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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 is approaching the end of its journay to develop city wide innovative partnership for sustainable commuting. In this 5th Journal, UIA expert Zs...
In her second zoom-in, UIA Expert Zsuzsa Kravalik explores the policy drivers and institutional challenges behind mobility projects. She interviews vi...
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 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 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...
This journal focuses on the post-project phase of APPLAUSE. What activities have continued now that the project has officially finished? How partners ...
UIA Expert Jorgina Cuixart shares insights around the APPLAUSE business models. Take a look at Zoom-in 3 and learn more about Ljubljana’s case study o...
UIA Expert Jorgina Cuixart reports “COVID-19 has had a noticeable effect on APPLAUSE and the plans the consortium had for this last phase of project i...
UIA expert Jorgina Cuixart reveals how “APPLAUSE is heading towards the last few months of implementation. Some activities such as the harvesting camp...
UIA Expert Jorgina Cuixart reports that “after two years since the start of the project, most processes and planned activities in APPLAUSE are up and ...
UIA Expert Jorgina Cuixart reveals how “through a variety of educational and awareness raising actions, citizens are encouraged to participate in diff...
Check out Ljubljana’s initial steps in the first UIA Expert journal...
In her first Zoom-in, UIA Expert Jorgina Cuixart presents Invasive Alien Plant Species (IAPS) and their impact on cities. ...
Ljubljana has been progressing in the development of its circular model for IAPS management. ...
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...
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...
In his 6th and concluding journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes the final results and takeaways from the project, which includes the ...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
The A2UFood project proposes a holistic approach to food waste management in the Municipality of Heraklion. It includes food waste reduction (awarenes...
Digital tools, bioplastics laboratory trials, composting, awareness raising, dissemination and tendering have progressed. Heraklion is getting ready f...
UIA Expert Christina Marouli goes into the details of the RESOURCEMANAGER-FOOD (RMF) tool for the hospitality units....
UIA Expert Christina Marouli reveals that in the past months, Heraklion’s “primary focus has been the resolution of licensing and tendering challenges...
UIA Expert Christina Marouli reports that “this third period constituted a continuation of the first year, with the primary focus being on implementat...
Get to know the initial achievements of Heraklion in the first UIA Expert journal....
The first Zoom-in of the A2UFood project has just been finalised! UIA Expert Christina Marouli presents the many different dimensions of the problem o...
Discover the latest updates around Heraklion’s project. ...
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...
UIA Expert, Marcelline Bonneau, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
Antwerp Circular South has begun unfolding. ...
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 ...
The VILAWATT project was implemented to secure a stable energy transition process through the setting of an innovative governance structure (local pub...
UIA Expert Lucia Fuselli has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Viladec...
Get to know better what Viladecans is doing on the topic energy transition in this UIA Expert journal....
UIA Expert Lucia Fuselli has developed a PPT slide show to discuss how the Vilawatt project in Viladecans has approached communication, stakeholder pa...
Stay up-to-date with the latest achievements of Viladecans...
Vilawatt is currently considered to be a Spanish example in social innovation and community energy, at a time when energy poverty and energy access ar...
Get to know better what Paris is doing on energy transition in this UIA Expert journal. ...
UIA Expert Juan de las Cuevas has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Pa...
Get the latest news about Paris’ innovative action...
UIA Expert Juan Ramon de las Cuevas and the CoRDEES team have produced a video to explain the main elements of this Energy transition project. ...
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 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...
On the last day of October 2019, the Fossil-free Energy Districts (FED) project will be completed. The collaboration has, during three years, designed...
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...
Check out how Gothenburg is implementing effective cross departmental working....
The UIA Expert Zeno Winkels has produced a video to discuss what UIA is and explain the main elements of this Energy transition project....
Gothenburg is heading towards a successful closure. ...
This journal by expert Levente Polyák documents the evolution of the UIA project CUP4Creativity. This issue serves as a summary of the project’s devel...
In the past three years, the Urban Innovative Actions-funded project CUP4Creativity has been working on strengthening the local cultural and creative ...
Local civil ecosystems are important building blocks of our cities. With a better understanding of the resources and needs of local initiatives, we ca...
How can we understand the attitudes of different local stakeholders to culture and community? How can we design better instruments to enable connectio...
This journal by expert Levente Polyák accompanies the UIA project CUP4Creativity in its development. This second issue serves as a summary of the proj...
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...
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...
Seeking to create new connections between cultural producers, creatives, technology initiatives, businesses and residents, the UIA-funded project CUP4...
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 is a project of the Budapest district of Újbuda, funded by the EU’s Urban Innovative Actions programme. The project builds on the distr...
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...
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...
How does the “Creative City” program, the capacity training program for the City employees of Kosice municipality, envisions to establish a new mindse...
Municipalities have been investing all the more in the last decade into developing infrastructures that enable them to work with data to improve their...
The second hackathon of the project developed solutions to help Ukrainian war refugees access the Slovak labor market....
The Kosice 2.0 project capitalizes on the ongoing culture-led transformation dynamics in the city of Kosice to increase citizens’ wellbeing while rein...
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...
On 26 June 2024 the UIA projects focused on culture and cultural heritage CAMINA and H.ID.RA.N.T organised a joint online final event called “Engage.A...
On 8 May 2023 at the online webinar organised by ARCHETHICS, an URBACT Action Planning Network, CAMINA project was presented by the delivery partners ...
Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 3rd Journal, focuses on the “Civic Curators”, the collaborative laboratories to co-design and implement cultural p...
Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 2nd Journal, focuses on the Novel Collective City Narrative, built up with the contribution of Almería citizens an...
In this first episode developed for the project “CAMINA”, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, introduces the Novel Collective Narrative of Almería’s Cultural ...
Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 1st Journal, provides an overview of the policy context at local and international level, in which CAMINA has been...
« Collage van Gent » project selected by the CoGhent Co-creation Fund proposing a participatory collage of elements coming from Ghent’s collections pr...
One of the 4 scenarios elaborated during the NEXT COGHENT workshop reusing the CoGhent building blocks (photo credit: Strategic Design Scenarios)....
Cover of the Collection of Ghent webinar the 20th of June 2023 https://www.collectie.gent/kalender/collections-of-ghent-unfolds-webinar-english (photo...
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...
This report provides an overview of the 2023 activities for the INNOAIR project, spearheaded by Sofia, Bulgaria, and supported by the Urban Innovative...
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...
Citizen science, a method that brings non-experts into the fold of scientific research and data collection, has emerged as a powerful tool in addressi...
Air-Break's comprehensive dataset transforms Ferrara's urban planning, providing real-time air quality and mobility insights....
In this Zoom-In, UIA Expert Pietro L. Verga navigates through the transformative impact of FBK's Air-Break Sustainable Mobility Motivational Campaigns...
With the project approaching its end in December 2023, this Journal Nr. 3 reflects on a number of core lessons learnt during the implementation of Air...
In the pursuit of creating smarter and more sustainable urban environments, the Air-Break Ferrara project has embarked on a mission to revolutionize t...
How to actively engage youth, researchers, and experts in exploring innovative solutions to contemporary environmental challenges? ...
Through a set of playful activities and gamified rewarding campaigns, the Air-Break project sets to bring about positive change in citizens’ mobility ...
In order to better understand the commuting practices, habits, and trends of Ferrara’s citizens and city-users, and ultimately to inform policy decisi...
This second Journal focuses on the achievements of- and challenges for all the core realms of the Air-Break project until October 2022....
Since March 2022, a new urban forest is growing in Ferrara, thanks to the plantation of nearly two-thousands trees and shrubs in five selected areas o...
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...
The air we breathe can contain a variety of pollutants released into the atmosphere as a mixture of solid particles, liquid droplets, and gases from a...
In European cities, up to 50% of urban trips for professional activities could be made by cargo bike, yet many lack the awareness, infrastructure, and...
Incorporating partner feedback, the second edition of the journal traces the progress of each challenge, documents enhancements, and outlines actionab...
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...
I asked Paul Cornelissen, thematic project manager of ForwArt about his vision on youth empowerment and how is he turning it into reality within proje...
The occassion of the UIA officer Isabella Schneble's visit to Tilburg North provided an opportunity to have a glimpse into the artistic activities wit...
"Arts and culture deserve a similar acknowledgement of their relation to sustainable development as sport, as they have been proven to have social imp...
"A generation apart" - this frequent term makes us aware that youth participation is not an easy task to perform since those youngsters are at least a...
Our third RE/SOURCED Journal, covering Q1 2023 to Q1 2024...
This articles considers whether there is a link between circularity and carbon emissions. It also uses the RE/SOURCED project as an exemplar to show ...
RE/SOURCED aimed to construct a DC Smart Grid using circular principles at Transfo, a former coal fired power station site in Belgium. The original pr...
This video presents the second ZOOM-IN article for RE/SOURCED. It summarises the progress made by the project consortium in delivering the RE/Sourced...
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...
This is the fourth and last journal for the UIA project DIAMS (Digital Alliance for Marseille Sustainability). The Aix Marseille Métropole has led thi...
Monitoring and evaluating the impact of projects is essential to determine the success in implementing the action plan, achieving the objectives, and ...
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...
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...
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 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 about the DIAMS project, UIA Expert Anna Font provides a general overview of how DIAMS fits within the existing European, French...
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...
Following the triple bottom line (TBL), the SPIRE project initially tackles the challenges urban ecosystems suffer at the nexus of the economy-society...
How do culture and creativity influence innovation in our cities? What is the role of technical and economic knowledge? Building a culture of innovati...
Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are infrastructures to capture, store, manage, analyse, chart, and visualize information, data, and indicators of...
This is the second journal of the Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem (SPIRE) project since its creation on 1st September 2019. The impact of...
If we consider money as a social technology, we could agree that it should never be "neutral". Now as the world is immersed in this global pandemic an...
The ecological transformation and recovery of five contaminated areas in Baia Mare, along with the significant environmental behavioural shift from ci...
The impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the severe climate trends has shown how visionary the SPIRE project is, reclaiming and enhancing Baia ...
One of the essentials of the SPIRE project that appealed all the parties involved from the beginning, as well as the newcomers, is “the magical” abili...
This is the first journal of the Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem (SPIRE) since its start on 01/09/2019. SPIRE, led by the Municipality of...
This article is the first to review Baia Mare and the SPIRE project (Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem), financed under the 4th call of the...
Pollution is one of the most significant environmental challenges worldwide; according to the European Environmental Agency, the management of pollute...
People, Processes & Technology towards the digital transformation of the urban mobility system of Lisbon (VoxPop) is the project that will foster digi...
The Vox Pop Project - Journal No 3 ...
The project has ended and delivered its outputs. This web article is dedicated to the impact assessment of the project outputs....
People, Processes & Technology towards the digital transformation of the urban mobility system of Lisbon (VoxPop) is the new project that will foster ...
The Innovators Alliance has laid the foundations for the definition of the data sharing framework by identifying the barriers, and started identifying...
This is the first edition of the VoxPop journal and aims at introducing the project, the expectations of the partners and the most relevant challenges...
The UIA Expert Simone d’Antonio provides an update on what has happened with the project since its end date, with a focus on the impact produced in th...
2022 was a crucial year in which some of the most important activities developed: The urban data platform has been finalised; The projects ended in D...
2021 was a passing year. Some delays due to covid-19 hampers 2021 from being the crucial year of the success or unsuccess of the project. However impo...
The Tonite project includes two important urban renewal interventions. Today we talk with Valter Cavallaro and Samantha Ghirotto of the Municipality o...
In the framework of the Tonite project, a tender was launched with the goal of collecting proposals from local communities. The aims of the project ar...
Tonite project aims at improving urban security perception at night-time by providing new services with the citizens' engagement and more pro-active a...
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...
The resurgence of Coronavirus cases in recent days, making it clear that this second wave is upon us in Europe, is a good opportunity to focus our att...
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...
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...
Digital technology can make household waste collection in cities more efficient and speed up the circular transition. Putting sensors in waste bins ca...
Executive Summary The project has entered its extension stage; the digital lab and IT platform are completed. Three innovation partnership procurem...
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...
This article reviews how the cities of Växjö and Amsterdam adopt innovative procurement methods, and the challenges they face. ...
This zoom-in focuses on the innovation partnership (IP) model. This model opens new avenues for public bodies, including cities, to co-create solution...
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...
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...
This journal gives an account of the first experiences in the DIACCESS project in Växjö, Sweden...
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...
Rennes Urban Data Interface (Rudi) aims to develop a data-sharing platform at the local level. In this final journal, UIA Expert Simon Chignard reflec...
How can we guarantee the ethical and responsible use of data? How can we be sure that the public interest is being taken into account and that the rig...
Rennes Urban Data Interface (RUDI) project is one of the milestones of a decade-long collaboration between public and private sectors actors. In Septe...
The current energy crisis in Europe highlights the urgent need for better control of energy consumption by individuals, companies and administrations ...
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...
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...
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) aims to develop a data-sharing platform at the local level. In this journal, UIA Expert Simon Chignard highlights h...
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...
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 ...
In this first article, UIA expert Simon Chignard introduces the motivations behind the Rudi project and the challenges faced by the project partners. ...
There were various environmental critical issues highlighted by the UPPER project for the territory of the Municipality of Latina, for which a range o...
The Canale delle Acque Medie (The Canal of the Middle Waters) symbolizes an element of structural interest for the urban center of Latina, representin...
After the success of the 2021 edition, the 2022 UPPER SEEDs were kicked off on 13 June. The activities in which citizens, schools and all those who h...
The selection of participants in the second edition of UPPER JOBS has been completed. The participants selected by the Labirinto Social Cooperative ha...
Thanks to the creation of two innovative platforms developed by the partners and integrated into a common observatory, the UPPER project is able to co...
The Journal is aimed to describe the activities of the UPPER project and the results achieved during the first period of implementation. It also descr...
UPPER project aims at transforming misused and abandoned urban green areas into Productive Parks (PP) devoted to research, technological development a...
This Journal 1 of the Green Minds project is providing insights on the first significant advancements in favour of rewilding and nature-based solution...
How the implementation of the Green Minds project successfully continued over the tough period of the pandemic by seizing the embedded opportunities ...
This article visits the key dimensions that SURE addressed reaching its goal to increase urban security through the lense of large-scale urban events....
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...
SURE is about urban security and public space management through the lens of event management. SURE is improving the security and accessibility of pu...
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...
The APTBC project has invested significant efforts in improving the parks in the central neighbourhoods of Seraing, which are the least green areas of...
This article is based on an interview with Aurélie Portois, currently project coordinator at the Maison du Peuple, and on some preliminary drafts cont...
While the project was concluded in August 2023, this final issue of the journal offers a critical reflection on the challenges faced during implementa...
This article is about the final event of the APTBC project, which took place in June 2023. The article presents how the results, ambitions and expecta...
The project A Place to Be-Come has recently closed. Ahead of the final event, all the project partners have shared their ideas about what the project’...
One goal of the project is to improve residents’ relationship with their local parks. This improvement involves on the one side improving the material...
'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...
We are looking back on the lessons for European cities that emerged from We.Service.Heerlen (WESH)....
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...
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....
We are zooming in on the participatory approach during the preparation, implementation and continuation of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) as well as the ch...
We have interviewed social innovator Anton ten Westenend, involved in neighbourhood association GMS and partner of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH)....
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...
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...
We have interviewed Mr Grégoire Piette, Co-Founder of the startup CoTown and the technical supplier of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH)....
We have interviewed Mr Pieter Bonnema, Senior Project Manager at the Municipality of Heerlen and Project Coordinator of We.Service.Heerlen (WESH)....
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...
We have interviewed Professor Hans Schmeets and Mr Tim Muller, both employed at Statistics Netherlands in Heerlen and partners of the We.Service.Heerl...
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...
We have interviewed Mr Ivar Moberts, Business & Community Developer at Brightlands Smart Service Campus in Heerlen and partner of the We.Service.Heerl...
We have interviewed Mr Kurt Isik, Innovation Advisor at the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) and partner in the We.Service.Heerlen project....
We have interviewed Ms Robine Gielkens, Junior Project Manager at the Municipality of Heerlen and member of the We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) project team...
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...
For decades, the city of Heerlen, a former mining centre in the Southeast of the Netherlands, is struggling with substantial socio-economic disadvanta...
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...
In this second Zoom In of the NextGen Microcities project, the UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli interviews Laura Codere, Project Manager of the project. This...
In this article we look at results on the project’s line of activity concerning Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) attraction in Ventspils and Valmiera...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli provides “updates on some of the most interesting activities carried out within the project scope:...
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...
As this article is being published, four NextGen partners are launching new initiatives where technology becomes a tool for educating younger generati...
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...
Ventspils just produced a strategy paper, highlighting its new Foreign Direct Investment strategy, and this article presents it in the context of FDIs...
DARE was opened in Valmiera, right before the Covid-19 crisis....
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...
AIR-HERITAGE aims to improve the City of Portici’s knowledge on local air pollution, through monitoring and modeling air quality, so that the city can...
AIR-HERITAGE aims to address air pollution in the City of Portici. A key element of the project is actively engaging citizens throughout the process. ...
AIR-HERITAGE aims to address air pollution in Portici. A key element of the project is actively engaging citizens throughout the process. In this cont...
AIR-HERITAGE aims to improve the City of Portici’s knowledge on local air pollution so that the city can more effectively address this issue. More spe...
This second Journal presents AIR-HERITAGE key achievements to date and describes how the various challenges faced, have evolved over time, as well as ...
The first AIR-HERITAGE zoom-in focuses on the technical aspects of the project. It aims to present the Decision Support Tool developed for supporting ...
Andriana Stavrakaki, UIA expert for the AIR-HERITAGE project, in this journal edition describes the measures put in place by the City of Portici to ov...
After closing in April 2022, the UIA HOPE project leaves behind a lasting legacy. The project piloted in Helsinki a next generation of air quality mon...
UIA Expert Alena Bartonova shares insights about the first months of implementation: “the first 16 months were dedicated to development of the complex...
The AirQon solution is fundamentally based on community participation. It is a crowdsourced powering solution for events. Therefore, engagement is the...
Breda Barst is an extraordinary example of innovative spirit, sustainable commitment, and collaborative approach. Just as AirQon is! But, why is Breda...
In 2019 everything was ready for La Vuelta to depart from the Netherlands for the 2020 edition, and with this, it was planned to pass through Breda. W...
Diesel generators are the main source of environmental pollution in events. In fact, mitigating their effects is the raison d'être of the AIRQON proje...
An event organizer may have heard about AIRQON but, what about taking a step forward and considering using it? AIRQON, apart from being a sustainable ...
The objective of this Zoom-in 2 is to delve into the role that the community plays in AIRQON as a crowd powered solution. This is not performed from a...
AIRQON: A new paradigm in improving local air quality...
One of the best practices done in this way is the organization of a social media giveaway with the aim of attracting the attention of target groups to...
A crowd-powered energy solution like AIRQON is inextricably linked to the community. It does not matter how sophisticated it may be technically. If th...
The AirQon solution is a versatile powering option for eventual energy demands, with a first class set of potential applications. This means that AirQ...
In this Journal, UIA Expert Javier Leiva reveals that “AIRQON is facing a short future conditioned by getting back to normality. Meanwhile, the activi...
The purpose of my first visit to the city of Breda was to learn firsthand about the AIRQON project. Anyone may think that a technology-based project l...
Diving into technical details of AIRQON solution...
How is a typical event with AIRQON in Breda?...
UIA Expert Javier Leiva reveals how the Breda project addresses the first implementation challenges: “One of the key aspects being addressed is the pa...
The sixth and last Journal of the COMMUTE project (Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emissions Reduction) presents the final dev...
The COMMUTE reference framework (“Référentiel COMMUTE”) The COMMUTE project aims at achieving more seamless mobility, while at the same time reduci...
The fifth Journal of the COMMUTE project (Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emissions Reduction) presents the final development...
The COMMUTE project aims at achieving more seamless mobility, while at the same time reducing the environmental impact of transport and enhancing qual...
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...
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...
In the third Journal of the COMMUTE project (Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emissions Reduction) UIA expert, Vanessa Holve, f...
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 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...
Unpacking the case of the Citizens Experience and Wellbeing Institute (CXI) in Kosice among government innovation units globally....
In this second zoom-in output developed for the project “CAMINA”, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, focuses on the “Civic Curators”, an innovative concept p...
On 21st February 2023 the Municipality of Almeria officially launched the activity of “Civic Curators - Social Laboratories for co-designing cultural ...
On the 21st and 22nd April 2022, CAMINA hosted the project officer Nelida Hancco-Herrera for a field visit in the places interested by the cultural an...
The project “Community Awakening and Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería (CAMINA)” has been fostering a new approach to promote Cultural Pa...
Across Ghent and beyond......
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 ...
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...
INNOAIR Podcast Episode #2 is covering the opportunities and challenges of using artificial intelligence in managing sustainable on-demand mobility so...
INNOAIR Podcast Episode #1 is reporting on a hackathon aimed at ideas and solutions making Sofia's urban mobility smart and green....
In this podcast series I will be discussing the concrete experience, challenges and learnings of the Urban Innovative Actions project Air-Break Ferrar...
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 Smart Bike Lane is part of the infrastructural upgrades plan through which the Air-Break project is facilitating slow mobility within the city of ...
This Zoom-In describes in detail the participatory air-quality monitoring system designed and implemented by the AIR BREAK Ferrara project....
Join us in this podcast as we delve into the groundbreaking cAIRgo Bike project, an initiative transforming Brussels with cargo bikes to improve air q...
A Commitment to Youth Empowerment. A dedicated team of young individuals is making a difference through the Noordvoerders platform. Bridgebuilders bet...
Join me as we delve into the impact of art interventions, hear inspiring stories from artists and young people as we discuss how art can be a catalyst...
Discussion about how the gender perspective became important in ForwArt project and how to give space to women in a neighbourhood renewal process....
The RE/SOURCED Project & TRANSFO...
Do you want to know the specifics of a successful project like SPIRE in Baia Mare? Have a look at the What, Why, Who and How of SPIRE....
The Plantathlons activities carried out in baia Mare during spring 2021 created a collaborative ecosystem supporting citizens-led actions and enhancin...
This video presents the second zoom-in of the VoxPop project. ...
Presentation of the status of the mobility of people with impairments in Lisbon and the VoxPop navigation support tool for vulnerable city users. ...
This video reports on how the Rudi partners and key stakeholders designed the governance model for the future....
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...
The territory changes with physical work, but also through the story, the memory, the imagination of change. The UPPER stories are a collection of n...
Keeping the balance between doing too much and not doing enough is challenging, implicitly necessitating an overall integrated perspective and strateg...
How the Green Minds team aims to put nature at the heart of our decision making; encouraging individual connection with nature and a city-wide shift t...
On February 2020, the Centre Public d’Action Social (CPAS) - the local institution that delivers social aid - and the project partner Natagora - a gra...
To explain how We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) actually stimulates civic participation in the city of Heerlen, we have produced a documentary-style video in...
Szeged_SASMob_Journal 3 (Dcb 2019)
Szeged_SASMOB_UIAExpertJournal 2 (March 2019)
Szeged_SASMOB_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2018)
Szeged_SASMob_Zoom-in 1
Ljubljana_APPLAUSE_UIAExpert Journal (Octb 2019)
Ljubljana_APPLAUSE_Zoom-in 2
Ljubljana_APPLAUSE_UIAExpertJournal 2 (March 2019)
Ljubljana_APPLAUSE_UIA Expert Zoom-in 1
Ljubljana_APPLAUSE_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Nvb 2018)
Ljubljana Journal 4: Preparing the legacy of APPLAUSE
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
Heraklion_A2UFood_UIAExpertJournal 2 (March 2019)
Heraklion_A2UFood_Journal 3 (Octb 2019)
Heraklion_A2UFood_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Octb 2018)
A2UFood Journal 4
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
Viladecans_Vilawatt_UIAExpertJournal4 (March 2019)
Viladecans_Vilawatt_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Viladecans_VILAWWAT_Zoom-in 1 (July 2018)
Viladecans_Vilawatt_UIAExpertJournal2 (May 2018)
Viladecans_Vilawatt_UIA Expert Journal 1 (Dcb 2017)
Viladecans - Project Presentation - PPT
Vilawatt Infographics - setting up a project proposal
Paris_CoRDEES_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)
Paris_CoRDEES_UIAExpertJournal2 (July 2018)
Paris_CoRDEES_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)
CORDEES-Transferability handbook
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)
Kosice 2.0
Diams Project Journal 1
Ventspils_NextGen Microcities_UIAExpert Journal 1 (January 2020)
NextGen Microcities - infographic
Portici_Air-Heritage_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
Helsinki_HOPE_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
Breda-AirQon_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
AirQon Journal 2: Events and More
Collaborative Mobility Management for Urban Traffic and Emission reduction
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)