Stepping up the game- Driving Urban Transitions On the backdrop of the EU green deal and the Urban Agenda for the EU, Europe is now working on an ambitious strategy to become the first climate-neutral continent, and ensuring liveability, prosperity and well-being for all people in the process. To reach these ambitious goals, urban transformations play a crucial role. Without getting neighbourhoods, towns, municipalities, cities and urban areas right, a great number of efforts will be lost. "JPI Urban Europe…
Find out more »On behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) we like to inform you about the 14th SET Plan Conference. Due to the current circumstances the conference will take place virtually on 23. and 24. November 2020. Please find further information and the invitation of BMWi here: SET Plan Conference 2020 The event will be opened by Mr Peter Altmaier (Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy) and via virtual participation by Mrs Kadri Simson (European Commissioner for Energy).…
Find out more »JPI Urban Europe partners with the Sustainable & Resilient Urban-Rural Partnerships International Conference, #URP2020, in Leipzig, Germany. The URP2020 conference aims at developing new urban-rural imaginaries, integrating strategies and projects that explore present and future potentials in terms of sustainability and resilience. The conference brings together and connects recent scientific insights and enlightening experiences of on-going projects in practice. It stimulates learning on various levels, i.e. from the local level via entire regions to the broader European understanding of integrated…
Find out more »How do urban actors step up the game and realise integrated, green, just and productive urban areas? What are the capacity building efforts needed to drive urban transitions to sustainable futures? This fifteenth Urban Lunch Talk will partly reflect the outputs from the JPI Urban Europe Policy Conference on 12 Nov. Welcome to this talk to take the discussions further or enjoy a brief summary and state of play. As a particpant you can listen to invited guests and participate…
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857160.