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Ghent Knapt Op: Construction during Covid-19

As in most countries globally, commodity prices for building materials have risen in recent months. Anyone who is building or renovating has already s...

Do we need innovations? 3D printing technology for construction materials - ZOOM IN 2

The second zoom-in of Urban Infra Revolution, UIA Expert Kinga Korniejenko focus on exploring the technology of 3D printing geopolymer composites and ...

SCE Journal 4: State of the art construction of three circular houses

UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic explains how the “three new houses have been constructed by reusing more than 90% of materials from the existing building a...

Super Circular Estate Zoom-in 2: How BRX could support reuse of building materials

One of the lessons learned from Kerkrade’s project “regarding future buildings, is that reuse potential of building products need to be embodied into ...

BRICK-BEACH Journal#2

This second Journal of BRICK-BEACH reports on the advancement of the project till March 2019 and focuses on the activities realised in different areas...

Urban Infra Revolution UIA Expert Journal – reducing emissions in urban construction development

UIA Expert, Kinga Korniejenko, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented....

Durability of the materials used and other technological challenges faced by Urban Infra Revolution

In the second edition of the Urban infra revolution Journal, UIA Expert Kinga Korniejenko provides an overview of the development of the project by fo...

Journal n 06: Urban Infra Revolution: The Urban Infra Revolution project implementation

The article summarizes the project implementation and comments the most important problems that occurred during the project. Despite the difficulties,...

The Urban Infra Revolution project Journal 5: get an update about Lappeenranta's project

The fifth edition of the Journal describes and analyses the progress of the Urban Infra Revolution (UIR) project in the last six months, from March 20...

Virtual and Augmented Reality as Innovative Tools for Supporting Project Implementation - ZOOM-IN 3

3D modelling makes it easier for citizens to understand and comment on planned developments in the Urban Infra Revolution project. The use of modern A...

Get an update about the Urban Infra Revolution project - Journal 4

In this fourth edition of the Journal, UIA Expert Kinga Korniejenko describes and analyses the progress of the Urban infra revolution project from Oct...

UrbanInfraRevolution: technical solutions and challenges in the last 6 months

The third Journal of Urban Infra Revolutions describes and analyses the progress of the project in the last six months, from March 2019 to end of Sept...

Mechanical activation of geopolymers at Lappeenranta-Lahti University

The development of a new kind of circulative geopolymer composite material based on side streams of local industries is strongly promoted by the Urban...

Do we need innovations? Zoom-in on geopolymers composites

Making the construction sector circular is one of the main challenge for the implementation of a full circular economy. The Urban Infra Revolutions pr...

5Bridges - Final Journal

Here is the Final Journal of 5Bridges project led by the City of Nantes. Enjoy reading the project experience and finding inspiration by adopting, imp...

5Bridges Expert Journal 3: Get to know what happened in the last 6 months!

In his 3rd Journal, Freek Spinnewijn summarizes the activities that took place in the last months in the 5Bridges project....

5Bridges Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Nantes is doing on the topic urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal....

5Bridges Expert Journal: Desiging the social restaurant and the urban farm

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 op...

5Bridges project and the French national Housing First strategy

This zoom-in explores the potential of a strong link being established between the 5Bridges project and the recent national Housing First strategy lau...

MAC (Monterusciello Agro City): A courageous, creative, concrete and inclusive project.

This latest Journal of the MAC Project is a critical narrative of a project that encountered many complicated moments to deal with during its implemen...

MAC Zoom-In: Video looks at creation of the Agro Urban Centre

UIA Expert Pietro Elisei highlights in this video the steps being taken to bring new opportunities to the Monterusciello neighbourhood...

MAC Project ZOOM-in 3: The protagonists pass on the acquired knowledge

There are several elements of innovation within the urban regeneration path activated by the MAC project in Pozzuoli. ...

Pozzuoli journal: what impacts on the local community?

The current issue of the Journal focuses on the design and implementation path that has characterized the last 12 months, underlining the positive imp...

Discover MAC Journal#4

In this edition of MAC Journal, UIA Experts Pietro Elisei presents the implementation challenges and developments faced by the project. ...

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

Get to know better what Pozzuoli is doing on urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal. ...

Implementing the MAC project in Pozzuoli: Find out in the second UIA Expert Journal what activities have been carried out

UIA Expert Pietro Elisei has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Pozzuol...

The MAC Project Journal 3: The progress so far

Get the latest news about Pozzuoli’s project!...

About urban poverty and urban agriculture

The UIA Expert Pietro Elisei, in the second zoom-in for the MAC project, focuses his lens on the project process and on design pillars. ...

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

Get to know better what Bologna is doing on the topic integration of migrants and refugees in this UIA Expert journal....

TAST'in FIVES Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Lille is doing on the topic urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal....

Last UIA TAST'in FIVES Journal: Urban labs as a new way of creating and living the city

This last journal of the UIA TAST’in FIVES project accounts for the evolution of the project after UIA funding was stopped. It details the way it has ...

TAST'in FIVES Journal 3:

This Journal accounts for the overall achievements of the UIA TAST’in FIVES project after 3 years of implementation and in light of the prefiguration ...

Testing a future Food Court by prototyping it in real-life: lessons from the experience of UIA TAST’in FIVES’ L’Avant-goût

Food-related activities as a leverage against urban poverty

Workshop on Libanese food (c)Les Sens du Goût The UIA TAST’in FIVES project, taking place in the Fives neighbourhood of Lille, France, has aimed at...

How can food-related activities leverage urban poverty?

This Zoom-In presents an infographic of the analysis contained in the article Food-related activities as a leverage against urban poverty. It is based...

Read the 2nd project journal of Tast'in Fives

Faced with several issues that consistently delayed the works of the community kitchen and the surrounding spaces (mainly due to additional depollutio...

The OpenAgri Project Journal N°6

The City government of Milan decided to set up an urban coalition with a series of partners (Universities, companies, associations) in order to apply ...

OpenAgri Journal 5: get an update of Milan's project

The last year of OpenAgri wasn’t an easy one. After more than three years, the project is coming to an end, and it is time to celebrate its results an...

Promised land, the future of urban consumption - takeaways

The Municipality of Milan organised in June a two day event to discuss the future skills, new technologies, narratives and policies with which cities ...

OpenAgri Participative Urban Metabolism- ZOOM IN 3

In this last Zoom-in of Open-Agri, UIA Expert Miguel Sousa reflects on how the project has embedded an urban metabolism approach, with the aim of ensu...

OpenAgri Journal 4: synergies and integration of the project into the broader Milan Circular city strategy

In the fourth edition of OpenAgri Journal, the UIA Expert Miguel Sousa, presents the synergies and integration of the project into the broader Milan C...

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...

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

Get to know better what Milan is doing in this UIA Expert journal!...

Implementing the Open-Agri project in Milan: get an update on the activities carried out in the second UIA expert journal

UIA Expert Miguel Sousa has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Milan fo...

OpenAgri Zoom-In: In-depth look at the Experimentation Lab in Urban Agriculture

In this first Zoom-In, the UIA Expert Miguel Sousa looked at one of the innovative aspects of the OpenAgri project in Milan, the Experimentation Labor...

Milan OpenAgri's 3rd project journal

In the third edition of the OpenAgri journal, the UIA expert Miguel Sousa, gives a complete overview of the latest development and challenges faced by...

The Open Badge, an innovative tool to enhance individual skills

In this Zoom-in, Miguel Sousa, UIA Expert for the OpenAgri presents an innovative instrument developed in the framework of the project: The Open Badge...

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

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

Implementing the CoRDEES project in Paris: Get an update on the activities carried out in the second 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...

CORDEES Journal 3: Update on the project progress

Get the latest news about Paris’ innovative action...

CoRDEES Zoom-In: Video sheds light on the project

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. ...

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...

BRICK-BEACH: a missed opportunity ? Zoom-in 3

The BRICK-BEACH project is in a delicate situation due to problems related to the delay in obtaining the pertinent administrative authorizations and t...

Zoom-in video on BRICK-BEACH project

Construction and demolition waste is always seen as one of the main barriers for implementing a circular economy. Instead, in Velez-Malaga they saw it...

BRICK-BEACH: A new impetus for the project, but will be it enough?

In this 5th Journal, Miguel Lucena will guide you through the most relevant news of the last 6 months for BRICK-BEACH project. With the approval of th...

BRICK-BEACH journal - facing Covid 19 and other challenges

In this fourth Journal of BRICK-BEACH project, UIA Expert Miguel Lucena reports on the advancement of the project till March 2020. With the project at...

A circular economy project for the citizens, with the citizens: BRICK-BEACH engagement process - ZOOM IN 2

The first Zoom-in published in January 2019, was intended to give an overview of the BRICK-BEACH project and collect the opinion of the partners invol...

BRICK-BEACH Journal 3: overcoming some of the challenges related to its infrastructural activities

In the third Journal of BRICK-BEACH, UIA Expert Miguel Lucena shows how the project is currently overcoming some of the challenges related to its infr...

BRICK-BEACH UIA Expert Journal – tackling illegal dumps and recycling waste to recover its lost beach

UIA Expert, Miguel Lucena, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...

Developing a new business culture for circular economy - Zoom in 3

One of the components within the Urban Soil 4 Food (US4F) project in Maribor has been the support to innovative products in the field of circular econ...

US4F Journal 6

The Urban Soil 4 Food (US4F) project reached its end, and this last Journal aims at reconstructing its journey and the impacts it has reached. The Cit...

US4F Journal 5: Successful and active urban community gardens

UIA Expert Daniela Patti reports on the period between February and November 2020 during which “all sorts of contests were carried out for the product...

US4F Journal 4: How cities should organise their food production and distribution systems

UIA Expert Daniela Patti explores Maribor’s experience with “what has happened to the urban gardens, mainly focusing on the possibilities of the futur...

US4F Zoom-in 2: How to setup a short food chain distribution platform?

UIA Expert Daniela Patti provides details how Maribor “wants to improve the local food distribution chain through the development of an online platfor...

US4F Journal 3: Community gardens are open!

UIA Expert Daniela Patti reports that “Urban Soil 4 Food has entered the operational phase! Just like the preparation of the soil for the planting, ju...

UrbanSoil4Food Zoom-in 1: Soil for our future!

UIA Expert Daniela Patti “explores the importance of soil and how the project is creating new one through urban organic and construction waste (excava...

Urban Soil 4 Food Journal 1: Read about the project’s initial progress

Get to know what Maribor is doing in the first UIA Expert journal!...

URBAN SOIL 4 FOOD Journal 2: The new urban gardens are blooming

Maribor is ready to open up for the next stage of the project! ...

Ljubljana Journal 6: A recap of what has happened since the project officially finished in December 2020

This journal focuses on the post-project phase of APPLAUSE. What activities have continued now that the project has officially finished? How partners ...

APPLAUSE Zoom-In 3: Circular business models for IAPS management

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...

APPLAUSE Journal 5: Delivering public services and urban innovation in times of COVID-19

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...

Ljubljana Journal 4: Preparing the legacy of APPLAUSE

UIA expert Jorgina Cuixart reveals how “APPLAUSE is heading towards the last few months of implementation. Some activities such as the harvesting camp...

APPLAUSE Journal 3: Up and running!

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 ...

APPLAUSE Zoom-In 2: Engaging citizens in the circular economy

UIA Expert Jorgina Cuixart reveals how “through a variety of educational and awareness raising actions, citizens are encouraged to participate in diff...

APPLAUSE Journal 1: The project’s first achievements and lessons learnt

Check out Ljubljana’s initial steps in the first UIA Expert journal...

APPLAUSE Zoom-In 1: Setting up a new circular approach to IAPS management in cities

In her first Zoom-in, UIA Expert Jorgina Cuixart presents Invasive Alien Plant Species (IAPS) and their impact on cities. ...

APPLAUSE Journal 2: A new system to tackle Invasive Alien Plant Species

Ljubljana has been progressing in the development of its circular model for IAPS management. ...

Super Circular Estate Project, Journal no. 5, Municipality of Kerkrade

Super Circular Estate (SCE) Project illustrated potential of reactivation of resources within existing built environments and helped us understand bet...

Kerkrade Zoom-in 3: The monitoring process and its results

UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic interviews Michiel Ritzen from ZUYD University on the monitoring process of the Super Circular Estate project and its resul...

Super Circular Estate Journal 3: Kerkrade’s challenges

UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic tells us how “the SCE consortium is already finalising the construction phase of the three new houses made of reused materi...

Super Circular Estate Journal 1: Get to know the project’s first steps

The UIA Expert unveils Kerkrade’s initial achievements in the first journal....

Super Circular Estate Zoom-in 1: Circular versus conventional building process

UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic zooms into the differences between circular and conventional building process through interviews with the key members of th...

Super Circular Estate Journal 2: Next steps

Take a look at the latest developments around Kerkrade’s project. ...

A2UFood Journal 6 - Looking back, learning for the future

Bioplastics from Food Waste - ZOOM IN

The A2UFood project proposes a holistic approach to food waste management in the Municipality of Heraklion. It includes food waste reduction (awarenes...

A2UFood Journal 5: The progress of Heraklion during COVID-19

Digital tools, bioplastics laboratory trials, composting, awareness raising, dissemination and tendering have progressed. Heraklion is getting ready f...

A2UFood Zoom-in II: The implementation of the RMF Tool

UIA Expert Christina Marouli goes into the details of the RESOURCEMANAGER-FOOD (RMF) tool for the hospitality units....

A2UFood Journal 4: Promising efforts – extremely tight time frame

UIA Expert Christina Marouli reveals that in the past months, Heraklion’s “primary focus has been the resolution of licensing and tendering challenges...

A2U Food Journal 3: New lessons learnt

UIA Expert Christina Marouli reports that “this third period constituted a continuation of the first year, with the primary focus being on implementat...

A2UFood Journal 1: The UIA Expert presents the project’s first steps

Get to know the initial achievements of Heraklion in the first UIA Expert journal....

A2UFood Zoom-In: Food waste and stakeholders’ views

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...

A2UFood Journal 2: The project moves forward

Discover the latest updates around Heraklion’s project. ...

Last UIA Antwerp Circular South Journal: Circularity as a new framework for cities

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...

Making the most of solar energy in the new residential area of Antwerp Circular South (3rd Zoom-In)

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...

Antwerp Circular South Journal 5: Last Mile and Wrapping Up

“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...

Antwerp Circular South Journal 4: Well into the project, but far enough?

UIA Expert Marcelline Bonneau reveals that “some specific aspects are becoming more prominent now: showing the added value to both residents and owner...

Antwerp Circular South Zoom-In 2: “What if you could see how much energy you consume at home and that you could change it?”

UIA Expert Marcelline Bonneau reveals how “the Circular South Project started with their “nudging experiments” to test innovative ways of supporting c...

Antwerp Circular South Journal 3: Half-Way Through State Of The Art

In her latest Journal, UIA Expert Marcelline Bonneau reports that “almost everything is ready, and the experimentation can start. It is finally becomi...

The difficult transition for consumers towards more sustainable practices

Read the opinion of Marcelline Bonneau, UIA expert for the Antwerp Circular South project, on supporting sustainable consumption practices....

Antwerp Circular South Zoom-In: CIRCUIT in the focus

UIA Expert Marcelline Bonneau presents the first steps of CIRCUIT – the Circular South Community Centre. As she explains, “the Antwerp Circular South ...

Antwerp Circular South UIA Expert Journal – changing consumption behaviours for a more circular economy

UIA Expert, Marcelline Bonneau, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...

Antwerp Circular South Journal 2: Moving towards direct implementation

Antwerp Circular South has begun unfolding. ...

Journal 4 Earth Cycle

Industry is back to the city: Earth Cycle could be a model for urban sustainability! - Zoom in 2

“The workshop noises have disappeared, overalls too, replaced by white collars and screens and click workers”. Pierre Veltz, French territorial econo...

Journal 3 Earth Cycle

In this third journal, we will present a questioning about the replication and upscaling of the Earth Cycle model in the Parisian Region by placing it...

Earth Cycle Zoom-In 1: An urban developer for a circular economy based on ‘Georesource’

One of the key players of the project Earth Cycle is the urban developer as he is an end user and promotor of new technologies. ...

Earth Cycle Journal 2: New challenges and new perspectives

UIA Expert Youssef Diab presents “the major recent evolution of the project, regarding the new implementation site and the business model (partnership...

Earth Cycle Journal 1: Building blocks to re-localise economy

Policy context, objectives, current questions and future perspective of Sevran’s project....

UIA projects experimenting bold solutions for a Circular Economy – Part 1

As part of the 2nd Call for Proposals, the UIA initiative has supported eight projects under the Circular Economy topic. This article will tell you mo...

Energy transition in action!

On the 5th of June, the three UIA Energy transition projects met in Brussels as part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week to further discuss and exchange...

USE-IT! Zoom-In: Creation of social enterprises

In this first Zoom-In, the UIA Expert Nils Scheffler looked at one key element of the USE-IT! Project: the creation of a community of social enterpris...

Welcome home!

Come to 59-61 rue du Delta, 1190, Forest on the 4th of September, an unexpected sunny day in Brussels, and you will find the building of CALICO celebr...

Cities engaging in the right to housing

Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) and URBACT are joining forces to push the right to housing...

CALICO in the Brussels Capital Region - Journal 1

UIA expert Laura Colini provides a descriptive overview of the project and focuses on the 7 UIA challenges. Furthermore, she explores “the model of th...

CALICO. More than a CLT

The main objective of CALICO is to realise more than a typical Community Land Trust (CLT) but an intergenerational inclusive cohabitation focussed on ...

Passport for Work Zoom-in: soft skills to sustain employability

In his 1st zoom-in, P4W expert Ronald Lievens, explores why soft skills are a key part of the Passport4Work project. Especially in these times, with c...

Passport for Work's Legacy: Journal 4

Passport for Work's fourth and final journal, reflecting on its legacy and its activities after the formal project period....

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

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)

In his 1st zoom-in, P4W expert Ronald Lievens, explores why soft skills are a key part of the Passport4Work project. Especially in these times, with c...

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....

OASIS takes off! - Final Journal

In spring 2023, the OASIS Schoolyard project concluded with its UIA pilot phase of transforming and evaluating the performance of 10 schoolyards. Toda...

How does it feel to be the Director of an OASIS School?

Four School Directors share their experiences of being in charge of a not-so-mainstream schoolyard that introduces a new role of this outdoor space in...

Tips n’ Tricks for a Green and Playful Schoolyard! Join us at the upcoming webinar and learn about the OASIS recommendations.

The City of Paris, in collaboration with the CAUE75 - the consortium partner responsible for the design of the schoolyards’ transformation, has compil...

From co-design to co-implementation of the OASIS Schoolyards

Leveraging on the experience gained by transforming other OASIS Schoolyards this past year, the OASIS partnership decided to explore a different parti...

OASIS Schoolyards Journal 2: Welcoming the newly transformed schoolyards

The OASIS journey: From the co-design process to the final transformation of schoolyards

In her first Zoom-in, Maria Sitzoglou, UIA Expert for the OASIS Schoolyards project, presents the project journey from the co-design phase until the a...

Aiming for Healthier Neighborhoods in your city? The OASIS approach is probably what you have been looking for!

The vision for healthy and cohesive neighborhoods lies at the heart of the OASIS Schoolyards project. As 9 out of 10 schoolyards are now transformed, ...

Back-to-School(yard)! How the OASIS Schoolyards offer a solution to the global dilemma for re-opening schools.

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

In her 1st Journal, Maria Sitzoglou, UIA expert of the OASIS project, discusses all key activities that you need to know about it, what the project is...

Paris is creating an OASIS in the heart of its neighborhoods and why more cities should follow.

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....

Journal 4: Home Silk Road - A Final Look Back

This final journal looks back at the successes and failures of the Home Silk Road project and shares some lessons for other Urban Authorities. ...

Journal 3: Home Silk Road - 1 Year On

Home Silk Road's implementation officially ended in October 2002. However, the project did not suddenly stop. Ending the temporary occupation has been...

The End of the Home Silk Road

At the end of October 2O22, the Home Silk Road project officially came to an end. Six months later, this article looks back at the project’s achieveme...

Meet CCO Villeurbanne: A Laboratory for Cultural and Social Innovation

An interview with Harout Mekhsian, Director, CCO Villeurbanne. ...

Promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy in the Home Silk Road Project

An interview with Mathieu Fortin, Social and Solidarity Economy & Entrepreneurship Officer at the City of Villeurbanne. ...

Zoom in 3: The Situation of Homeless Families in the Home Silk Road project

This Zoom-In digs into the inclusion dimension of the Home Silk Road by exploring the current situation of the homeless families who are being accommo...

Temporary Urban Planning to Address Homelessness Gains Ground in Villeurbanne, Grand Lyon

This article shows how the Home Silk Road project is part of a bigger strategy to use temporary urban planning and architecture to provide solutions t...

Cooking up an Inclusive City!

Article on the opening of BaklAAVA restaurant/caterers on the Home Silk Road site...

Innovating in the time of COVID19

A look back at the impact of COVID19 on Home Silk Road ...

Point de CHU…T: Rap, Slam & the City for All!

Point de CHU...T is a rap and slam project developed at the initiative of young people living in emergency shelter on the site of the Home Silk Road U...

Home Silk Road Journal 2: Get an update about Lyon's project

This journal describes implementation challenges in the second phase of the Home Silk Road project. This project is testing an innovative housing solu...

Home Silk Road and Housing First in the Metropole of Lyon

This Zoom-In takes a close look at how the Home Silk Road UIA Project fits into the broader Housing First strategy of the Metropole of Lyon. Housing F...

Journal 1: Putting vulnerable people at the heart of the city

UIA Expert Ruth Owen presents Lyon’s initial challenges, the most relevant of which is “the participative approach for co-implementation. Using cultu...

RESILIO smart Blue-Green roofs: looking into the future

RESILIO was completed in April 2022 and the developed roofs are flourishing. A year and a half later, we explore the legacy the project left behind fo...

Zoom-In article: Are smart blue-green roofs climate-proof themselves?

While RESILIO roofs contribute to climate adaptation (heat, flooding, biodiversity), we need to be sure that the green infrastructure is drought proof...

Journal 3 – Completing and delivering the RESILIO smart blue-green roofs

Finalised roof of the Premselahuis Innovation Lab, used to test alternative design options and evaluate their efficiency. ...

Are Amsterdam’s blue-green roofs good value-for-money for the city? Applying a Total Economic Value framework to urban Nature-based Solutions

Assessing the hydraulic performance of Blue-Green Infrastructure: the case study of Amsterdam's adaptive smart network blue-green roofs

A stepped process to evaluate the true potential of adaptive-blue green roofs for reducing flood risk ...

Engaging citizens in the development of multi-purpose Nature Based Solutions: how the RESILIO blue-green roofs project connects with communities

Why, how and when to engage citizens in the development of NBS? what are the challenges of engagement to be aware off?...

RESILIO's Journal #2: From planning to development

This is the 2nd Journal article describing progress of the RESILIO activities and associated implementation challenges. The purpose is to provide a nu...

Blue-Green roofs as accessible space in a 1.5-meter distance world?

Photo of the De Boel smart blue-green roof at Amsterdam Zuid (photo credits: De Dakdokters)...

RESILIO Journal: developing a network of innovative and smart rooftops in the city of Amsterdam

Through an analysis and contextualization of the 7 implementation challenges, UIA expert Leon Kapetas presents the RESILIO project, which aims to deve...

Smart Blue-Green Roofs of Amsterdam: Why you should be interested and how to get involved in the RESILIO project

RESILIO is the new Climate Adaptation project that takes place in Amsterdam and will install 10,000 m2 of Blue-Green Roofs on social housing complexes...

Final journal of the UIA project “E-Co-Housing”

Moving into E-Co-housing! The first experiences in community living and housing

On 25.10.2023, the newly refurbished house in Mexikói út 11/B in Budapest's district Zugló was handed over to its 40 new residents within the framewor...

Improving social housing in Zugló: Not just the hardware, also the software!

The mentoring programme for social housing tenants E-Co-Housing is about refurbishing an old building into an environmental-friendly, smart and inn...

Not a worm this time: a virus and the wood sector

How can a global sanitary crisis affect a single construction project in Budapest? A taste of the housing crisis in 2021 in Budapest: “The renta...

E-Co-Housing Journal 1: More than a house

UIA Expert Annette Kuhk “elaborates on the ambitions of the E-Co-Housing project, with a zoom-in on the specific location (Gizella út), the programme ...

CartujaQanat - Journal 3: A 10°C reduction with ZeroNet energy consumption in open spaces is possible. Sevilla made it.

The Sevilla CartujaQanat program is by design, an ambitious and particularly relevant program for regions facing extreme heat phenomena and for urban ...

Co-management and activation of large urban spaces in the era of climate transformation

This zoom-in article focuses on the New Governance and Social Innovation component of the project Cartuja-Qanat in Sevilla, which aims to propose an i...

CartujaQanat – Recovering the Street Life in a Climate Changing World Journal 2: How is Sevilla moving the needle in the fight to urban climate transformation

Sevilla in Spain, will be the battleground of Europe for extreme urban heat. A pilot space containing an amphitheatre, an underground gallery and open...

The Urban Commons in the era of public health emergencies: How Sevilla and the UIA community is problem-solving for safeguarding public space and public life in the face of increased risk

While images of empty cities made the world-tour and provoked understandable owe, empty and limited public space is in fact an imminent if not ever-pr...

More than sewage and water pipes. How a water company in Spain becomes a driver of urban transformation

The Metropolitan Water Supply and Sanitation Company of Sevilla (EMASESA) is the coordinating Partner in the Urban Innovative Actions Program ‘Cartuja...

Bringing together the key areas of Climate change, Social Innovation and Public Space revitalisation

In this Journal, UIA Experts Kostantina Karidi explores the achievements of the first year of the Sevilla CartujaQanat project across eight selected g...

UIA projects experimenting bold solutions for a Circular Economy – Part 2

In January the European Commission and the UIA Initiative announced that Circular Economy will be among the topics for the last UIA Call for Proposals...

Circular Cities: UIA projects at the 4th Circular Change Conference

Check out the conclusions from our Circular economy workshop in Maribor!...

Journal 4: One year after the end of EPIU implementation period

UIA projects have a transformative impact on urban environments by driving sustainable innovation, improving the quality of life for citizens, and pro...

How urbanism can contribute tackling summer energy poverty in cities

Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world, and climate risks threaten people’s health and several aspects of their well-being. According to...

The complexity of energy renovation at the domestic level in Spain.

The European Renovation Wave initiative is a crucial response to the pressing issue of energy poverty. The initiative is built upon the national long-...

Journal 3: Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU)

This is the third journal of the Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU) project since its start in September 2019. EPIU, led by Municipality of Getaf...

The use of AI and data protection in innovation projects at local level: the case of EPIU intelligence unit

Domestic energy consumption data is considered personal data, at least as per the Spanish Supreme court declared in 2019 (STS 2484/2019). In the proje...

Innovation on public procurement at local level

Public procurement refers to the process by which public sector organizations acquire goods, services, or construction projects from external supplier...

Tailor-made solutions to tackle energy poverty through household renovation: the case of EPIU

Building capacity through multiplier agents to maximize impact

Consolidating the demand of a new public service is one of the challenges that urban authorities face when they innovate and design new services. One ...

Making the Transition Affordable for all UIA report: EPIU as a case study

There is a pressing need to identify effective policy solutions to inspire locally driven low-carbon transitions in EU cities. UIA has led a two-year ...

How project synergies bring new opportunities: the example of EPIU

Synergies between projects can generate a wide range of opportunities for municipalities. For example, the ability to share knowledge and best practic...

The relevance of the ecosystems around an UIA project: the case of EPIU in Getafe

In scientific terms, an ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather or landscape, work together to f...

The Healthy Households’ Office service (OHS) in Getafe, ready to face the high energy prices

Energy prices are at record highs and remain volatile in Europe. Situations of energy poverty are exacerbating and families in Europe are struggling t...

Journal 2: Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU)

This is the second journal of the Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU) project since its start in September 2019. EPIU led by Municipality of Getaf...

Start-ups’ business models as inspiration for local innovations: the case of EPIU

At corporate level, a business model is a strategy for operating a business. It describes how a company will generate value for its customers. Althoug...

Interview with Sara Hernández, mayor of Getafe

In this article, UIA Expert Marta Garcia interviews the mayor of Getafe, Sara Hernández, to explore how the municipality is integrating EPIU, the UIA ...

Strategic Committee as a governance tool to ensure a committed leadership: the case of EPIU project

Implementing an Urban Innovation Action implies a degree of risk for local authorities and a committed leadership is a requisite for municipal led inn...

The challenge of identifying hidden energy poverty

Energy poverty is a situation in which households are unable to access essential energy services. With nearly 34 million Europeans unable to afford to...

Journal 1: Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU)

This is the first journal of the Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU) project since its start on September 2019. EPIU led by Municipaility of Getaf...

WISH-MI Final Journal

Harnessing art to enable youth participation: the WISH-MI experience

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WISH-MI Journal #3

This is the third WISH-MI journal and the first that has been produced since the full implementation of the project. ...

Giornata del Gioco: World Play Day as a launchpad for the WISH-MI missions

The City of Milan is opening new avenues in its drive to improve youth well-being in the city. To coincide with World Play Day, WISH-MI has launched a...

Stimulating design innovation at the local level

WISH-MI aims to improve levels of youth wellbeing in the city of Milan. Improving the quality of, and access to, available services, is an important p...

Going Digital: The WISH-MI online platform gets the green light

The City of Milan has launched a digital platform to offer wellbeing services to its young people and families. The platform is now operational, comp...

Wish-Mi hubs ready to hit the ground

Wish-Mi is an ambitious wellbeing strategy for the young people of Milan. The model comprises a digital hub, enabling access to services, combined wit...

Preparing to land: WISH-MI about to go live

The second WISH-MI journal presents the state of play as the project prepares to go live. It draws upon material gathered during the expert visit to M...

Mapping the UIA innovation challenges with the Wish-Mi stakeholders

Building youth wellbeing through community hubs

A sneak peek of the WISH-MI hubs. City of Milan Director, Sabina Banfi. Shares her thoughts on the project’s new youth spaces with UIA Expert Eddy Ada...

Money talks: How Milan and other UIA cities are stimulating behaviour change using financial proxies.

Milan is one of a number of UIA cities exploring innovative financial tools to nudge behaviours. This article explores the Milan vouchers model, and t...

WISH-MI Journal 1

Milan is a city of 1.4 million people, 230,000 of whom are minors. It has a wide and growing rate of inequality, with 30% of its population are either...

Co-designing services with young people. WISH-MI ZOOM-IN

This slide deck shares the content and learnings from the WISH-MI youth co-design webinar held on 9th June 2021. ...

WISH-MI: Resetting the wellbeing dial for Milan’s youth

Like many cities, Milan faces the challenge of widening inequalities. This risk particularly affect the city's most vulnerable young people. The UIA W...

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...

Innovation and Circular Economy – Bold Approaches from UIA

Circular Economy is at the centre of many UIA projects. At the moment, UIA funds eight projects within the topic of Circular Economy under Call 2. Out...

Adapt to climate change starting from green areas

The APTBC project has invested significant efforts in improving the parks in the central neighbourhoods of Seraing, which are the least green areas of...

The future of the first creative station in Seraing

This article is based on an interview with Aurélie Portois, currently project coordinator at the Maison du Peuple, and on some preliminary drafts cont...

A Place To Be-Come journal 4

While the project was concluded in August 2023, this final issue of the journal offers a critical reflection on the challenges faced during implementa...

The final event of the APTBC project as a moment of collective sharing

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...

APTBC impacts according to project partners - ZOOM IN

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’...

Encouraging residents to use and become familiar with their local green areas

One goal of the project is to improve residents’ relationship with their local parks. This improvement involves on the one side improving the material...

A pilot project's legacy

'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...

A Place To Be-Come: journal 3

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...

What it takes to raise a community in Seraing

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...

Under what conditions can we assure a real access to green areas in Seraing?

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...

Co-designing a new day-shelter to improve access to low-threshold care in Seraing’s central neighbourhoods

In Seraing, two shelters welcome people experiencing homelessness or great discomfort associated with instable and precarious conditions of life. The ...

APTBC Journal 2: how the puzzle is assembling as an increasingly coherent whole

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...

Seraing meets Turin: the power of sharing stories

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...

Improving citizens’ relationship with their environment to promote social inclusion, or the A Place To Be-Come’s boldest ambition

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 ...

Seraing resumes its long journey of commoning where it all began

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...

How the pandemic diluted the project and how we learnt to stay put, but actively

Julien Bebronne and Lauranne Liégeois are respectively APTBC coordinator and project officer for Arebs, the municipal agency in charge of the project ...

Go transdisciplinary and flexible! The A Place To Be-Come way to learning

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...

From Result to Impact - The UIA Project "home & care" on the Way to Sustainable Implementation - Journal N° 3

Zoom In 2: First experiences from living together in the home and care house

Home & Care as an integration project

One of the cornerstones of the Home & Care project is the integration of people who, due to their life situation, their background, and their skills a...

Single-parent families in the Home & Care project – A local and European perspective

In the UIA project Home & Care, professional and social integration of single parents is tested with a new support model. Being a single parent in Ger...

The UIA project "home & care" in the transition from the project idea to the actual implementation - JOURNAL 2

Welcome to the new home – An introduction to the new "home & care" building

The development of the new home concept in the UIA project combining housing with work and childcare

From the potential target group to actual residents - experiences from a UIA-project that combines housing and childcare

In the UIA-project "home and care" of the city of Landshut, single mothers who work in the health care sector and single mothers who do an apprentices...

Alternative training models in childcare - ZOOM-IN

In the home and care project, a new form of childcare is being developed that enables mothers with their children and childminders to live together un...

Qualification of Childminders as Part of the UIA Project "home and care"

The UIA project home and care targets the the further qualification of child minders to become educators and child day care workers. In doing so the e...

Balancing family life and work in the care sector - Experiences from the UIA project “home and care” in Landshut/Germany

A better way of balancing family life and work - single parent care workers in the health and social care system as a target group for poverty prevention

The Home and Care project in the German city of Landshut has set itself a goal. It wants to try out innovative ways to protect people from impending p...

The “home and care” project from Landshut between first results and new challenges

The corona pandemic meant that the first contacts between the employees in the home and care project in Landshut / Germany and the UIA expert Prof. Dr...

The home and care Project - Journal 1

Journal N° 1...

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...

SPIRE Final Journal

Reducing the burden of pollution-related diseases in cities

SPIRE Journal 3: Overcoming the challenges

Following the triple bottom line (TBL), the SPIRE project initially tackles the challenges urban ecosystems suffer at the nexus of the economy-society...

SPIRE Start-Ups Mentoring Programme: building a culture of innovation

How do culture and creativity influence innovation in our cities? What is the role of technical and economic knowledge? Building a culture of innovati...

Transforming Geospatial Information (GIS) into urban knowledge in Baia Mare

Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are infrastructures to capture, store, manage, analyse, chart, and visualize information, data, and indicators of...

SPIRE Journal 2: The project moves forward

This is the second journal of the Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem (SPIRE) project since its creation on 1st September 2019. The impact of...

What do E-WALLETS have to do with environmental protection?

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...

Baia Mare community in action

The ecological transformation and recovery of five contaminated areas in Baia Mare, along with the significant environmental behavioural shift from ci...

Resilient cities after COVID-19: the need for green infrastructure

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 ...

Re-naturing cities through phytoremediation: How Nature Based Solutions can make a difference.

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...

SPIRE Journal 1: get to know the latest project achievements

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...

Creating new social and economic value: Restoring the urban ecosystem

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...

Urban soil decontamination for citizens’ health

Pollution is one of the most significant environmental challenges worldwide; according to the European Environmental Agency, the management of pollute...

Owners, make your empty apartments available!

In order to acquire apartments for the 'Yes, we Rent!' housing scheme, the first information campaign measures were started and first apartments visit...

Barcelona’s pilot project to beat the heat

It is only 10 am but air temperature in Barcelona is already high; another heat wave has hit the city, causing the further enhancement of the heat isl...

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

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

Learning to live with WUI fires

While fire has been one of the most relevant elements for the advancement of mankind, paradoxically it has also been -and still is- the responsible fo...

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 ...

Community-led housing – a key ingredient of urban housing policy

Collaborative housing models that put residents' needs before private profit are raising standards in affordable and adequate housing. They are part o...

Barcelona’s Climate Shelters project The challenge of communicating unwelcome messages on climate change

To connect with people and communicate climate change effectively, one should convey more than climate facts to people. Instead, there is a need to un...

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 ...

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 ...

The co-design effects on the Municipal Financial Report

A discussion with Emanuela Casula, CO-CITY financial manager ...

Adapting Barcelona to Climate Change: A multi-criteria approach for the selection of schools to be converted to Climate Shelters - Zoom In

This zoom in focuses on a challenging feature of the Barcelona “Climate Shelters” UIA project, namely the methodology and criteria for the selection o...

AirQon Zoom-in 1: Not only for mobility purposes– towards the car as a service

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...

Enabling nature to take over – green quay walls in Breda

Breda is a lovely city. The dense middle-age centre has many small streets and places to stroll around. This density does, however, leave only little ...

Journal 4 - RE/SOURCED

Final Journal on the UIA RE/SOURCED Project...

RE/SOURCED - Journal 3

Our third RE/SOURCED Journal, covering Q1 2023 to Q1 2024...

A viable Energy Community at Transfo

Does circularity help to reduce carbon emissions?

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 ...

Challenges adopting Circularity in Energy projects

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...

RE/SOURCED: Zoom-In 2

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 - 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...

CUP4Creativity Journal #3: Institutionalisation and continuous experimentation

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...

Building new communities through culture: The legacy of CUP4Creativity in Újbuda

In the past three years, the Urban Innovative Actions-funded project CUP4Creativity has been working on strengthening the local cultural and creative ...

CUP4Creativity Zoom-in #2: Building local civic ecosystems

Local civil ecosystems are important building blocks of our cities. With a better understanding of the resources and needs of local initiatives, we ca...

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...

Science in the City

Image of Barcelona by Kaspars Upmanis on Unsplash...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Passport for Work Zoom-in: Skills based matching

In the second Passport for Work zoom-in, the implications of skills based matching are explored among employers. We visited employers in three differe...

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 ...

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...

How a Place to Be-Come is transforming local parks while addressing social exclusion - ZOOM IN

On February 2020, the Centre Public d’Action Social (CPAS) - the local institution that delivers social aid - and the project partner Natagora - a gra...

SPIRE ZOOM IN 2 - WHAT - WHY - WHO - HOW

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....

SPIRE Zoom In: Plantahlon and Phytoremediation in Baia Mare

The Plantathlons activities carried out in baia Mare during spring 2021 created a collaborative ecosystem supporting citizens-led actions and enhancin...

What is RE/SOURCED?

The RE/SOURCED Project & TRANSFO...

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...

Experience and learned lessons from procuring innovative solutions – IGNITION’s Living Lab

A core element of the IGNITION innovation project is the Living Lab at the campus of the University of Salford. Here, different nature-based solutions...