Upcoming Events

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…

The 2021 International Transdisciplinary Conference (ITD), “Creating Spaces and Cultivating Mindsets for Learning and Experimentation”, provides a platform for engagement, discussion, and action that links transdisciplinary research, (un) learning, and practice. The goal is to advance transdisciplinary concepts and methodologies while strengthening their potential for addressing societal challenges.

JPI Urban Europe invites all projects funded in the Urban Migration call and their stakeholders to an online projects kick-off meeting. The meeting provides an opportunity for the project partners to meet and to share knowledge, introduce their projects, engage in strategic discussions and find partners for future cooperation. You can register at the bottom of this page. Time: Tuesday September 14, 13.30 – 17.15 (CEST) Target audience: Urban Migration projects (3 participants from each project), representatives from JPI Urban…

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 register to the ENSUF Synthesis Webinar. In this webinar we will launch the report and more materials,…

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…