Actualités des projets UIA

Think of random festivals with diesel generator emissions that are damaging to the environment, visitors and people living nearby. Now, imagine a festival with a healthy and eco-friendly environment instead. The AirQon project uses electric vehicles to cool drinks and power up complete festivals.

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, COMMUTE is almost half way through since its launch, with successful actions to report on, as well as old and new challenges. This edition focuses more on the latter and how the city is addressing them.

TMaaS, the developer of the digital traffic platform for the City of Ghent, will be carrying out a major trial run of its virtual dashboard during the Gentse Feesten. 19 July marks the start of this trial run that will be carried out in cooperation with Mobiliteitsbedrijf Stad Gent.

In his 2nd journal of 5Bridges, UIA expert Freek Spinnewijn looks into how the project has left behind a difficult period and entered one with more optimism at full speed in what regards implementation!In Freek’s words, the time is now mature to allow project leaders to make the software (social and community activities) and the hard ware (the building of the infrastructure) of the project to coincide and interact better.

The city of Antwerp hosted an international conference on migration, organised by the Urban Innovative Action Fund (UIA) in June. UIA-cities Antwerp, Vienna, Bologna and Utrecht shared insights on their projects.

The essential elements of creating communities, innovation and social enterprises

In his 4th journal of CURANT, UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli discusses the significance of a holistic approach to integration and the potential contribution of CURANT through its lessons learnt in supporting the EU in formulating integration policies. His focus though lies in the topic of evaluating EU-level mechanisms and policies with a view to supporting future integration policy developments, or in his own words: How may we measure and evaluate the degree to which migrants are actually integrated? What indicators for impact measurement, including also non-quantifiable elements?

The citizens of Szeged University reached nearly 250 cycling days in the “Bike To Work!” campaign. Committed to a healthy lifestyle and environmentally friendly solutions, the institution motivated its employees in the programme with its own prize draw. The winners were welcomed in the central building of the University on July 4.

Medical doctors with a refugee background need to have their diploma obtained at a foreign university recognised in Vienna, by successfully completing the so-called nostrification procedure at the Medical University. It is on this path that the CORE project supports refugee doctors. They come from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya or Somalia and cover different areas of expertise. The broad professional spectrum ranges from general medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry and cardiology over gynecology, dermatology, pneumology and forensic medicine to plastic surgery, pediatrics, ophthalmology, emergency medicine and radiology. Currently, around 60 people are being accompanied on their way to their nostrification by various supportive measures of the CORE project.

Last March, the municipal plenary provided initial approval of the bylaws of the Vilawatt consortium and the establishment of this new body.