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Future of Commuting in Europe - Tips and Tricks of Employer engagement

Come join us on Wednesday 10th of November at 9.30h for a panel discussion on the Future of Commuting to Work and its consequences in urban mobility p...

SASMob Journal 5: Quality time and anguish: slowing down during the pandemic

SASMob is approaching the end of its journay to develop city wide innovative partnership for sustainable commuting. In this 5th Journal, UIA expert Zs...

Interview with Sándor Nagy, vice mayor of Szeged

In her second zoom-in, UIA Expert Zsuzsa Kravalik explores the policy drivers and institutional challenges behind mobility projects. She interviews vi...

SASMob Expert Journal 4: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months

In her 4th journal, SASMob Expert Zsuzsana Kravalik discusses what could a mobility project working on sustainable commuting gain from the lockdown mo...

SASMoB Expert Journal: about company investments and sustainable commuting

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 ...

SASMOB 1st project journal

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...

Commuting patterns explored in SASMob's 1st zoom-in

Check out the different commuting patterns within the SASMob partnership. Look at how personal choices can be geared into different mobility patterns ...

SASMoB Expert Journal: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months

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...

The CitiCAP (citizens' cap and trade co-created) Project Zoom In 2

The work on Lahti Direction combines transport and land-use planning in a new way, and builds a sustainable city in cooperation with citizens, stakeho...

CitiCAP Expert Journal: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months in Lahti

In his 3rd journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months, which included a stimulating and enr...

CitiCAP Journal 6

In his 6th and concluding journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes the final results and takeaways from the project, which includes the ...

CitiCAP Journal: Get an update on what happened in the last 6 months in Lahti

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...

How does CitiCap project promote sustainable mobility through citizen engagement?

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...

CitiCAP Expert Journal 4: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months in Lahti

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 ...

CitiCAP Expert Journal: testing the Personal Carbon Trading Scheme

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 ...

CitiCAP UIA Expert Journal – Learn more about the experiment with a Personal Carbon Trading scheme

UIA Expert, Philip Turner, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...

A critical friend's view on Lahti's Personal Carbon Trading scheme

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...

CitiCAP Expert Journal: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months in Lahti

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...

TMaaS Final Journal

The final version of the TMaaS project Journal...

The TMaaS Project Journal No 4

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 5 - The TMaaS products ...

TMaaS web article No 4 - Interview with Sophie Gillaerts, the TMaaS project coordinator

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 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 2 - TMaaS Replicator City program Part 1: process and results...

TMaaS web article No 1 - TMaaS notifications for travellers

TMaaS web article No 1 - TMaaS notifications for travellers...

TMaaS & LINK.Gent from a public transport user's behavior perspective

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...

TMaaS UIA Expert Journal – Learn more on how the city of Ghent aims to better manage the urban mobility system

UIA Expert, Sofia Taborda, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...

TMaaS Expert Journal: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months

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 ...

FED Journal 6: A view on the functioning FED system

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 ...

FED Journal 5: End of the project

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...

Market design for local energy systems of the future

On the last day of October 2019, the Fossil-free Energy Districts (FED) project will be completed. The collaboration has, during three years, designed...

FED Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Gothenburg is doing on the topic energy transition in this UIA Expert journal....

Implementing the FED project in Gothenburg: Get an update on the activities carried out in the second 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...

FED Journal 3: Tackling silo-thinking

Check out how Gothenburg is implementing effective cross departmental working....

FED Zoom-In: Video sheds light on the project

The UIA Expert Zeno Winkels has produced a video to discuss what UIA is and explain the main elements of this Energy transition project....

FED Journal 4: The FED system becomes operational

Gothenburg is heading towards a successful closure. ...

The AS-FABRIK project Journal n 6 Project led by the city of Bilbao

One year after the UIA funding ended, the AS-Fabrik project is standing on its own feet. In his 6th and final journal, the UIA Expert Willem van Winde...

AS-Fabrik Zoom-In: Interview provides insight into transformation of local economy

UIA Expert Willem van Winden interviews Eduardo Castellano one the architects of a highly innovative approach towards industrial modernisation. ...

Zoom-in: An innovation hub for the city of Bilbao

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...

AS-FABRIK Expert Journal 5: Get to know what happened in the last 6 months!

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 ...

AS-FABRIK Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Bilbao is doing on jobs and skills in the local economy in this UIA Expert journal....

AS-FABRIK Expert Journal 4: Get to know what happened in the last 6 months!

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...

Implementing the AS-FABRIK project in Bilbao: Get an update on the activities carried out in the second 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...

AS-FABRIK Expert Journal 3: Working on increasing the competitiveness of industry and developing new knowledge-intensive business services

UIA Expert Willem Van Winden provides an update on how the project is evolving....

Co-creation and collaboration processes within AS-FABRIK project

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...

UIA projects contributing to inclusive and smart growth: Report reflecting experiences and first lessons now available

Read the final report with conclusions from the jobs and skills in the local economy capitalisation activities...

Towards new cultural services: using service design to explore user perspectives

How can we understand the attitudes of different local stakeholders to culture and community? How can we design better instruments to enable connectio...

CUP4Creativity Journal #2

This journal by expert Levente Polyák accompanies the UIA project CUP4Creativity in its development. This second issue serves as a summary of the proj...

Planning a new cultural venue, Part 2: Connecting to Újbuda’s existing institutional tissue

How to conceive a new cultural institution in an area already known for its strong cultural scene? How can a new venue integrate into an existing inst...

Planning a new cultural venue, Part 1: Exploring the needs of Újbuda’s cultural ecosystem

How to plan a new cultural venue in a district already rich in cultural life? How can a new cultural institution help to connect existing spaces and o...

CUP4Creativity Journal #1

Seeking to create new connections between cultural producers, creatives, technology initiatives, businesses and residents, the UIA-funded project CUP4...

From initiatives to synergies: Mapping Újbuda’s cultural scene

It is difficult to measure the cultural vitality of a neighbourhood. We can browse through a city’s event calendar and assess the concentration of act...

CUP4Creativity: Can culture become the protagonist of social cohesion in Újbuda?

CUP4Creativity is a project of the Budapest district of Újbuda, funded by the EU’s Urban Innovative Actions programme. The project builds on the distr...

Journal 2 - The establishment of the innovation ecosystem

This is the second journal for Kosice 2.0 project that puts the second year of its implementation journey into the spotlight focusing on the key progr...

Embedding the culture of innovation - ZOOM IN (PART B)

Kosice 2.0 project aims at introducing new dimensions to the routines of work of Kosice City employees stimulating a shift in the culture of doing thi...

Embedding the culture of innovation - ZOOM IN (PART A)

How does the “Creative City” program, the capacity training program for the City employees of Kosice municipality, envisions to establish a new mindse...

Developing an open-data culture to advance city innovation: Open Data Kosice on the spotlight

Municipalities have been investing all the more in the last decade into developing infrastructures that enable them to work with data to improve their...

How does Kosice 2.0 project channels collective intelligence to respond to the Ukraine emergency

The second hackathon of the project developed solutions to help Ukrainian war refugees access the Slovak labor market....

Kosice 2.0 Journal 1: Hitting the ground running

The Kosice 2.0 project capitalizes on the ongoing culture-led transformation dynamics in the city of Kosice to increase citizens’ wellbeing while rein...

Kosice 2.0 launches its Urban Innovation Sphere and brings together citizens, start-ups and policymakers to drive change in the city

How can a City nurture intelligence among its society to improve public service provision and boost economic activity? What could be the role of cult...

INNOAIR Journal 2: Putting the green mobility options on the road

This journal summarizes the progress of activities of the project INNOAIR implemented by the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, with the support of the Urban In...

INNOAIR Journal 1: Towards on-demand green mobility

This journal summarizes the progress of activities of the project INNOAIR implemented by the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, with the support of the Urban In...

RE/SOURCED - The Educational Perspective

RE/SOURCED is defined by a number of innovative but highly technical aspects of the project. This article presents a different perspective - the proj...

RE/SOURCED Journal 2

This article presents the second UIA Journal for Renewable Energy SOlutions for URban communities based on Circular Economy policies and DC backbones...

What are Energy Communities?

Energy Communities have had considerable press coverage recently and RE/SOURCED always had an Energy Community as one of the integral elements of its ...

Tenacity pays dividends for RE/SOURCED - ZOOM IN

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...

What is the RE/SOURCED Smart Grid

This article describes the key elements of the RE/SOURCED Smart Grid...

RE/SOURCED Journal 1

UIA RE/SOURCED Journal - 1...

Zoom-in #3. Evaluation and monitoring innovative environmental projects involving citizen participation: the DIAMS approach

Monitoring and evaluating the impact of projects is essential to determine the success in implementing the action plan, achieving the objectives, and ...

Journal # 3: The challenges for the UIA DIAMS project

This is the third journal for the UIA DIAMS (Digital Alliance for Marseille Sustainability) project led by the Aix Marseille Métropole. In terms of a...

Journal #4: The final year for DIAMS

This is the fourth and last journal for the UIA project DIAMS (Digital Alliance for Marseille Sustainability). The Aix Marseille Métropole has led thi...

ZOOM – IN #2 - ENGAGEMENT OF CITIZENS AND STAKEHOLDERS IN THE FIGHT OF POOR AIR QUALITY: THE UIA-DIAMS APPROACH

The UIA DIAMS project, led by the Aix-Marseille Métropole, aims to engage the different parts of the society to improve the policies related to air qu...

DIAMS Journal 2: get an update about Aix-Marseille project

This second journal discusses the challenging times faced in this exceptional year, marked by the Covid-19 global pandemic, and how the DIAMS partners...

The DIAMS digital platform: Towards a collaborative approach to improve the air quality governance- Zoom-in

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...

Diams Project Journal 1

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 living lab: a lab in the air, a space to create on earth

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...

Final Journal DIACCESS

This final journal provides an assessment of the DIACCESS project. It starts with brief update of the activities in the DIACCESS project since it’s en...

Unemployed youth and refugees as IT talent

There is a lot of work to be done in digitalization, in the private and the public sector. Companies and governments everywhere are doing their best t...

Växjö gives waste bins a brain for better waste collection and sorting

Digital technology can make household waste collection in cities more efficient and speed up the circular transition. Putting sensors in waste bins ca...

The slippery road of innovation procurement

Journal 3 DIACCESS project

Executive Summary The project has entered its extension stage; the digital lab and IT platform are completed. Three innovation partnership procurem...

Scaling up smart city innovations: how it is done in Växjö

This zoom-in focuses on the challenge of upscaling, with illustrative examples from the DIACCESS project. In that project, the Swedish city of Växjö i...

Växjö meets Amsterdam to discuss innovative procurement: some takeaways

This article reviews how the cities of Växjö and Amsterdam adopt innovative procurement methods, and the challenges they face. ...

DIACCESS Zoom-in 1: Developing smart city solutions using the Innovation Partnership method: how does it work? Lessons from Växjö

This zoom-in focuses on the innovation partnership (IP) model. This model opens new avenues for public bodies, including cities, to co-create solution...

Journal 2 DIACCESS project

This journal provides an update of the progress of the project at the time of writing (November 2021) in the three main domains: the innovative public...

Challenge-based procurement: but how to find the challenges?

A cornerstone of the DIACCESS project in Växjö is to run a series of innovative public procurement (IPP) processes/rounds, in which companies are aske...

Procurement for innovation in action: DIACCESS Journal 1

This journal gives an account of the first experiences in the DIACCESS project in Växjö, Sweden...

Digital innovations for Växjö: some first results and challenges of the DIACCESS project

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...

GAVIUS hosts two Study Visits of the Ca’ Foscari Challenge School

International networking and dissemination of the project's concept and solutions are at the core of GAVIUS mission: in this light, the project's team...

GAVIUS joins the 5th Edition of the Conference “For a Circular and Competitive Economy”

Last 1st and 2nd June, the 5th edition of the conference “For a Circular and Competitive Economy” took place in Gavà (Spain). This annual event is arr...

GAVIUS: from co-creation to technological development - interview with Enric Ruiz-Esteller

Given the complexity of urban challenges, the public administrations involved in the Urban Innovative Actions Initiative are well aware they need to s...

Designed with and for the user: GAVIUS employs co-creation to develop its social aid management app

After having successfully concluded its co-creation phase, the GAVIUS project is deep diving into the development of the mobile application which will...

GAVIUS Journal #1: When AI Serves Common Good

Municipalities and local agencies are the forefront of digital transformation experimenting to use Artificial Intelligence and Data Anaytics to improv...

Making the most of energy data, a use case from Rudi

The current energy crisis in Europe highlights the urgent need for better control of energy consumption by individuals, companies and administrations ...

Keeping everyone on the same page: Rudi's partners seminars in 2021

In 2021, the Rudi project partners met for two seminars, in July and November. What was the discussion about? How do these moments of exchange contrib...

RUDI - Rennes Urban Data Interface Journal 2: get an update about Rennes project

Rennes Urban Data Interface (Rudi) aims to develop a data-sharing platform at the local level. In this second journal, UIA Expert Simon Chignard highl...

Citizens participation and mobilisation in Rudi: a multifaceted approach

Rennes Urban Data interface (Rudi) aims to develop data sharing for public interest at the local level. What roles could citizens play in that respect...

Rennes Urban Data Interface (Rudi) Journal 1: get an update about Rennes project

Rennes Urban Data Interface (Rudi) aims to develop a data-sharing platform at the local level. In this journal, UIA Expert Simon Chignard highlights h...

Data governance at the local level: lessons from European cities

UIA expert Simon Chignard reports a webinar organised by Rudi on data governance in April 2021, with the inputs of Marion Glatron (Rudi - Rennes Metro...

Rudi: climbing the learning curve

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 ...

Introducing Rudi, when data meets people

In this first article, UIA expert Simon Chignard introduces the motivations behind the Rudi project and the challenges faced by the project partners. ...

Understanding the dimensions of SURE

This article visits the key dimensions that SURE addressed reaching its goal to increase urban security through the lense of large-scale urban events....

ZOOM IN SURE – SCALING UP and SCALING OUT

This Zoom-in captures the key actions that the Tampere leading team of SURE took to ensure that this innovation project would successfully scale-up an...

Smart Urban Security & Events Resilience (SURE) Journal 2: Increasing safety of public events and building the city’s capacity for long-term resilience planning

Smart Urban Security and Event Resilience (SURE) Journal 1: How Tampere is intervening in the area of urban security and daily city resilience through the lens of event management

SURE is about urban security and public space management through the lens of event management. SURE is improving the security and accessibility of pu...

Sharing knowledge across projects on urban security

Last April, the teams leading the Call 4 UIA Projects for urban security got together for an online meet-up: different cities, different contexts, one...

Tampere hosted the ‘Keeping Cities Vital: Public Space and Resilience’ event

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...

Connecting bottom-up ideas to owners and funders: The RADAR Real Estate Forum in Ravenna

Urban transformation, especially in the form of large urban development projects, is often seen as primarily top-down, regulated by public administrat...

Modelling the Darsena: Storymaps or the digital heritage of a neighbourhood

DARE Journal #2: Unfolding stories of the Darsena

DARE is an innovative urban regeneration project that instead of focusing uniquely on the physical environment, invests in the skills of its inhabitan...

Ravenna Mapping Darsena: In search of visions, lost and found

Many urban regeneration schemes focus on architectural interventions or masterplans that aim to transform the social fabric of an area through shaping...

DARE Journal #1: The Project’s Approach

The DARE (Digital Environment for collaborative Alliances to Regenerate urban Ecosystems in middle-sized cities) project connects urban regeneration w...

Re-appropriating Ravenna’s waterfront: towards a collective story of transformation

Ravenna's Darsena area has been a delicate spot on the city’s map. After a process of deindustrialisation and a series of attempts to regenerate the f...

We.Service.Heerlen (WESH): Journal 4

WESH Journal no. 4 is the final journal of the We.Service.Heerlen project. This journal describes the reflection and legacy of the project, as well as...

WESH: Highlights & Achievements

For the capitalisation of WESH we are looking back on the project in three key ways; firstly on the highlights and achievements of the project....

WESH Zoom-In 2: Participatory approach explained

We are zooming in on the participatory approach during the preparation, implementation and continuation of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) as well as the ch...

WESH: How social innovation improves participation and cohesion

We have interviewed social innovator Anton ten Westenend, involved in neighbourhood association GMS and partner of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH)....

We.Service.Heerlen (WESH): Journal 3

WESH Journal no. 3 describes the progress of the We.Service.Heerlen project as of October 2022. That means WESH is in the final stage of the project p...

WESH: Heerlens Heitje awarded the best EU solution in global Smart Cities contest

During the annual IEEE Smart Cities conference in Cyprus, We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) was awarded as the best EU solution in the global Smart Cities con...

WESH: Developing the right tools to engage the community

We have interviewed Mr Grégoire Piette, Co-Founder of the startup CoTown and the technical supplier of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH)....

WESH: looking for ways to further engage and continue

We have interviewed Mr Pieter Bonnema, Senior Project Manager at the Municipality of Heerlen and Project Coordinator of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH)....

WESH Zoom-In 1: In-depth explanation of the tax challenges

We are zooming in on the various tax challenges that arose in the build-up to the launch of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) and during the implementation of...

WESH: letting the numbers speak for themselves

We have interviewed Professor Hans Schmeets and Mr Tim Muller, both employed at Statistics Netherlands in Heerlen and partners of the We.Service.Heerl...

We.Service.Heerlen (WESH): Journal 2

WESH Journal no. 2 describes the progress of the We.Service.Heerlen project as of October 2021. That means WESH is halfway the three years project per...

WESH: a perfect showcase for the new Public Services Lab

We have interviewed Mr Ivar Moberts, Business & Community Developer at Brightlands Smart Service Campus in Heerlen and partner of the We.Service.Heerl...

WESH: relying on the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ in managing the city

We have interviewed Mr Kurt Isik, Innovation Advisor at the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) and partner in the We.Service.Heerlen project....

WESH: our solution is working trust-based and making it happen

We have interviewed Ms Robine Gielkens, Junior Project Manager at the Municipality of Heerlen and member of the We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) project team...

We.Service.Heerlen (WESH): Journal 1

WESH Journal no. 1 describes the city of Heerlen in the Netherlands, a former mining city that has been struggling with substantial socio-economic dis...

WESH: How Heerlen’s citizens bob-a-job in a digital age

For decades, the city of Heerlen, a former mining centre in the Southeast of the Netherlands, is struggling with substantial socio-economic disadvanta...

Piloting the BRISE-Vienna results - Journal N° 3

The 3rd Journal of BRISE Vienna sums-up the progress that was made throughout 2022 and highlights the steps taken to achieve the proof-of-concept for ...

Disrupting without breaking - how Vienna is piloting a seamless digital building permission

Innovation in the public sector follows different rules than in the corporate world. But also here, new things need to be tested before adopting them....

The BRISE-Vienna Project - Journal N°2

BRISE-Vienna addresses the challenge of accelerating complex verification and permission procedures in city administrations by applying the full range...

AI for cities – the BRISE Example

Artificial Intelligence (or what we understand by this term) is all over the place and it is quickly transforming economies and organizations. Yet, ci...

BRISE-Vienna: innovation & transformation in cities – the role of the municipal employee

Changing a person's behavior is hard. Transforming organisations is even harder. But if we are to make our cities more sustainable, liveable and citiz...

Digitizing building permissions in Vienna: BRISE Journal 1

​​​​​​​BRISE-Vienna addresses the challenge of accelerating complex verification and permission procedures in city administrations by applying the ful...

BRISE-Vienna: The automated 3D reference model as municipal verification tool

The BRISE-Vienna project aims to fully digitize the process of building permission and - through this - at least half the time it takes the municipal ...

BRISE Vienna - building the future of EU cities

European cities are as diverse as the continent. Some are growing, some are shrinking, but all try to figure out, how data and digital technologies ca...

Cluj Future of Work Journal 4: get the final update about Cluj Napoca project

UIA expert Simone d'Antonio provides the final updates on the activities carried out in the framework of Cluj Future of Work, such as the final event ...

Future of work is creative: how the Festival of Creativity engaged the local community in the project’s grand finale

The final event of Cluj Future of Work was a great opportunity for connecting the local audience to the topics of the UIA project...

Cluj Future of Work Zoom-in 3: creating innovation in culture, arts and design, the stories of the finalists of CULTUREPRENEURS

The third Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on the stories of the finalists of the CULTUREPRENEURS programme, the acceleration initiative at the core ...

Cluj Future of Work Journal 3: get an update about Cluj Napoca project

From Cluj Napoca to Venice: five points on the future of work in cultural and creative industries and community resilience

The results of the capitalization visit carried out by the team of Cluj Future of Work and the UIA expert to reflect on the future of work in cultural...

Three lessons that Cluj-Napoca, Aveiro and Eindhoven can learn from each other on future labour skills

The cross-fertilization action carried out by three UIA projects shares interesting elements contributing to the European debate on the skills needed ...

Cluj Future of Work Journal 2: get an update about Cluj Napoca project

UIA Expert Simone d'Antonio provides updates on the most interesting activities carried out in the framework of Cluj Future of Work. Among these, the...

Skills development as opportunity for local growth: a new approach with Culturepreneurs in Cluj-Napoca

The kick-off of the entrepreneurial educational programme of Cluj Future of Work paves the way to the promotion of a collaborative approach towards th...

Festivals, film industry and multimedia products after the pandemic: Cluj-Napoca gives a glimpse of the future

The partners of Cluj Future of Work and the participants to the Culturepreneurs programme are testing new ways for producing and distributing culture,...

The Cluj Future of Work Project Journal 1

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 ...

Reimagining work: Cluj-Napoca uses future scenarios to make better predictions

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 ...

Work and the city: how Cluj-Napoca is involving local community in the debate on the future

Local community can be part of the collaborative effort of reflection on the future of work: Cluj-Napoca is involving experts, academics, stakeholders...

Urban-rural agenda of Cuenca: the way forward to 2030

The agenda is among the last deliverables produced by the Urban Forest Innovation Lab project. The document sets the roadmap for local and regional pu...

SEMBRIA, the missing perspective

SEMBRIA is a non-profit association with a mission: to address the needs of rural territories through the implementation of participatory projects. Th...

DENDRON, a 'tree' grown in UFIL innovation lab

Dendron is the Greek word for ‘tree’. This is the name given by Diego, Héctor and José to their company established in 2022 as a follow up to their pa...

Final (internal) evaluation and results: what can be replicated in other cities endowed with forest resources

In July 2022, the project started collecting the information for its final internal evaluation. Due by the end of October 2022, the evaluation was a m...

Incentive mechanisms for visibility and engagement: acknowledgments, prizes and awards

UFIL has given and gained visibility over the last three years. Prizes and awards were used to help young entrepreneurs to accomplish the UIA project’...

Zoom-in #3 - Lessons learnt in UFIL

UFIL is close to its completion and project's partners were invited to point out the main lessons learnt throughout implementation. By sharing this ex...

Forest certification in and around UFIL: a multi-functional driver

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international organisation promoting the responsible management of forests, and is one of the partners of t...

Local action plans for forest bioeconomy development: a mission impossible?

One of the main objectives of the UFIL project is to contribute developing a local bioeconomy ecosystem which is based on the sustainable exploitation...

Zoom-in #2 - Business and job creation in UFIL: sustainability mechanisms

The Urban Forest Innovation Lab project is a Jobs and Skills Urban Innovation Action. Through its innovative training, the project is expected to help...

How do UFIL entrepreneurial ideas link urban to rural areas? A mix of tradition and local innovation.

UFIL is an Urban Innovation Action and as such is supposed to focus on urban development. In fact, UFIL has a peculiarity that makes it different from...

UFIL Journal #3: how the project is about to begin its fourth and final year

This is the third journal of the Urban Forest Innovation Lab (UFIL) UIA project since its start on 1 November 2018. It covers the period 31 October 20...

UFIL Journal 2: taking stock of the project implementation

This is the second journal of the Urban Forest Innovation Lab (UFIL) project since its start on 1/11/2018. It covers the period 1 January 2020 – 31 Oc...

ZOOM-IN #1: The ‘business challenge’ mechanism of UFIL

In UFIL, the ‘business challenge’ is a mechanism ruling the internal competitions which are run in the project’s innovation lab. These competitions ar...

UFIL and the COVID-19 outbreak: challenges and opportunities.

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...

Scouting innovators: how ideas shape the future of Cuenca's forest-based bioeconomy

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 ...

Fostering local skills and innovation capacity in the forest sector: UFIL's first journal is out

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 ...

Passport for Work: first results of the impact study & invitation to final event

Passport for Work supports refugee integration into the labour market

Passport for Work’s scientific impact study kicks off

Ever since the Passport for Work project started, it has been a key objective to support its social innovation process with a scientific impact analys...

Major milestone for P4W: national skills survey complete

In October 2020, Passport4Work started an ambitious national research endeavour: replicating the survey of the leading skills taxonomy O*NET in the Du...

Passport4Work expands target group: focus groups with University students

Striving for an inclusive labour market instrument, Passport4Work organized 2 focus group sessions with University students to establish its utility b...

Passport4Work Journal 3

Passport4Work is nearing the product delivery phase. Learn more about the state of play of the project and its contributions to a skills-based economy...

Passport4Work launches employer prototype at HR Live

Passport4Work reached a major milestone in its project, by recently finishing the first prototype of the employer interface of the tool. This prototyp...

P4W Journal 2: A phase of intensive technical development and prototyping!

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...

Passport4Work completes series of tests of first prototype (video)

After a series of sophisticated user experience tests, Passport4Work launched its first prototype this month. ...

Passport4Work starts ambitious Dutch validation of US-based O*NET framework

Passport4Work has started a widespread, ambitious national study among Dutch employers, job seekers and intermediaries to contextualize and validate t...

Passport4Work: Towards a common understanding of skills

Passport4Work update: abstract skills in layman's terms

As described in the previous web article, P4W is developing tools for skills assessment, eLearnings and job matching....

The GSIP Project Journal 4: How has an innovative idea enriched the local jobs and skills discourse

This is the fourth (and final) Journal of the EU (Urban Innovative Actions - UIA) funded GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, one of th...

The use of impact evaluation in local jobs and skills initiatives – The paradigm of the Vantaa GSIP Project

This is the third Zoom-in of the EU (Urban Innovative Actions - UIA) funded GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, one of the main instru...

Municipalities as drivers of change in the regeneration of urban labour markets – The paradigm of the GSIP Project “Updating skills for employees” model

This is the second Zoom-in of the EU (Urban Innovative Actions - UIA) funded GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, one of the main instr...

Management and monitoring models of local jobs and skills initiatives – Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

How could independent Research Organizations contribute to the development of local jobs and skills agendas? Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

This is the web-article No. 7 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop an innova...

The contribution of municipal companies to local jobs and skills agendas - Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

This is the web-article No. 8 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop an innova...

The GSIP Project story during 2021 - Journal 3

This is the third Journal of the EU (Urban Innovative Actions - UIA) funded GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, one of the main instru...

“Communication and dissemination strategies of local jobs and skills agendas - Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project Communication Plan”

This is the web-article No. 6 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop an innova...

How did the Vantaa GSIP Project achieve to develop active employment programmes with strong social impact? The GSIP 1 model case study

This is the web-article No. 4 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop active em...

GSIP Journal 2: get an update on Vantaa's project

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...

How could European cities promote a solid active inclusion model

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...

How Universities participate in the development of local jobs and skills agendas? Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

The evolving links between the university and the local government are becoming a major focus of European regional policies in specific areas, as the ...

GSIP Expert Journal 1: Get to know the project and what happened in the first 6 months!

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 ...

How may policy discourse influence local jobs and skills agendas? The case of the Vantaa GSIP Project

Transnational and comparative social policy research shows that integrating individuals with complex social problems (such as low qualifications, outd...

Live from the Growth and Social Investments Pacts Project! An interview with the City of Vantaa Mayor Ritva Viljanen

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...

Aveiro STEAM city: how the A of Arts contaminated applied sciences

AVEIRO STEAM CITY JOURNAL 4: GET THE FINAL UPDATE ABOUT THE AVEIRO’S PROJECT

This is the final journal of the project Aveiro Steam City (ASC); at the time of writing (October 2022) the project is officially closed and so it is ...

UBBU: a platform for learning coding skills in primary schools turns out to be an entrepreneurial success story

Aveiro Steam City provides an intense training program for primary schools, which aims to enable children to all the basic skills necessary for progra...

AVEIRO STEAM CITY Closure Event: a legacy to inherit through a new governance pact

It’s time to draw the strings of a long journey that has brought important innovations to the city of Aveiro: Aveiro Steam City (ASC) project is comin...

The AVEIRO STEAM CITY Project Journal n.3

“Aveiro STEAM city” (ASC) intends to boost the use of new technologies in the public space, together with the aim to make these technologies accessibl...

CULTURAL HERITAGE AS A LEVERAGE FOR URBAN REGENERATION: ATLAS BUILDING IN AVEIRO, A TECH HUB

ATLAS, a hub for Tech city: there is a trait d'union particularly important among UIA projects: together with actions, projects and services, the prog...

AVEIRO TECH WEEK from the voices of the ASC partners

From October 11th to 17th 2021, Aveiro Tech Week (ATW) took place in Aveiro, Candidate City for European Capital of Culture, reaching its 3th edition ...

Zoom-In Aveiro Tech Labs: YOUNG MAKERS IN SCHOOLS!

Tech Labs in a nutshell One of the challenging objectives of the Aveiro STEAM CITY (ASC) project is the development of a STEAM learning context (sc...

LEVERAGING INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR CULTURAL POLICIES: ART TECH INITIATIVES IN AVEIRO STEAM CITY AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON AVEIRO EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2027 CANDIDACY

It is widely recognized that cultural policies represent levers of urban economic development of cities, as well as producing significant social impac...

ASC FROM THE VOICES OF THE USERS: interviews with teachers, startuppers, citizens in need for reskilling, young aspiring entrepreneurs in the field of art and creativity

Aveiro Steam city (ASC) is a complex and fascinating project because it combines the provision of infrastructural actions and services; if - on the on...

Aveiro STEAM City Journal 2: get to know the project latest achievements

In this second Journal, UIA Expert Lucia Scopelliti through the project latest achievements and challenges. ...

Rethink your monitoring and evaluation practices

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 ...

AVEIRO’S LABOUR OBSERVATORY: THE POST-GENERATIONAL WORKFORCE LOOKS BEYOND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

IoT’S POTENTIAL: AVEIRO'S DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AREAS OF MOBILITY, ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Many municipalities all over the world turn to the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to prevent environmental deterioration, mitigate traffic congesti...

Coding skills for non-geeks only! A smart strategy to train human resources and retain talents in the Aveiro Region - Zoom-in

Aveiro Tech City Bootcamp is an intensive training program, dedicated to unemployed, students or employed professionals looking for new career opportu...

AVEIRO STEAM CITY LIVING LAB, THE CITY-AS-A-PLATFORM

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 ...

THE SECOND WAVE OF SMART CITIES: learning from the experience of a “SMART CITIES LIGHTHOUSE” PROJECT through a study visit in Milan

“The overall evidence suggests that we do not lack technologies, nor the data captured by technologies, but that the bigger challenge lies in governan...

Aveiro Steam City Journal: a new technological revolution in the city

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...

ZOOM IN 3 - EdTech galleries and the future of education

In this third Zoom In of the NextGen Microcities project, the UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli interviews the key people behind the development of the new Sc...

ZOOM IN 2 - The 7 challenges of implementing innovation in cities

In this second Zoom In of the NextGen Microcities project, the UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli interviews Laura Codere, Project Manager of the project. This...

Ventspils, Valmiera and the quest to attract foreign investments in European Microcities

In this article we look at results on the project’s line of activity concerning Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) attraction in Ventspils and Valmiera...

Future of work and future of education: STEM, EdTech and the case of the NextGen Microcities project

Latvia is still affected by a structural deficit of STEM professionals in the job market. The challenge to leapfrog the country into a digital transfo...

Journal N. 3 - NextGen Microcities

NextGen Microcities has formally ended as an UIA funded experimentation after three years of hard work. For one more year, partners are committed to k...

NextGen Microcities ends, but it is just the beginning

After three years of hard work, after the summer the team started to wrap up final activities, and organized the grand finale event in Ventspils on 13...

NextGen Microcities boosts career development guidance

There is much that can be done to support employability, and public administrations can play an important role in that. They can do so not just by des...

Prototyping innovation: enabling the future one step at a time

Digital and physical are blending through a transformation of atoms in pixels and vice versa. Cities can play a role in enabling this transformation f...

NextGen Microcities Journal 2: get an update about Ventspils and Valmiera project

UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli provides “updates on some of the most interesting activities carried out within the project scope:...

NextGen Microcities tests innovative approaches to match the demand for ICT talents in the job market

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...

Ventspils and Valmiera pilot innovative EdTech solutions to prepare young people for the future of work

As this article is being published, four NextGen partners are launching new initiatives where technology becomes a tool for educating younger generati...

NextGen Microcities Zoom-in 1: Facing COVID-19

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...

The City of Ventspils approves a new FDI strategy within the context of the NextGen Microcities project

Ventspils just produced a strategy paper, highlighting its new Foreign Direct Investment strategy, and this article presents it in the context of FDIs...

NextGen Microcities opens DARE, the makerspace for creative ideas and new opportunities

DARE was opened in Valmiera, right before the Covid-19 crisis....

NextGen Microcities Journal 1: First steps for Ventspils and Valmiera

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...

The COMMUTE project (Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emissions reduction) Journal 6 Project led by the city of Toulouse

The sixth and last Journal of the COMMUTE project (Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emissions Reduction) presents the final dev...

ZOOM IN 3 - The COMMUTE reference framework (“Référentiel COMMUTE”)

The COMMUTE reference framework (“Référentiel COMMUTE”) The COMMUTE project aims at achieving more seamless mobility, while at the same time reduci...

The COMMUTE project Journal 5

The fifth Journal of the COMMUTE project (Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emissions Reduction) presents the final development...

The COMMUTE reference framework

The COMMUTE project aims at achieving more seamless mobility, while at the same time reducing the environmental impact of transport and enhancing qual...

Cycling in the COMMUTE project - ZOOM-in 2

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...

COMMUTE Journal 4: harvesting results

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...

COMMUTE Journal and impact on urban mobility

In the third Journal of the COMMUTE project (Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emissions Reduction) UIA expert, Vanessa Holve, f...

COMMUTE UIA Expert Journal – collaborative management to tackle the city’s congestion

UIA Expert, Vanessa Holve, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...

Toulouse project COMMUTE's 1st zoom-in is out!

Have you ever heard about the “Workplace travel plans” and how this can reduce the use of individual car? ...

COMMUTE's Local Mobility Committee, a collaborative platform

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...

Playing Together Towards Sustainable Mobility. The Air-Break Gamification Experience

Through a set of playful activities and gamified rewarding campaigns, the Air-Break project sets to bring about positive change in citizens’ mobility ...

AIR BREAK Journal Nr. 1

The Air-Break project seeks to reduce by 25% air-pollution in selected strategic areas of the City of Ferrara. The city lays in one of the most air-po...

CUP4Creativity Zoom-in #1 - Imagining the Adaptér

In this first Zoom-in for the UIA project CUP4Creativity, Levente Polyak visits a pop-up event in the future Adaptér, to learn about the art & tech ce...

Electric minibuses offering on-demand and zero-emission public transport options to citizens in Sofia

The INNOAIR Podcast episode #4 is covering the on-demand green public transport service that he Bulgarian capital of Sofia has started to test with a ...

Sofia Coin: Rewarding healthier travel behavior for cleaner air

INNOAIR Podcast Episode #3 presents the concept of Sofia Coin, a smart phone app that rewards its users for walking and cycling instead of driving whi...

Artificial Intelligence: Can smarter transit prevent Sofia from car overkill?

INNOAIR Podcast Episode #2 is covering the opportunities and challenges of using artificial intelligence in managing sustainable on-demand mobility so...

INNOAIR hackathon: How to make urban mobility in Sofia smart and green?

INNOAIR Podcast Episode #1 is reporting on a hackathon aimed at ideas and solutions making Sofia's urban mobility smart and green....

What is RE/SOURCED?

The RE/SOURCED Project & TRANSFO...

Rennes Urban Data Interface - Zoom-in #2 - Let's design the governance model

This video reports on how the Rudi partners and key stakeholders designed the governance model for the future....

Rennes Urban Data Interface Zoom-in #1

Rudi aims to develop a platform for local data exchange. The project is now entering a new phase, represented by a call for projects to reuse data sha...

DARE Ravenna Zoom-in #2 - Towards a tactic for the Darsena

The Urban Innovative Actions-funded project DARE is a non-conventional urban regeneration project that instead of focusing uniquely on the physical en...

DARE Zoom-in #1: Narrating urban transformation - a digital platform for Ravenna's Darsena

In this first Zoom-in for the UIA project DARE, Levente Polyak explores the digital platform conceived to support the transformation of Ravenna's Dars...

WESH: video explaining how ‘Heerlens Heitje’ works

To explain how We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) actually stimulates civic participation in the city of Heerlen, we have produced a documentary-style video in...

Zoom in - the Team behind BRISE Vienna

In BRISE Vienna, the City of Vienna is developing a fully digitized tool for the verification and permit of new buildings. Meet the people behind this...

Cluj Future of Work Zoom-in 2: CREIC and the role of innovation hubs for urban growth

The second Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on CREIC, the Regional Center of Excellence for Creative Industries that is hosting the Labs of Cluj Futu...

Cluj Future of Work Zoom-in 1: Pata-Rât and the future of work

The first Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on Pata-Rât, a Roma settlement located near the city landfill which is one of the main focus of the Urban ...

Passport for Work Zoom-in: The Skill Based Economy

The Dutch labour market is facing unprecedented shortages, calling for a skill based economy in which skill based matching, reskilling and upskilling ...

Passport for Work Zoom-in: Skills based matching

In the second Passport for Work zoom-in (the first can be found here), the implications of skills based matching are explored among employers. We visi...

Introducing Air-Break Ferrara's Smart Hubs

UIA Expert Pietro L. Verga interviews Gabriele Mengozzi (HERA Group) on the main features of the Smart Hubs developed in Ferrara to support and facili...

The construction of Ferrara’s new Smart Bike Lane. Adapting to new conditions and challenges

The Smart Bike Lane is part of the infrastructural upgrades plan through which the Air-Break project is facilitating slow mobility within the city of ...