” and how this can reduce the use of individual car? ...
The second Journal of the COMMUTE project presents the developments of the project since the publication of the first Journal in December 2018. By now...
In the third Journal of the COMMUTE project (Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emissions Reduction) UIA expert, Vanessa Holve, f...
In the fourth Journal of the COMMUTE project, UIA Expert Vanessa Holve presents the developments of the project between November 2019 and the end of M...
Vanessa Holve, UIA Expert of COMMUTE project, in this Zoom-In presents the main objectives of the newly adopted cycling action, its challenges, but al...
UIA Expert, Philip Turner, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
This Zoom-in aims to take a critical view of personal carbon trading (PCT), outlining some of its core components with a particular focus on the chal...
In his 2nd journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months, which included a stimulating and enr...
In his 4th journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months, which included the testing and user ...
CityCap is getting a lot of attention, both EU- and internationally-wise. It was awarded with the Gitex 2019 Smart City series (biggest technology exh...
In his 5th journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months which saw the start of the transition...
In her first journal of the SASMob project, UIA expert Zsuszana Kravalik looks into the change of mobility culture that is currently being attempted i...
Check out the different commuting patterns within the SASMob partnership. Look at how personal choices can be geared into different mobility patterns ...
In her 2nd journal of SASMoB, UIA expert Zsuzsanna Kravalik reveals an additional layer of the project’s implementation progress in what regards the m...
In her 3rd journal of SASMoB, UIA expert Zsuzsanna Kravalik guides us through the last 6 months of the project. She gives the readers a taste of how ...
In her 4th journal, SASMob Expert Zsuzsana Kravalik discusses what could a mobility project working on sustainable commuting gain from the lockdown mo...
In her second zoom-in, UIA Expert Zsuzsa Kravalik explores the policy drivers and institutional challenges behind mobility projects. She interviews vi...
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 ...
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...
As described in the previous web article, P4W is developing tools for skills assessment, eLearnings and job matching....
Passport4Work has started a widespread, ambitious national study among Dutch employers, job seekers and intermediaries to contextualize and validate t...
After a series of sophisticated user experience tests, Passport4Work launched its first prototype this month. ...
In his 2nd journal, UIA Expert Ronald Lievens reflects on the current state of affairs in the Passport4Work (P4W) project, its developments, and the d...
UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli reveals how “the ambition of the NextGen Microcities project is to develop a blueprint model for enhancing both the demand a...
DARE was opened in Valmiera, right before the Covid-19 crisis....
Ventspils just produced a strategy paper, highlighting its new Foreign Direct Investment strategy, and this article presents it in the context of FDIs...
In the below video, UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli shows how some of the key stakeholders from Ventspils and Valmiera managed to carry out project activiti...
As this article is being published, four NextGen partners are launching new initiatives where technology becomes a tool for educating younger generati...
In this article, we focus on project’s activities that have the ambition to demonstrate what can be done to facilitate the match with the growing dema...
UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli provides “updates on some of the most interesting activities carried out within the project scope:...
“The overall evidence suggests that we do not lack technologies, nor the data captured by technologies, but that the bigger challenge lies in governan...
Lucia Scopelliti, UIA Experts for the Aveiro STEAM city project, in this first edition of the Journal analyses how the project represents a huge chanc...
Aveiro Tech City Bootcamp is an intensive training program, dedicated to unemployed, students or employed professionals looking for new career opportu...
A couple of years ago the Guardian declared the need for cities to become active as Living Labs, as places where designers, scientists, companies and ...
Many municipalities all over the world turn to the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to prevent environmental deterioration, mitigate traffic congesti...
The City of Vantaa Mayor is now serving her first term. Ritva Viljanen talks about “Jobs and skills in the local economy” and reinforces the commitmen...
Transnational and comparative social policy research shows that integrating individuals with complex social problems (such as low qualifications, outd...
In his 1st Journal, Gabriel Amitsis, UIA expert of the GSIP project, discusses all key activities that you need to know about it, what the project is ...
The evolving links between the university and the local government are becoming a major focus of European regional policies in specific areas, as the ...
In his 1st Zoom-In, GSIP expert Gabriel Amitsis, focuses on a rather neglected issue in the overall debate about the development of local community jo...
Despite the strong challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and their effect on the broader Vantaa economy and social fabric, the GSIP Project continues it...
The Living lab opened its doors in October 2019 in Aix-en-Provence, one of the main cities of the Aix Marseille Metropole. It was conceived to be an i...
In this first journal about the DIAMS project, UIA Expert Anna Font provides a general overview of how DIAMS fits within the existing European, French...
The UIA DIAMS project, lead by the Aix Marseille Metropole, aims to engage the different parts of the society to improve the air quality problems in t...
In this first journal edition of the UFIL project, the UIA Expert Rossella Soldi presents the challenges and the solutions implemented by the City of ...
UFIL is looking for innovators and when potential candidates were asked to share their ideas on the future of Cuenca's forests, the city, the objects ...
UFIL is designed to create innovation and to impact at the socio-economic level. The project tackles job creation and development of new businesses in...
In UFIL, the ‘business challenge’ is a mechanism ruling the internal competitions which are run in the project’s innovation lab. These competitions ar...
Local community can be part of the collaborative effort of reflection on the future of work: Cluj-Napoca is involving experts, academics, stakeholders...
The elaboration of future scenarios may be decisive for reimagining the future of work: Cluj-Napoca is using a wide range of methodologies to imagine ...
In a city as, Cluj-Napoca, which had the highest economic growth rate in Romania in the last decade, the alliance between public authorities, private ...
The partners of Cluj Future of Work and the participants to the Culturepreneurs programme are testing new ways for producing and distributing culture,...
Is city vitality a lost case under COVID-19? How do urban authorities respond when managing a ‘slow-burning’ crisis, such as the current pandemic, a c...
In this first article, UIA expert Simon Chignard introduces the motivations behind the Rudi project and the challenges faced by the project partners. ...
An innovative project rarely comes out of the blue, and Rudi makes no exception. The project is based on almost ten years of experimentation on local ...
If a soccer field is covered with a thick layer of snow, it’s better to close it for use or remove the snow; otherwise the field gets broken and repai...
Bilbao_AS FABRIK_Zoom-in 3 (May 2020)
Bilbao_AS Fabrik_Journal 5 (March 2020)
Bilbao_ASFABRIK_Zoom-in 2 (May 2019)
Bilbao_ASFABRIK_UIAExpertJournal4 (March 2019)
Bilbao_ASFABRIK_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Bilbao_ASFABRIK_Zoom-in 1 (July 2018)
Bilbao_AS-FABRIK_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2018)
Bilbao_AS-FABRIK_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Dcb 2017)
Gothenburg_FED_Journal 5 (Octb 2019)
Gothenburg_FED_Zoom-in 2 (June 2019)
Gothenburg_FED_UIAExpertJournal 4 (March 2019)
Gothenburg_FED_UIAExpertJournal3 (December 2018)
Gothenburg_FED_UIAExpertJournal2 (July 2018)
Gothenburg_FED_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Dcb 2017)
Toulouse_COMMUTE_Journal (April 2020)
Toulouse_COMMUTE_Journal 3 (Octb 2019)
Toulouse_COMMUTE_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2019)
Toulouse_COMMUTE_Zoom-in 1
Toulouse_COMMUTE_UIAExpertJournal1 (Nvb 2018)
Lahti_CitiCap_Journal 4 (March2020)
Lahti_CitiCAP_UIAExpertJournal 2 (March 2019)
Lahti_CitiCAP_Zoom-in 1
Lahti_CitiCAP_UIAExpertJournal1 (Nbv 2018)
Citicap @Lahti - Journal 5
Szeged_SASMob_Journal 3 (Dcb 2019)
Szeged_SASMOB_UIAExpertJournal 2 (March 2019)
Szeged_SASMOB_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2018)
Szeged_SASMob_Zoom-in 1
Ghent_TmaaS_UIAExpertJournal2 (March 2019)
Ghent_TmaaS_Zoom in 1 (March 2019)
Ghent_TmaaS_UIAExpertJournal1 (Nvb 2018)
TmaaS @Ghent - Journal 3
P4W Expert Journal 1: Get to know the project and what happened in the first 6 months!
P4W @Eindhoven - Journal 2
Ventspils_NextGen Microcities_UIAExpert Journal 1 (January 2020)
NextGen Microcities - infographic
Aveiro_AveiroSteamCity_Journal 1 v(Jan 2020)
Vantaa_GSIP_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
GSIP @Vantaa - Journal 2
Diams Project Journal 1
Cuenca_UFIL_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
Cluj Future of Work project Journal1