Migrants’ experiences of housing in European Cities – and what we can do to improve them.
Challenges Facing Migrants in European Cities – based on research from the JPI Urban Europe Urban Migration call.
Recent research from the Urban Migration call offers a greater understanding of what the arrival of new populations means for the functioning of European cities, and what forces shape their experience.
The state of migration in the context of Europe’s cities: who it involves, what their experiences are, and what impact it has on the function of cities.
What are the benefits of targeting food in the food-water-energy nexus? Is is time to govern these resources differently in cities? The Creating Interfaces project has carried out international research on how food, energy and water systems interact (as a nexus) in three cities: Slupsk (Poland) Tulcea (Romania) and Wilmington (U.S.A). We met with Pia Laborgne and Iulian Nichersu to learn from their popular results.
Our second year under the Covid pandemic comes soon to an end and we are still stuck between online meetings and some first opportunities to meet again onsite, exploring ways of how to establish a new normal of transnational cooperation. At the same time the attention on climate neutral, inclusive, and regenerative cities has been growing this year.
Many cities need to drastically lower their CO2 emissions whilst meeting an ever-growing demand for carbon intensive resources. The M-NEX (Movable Nexus) project argues that by focusing on their food, water, and energy systems (FEW), cities can create circular economies and simultaneously reduce their carbon emissions. We interviewed Professor Wanglin Yan, the project coordinator for M-NEX, about the methodology and tools they developed.
The Vertical Green 2.0 project has developed tools to predict the cooling potentials of vertical greenings and their water demands to better understand and manage vertical greening as a viable source of food and energy. “What makes vertical greening so interesting is that it can contribute to numerous urban transitions”, says one of the project coordinators Karin Hoffmann. The project results help answer one of the big questions on this topic, namely why vertical greening has not been applied on a large scale before despite its promising nature.
Upscaled aquaponics (the water-reusing production of fish and crops) can produce a relevant contribution to a city’s sustainability. The project CITYFOOD investigates the potential of upscaled urban aquaponics to meet the demands of growing urban population. The project developed different models and utilised living labs in Brazil, Norway, and Germany.