Towards climate-neutral mobility in cities: Extended Thematic AGORA & site visits
2023-12-04 09:30 - 2023-12-05 17:00 UTC | Taş Bina Conference Hall Address: Şemsitebrizi, Ankara Cd. No:6, 42151 Karatay/Konya
Join us on our journey towards climate-neutral mobility in cities! We will discuss the main challenges, opportunities and funding options at our extended AGORA Thematic Dialogue in Konya, Turkey.
We will showcase good practices, have interesting local site visits and make sure to create a lot of networking possibilities. In the workshop sessions we will discuss the following topics:

Challenges and opportunities for cities to reach climate neutrality
How to achieve speed reductions in the traffic of urban areas? – learning from examples
Challenges and solutions in the dissemination of active mobility in cities (e.g. cycling, walking)
Sustainable solutions in freight transport (Roadmap for safe, sustainable, efficient, technology-supported, integrated city logistics)

Venue (on-site only): Taş Bina Conference Hall
Address: Şemsitebrizi, Ankara Cd. No:6, 42151 Karatay/Konya
What can you expect from your participation in the AGORA Dialogue?

Exchange, discuss, co-create: You will have the possibility to join an engaged group of change makers, urban practitioners, researchers and others in discussions on what is needed to drive urban transitions.
Networking: You will be able to connect to the AGORA community, the informal stakeholder network maintained by JPI Urban Europe.
Combine practical exchange of experiences with exciting discussions on urban transformation.

Timeplan
Monday 4 December
09:30 – 16:30 Workshop (lunch & breaks included)
18:00 – 20:00 Working dinner
20:00 – 22:00 Traditional Sema Ceremony
Tuesday 5 December
9:00 – 12:30 Site visits
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop (Coffee break included)
This Agora’s edition is organised in the framework of ERA-Net Urban Accessibility & Connectivity (ENUAC)

The registration is closed!

Designing inclusive and engaging hybrid workshop formats - Design and application workshop
2023-12-04 14:00 - 16:30 UTC | Digital
The Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) and the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural change (KAT at KIT-ITAS) organize an online workshop on Designing inclusive and engaging hybrid workshop formats with specific focus on urban transformation moderated by Christine Bell/Centre for Facilitation.
Register here!
This workshop is designed for stakeholders in the field of urban transformation with diverse background (e.g. researchers, professional facilitators, practitioners, public administration,) who are interested in creating effective and engaging workshops that combine both in-person and remote participation. It intends to concretize findings from a first workshop in July 2023 applying them to specific constellations in the context of urban transformation and research:

Scientific contexts, e.g. scientific conferences and workshops
Stakeholder involvement workshops, e.g. formats like to JPI Urban Europe AGORAs, bringing together urban practice and research
Citizen and local stakeholder participation workshops

The results of the first workshop in July 2023 are documented here:

Blog entry
Documentation

These are a starting point of this workshop but you are cordially invited to take part even if not having been present at the first workshop!
Contact: Pia Laborgne pia.laborgne@kit.edu

AGORA Dialogue #2: DUT Call 2024 priorities – 30.1.2024
2024-01-30 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
REGISTRATION
Date: 30 January 2024
Time:
Seattle: 8 – 10 a.m.
Quebec: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
São Paulo: 1 – 3 p.m.
London: 4 – 6 p.m.
Vienna: 5 – 7 p.m.

Registration closed.

ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity Co-funded Call Projects Final Event (invitation only)
2024-02-06 10:00 - 2024-02-07 16:00 UTC | Paris, France
Invitation only
6-7 February 2024
86 rue Regnault, 75013 Paris, France
Registration closed.
If you are interested to attend the event, please email us and we will look in to the possibilities. Note that this event is by invitation only.

The ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) final event for the 15 co-funded projects is taking place in Paris and online between 6-7 February 2024.
The purpose of this event is to provide:

A forum for exchange for all projects within the ENUAC co-funded call
Information and workshops with the ACUTE project, ENUAC knowledge hub
Reporting on your projects’ research
Dissemination of the results
One site visit in Paris

Agenda
Possible changes may occur

Day 1 | Tuesday, 6 February 2024 (hybrid)
Meeting Venue: 86 rue Regnault, 75013 PARIS, France
Online Venue: link to be shared
10:00 Welcome address by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
10:10 Warm-up and agenda check-in
10:15 ENUAC mobility solutions for a European climate-neutral future (panel with project coordinators/partners)
11:15 ENUAC contributions to a sustainable and inclusive future for cities (panel with project coordinators/partners)
12:00 Lunch Break
13:30 Investment in research and innovation clean mobility solutions (panel with 2-3 potential investors)
14:30 Breakout sessions for project coordinators and partners that submit their current solution and discuss the potential scalability with a municipality, potential business partner or an investor (templates for the session will be provided)
16:00 Break
16:15 WALKSHOP in Paris (on-site visit Olympiades – 15min city concept in Paris – tbc)
18:15 Wrap-up and key take-aways
18:30 Networking dinner

Day 2 | Wednesdays, 7 February 2024 (hybrid)
Meeting Venue: 86 rue Regnault, 75013 PARIS, France
Online Venue: link to be shared
09:30 ENUAC Knowledge Hub Workshop (ACUTE) (including 30 min break)
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Communication – Intro and How to use social media for science communication (IQS)
14:00 End of the final event
14:00 – 16:00 Reserved time for interviews with the projects, on-site (IQS: the JPI Urban Europe/DUT Communications team) – information sent by email

Hotel recommendations
Hotels close to ANR (in pdf)

ACUTE and UERA future seminar in Karlsruhe (Germany)
2024-02-20 - 2024-02-21 | Karlsruhe, Germany, Germany
The JPI Uban Europe ACUTE and UERA invities you to a future seminar in Karlsruhe, Germany on 20 & 21st of February, 2024.
We are looking forward to welcoming participants from both the academic and the practitioner world (NGOs, cities, urban planners, decision makers, etc.).
Within the framework of the ACUTE (Accessibility and Connectivity knowledge hub for Urban Transformation in Europe) project and UERA TWG Urban Accessibility and Connectivity, a particular interest is given to the issues of accessibility and connectivity, especially in the context of 15-minute-city urban model, for both goods and people.
The contributors from academia and practice are invited to orally present their projects, discuss them and share their latest results and methods within the fields of Accessibility and Connectivity of the 15-minute-city:
• Accessibility as a long term academic and operational concept
• 15-minute-city as a renewing of accessibility planning approaches with temporal urbanism
• 15-min-city, or X-min-city in the urban outskirts
• The social dimension in the design and implementation of the 15-min-city
• TOD and 15-minute-city
• Time-based planning of cities
• Accessibility and Sustainable mobility, the transport modes of 15-min-city
• Inclusive design and development of 15-min-cities
• Assessing the 15-min-city
Registration
For more details, we would like to invite you to have a closer look at the website of the event.

UERA Conference and General Assembly
2024-02-20 10:00 - 2024-02-23 15:00 UTC | Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Invitation to the UERA Seminar and General Assembly (February 20 – 23, 2024 in Karlsruhe/Germany), including an ACUTE TWG3 – 15mC / Urban Accessibility and Connectivity Workshop (with separate cfp) and a Driving Urban Transitions Scoping Workshop
The Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) seminar on the 22nd of February 2024 focuses on urban sustainability transformations, aiming at building ecosystem learnings, through multiple experimentation, collaboration and social learning. For this, we call for abstracts (300 words) on urban sustainability research and practice and the development of new skills and competencies enhancing transformative capacity. The seminar aims to contribute to the European transfer of knowledge and experience and to identify and discuss the need for capacity building in research and practice. Besides presentations, we welcome posters that will be shown during the whole event and highlighted in a specific poster session.
Deadline for abstracts: 12th of January 2024.
Final papers can be published after the conference in the Special Issue of the Journal Urban Transformations ‘On the Other Side of the Green City: Critical Experimentations and Learnings’ (submission will be opened after the conference)
For more information, the submission of abstracts and registration please see: https://indico.scc.kit.edu/e/uera2024

The event is organised by: Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA), Karlsruhe Transformation Centre for Sustainability and Cultural Change/KIT-ITAS (KAT), Karlsruhe Real World Lab for Sustainable Climate Protection (KARLA) and in cooperation with JPI UE.

Mission-led Community Change Masterclass
2024-03-20 - 2024-03-22 | Maribor
During this training, we will use collaborative learning approaches to help you to adopt a mission-led mindset; and to explore ways that you can use a mission-led approach to help organise, plan, and manage radical change for your organisation and community. You will gain knowledge and confidence to help your community take a mission-led approach to change.
Is This Course Right for You?

Are you passionate about your community and trying to make positive/holistic change happen in some way?
Do you have some understanding of the equity, sustainability, climate, and socio-economic challenges facing your community, and others?
Are you frustrated by the persistent gap between changes currently being achieved and what you see is really needed?
Are you looking for help and ideas on how you, your organisation, your community and/or your partners could do much better?

You could work for any type of organisation, or be an independent individual. Everyone is welcome. No specific academic training is required.
Read more about the course here!

Note that the travel costs for the “Urban Doers Community 2023” will be covered by the DUT Partnership via FFG (according to the regulations of FFG, for transport & hotel costs for max. three nights). Please make your own travel arrangements, you will receive reimbursement templates from the DUT team after the event.
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Digital Workshop: Mapping of CUE Cases
2024-03-20 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Digital
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Mid-term Meeting for PED Call II Projects
2024-04-11 12:00 - 2024-04-12 16:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Area 42, Rue des Palais 46, 1030 Bruxelles, Belgium
JPI Urban Europe and the DUT Partnership invite all projects funded in the JPI UE PED Call II – Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods for Climate Neutrality – and representatives from involved national funding agencies to the midterm meeting.
The mid-term meeting is organised back to back and jointly with the kick-off event of the DUT Call 2022 projects in Brussels on 11-12 April 2024.
This event provides an opportunity for project partners to meet peers from other PED Call II projects, link to the “next generation” of PED projects and chat with funding organisations. In the mid-term event, we will build on the experiences from the projects meeting in Copenhagen in January 2023 and put a strong focus on inter-project exchange on thematic or organisational challenges and needs. We will also build on the great work of the first-time established PED Expert Support Facility (ESF).
Date & time
11 April, 12:00-17:00 (CET), starting with lunch and followed by an evening networking event
12 April, 09:00-16:00 (CET)
Location: Area42 | Rue des Palais 46, Brussels and online via Zoom

Parts of the projects event will fully be hybrid, with all activities being offered onsite but only some of them online.
Target groups: Coordinators and project partners funded in PED Call II, representatives from involved national funding agencies and experts from European Commission.
We expect 2-3 representatives from each project to attend the kick-off event onsite in Brussels. We ask all project coordinators to inform your partners about this event and help us ensure a good balance between researchers and partners outside academia at the event. Additional project partners are welcome to attend online.

» Register for the projects kick-off event
Registration deadline for onsite participation is 16th of February. Registration deadline for online participation is 1st of March.
Make sure to make your hotel reservations well in advance since there will be many events in Brussels related to the EU presidency.
For questions email christoph.gollner@ffg.at

EASIER Final Project Conference
2024-04-22 - 2024-04-23 | Denmark
Welcome to the Conference on Seamless sustainable everyday urban mobility, organized by the partners of the international EU research project EASIER, 22-23 April 2024 in Denmark. Partners from Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden will come together to share insights from this 3-year research project, and discuss future outlook and synergies together with other leading experts in the field.
EASIER has investigated how to increase the share of active and sustainable modes through improved public transport systems and interaction with other modes. Its international multidisciplinary approach has brought together experts in the areas of behavioural modelling, transport modelling, urban design and planning, psychology, and operations research – from both practice and academia.
This concluding conference will showcase the results of the project focusing on attractive public transport, the interaction with urban space, walking and bicycling as well as importance of improved organisational structures.
>> For more information and registration, please vistit www.conferencemanager.dk/easierconference.
Please find more information about the project on the official project website at easier.dtu.dk.

JUSTICE final event: What about justice in public transit?
2024-04-24 08:30 - 2024-04-25 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) | European Doctoral College, 46 bd de la Victoire, Strasbourg, France
The JUSTICE project, which examined accesibility inequalities to improve city strategies, is sharing the project outcomes in a final event on 24th April, in Strasbourg.
Funded as part of the ENUAC project call, the project addressed the challenge of developing effective policy options for urban accessibility and connectivity, involving stakeholders in the process. Specifically, the project JUSTICE relied on the idea that intra-urban accessibility is genuinely not the same for everyone. Spatiotemporal, but also social, physical, and socio-cognitive inequalities arguably reinforce the intrinsically uneven nature of accessibility. The project focused on specific groups suffering from accessibility gaps: disabled, blind and visually impaired, elderly and socially underprivileged people.
The project has used different methods to identify and address these inequalities in an inclusive city strategy in Konya (Turkey), Brussels (Belgium) and Strasbourg (France), the three urban case studies.
In its final event, the JUSTICE project will bring together local politicians, scientists and members of other Enuac projects team to discuss the project results.
Agenda
8:30 – 09:45 Welcome and Opening speeches
Policy makers – Head of LIVE lab – JUSTICE project Coordinator
10:00 -12:00 Keynote Talks
What about Justice in Public Transit ?
Karen Lucas & Karel Martens
European Research
13:30 – 15:30 Projects’ Outcomes
JUSTICE and Cousin Projects WalkUrban with
Noriko Otsuka & EX-TRA with Paola Pucci
15:45 – 18:00 Discussion panel
How to Improve PT Justice
Researchers, Politicians, Associations, Experts
For registration, contact: salome.brejat@live-cnrs.unistra.fr
Dowload the invitation: JUSTICE Event Invitation
Learn more: Projet JUSTICE : Mesurer et exprimer les conditions de déplacement urbain pour une ville inclusive
Visit the project page

DUT’s Mapping of 15-minute City practices
2024-04-30 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Digital
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SORTEDMOBILITY final event
2024-05-13 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Paris, France
The SORTEDMOBILITY project has its project final event taking place in Paris, Monday May 13th, 2024, 10am to 5pm.
The agenda for the day includes crash courses on cutting-edge research topics and the presentation of the project results.
For more information, please visit the SORTEDMOBILITY project website: https://www.sortedmobility.eu/events.

PED AGORA Dialogue: PED 3.0 - Our Journey towards climate-neutrality
2024-05-14 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Digital
Find more info about the event on the DUT website.
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Joint event for the Sino-European projects (ENUAC)
2024-05-15 - 2024-05-17 | Hangzhou, China
By invitation only
Joint event for the eight Sino-European projects funded by the joint programming initiative Urban Europe (JPI Urban Europe) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in the Sino-European programme of the ERA-Net Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC).
The joint event offers the project partners an opportunity to meet each other for knowledge sharing, strategic discussions and exchanges on impact, and learning from the projects’ research and experiences so far. Furthermore, information about communication, support activities and requirements for the coming years will be discussed. The event is an opportunity for networking and community building among the eight Sino-European projects funded by JPI Urban Europe and NSFC.
Aims of the joint event:

Learn from each other’s experiences, insights and (intermediate) outcomes as well as from the wealth of experiences brought in by all participants;
Reflect on the projects’ impact plans;
Exchange views on the role of data and data sharing between European and Chinese researchers and institutes;
Exchange views on and find pragmatic options to strengthen the projects’ approach to other identified cross-cutting topics.

Register here

Program

Day 1 | Wednesday 15 May 2024
09:30 Registration, coffee & tea
10:00 Welcome remarks by NSFC & JPI Urban Europe
10:20 Warm-up & ‘speed dating’
10:45 Presentations from projects (I) – on ‘Sustainable Urban Logistics‘
Q&A (10 minutes)
11:45 Group photo
12:00 Lunch & poster viewing
13:15 Presentation from projects (II) – on ‘Strengthening Climate-neutral Mobility‘
Q&A (10 minutes)
14:15 Monitoring, evaluation & learning, Projects Contact Point
14:45 Break
15:00 ‘Marketplace’ – session for and by Chinese and European postdocs & PhD candidates
Activity to find and map possible connections between the different projects
Projects on ‘Sustainable Urban Logistics‘
Projects on ‘Strengthening Climate-neutral Mobility‘
17:00 Wrap-up and key take-aways first day
18:30 Networking dinner

Day 2 | Thursday 16 May 2024
08:30 Internal meetings per project
11:00 Break
11:15 Discussion in mixed breakout groups on cross-project collaborations & joint activities
12:00 Lunch & poster viewing
13:15 Dissemination & communication strategy
13:45 Discussions on impact (I)
14:30 Break
14:45 Discussions on impact (II)
Panel discussion
15:15 Stakeholder engagement & needs of urban public authorities
Panel discussion
Hybrid session
16:00 Other things projects would like to raise (open session)
16:30 Final remarks and end of the joint event
18:30 Networking dinner

Day 3 | Friday morning 17 May 2024
Site visit(s) in Hangzhou
Farewell lunch buffet

The European Mobility Days and ACUTE workshop
2024-05-16 09:30 - 2024-05-17 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Strasbourg
The 6th European Mobility Days are coming up, this time in Strasbourg, organised on 16 and 17 May 2024 by Cerema and CNFPT, in partnership with the Eurometropole of Strasbourg, GART, UTP, MOT, UGE, ADEUS (Strasbourg Urban Planning Agency), and the European POLIS network.
The aim is to discuss and exchange ideas based on European and international examples, in order to compare and understand the issues and levers for action, and thus act effectively to promote a sustainable mobility policy. On the first day, the French National pilot workshop of the European ACUTE programme will also be held.
>> For more information and practical details, visit the event website.
Registration deadline: 3 May 2024, 11:59pm (as the number of participants is limited, the advise is to register as soon as possible).

Urban lunch talk: New perspectives and approaches on urban transitions – What is needed for policy making?
2024-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
Welcome to a new episode of the Urban Lunch Talks series addressing new perspectives and approaches on urban transitions. The talk will follow up on a session about the topic at the Driving Urban Transitions Conference 2024 – in order to develop further what is needed for policy making.
>> Go to the Zoom webinar.
The webinar will be recorded and published for the JPI Urban Europe’s Youtube channel. You may watch the episode by clicking this link.
>> You may download the event to your calendar (ics-file).
>> Click here to register for the event to make sure being invited to upcoming Urban lunch talks and networking activities.
After an interesting session at the Driving Urban Transitions Conference in Brussels about projects pushing the boundaries for new perspectives and approaches on urban transitions, there is a need to speak further about how change will come through policy making. For the conversations in the upcoming Urban Lunch Talk about how to move forward for policy making, representants from the city/region, state and international levels are invited for a panel discussion.
The theme of the event is connected to the ENUTC call (BTC) about the impact of art and design for urban transformation. We seem to be stuck in current modes of thinking, and old solutions, that were perhaps useful to solve old problems. This implies a need for research projects to emphasize the creativity, and the cultural sectors – to support and enable the transformation of our societies (cities) towards a sustainable, climate neutral and just future.
Still, what can the decision makers do when the research projects think outside-the-box – does policy making require the same kind of mindset? Obstacles for new perspectives, and approaches on urban transitions, and policy making are to be discussed Monday, May 27 at lunch. Most welcome!
Panel guests

Jenny Kornmacher, Innovations Director, EIT Culture & Creativity

Specialized in creative industries development and international relations, Jenny is an experienced leader within the cultural sectors of Europe. Based in the south of Sweden working for Region Skåne, she is also an Interim Innovations Director for the EIT Culture & Creativity. Jenny is ambitious to connect industries and creative sectors in order to support the innovation potential in a larger context, and through the business oriented Breakthrough Lab concept, innovation is promoted. She holds a Master of Arts focused in cultural studies/critical theory and analysis from Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Annika Enqvist, Research and Education Coordinator, Public Art Agency Sweden

Her role contains building a new line of public programmes and mediation of public art, in relation to current societal and cultural issues – providing opportunities for mutual learning, and a broad dissemination of knowledge around public art. Enqvist is managing and curating the public programming with exhibitions, performances, public talks, and conferences for the agency’s public venue in Stockholm. She has developed university courses on artistic processes in the public realm at Blekinge Institute of Technology, and Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Enqvist is educated at Stockholm University and Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, with an MA in curatorial studies.

Susanne Thurén, Strategic Urban Development, Umeå, Sweden

Susanne is engaged with strategic and sustainable urban development at Umeå in Sweden, part of NetZeroCities 112 Mission Cities (precursor to Cities Mission). Together with planners, statisticians, and analysts, a politicial stance is developed for the future of urban Umeå – where Susanne points to the role of culture and creative business. She has a background within the fields of international economics and policy making, with a degree in public administration and economics from Umeå University. Susanne has previously worked as a Deputy Director at the International Department at the Ministry of Finance, Government Offices of Sweden.
Moderator

Johannes Riegler, Management Board Member, Driving Urban Transitions

Johannes engages urban actors to develop a transnational research and innovation programme for regenerative and livable urban futures. Multi-actor processes are designed to bring research communities, public urban administrations, urban change makers and anyone enthusiastic about urban areas together – challenges ahead could be tackled by exchanging knowledge and co-create. Johannes earned his urbanist (MA), and geographer (BSc) studies in Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Madrid, Budapest and Klagenfurt.
Urban lunch talk webinar series
The urban lunch talk is part of a webinar series to discuss and synthesize cross-cutting research and innovation, with diverse stakeholders across Europe, and beyond. The webinar is more of a listening experience, so that you can enjoy your lunch or taking a walk at the same time. The urban lunch talk is live-recorded in Zoom, and later published for the JPI Urban Europe’s Youtube channel.

Mapping of Circular Urban Economy Cases across Europe – Results Webinar
2024-06-04 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna)
The webinar will delve into results from a comprehensive mapping of best-practice cases of circular urban economies in European cities.
Experts from consultancy firm Sweco Sweden and Belgium led the data collection process concerning practical experiences in circular urban transitions. Together with other experts, they will provide insights into the structured outline of this mapping project, including the bottom-up, Power BI-driven methodology used to collect and compile circular urban economy cases.
Additionally, the webinar will allow space to delve deeper into specific aspects of the topic at hand and interact directly with a panel of urban circularity experts.
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CONflict in TRAnsformations Seminar in Oslo
2024-06-11 08:00 - 2024-06-12 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway
The CONTRA project welcomes participants to their seminar “The Drama of Conflict – Working with Theatre in Urban Transformation” in Oslo, Norway, on 11-12 June 2024.
The organisers warmly welcome individuals engaged in addressing urban conflict, citizen participation, and arts-based approaches to tackle governance challenges to join us for the concluding seminar of the CONTRA project. This seminar aims to compare experiences and disseminate the results of our research focused on conflicts within urban spaces.
About CONflict in TRAnsformations (CONTRA) project
Through a comparative study of urban planning law and practices focused on climate transition in four countries, the CONTRA project studies how conflict is handled and investigates the connection with political and legal institutions to determine whether conflict is suppressed or actively used for sustainable transformation. The project also tests new ways to handle conflict. CONTRA pioneers a new model of living labs (Drama Labs) that uses theatre-based methods to experiment with productive conflict. To read more about the project please visit its website: conflictintransformations.eu

How to attend
The event organisers offer financial support for a limited number of places (travel, accomodation etc.).
To be elegible, guests should be representatives from European countries not covered by the project consortium, the project consortium includes Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Poland.
Participants from other countries are also welcome, but we will not be able to cover the costs of their arrival and stay in Oslo.

For more details please contact: jkrukowska@uw.edu.pl
To read more about the project please visit the CONTRA project website: conflictintransformations.eu

GeoSence Result Conference
2024-06-14 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Online
Welcome to the GeoSence Results Conference – learn more about how geofencing can be deployed in European cities!
14 June at 11.30 to 13.00, online.
The project will present lessons learned from use cases and take you through their developed guide, filled with recommendations on dos and don’ts when implementing, or working with geofencing.
For more information and registration, please visit the project event website here: https://sv-se.eu.invajo.com/event/closer/geosenceresultconference
For more information about GeoSence, visit the project webpage here.

Urban Lunch Talk: TOD revisited – Urban planning and design in station near areas for less car dependent cities
2024-09-05 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Online, Germany
Welcome to a new episode of the Urban Lunch Talks series addressing the theme ‘Urban transitions in times of crises’, focusing on the importance of getting the areas within walking distance to train stations and transport nodes in cities right to realise bold visions of cities becoming less dependent on cars.
>> You can access the webinar recording here: https://youtu.be/9zqWF6AaBEk
In this episode we will shed light on the core elements of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and how it is implemented in Europe and China. What is the state of art in research and practice? How relevant is TOD compared to the 15minute-city concept to cater for attractive and walkable living environments? How do innovative solutions for shared mobility, e.g. mobility hubs and toolboxes, fit into the picture? How important is the walkability aspect, i.e. that these areas are pedestrian-friendly?
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) as a concept for integrated urban planning has been around for a long time to boost efficient use of space in station near urban areas. TOD advocates urban development that prioritises and maximizes residential and office space, together with major sports- and culture destinations within walking distance of public transport. It thereby promotes a symbiotic relationship between dense, compact urban form and public transport use. Sometimes at the expense of open urban space and greenery, it is argued. In doing so, TOD aims to increase public transport ridership and ultimately to promote less car-dependent sustainable urban growth.
In this upcoming webinar discussions will take a starting point in findings from projects funded in the ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) in the JPI Urban Europe program.
The ENUAC project TOD2 is investigating areas in Sweden, Denmark and China to develop a TOD2 framework with perspectives on public spaces, shared mobility and innovative mobility hubs and carbon neutrality toolboxes. It aims to contribute to achieving reduced carbon dioxide emissions and reduced oil dependence in European and Chinese cities. What is TOD2? How do you apply TOD in Europe vs China? Are there differences between China, Denmark, Sweden with a focus on e.g. public spaces?
EASIER aims to understand how we can shift people from private cars to more sustainable and active modes of transportation by studying the entire door-to-door journey, with e.g., safer and more attractive public spaces to attract passengers. How do one reason about e.g. urban design in railway station area in Europe? And how can station near areas be made more attractive?
Walkable urban neighbourhoods, freeing up potential for sustainable and active travel by improving walking and its connections with public transport, this is the focus of WalkUrban. The project aims to better understand local accessibility and urban walkability. Through exploring the links between objective, subjective and perceived walking accessibility the project has identified key drivers for and obstacles to walking in various urban neighbourhoods in close collaboration with local stakeholders in three European cities (Genoa, Dortmund and Gothenburg).
Speakers
Todor Stojanovski, TOD2, researcher, PhD in Urban and Regional Studies, Computational Science and Technology (CST), KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Todor holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Studies at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His research focuses on urban form and mobility, urban design and transportation infrastructures, habitation and mobility (sub)cultures. He has worked on research projects about urban form and transportation, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). He has a Licentiate of Engineering (teknologie licentiatexamen) in Infrastructure and MSc (magisterexamen) in Built Environment (Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure) from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Gülin Göksu Başaran, EASIER, Industrial PhD at the Technical University of Denmark (Department of Technology, Management and Economics) and Copenhagen Metro.
Gülin Göksu Başaran is an industrial PhD student in the Transportation Science division, at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics. She holds a master’s degree in Transport and Logistics and has experience with modelling large-scale travel and satisfaction survey data. Currently, she investigates the influence of terminal design and urban surroundings on travel behaviour and public transport users’ satisfaction, focusing on transit-oriented development and perceived safety.
Noriko Otsuka, WalkUrban, ILS Research gGmbH, Germany, and Osaka University, Japan.
Studied Architecture at the University of York, UK, and gained her doctorate at the Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University, UK. She carried out her postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and worked as a visiting scientist at ILS in 2013.
Associate Professor (Specially Appointed) at Osaka University, Japan, since July 2018. Research interests in Trans-european transport networks and urban nodes, Walkability and urban design Brownfield regeneration/ revitalisation and urban governance.
Join us for an interesting Urban Lunch Talk 5th of September. Register today!

Urban Lunch Talk webinar series
This Urban Lunch Talk is part of a webinar series to discuss and synthesise cross-cutting research and innovation, with diverse stakeholders across Europe and beyond. By facilitating conversations among various stakeholders, we aim to inspire collaborative efforts and practical solutions that can drive sustainable transitions in urban policies and practices. The webinar is designed to be more of a listening experience, allowing you to enjoy your lunch or take a walk at the same time. The Urban Lunch Talk is live recorded on Zoom, and later published for the JPI Urban Europes’ /Driving Urban Transitions’ YouTube channel.
Find the latest episodes on the Driving Urban Transitions YouTube channel. Previous episodes can be found on the JPI Urban Europe YouTube channel.

Joint midterm event for the Innovations for Managing Sustainable Urban Accessibility projects
2024-10-15 10:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Online
By invitation only
The four Innovation Action projects funded by the joint programming initiative Urban Europe (JPI Urban Europe) in the Innovations for Managing Sustainable Urban Accessibility call of the ERA-Net Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC), are invited to a joint event online, 15 October 10.00 to 15.00 CEST.
Registration
Registration closed.
If you are interested to attend the event, please email us at info@jpi-urbaneurope.eu, and we will look in to the possibilities. Note that this event is by invitation only.
The event will provide an opportunity for the projects to meet each other for knowledge sharing, strategic discussions, and exchanges on impact. Furthermore, the event will give the projects the opportunity to present interim results and exchange information on progress to date, particular challenges, and solutions. The event is also an opportunity for networking and community building.
For the duration of a call, projects are expected to participate in three events, a kick-off, a midterm and a final event.
Important note
Please note, we expect at least 2-3 representatives from different project partners from each project at this meeting. It is also highly recommended that one city partner from each project also attends the meeting. Thereby, we would like to get the cities point of view and learn about what their long-term perspectives about the respective project topics are.
Please be aware that this event is by invitation only. Community building within the program is an important aim of the event, and the invitation is therefore limited to researchers actively involved in the funded projects and their partners from outside academia also involved in the projects, as well as the involved ENUAC National funding agencies and experts from the European Commission.
Agenda
Please find the program including Zoom-link here: ENUAC Midterm Event Innovation Action Call Projects Agenda Final Oct 2024.

15-minute City AGORA Dialogue: A Call Agenda for the urban mobility transition
2024-11-13 13:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Vienna)

ENUTC-BTC Mid-term event, and Designed living environment conference, Stockholm, November 14–15 2024
2024-11-14 00:00 - 2024-11-15 17:00 (Europe/Vienna)
November 14–15 2024, agencies and project participants from the ENUTC Building Transformation Call (BTC) will gather in Stockholm, Sweden, for inspiration and mutual exchange, onsite and online. The second day is arranged together with projects from the Designed living environment call.

Welcome to Stockholm, Sweden, for the Building Transformation Call (BTC-ENUTC) mid-term event. Project partners and funding agencies will have the opportunity to gather for inspiration and mutual exchange. Projects will present and discuss their works so far, mingle with each other, agencies and experts. The participants of the mid-term event are also invited to be a part of the Ten Research Projects on Art in Designed Living Environments – Final Conference with an emphasis on art and design.
An international training session for all ERA-NET Urban Transformation Capacity (ENUTC) projects is planned to be arranged – more information will come.
Purpose and aim
The mid-term event will facilitate exchange and community building among the projects and their project partners, support measures for projects to strengthen communication and impact creation, and inform about formal requirements on monitoring and reporting. In order to build a multi-stakeholder community for the projects funded within the ENUTC program, the mid-term event will connect to a wider stakeholder community with partners from municipalities, business, local communities and research.
The mid-term event is connected to the conference for “Ten Research Projects on Art in Designed Living Environments – Final Conference” Swedish national projects funded in the call Designed living environment and to a digital ENUTC international training session which will include a wider audience in order to build capacity outside Europe.
For whom?
BTC project coordinators and at least one additional project partner, external experts and ENUTC funding agencies are invited to attend the mid-term event. The participants from the mid-term event are also invited to meet with researchers, practitioners and stakeholders during an afternoon mingle. Participants are also invited to attend in a conference that is investigating the design of public spaces and the importances of art in the development of a more socially inclusive, sustainable society.  In connection with these events an ENUTC international training session will be held.
Agenda (CET)
November 14, Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm
12.00–13:00 Consortium meeting (funding agencies only)
13.00–13.45 Registration and lunch​
13:45–14:00 Welcome, tour de table
14:00–15:00 BTC projects presentations
15:00–15:20 Coffe break
15:20–16:00 BTC projects presentations
16:00–16:45 Panel discussion
16:45–17:00 Summary, and opportunity for practical questions
17:30–19:00 Mingle and appetizers (Wenner-Gren Center)
November 15, ArkDes, Stockholm
08:30 Registration and fika
09:00–09:30 Welcome and keynote speach
09:30–12:00 Project presentations and panel
12:00–13:00 Mingle lunch
13:00–14:45 Project reflections and panel
14:45–15:00 Summary
Locations
The mid-term event will be located at Wenner-Gren Center, Sveavägen 166, Stockholm, Sweden. The Designed living environment conference, which will be only onsite, will be arranged at ArkDes, Exercisplan 4, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden.
Registration
Registration is per invitation.

ACUTE - ENUAC Knowledge Hub - Final Event
2024-11-28 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Online
Welcome to the Final Event of ACUTE and the Knowledge Hub project, November 28th, from 1pm-3pm CET (GMT/UTC+1), online.
The ACUTE team will present results of its working groups and a Knowledge Hub community platform for research programs.
For registration, please send an email to:
Mag. Hans Häuslmayer: hh@h2pro.at
or
Dr. Susanne Wrighton: susanne.wrighton@boku.ac.at
More information to come
About ACUTE
The Knowledge Hub ACUTE has been established under the framework of ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC). The project started in November 2022 and will last 2 years with a dedicated view to become a permanent contact point for the community. The project has extracted and consolidated knowledge of the ENUAC projects, initiated efforts to support practitioners and brought together experts from different sectors. Read more about the project ACUTE here.

Urban Living Labs in Action: From Europe to Latin America’s Neighbourhoods and Cities
2024-12-05 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna)
Welcome to a digital workshop 5 december, bringing together urban actors working with experimental methods such as urban living labs – the workshop aims to exchange experiences in urban transformation, discuss new approaches and strategies, and offer opportunities for international twinning.
>> Click here to register for the event to make sure being invited to upcoming JPI Urban Europe and Driving Urban Transitions events, and networking activities. The event will be able to join without registering here (Zoom).
Urban areas are key to build robustness to deal with the bunch of crises and uncertainty of the 21st century. For that reason, renewed efforts are required to address the stresses and challenges with innovative approaches in cities and to enhance the capacities of municipalities, urban governance and society to act and therefore to enhance the robustness of urban systems to stress and disruptions caused by phenomena caused by the climate, biodiversity and socio-economic crises. The urgency to reach agreed goals and significantly change human activities away from linear models of exploitation towards processes within planetary boundaries has never been more pressing.
Urban Living Labs
Success will depend on the ability to bring research results, new governance innovation, technologies, approaches, tools, processes, policy recommendations, etc., into action in all our cities and form multi-stakeholder alliances for change. In that sense, Urban Living Labs provide the experimental settings, to test and co-create solutions and approaches among different stakeholders.
This workshop will bring together urban actors (local public administration, researchers, innovators, grassroots organisations, etc.) working in and with experimental methods such as urban living labs to exchange approaches, similarities, and differences.
Purpose
The workshop aims to exchange experiences in urban transformation, discuss new approaches and strategies, and offer opportunities for international twinning. More specifically for urban living labs, the workshop aims to

provide a platform for exchange and networking among the Latin American Urban Living Lab community and European participants and actors in this field,
discuss experiences with and impact of urban living lab approaches in urban contexts, and
establish an environment for cross-continental learning from experiences and knowledge(s) generated in urban living labs.

The results of the workshop will be used for future activities and events with a focus on Latin America in the scope of the Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT) and the ERA-NET Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC).
Agenda
15:00 Welcome note
15:05-15.15 Input on urban living labs – Linking global ambitions with local actions
15:15-16:00 Pitches (à 7 minutes) by projects/initiatives working with urban living labs in Latin America and Europe
16:00-16:10 Short break
16:10-16:15 Introduction to workshop: Learning from urban living labs across continents
16:15-16:45 Workshop: Learning from urban living labs across continents
16:45-16:55 Wrap-up
16:55-17:00 Closing and next steps
Global times
15.00-17.00 CET – Brussels Time
11.00-13.00 BRT – Brasilia Time
09.00-11.00 PET – Lima Time
Contact
Janine Halder – janine.halder@ffg.at

Urban Lunch Talk: Serious gaming as a way of understanding the world
2025-01-23 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Online
When urban planning and sound decision making relies on the aggregated knowledge and collaboration of many, gamification is a promising approach that allows us to explore possible futures and untangle difficult issues while having fun…or?
>> You can access the webinar recording here:
https://youtu.be/m6EZSsozNBw?feature=shared
In this episode of the Urban Lunch Talks series, we will investigate how serious games can be a useful tool in tackling complex planning situations, to support a better understanding of the issues at stake among stakeholders, help increase the engagement for sustainable urban development and better decision making. We want to share insights from two projects funded in JPI Urban Europe and deep-dive into learnings from these projects and discussion. In what situations are games helpful, vs not so helpful? What are the key success factors and are there any hidden traps? What are the do’s and do-nots’ when setting up your own serious game?
We will take a starting point in findings from two projects funded in the ERA-NET Cofund call Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC).
Speakers:
Glenn Lyons, Professor at the University of the West of England, and project coordinator of the TAP for uncertain future project, to talk about e.g. one of the project’s most innovative outputs – a serious game called ‘TAP-SWOT in a BOX’.
Gerfried Mikusch, Projektass. Dipl.-Ing at TU Wien, representing the SmartHubs project to talk about the SmartHubs co-design games.
Jonas Bylund, Researcher KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with a background in the JPI Urban Europe management board with a focus on research and innovation strategy, shares insights on how serious games relates to a tradition of other exploratory methods and Urban Living Labs.
Neil Powell, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Uppsala University, will e.g. share experiences from co-creating games (engaging stakeholders in co-designing the game), from a conflicting perspective.
About the ENUAC projects

TAP for uncertain future explores approaches to better consider both uncertainty and different ways to strengthen accessibility through strategic transport planning. The project has developed the Triple Access Planning (TAP) system – a novel approach that considers transport, land use, and digital connectivity in combination. Workshops that helped stakeholders to co-create a mental model of the system, i.e. to understand the system. “Before you can plan how to shape a system, you really need to understand what system you’re trying to shape,” says Glenn Lyons, project coordinator and professor at the University of the West of England. One of the project’s most innovative outputs is a serious game that introduces TAP to practitioners. The game challenges its players to weigh up the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of adopting TAP in their own contexts. Glenn Lyons will join us and tell us more about the project and the game they have developed!
The SmartHubs project examines mobility hubs, dedicated on-street locations where citizens can choose from different shared and sustainable mobility options. The main objective is to assess if a co-designed, user-centric development can enable mobility hubs to act as a game changer towards inclusive sustainable urban mobility and accessibility. The project has developed different tools that facilitate a co-design, user-centric development of mobility hubs involving users, governments and businesses to increase the attractiveness and adoption of shared and sustainable mobility modes. One of the tools is called the Co-design Tool for supporting the planning process of mobility hubs. The tool includes a set of gaming materials and a guiding handbook to enable living labs to design tailored Design Games, encourages and supports the communication between designers, users, researchers, and other stakeholders, and helps to reveal new insights more candidly. Gerfried Mikusch, Projektass. Dipl.-Ing at TU Wien, was involved in the development of the SmartHubs co-design games. In the Urban Lunch Talk he will share some lessons learned on the development and application of the games.
Join us for an interesting Urban Lunch Talk January 23. Register today!
Urban Lunch Talk webinar series
This Urban Lunch Talk is part of a webinar series to discuss and synthesise cross-cutting research and innovation, with diverse stakeholders across Europe and beyond. By facilitating conversations among various stakeholders, we aim to inspire collaborative efforts and practical solutions that can drive sustainable transitions in urban policies and practices. The webinar is designed to be more of a listening experience, allowing you to enjoy your lunch or take a walk at the same time. The Urban Lunch Talk is live recorded on Zoom, and later published for the JPI Urban Europes’ /Driving Urban Transitions’ YouTube channel.
Find the latest episodes on the Driving Urban Transitions YouTube channel. Previous episodes can be found on the JPI Urban Europe YouTube channel.

ENUTC Final event and Agora dialogue, Lund and Malmö, February 5–7 2025
2025-02-05 13:00 - 2025-02-07 13:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Lund and Malmö, Sweden
Wednesday until Friday, February 5–7 2025, agencies and project participants from the ENUTC co-funded call will gather in Lund, and Malmö, Sweden, for sharing results and experiences, onsite and online. A Strategic Agora Dialogue will be arranged on the Friday.

Welcome to Lund, Sweden, for the ENUTC final event. Project partners and funding agencies will have the opportunity to gather for sharing experiences, networking, and inspiration. Projects will present and discuss their works, mingle with each other, agencies and experts.
A Strategic Agora dialogue is planned for the Friday (until lunch) in Malmö, Sweden.
Purpose and aim
The final event will let projects report on their research and results, while facilitating exchange and community building among the projects and partners – for those involved to also discuss post-project opportunities.
For whom?
ENUTC project coordinators and at least one additional project partner, external experts and ENUTC funding agencies are invited to attend the final event, and the Strategic Agora dialogue.
Inspiration for continuation
The main focus for gathering is to discuss project results, and exchange experiences – including meeting eachother in real life (IRL), those of us who are able to make it to Sweden. Also the ones joining online will be involved in the conversations.
The projects are about to finish the ENUTC programme. Thus, project continuation will also be at focus during the event. We will be joined by Johannes Stripple from Climaginaries for inspiration – and not least, contiunation will be discussed during the Strategic Agora dialogue.
Discuss project results and experiences
The final event will let projects report on their research and results, while facilitating exchange and community building among the projects and partners – for those involved to also discuss post-project opportunities.
The project leader, or the presenter, will go through the results and experiences (5 minutes) with a PP presentation, sent-in beforehand (can be presented from your own computer). Each project decides on what to present and which experiences to highlight.
Strategic Agora dialogue
A strategic Agora dialogue is planned for the Friday at the World Trade Center in Malmö, Sweden. The dialogue will be only onsite, and it will focus on project continuation, and transformation capacities .
We will discuss how methods and processes could be used at larger scales, the importance and need of international collaborations, and what is required for funding and continuation in general.
Michael Creek from Stickydot will be moderating the dialogue, with support from Johannes Riegler (FFG/DUT), Elena Simion (UEFISCDI), and Kristina Laurell (Formas) managing group discussions.
Agenda (CET, preliminary)
Wednesday 5 February 2025, Eatery, Lund
15.00 For the ones coming to Lund already Wednesday afternoon, registration will open – and there will be space for the project partners who want to meet with eachother.
16.30 Mingle and a toast together.
Thursday 6 February 2025, Eatery, Lund
09:00 Registration and coffe
10:00 Welcome – Kristina Laurell, Simon Boström, Formas & Elena Simion, UEFISCDI
10:25 Project presentations (cirka time spots)

10.25 Embedterlabs
10.35 Crest
10.45 City&Co
10.55 Create

Fika break

11.20 CircularCityChallenge
11.30 Coolshools
11.40 Carin-PT
11.50 Co-Hope

12:00 Mingle lunch, break
13:30 Continuation theme spot – Johannes Stripple, Lund University & Climaginaries
14.15 Project presentations (cirka time spots)

14.15 Opush
14.25 Munex
14.35 U-garden
14.45 Ilit

Break (15 min)

15.10 Conect
15.20 Tango-w
15.30 Contra
15.40 Trustmaking

16:00 Closing remarks – Kristina Laurell, Simon Boström, Formas & Marie Yeroyanni, Senior expert – innovating cities, European Commission, DG RTD
16:20 Q&A
19.00 Dinner (Stäket, Lund)
Friday 7 February 2025, World Trade Center, Malmö
09:00 Guided tour (from World Trade Center)
09:50 Strategic Agora dialogue – Michael Creek, Stickydot, Johannes Riegler, Driving Urban Transitions, Elena Simion, UEFISCDI & Kristina Laurell, Formas
12:15 Lunch
Climaginaries digital activity – possible for the one not yet travelling (by downloading an app).
Welcome to Lund and Malmö
The final event, 5–6 February, will be located at Eatery, Mobilvägen 4–6, Lund, Sweden.
Travelling from Copenhagen airport/Kastrup (Cph) is convenient with trains from Terminal 3 every 15–20 minutes to Lund (ca 40 minutes).
From Lund Central, you may take the Tram 1 to Telefonplan (ca 7 minutes). Walk to Eatery inside the Ideon Science Park (Eatery is next to the Water tower).
Dinner, Thursday night, 6 February, will be at Stäket, Stora Södergatan 6, Lund.
The strategic Agora dialogue, 7 February, will be only onsite, arranged at the World Trade Center, Jungmansgatan 12, Malmö.
From Lund Central to Malmö, there are trains every 5–10 minutes to Malmö Central (ca 10–20 minutes), with buses 3 (at D for Ringlinjen, get off at Propellergatan) and 8 (at E for Västra hamnen, get off at Kockum Fritid) every 5–10 minutes (ca 7 minutes) to World Trade Center, or cirka 20 minutes walk.
For the ones online
Thursday 6 February, agencies and project participants from the ENUTC co-funded call will gather for sharing results and experiences, also online – below is the online meeting link:
Zoom meeting: https://formas-se.zoom.us/j/64161547415
Registration
Registration is per invitation.
Preparations is sent out per email.
Contact
Simon Boström, Formas, simon.bostrom@formas.se

Conference: Sustainable and Climate-Neutral Cities for Inclusive and Equitable Urban Future
2025-02-26 - 2025-02-28 | Rome, Italy
The Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA), invites you to the Conference “Sustainable and Climate-Neutral Cities for Inclusive and Equitable Urban Future”, in collaboration with DUT and CapaCITIES Partnerships.
This dynamic multi-event will take place from February 26th to 28th, 2025 at the headquarters of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Rome, Italy, and will showcase innovative approaches, ideas, and discussions focused on urban climate justice, communication, alternative economies, and equity issues in contemporary cities.
Attendance at the event is free of charge; but registration is mandatory.
Please, find all the info about the General Agenda, Registration, Call for Papers and Venue at the following link:
https://www.plan.aau.dk/sustainable-and-climate-neutral-cities-e124754

Urban Lunch Talk #39 – Can urban experiments breach the car dominance in cities?
2025-04-14 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Online
Urban Living Labs are typically local experiments that allow researchers and stakeholders from cities to work together to explore and develop new solutions that can show the way towards more sustainable cities. In normal circumstances these experiments are small niche innovations without the power to instigate radical and long term change. However, in volatile times with rapid shifts in policies and peoples’ preferences niche innovations can gain traction and challenge the status quo, i.e. the current system and dominating practices.
Welcome to a new episode of the Urban lunch talks series. In this episode we will learn more about how transformation of urban systems can take place and thereafter deep dive into the role of experiments to challenge the dominance of cars in cities.
>> You can access the webinar recording here: https://youtu.be/yS4MTZsrH4w
We will learn from projects that promote alternative temporary uses of streets and parking lots for other purposes, e.g. urban space for pedestrians, parks and physical exercise. Building on learnings from these JPI Urban Europe funded research and innovation projects focused on mobility and accessibility, we will discuss how local experiments can be seen as niche innovations and as such important stepping stones towards a more people centred urban transformation as they destabilise the current car dominated regime. We will also discuss benefits and hurdles of embedding and mainstreaming these experiments in the larger planning processes of cities and municipalities for an increased impact.
Speakers

Göran Smith, Director at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an expert in the ACUTE knowledge Hub, will briefly introduce the multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions, contrast it with an analysis of the focus of JPI Urban Europe projects, and argue why research and innovation should place greater emphasis on destabilizing existing regimes.
Anique Hommels, Prof. dr. Anique Hommels, Chair in Sociohistorical Technology Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, will share experiences from the project EmbedterLabs (Better Embedded Labs for More Synergistic Sustainable Urban) that study what can be gained if urban living labs are more embedded in normal planning organisations rather than being treated as stand-alone projects.
Imre Keseru, associate professor of urban mobility (Mobilise Mobility and Logistics Research Group) at The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), will share experiences from the project StreetForum that has experimented with alternative use of streets, for example turning parking lots into outdoor gyms. A toolkit (e.g. digital crowdsourcing tool and guidelines for using art installations and cultural events as well as governance guidelines) will be tested in four living labs (Brussels, Vienna, Stockholm, Istanbul) to evaluate its impact, transferability and scalability and will be available as free-to-use resources for the broader community.
Florian Lorenz, co-founder LAUT – landscape architecture and urban transformation, will share experience from the project TuneOurBlock which experiments with temporary introducing car free zones and slow speed regulations into a neighbourhood dominated by car traffic. The goal is to validate, internationalize, and expand the Superblocks concept as a policy and planning strategy for transformational urban adaptation.

Moderator: Jakob Schabus, IQ Samhällsbyggnad
