Upcoming Events

The 10-day event will give prospective applicants and other stakeholders of EU research and innovation the opportunity to get information and ask questions about main funding instruments, processes of Horizon Europe and what is new. The Horizon Europe Info days will be open for participation without prior registration. The Horizon Europe info-days will address 9 themes, each featuring a programme of exclusive discussions and hands-on sessions, dedicated to a different cluster or part of the new programme.  The 9 themes will…

Join the EUKN-OECD Week of National Urban Policies (NUPs) from 28 to 30 June 2021 to explore how the New Leipzig Charter supports more just, green and productive NUPs! The event will consist of four distinct Policy Lab sessions: an opening session and three following thematic sessions exploring the just, green and productive dimensions (set out in the New Leipzig Charter) of NUPs in a number of European countries. All four sessions will be open to the public to explore…

PlaceCity, funded in the JPI urban Europe call Making Cities Work, joins the CHC’s Placemakers: Development, Design and Regeneration Conference 30 June, virtual conference on Hopin Nothing has given a more acute sense of the place we live than the challenges presented by COVID-19. The importance of Home has been at the forefront of all of our minds over the last year, but our geographical boundaries and the public services and businesses that operate locally have also come to the…

Are you part of the implementation team or a SUGI project? Welcome to the re-occurring SUGI open houses to exchange with the team and more projects on a regular basis on things that concerns you and joint activities. When: Jul 29, 2021 10:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada), 16.00 CEST >> Register in advance for this meeting About SUGI The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a call jointly established by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative…

Welcome to a five day summer school on interdisciplinary approaches to the sustainable city organized by the Antwerp Urban Studies Institute (USI) and the Antwerp Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IMDO), in partnership with the Urban European Research Alliance (UERA). This summer school aims to address the sustainable city from an interdisciplinary perspective. We assess how the introduction of technology can transform contemporary cities towards more sustainability. The summer school combines lectures by a range of distinguished external speakers and local staff from the Antwerp…

Digital Living Lab Days is the annual event organised by the European Network of Living Labs. The event offers a space or a platform for public officials, companies, entrepreneurs, academics, living lab representatives, and innovators to connect and work together: to create new products and services, to set the basis for debate and exploration of theories, and to discuss and process policy recommendations within the practical elements of open and user-driven innovation. Through interactive panel discussions, hands-on workshops with leading…

Are you a project funded in the Urban Migration call? JPI Urban Europe invites all projects funded in the Urban Migration call to an online projects kick-off meeting on 16 September 2021. The meeting provides an opportunity for projects  to meet and introduce their project, engage in strategic discussions and find partners for future cooperation. Invitations will soon go out together with exact time for the event and a registration link. Save the date! About the Urban Migration projects Eight…

Addressing the challenges in urban areas are crucial to solve the overarching grand societal and planetary challenges in the contemporary world. While goals and strategies, such as Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals are global ambitions, enhancing sustainability and liveability on local urban scale is key. This workshop aims at developing visions on sustainable and liveable urban areas in Africa, discuss the pathways to make those visions a reality and how international cooperation can support local urban transitions. JPI…

The Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) is one of the key initiatives of JPI Urban Europe. Currently UERA brings together 58 European research organisations from 20 different countries. It is a community of researchers, professors, and PhD students who, together, works to advance scientific excellence in the field of urban research. This community is bound by research that adopts integrated approaches; systemic, environmental, and socio-economical. UERA will in september co-host a session on Positive energy districts as a vehicle towards…

In 2017, fifteen R&I projects were approved in ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF), a collaboration between JPI Urban Europe and the European Commission, to address urgent and long-term urban challenges by co-creating ideas and projects. Stakeholders in over 65 cities and 20 countries have since then been involved in the projects and published project results in a variety of forms. You can now save-the-date to the Synthesis Report to launch for this call, featuring in-depth interviews with projects about…

The 9th annual edition of Sustainable Places (SP2021) will be a hybrid event, from 29th September to 1st October, with the in-person meetings to be hosted in Rome, Italy.  Each year, Sustainable Places features topics that are shaping how we think about buildings and the built environment. SP2021 has released a preliminary list of general focal topics in the Call for Proposals application which is now open for submissions. Across all editions, Sustainable Places is open to all topics related to building sustainability…