JPI Urban Europe

SoHoLab Webinars: Beyond commonplaces Spatial transformations based on changing lifestyles and new imaginaries
2020-10-27 16:00 - 18:00 UTC
SoHoLab, a JPI Urban Europe funded project within the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures, is in its final stage and will be hosting three webinars this fall, 13, 20, 27 October 2020, to highlight progresses and results.
Third episode: In the period before and after World War 2, large-scale housing developments with towers and slabs in a green environment were an important spatial paradigm in social housing construction. This came to an abrupt end after the crisis in the early 1970s. The crisis and changing models of society paved the way for new spatial paradigms, in the form of smaller-scale or mixed housing developments. Due to their limited maintenance and technical and architectural quality, today, many large-scale social estates are facing renovation. Dismissing these renovations as beaten tracks would do injustice to careful architectural and urban design efforts for creating typological variety and morphological innovation, emphasizing scenic qualities, or improving energy performance and water storage capacity. Nevertheless, large-scale social estates remain subject to persistent social-spatial assumptions. Statements on public spaces that are difficult to ‘defend’ (Newman, 1972), or impossible to appropriate, a social mix that is ‘endangered’, a lacking ecological imperative, remain part and parcel in regeneration discourses. In this webinar we want to unpack these commonplaces, looking for new entries and outlooks, based on changing lifestyles and new imaginaries.
Agenda
Introduction (5’)
Pilot project SoHoLab: Dominique Lefrançois (10’)
Mirror project: Anne Lacaton, Lacaton & Vasal (10’)
Keynote lecture: Paola Vigano, Studio Paola Vigano, EPFL, IUAV (25’)
Debate (30’)
Summary (5’)
Visit http://www.soholab.org/news/soholab-webinars for more information and to register
Learn more about SoHoLab

The SoHoLab project was a 3-year research addressing resident involvement, local knowledge and stakeholder collaboration in the context of the regeneration of large-scale social estates. The project identified Urban Living Labs as potentially innovative approaches to launch open and collaborative processes in the policy context of urban regeneration. Considering multiple failures of so-called ‘participatory approaches’, the SoHolab tried to find out which tools and methods could be applied in order to more effectively open up the policy design and implementation phases for local voices, topics and concerns. By evaluating and developing Living Lab approaches in different contexts, the three research units involved focused on defining research and practice characteristics supporting more participatory regeneration processes. In this webinar series, we want to disseminate the knowledge acquired during three years of research, entering in
dialogue with similar practices, while addressing open questions and venues for further research.

JPI Urban Europe Policy Conference 2020 (online)
2020-11-12
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 steps up the game
to be the driver of urban transitions
and to support capacity building on all levels
to realise the required transformations”

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You are invited to JPI Urban Europe’s 5th policy conference organised digitally this year. The conference is a forum to exchange on the opportunities for, and needs of, cities and urban municipalities in the coming transformation.
Be inspired and take part in discussions that:

>> Highlight good practice examples
>> Reflect achievements of research and innovation projects
>> Showcase how to enhance impact, replication and peer-to-peer learning across
Europe and beyond

>> Focus on how to connect research and innovation with local action

Learn and contribute with your experience on dilemmas and integrated development issues related to urban energy transitions, circular economy and sustainable urban mobility as key areas for urban transformation. Together, JPI Urban Europe and participants will prioritise and prepare actions for the upcoming years.

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14th Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) Conference 2020
2020-11-23 08:00 - 2020-11-24 17:00 UTC
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). The ensuing ministerial panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities of the clean energy transition in the Covid19 European economic and social landscape and the role of the European Green Deal as the EU growth strategy. Sessions will address, among other topics, the SET Plan contribution to the Green Deal as a driver of the EU recovery, and more specifically the three main European energy policy initiatives that will be launched this year, namely energy system integration and hydrogen, offshore renewables and the renovation wave.

Sustainable & Resilient Urban-Rural Partnerships International Conference in Leipzig
2020-11-25 - 2020-11-27 | Leipzig, Germany
JPI Urban Europe partners with the Sustainable & Resilient Urban-Rural Partnerships International Conference, #URP2020, in Leipzig, Germany. You can now watch the recording of one of the sessions joined by, amongst others, Margit Noll and Johannes Riegler: URP2020: S03 “Urban-Rural Partnerships: Driving Transitions Through Science-Policy Cooperation”.

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 urban-rural development. It draws specific attention to closing the gap between available scientific knowledge on the one hand and decision making in practice on the other. Focus is on the implementation of key elements of the revised Leipzig Charter, which will be signed by the European ministers responsible for urban and regional planning during their meeting in Leipzig, 30th November and 1st December 2020. Read more here.

SMARTER 2020 Conference: 6th Webinar - Sustainable Urban Development and Innovation: aligning policies for change
2020-12-03 10:00 - 11:45 UTC
This webinar, by the Smart Specialisation Platform at the European Commission, targets the nexus between urban development and innovation, and the integration of different policy instruments and frameworks. JPI Urban Europe’s chair of the Management board, Margit Noll, joins the panel. You can read the following info about the webinar and register on the organiser’s event page:
In our fast-changing world, Europe is facing pressing challenges – climate change, digital transition, ageing, migration and social inequalities – and cities are often in the frontline to deliver solutions. Moreover, cities and urban regions are not just mere containers for innovative activities but are actively involved in the generation of new ideas, organisational forms and solutions (products, services, and businesses).
The importance of cities in driving the transition towards a sustainable way of living for all is well recognised in the Urban Agenda for the EU, the upcoming “New Leipzig Charter – The Transformative Power of Cities for the Common Good” and in global agendas, such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This is also mirrored by the fact that cities’ innovation is at the core of different EU initiatives for post 2020, from EU cohesion policy to the new mission-oriented approach of Horizon Europe. Both policies aim at fostering new alliances and coalitions for change, and achieve common and broader development goals.
The webinar will address the nexus between urban development and innovation and explore the possible integration of different policy instruments and frameworks. The issue of policy alignment is particularly relevant considering that on the one hand, integrated and place-based approach is gaining importance in the EU innovation policy debate, and on the other hand, cities are regaining control of innovation agenda at local level, with emphasis on collaborative models, participation and strategic thinking. In other words, there is a need to address conditions and opportunities for aligning EU policies, as well as the role of national urban policies in promoting innovative solutions and arrangements.
Following a framing speech by Kevin Morgan, the webinar will present reflections on ongoing experiences as Sustainable Urban Development strategies supported by cohesion policy, the JPI Urban Europe research network and the co-creation process of the New Leipzig Charter. All together, they will provide the opportunity to discuss to what extent the EU discourse on integrated urban development can steer a different approach to innovation.

More information

The Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies

Agenda and Presentations
Welcome and opening speech:

Peter Bosch, Advisor for Cross Disciplinary Knowledge to the Deputy Director-General of the Joint Research Centre

Chair: Alessandro Rainoldi, Head of Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Main session:

Kevin Morgan, Cardiff University
Margit Noll, JPI Urban Europe
Martina Pertoldi, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Mart Grisel, European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN)

Moderator: Carlotta Fioretti, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Closing of the SMARTER2020 conference:

Sally Hardy, CEO, Regional Studies Association
Alessandro Rainoldi, Head of Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
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Urban Lunch Talk #15 - Taking action in capacity building for sustainable futures
2020-12-04 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
What are the capacities needed to drive urban transitions to sustainable futures? Past decades have presented the knowledge and technical expertise to build more sustainable urban areas – but what are the prerequisites or strategies for going from ambition to transition? This Urban Lunch Talk will start with two brief result presentations by projects in the Making Cities Work call. Following the presentations, invited guests will exchange knowledge and give examples of capacities needed to drive urban transitions. Are there experiences, guidelines and approaches to learn from? Registered participants to this event can listen to invited guests and participate via the chat and the polls. At the end of the event, the chat will remain open for 15 more minutes and participants will be invited to a Slack channel for continued self-organised chat and exchange. Representatives from the upcoming call for project proposals ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) will be available for questions about the call in the webinar chat.

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Recording of Urban Lunch Talk #15 (4 Dec 2020) also available on Youtube.
Guests

Martin Kornberger works with strategies for distributed and collective action, teaching strategy as practice to cohorts of highly experienced leaders from across the public sector in Denmark. Martin recently wrote the chapter “Strategy: What is more important than getting things done? Learning from Sustainable Sydney 2030” in the book “Dilemmas of Sustainable Urban Development – A View From Practice” (in this book you also find the chapter “Programming Urban Transitions in Practice” by JPI Urban Europe).
M’Lisa Lee Colbert is the Associate Director of The Nature of Cities, an international platform for transdisciplinary dialogue and urban solutions: “We curate the sharing of diverse, transformative ideas about cities as ecosystems of people, nature, and infrastructure”. M’Lisa designs and develops transdisciplinary projects and programming. The mission of The Nature of Cities is to curate joined conversations about urbanism across ways of knowing and modes of action. The organisation strives for cities worldwide that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just.
Sascha Benes works as an urban planner and digital strategist at Örebro Municipality, a middle-sized city in Sweden – and one of the fastest growing ones (due to an increase in children and elderly). Creating a robust urban (and rural) system and finding innovative solutions effectively is key to the sustainable provision of services within, and liveability of the municipality as a whole. Örebro has experiences of working with organisational trust and so called “incremental change management” as means for urban robustness.
Richard Pfeifer, from the SYNCITY project, will present how urban transformation projects, especially in deprived areas with highly diverse communities, can reach high acceptance by dwellers and have positive consequences for the urban society as such, the economy and the overall co-living in the city. Participation processes are often subject to hidden agendas or implicit values conveyed through discursive practices in actor constellations. SYNCITY opted for a transparent way to deal with this dilemma and developed the Syncity Sustainability Criteria – a normative framework for steering through the midst of participatory urban planning.
Anna Fredriksson, from the MIMIC project, will present results on stakeholder dialogue, logistics optimization, mobility, and smart governance to facilitate and support logistics around urban construction sites. MIMIC has created a decision support that shows how the impact of a decision will affect the next step and decision. “Our goal is always to minimise the storage- and transport costs. In the end this is also the most sustainable solution, so it is a gain for everyone, both the climate and the developer’s wallet”, says Anna Fredriksson.

>> MIMIC results presentation

SYNCITY results presentation

Background
The Urban Lunch Talks in 2020 have been shaped on the theme of “taking action” as they followed up on the 2019 talks introducing the dilemma-driven approach in JPI Urban Europe’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) 2.0. At the same time, supported projects in Making Cities Work (which targets R&I implementation issues) are delivering results. As part of the preparation of the next European Research and Innovation Framework Programme – Horizon Europe – new mechanisms for public-public partnerships are under development. One of the candidates for such a European partnership is the Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future (DUT) partnership, which builds upon the achievements of JPI Urban Europe. The partnership aims to strengthen JPI Urban Europe’s joint efforts of bringing knowledge and evidence into action – towards sustainable urban development.
Research and innovation (R&I) contribute with evidence on urban dilemmas and can support capacity building for urban transformation: turning wicked issues into synergistic potential. This needs to be supported by aligning ongoing related initiatives and by building upon existing experience and knowledge. You can read more about these themes in JPI Urban Europe’s upcoming ERA-NET Cofund urban transformation capacities (ENUTC).
Introduction to “urban transformation capacities”
Urban transformation capacities involve the process of building capacities such as skills, insights, tools, organisational and personal capabilities, working methods and processes, access to experiences and verifiable knowledge. Developing strategies to enhance urban transformation capacities also includes public sector innovation and new approaches to governance, building of new structures and procedures e.g. for envisioning and scenario development; for carrying out, evaluating and scaling up urban experiments; for collaboration of the public sector, private sector, academia and civil society; for integrating policies across sectors; and for learning, monitoring and reflection of change processes etc. Capacity building is also enabled and supported by using new technologies and tools, knowledge co-creation, urban experimental approaches at different scales (e.g. urban living labs, city labs, maker spaces), policy labs, and other kinds of systematic approaches for stakeholder including non-academic stakeholder involvement.
Transnational policy documents such as Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the New Urban Agenda and the Urban Agenda for the EU, stress the great urgency for a rapid sustainable transformation of cities and urban areas worldwide. They present ambitious and comprehensive targets addressing a wide variety of urban challenges in order to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, healthy, resilient and sustainable. Furthermore, they highlight the need to stake out pathways for an urban transformation that strengthen relevant stakeholders and actors’ capacities to tackle the sustainability challenges ahead. This transformation requires capacity building by and for all actors involved in the transition to a sustainable future.
(Source: the ENUTC draft call text, 2020-12-01)

Questions about this event? Please contact caroline.wrangsten@jpi-urbaneurope.eu

Webinar with ENRICH Brazil: Urban Living Labs - Experimenting for sustainable urban transformations
2020-12-17 12:30 - 14:00 UTC
On Thursday 17 December, JPI Urban Europe and ENRICH Brazil jointly organise a webinar featuring Brazilian examples of Urban Living Labs (ULL) – and discussions around experimentation as means for transformation towards more sustainable (urban) futures. Participants will gain knowledge of the ULL concept, its characteristics, as well as its tool for how to address the city solutions in an innovative way. Two cases will provide concrete examples and participants can join a Q&A. You can follow the webinar live via ENRICH Brazil’s Youtube channel.
> Read more about the event on ENRICH event page
> Urban Living Labs by JPI Urban Europe
> Urban Living Labs – Learning for Urban Transitions? by Timo von Wirth
Speakers
Berna Windischbaur, ENRICH in Brazil
Johannes Riegler, JPI Urban Europe, Moderator
Jonas Bylund, JPI Urban Europe and the Swedish Centre for Innovation and Quality in the Built Environment
Elena Maranghi, SoHoLab, Politecnico di Milano
Tatiana Schreiner, Urban Governance Researcher, UFSC Urban Mobility Observatory
Marcus J. Rocha, Head of Science, Technology and Innovation, Florianópolis City Hall
About ENRICH Brazil
ENRICH in Brazil (formerly known as CEBRABIC) is the Brazilian pilot centre of the European Network of Research and Innovation Centres and Hubs, with other pilot centres located in China and the USA. With partners from Brazil and eight European countries (Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Austria, Spain, and Turkey), the consortium’s goal is strengthening cooperation in research, innovation, and business between Brazil and Europe by exchanging innovative practices, experience, and knowledge between all parts involved. ENRICH in Brazil was inaugurated in November 2017.

Information webinar in ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities
2021-02-18 13:00 - 14:30 UTC
Welcome to an information webinar in ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities opening on 29 January 2021. The webinar is a chance to learn more about the call and ask questions to the call secretriat.
EDIT: Due to the large interest in this webinar, seats will be distributed by first come first served when the webinar opens. The webinar will be recorded and made available on the call page.
Program
13.00: Welcome and practical info
13.05: Welcome to JPI Urban Europe – Margit Noll
13.15: What are urban transformation capacities, and why this call? – Jonas Bylund
13.25: Call presentation by the international call secretariat – Elena Simion
14.00 (ca): Q&A using the Zoom webinar Q&A function
14.28: Future events, timeline and matchmaking opportunities
14.30: Webinar ends
14.45: Chat closes
About the Urban Transformation Capacities call
The ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) invites researchers, urban government authorities, – including cities and municipalities, – businesses, civil society and other stakeholders to build transnational consortia to create innovation and research projects that enable and support capacity building for urban transformations. Learn more and see upcoming events on the call page.
This page is being updated continuously.
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The OptiMaaS project: 5th International Expert Panel and project insights
2021-02-19 09:00 - 12:00 UTC
OptiMaaS develops new methods and processes addressing the needs of public and private mobility actors to provide optimized Mobility as a Service (MaaS) offers. OptiMaas is supported in the Making Cities Work call. You are now welcome to a panel to take part of the project’s insgihts and conclusions. In which ways does MaaS interweave with mobility stations, on-demand services, political processes, urban planning, simulations and financing models? What are users really interested in?

Subject: Discussion of OptiMaaS insights & conclusions
Date: 19.02.2021
Time: 09:00 to 12:00
Place: Zoom – please register under following Link

Program
8:45 – 9:00 Online Check-in
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and thematic overview

Angela Muth | tbwr

09:15 – 10:15 Impulse presentations – Findings and conclusions of OptiMaaS
Mobility points – localization and financing models

Stefan Arbeithuber | MO.Point

On Demand Services within MaaS – app and users perspective
Bianca Humer | Upstream

Influence of MaaS on the modal split – the use of computational models as data driven decision support
Benjamin Biesinger | AIT
Policy recommendations and standards for urban non-core areas
Thomas Vith | UIV & Cyriac George | TØI

10:15 – 10:25 Break
10:25 – 11:00 Breakout sessions 1
11:00 – 11:05 Break
11:05 – 11:40 Breakout sessions 2
11:40 – 12:00 Summary and conclusions

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>> Learn more about OptiMaaS on this fact sheet and at www.optimaas.eu

JPI Urban Europe at the Nature of Cities Festival
2021-02-22
TNOC Festival pushes boundaries to radically imagine our cities for the future and is a virtual festival that spans five days with programming across all regional time zones and provided in multiple languages. The TNOC Festival offers the ability to truly connect local place and ideas on a global scale. The festival takes place from 22-26 February 2021 and is a production of The Nature of Cities.
The festival is a transdisciplinary event, mixing scientists, architects, planners, artists, activists, practitioners, landscape architects, policy makers, business and social entrepreneurs, indigenous leaders into joined conversations The festival theme “Better cities for nature and all people” explores and celebrates the environmental justice aspects of green city building. How do we achieve cities that are better for nature and all people? The aim is to build cities that are more resilient, sustainable, livable, and just for everyone.
Unfolding Doughnut Economy dilemmas in the urban anthropocene
Welcome to JPI Urban Europe’s seed session at the festival! Re-aligning neighbourhood everyday-life along Doughnut-Economy principles is huge task that require substantial transformations: rethinking human/non-human interaction and the way urban areas are built and maintained. This Seed Session aims at chiselling-out bite-size chunks of this complexity along connected dilemmas in urban greening approaches such as nature-based-solutions and the doughnut economy model.
When: 10.15 EST (GMT-5), Monday 22 Feb (JPI Urban Europe’s seed session) Festival goes on 22- 26 Feb.
Where: Online, register to the festival: https://tnoc-festival.com/wp/#registration

Matchmaking platform in ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities open 26 Feb - 15 April 2021
2021-02-26 - 2021-04-15
In this matchmaking tool (B2Match), interested parties in the Urban Transformations Capacities call can create a profile, partner search, chat, and schedule video-meetings directly in the platform.
>> Join the matchmaking platform

Webinar: Food-Water-Energy - Nexus approaches for sustainable development and improved living standards
2021-03-04 15:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Vienna)
Welcome to a joint webinar organised by JPI Urban Europe in collaboration with the European Network of Research and Innovation Centres and Hubs (ENRICH) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In this event, participants from Europe and Latin America will gain knowledge and understanding of the Food-Water-Energy (FWE) Nexus, its characteristics, as well as its tool for how to address the city solutions in innovative ways with concrete examples.

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This webinar is one of a series organized by ENRICH in LAC and JPI Urban Europe on sustainable urbanization. The objective of this workshop series is to facilitate an exchange of knowledge and experiences between some Latin American countries and Europe. The webinar will build upon previously organized events in the series on Positive Energy Districts, organized within the ANPEI 2020 Conference and Urban Living Labs. This event targets programme managers at funding agencies, city administrators, local public officers, city planners and developers, researchers working on urbanization related areas, civil society, companies, and other stakeholders interested in co-creation processes.
Background
“The interactions between food, water and energy sectors, both now and over the next few decades, are of critical interest to policy-makers, scientists, and society at large. By 2050, the world population is projected to increase to around 9 billion, with the number of people living in urban areas expected to double. These trends in population density and movement, coupled with land use change and climate variability, will lead to major increases in demand for resources and hold important implications for security and social justice. The reciprocal and dynamic processes of urbanisation, including the physical movements of populations, the build-up of city territories, transformation of economic structures, extension of suburban sprawl, and re-urbanisation, will result in increasing regional stress on the urban food-water-energy (FWE) system.
To date, we have a limited understanding of the FWE system’s complexity, resilience and thresholds. Investigations of this complex system will produce discoveries that cannot emerge from research on food or water or energy systems alone. An urban FWE nexus approach focuses on intersections and potential synergies between sectors and fields commonly seen apart in business, policy, and research. Thus, the FWE nexus approach can play a pivotal role in fostering sustainable urbanisation, by proposing potential solutions to govern resource interdependencies through comprehensive spatial perspectives and multi-level governance strategies.”
(from Midterm Valorization Event: SUGI – Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative Food-Water-Energy Nexus)
Webinar Agenda

Welcome and introduction
Welcome by: Berna Windischbaur, ENRICH in LAC
Intro by moderator: Johannes Riegler, JPI Urban Europe

Introduction to FWE
Jonas Bylund, JPI Urban Europe

Upcoming Belmont Forum Opportunities in FWE
Erica Key, Executive Director, Belmont Forum Secretariat

Project: WASTE FEW ULL – Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Labs
Daniel Black, Daniel Black + Associates, Bristol, UK)
Ester Dal Poz, University of Campinas, Brazil

Case from Uruguay
TBA – Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación de Uruguay (ANII)

Project: Creating Interfaces

Pia Laborgne, EIFER, Karlsruhe, Germany
&
Joanna Suchomska, PZR – Sustainable Development Laboratory – Torun, Poland

Discussions, questions and answers from the audience incl. Mentimeter poll
All; moderated by Johannes Riegler

Summary and farewell
Berna Windischbaur and Johannes Riegler

Background Documents

1) The JPI Urban Europe/Belmont Forum SUGI Projects Catalogue

2) Project: WASTE FEW ULL
WASTE FEW ULL will map and substantially reduce waste in the food-energy-water nexus in cities across three continents: Europe, Africa and South America. The aim of the WASTE FEW ULL project is to develop and test internationally applicable methods of identifying inefficiencies in a city-region’s food-energy-water nexus. We will undertake this through an international network of industry/civic society-led Urban Living Labs (ULL) in four urban regions – UK (Bristol), Netherlands (Rotterdam), South Africa (Western Cape) and Brazil (São Paulo). Partners in Norway and the USA will provide economic valuations of potential impact, and impact-led public education, outreach and dissemination.
The Urban Living Labs (ULLs) of stakeholders are organised to:

map resource flows
identify critical dysfunctional linear pathways
agree the response most appropriate to the local context
model the market and non-market economic value of each intervention
engage with decision makers to close each loop.

The project will contribute with policy decision support models for economically viable waste reduction, rethinking waste as a resource as well as establish entrepreneurship networks in each ULL to continue working after the formal end of the project.
3) Project: CREATING INTERFACES
The Creating Interfaces project addresses capacity building for the urban food-water-energy (FWE) -nexus, making the FWE-linkages understandable to the stakeholders (city government, science, business and citizens), and facilitating cooperation and knowledge exchange among them. It will develop and test innovative approaches for local knowledge co-creation and participation through Urban Living Labs and Citizen Science approaches in three mid-size cities on water: Tulcea (Romania), Wilmington (USA) and Slupsk (Poland). Complemented by previous research and a citizen science toolbox, these labs comprise a user-defined co-creative approach, where research questions, problems, and solutions are decided and implemented with stakeholders themselves.
>> Watch the CREATING INTERFACES video: https://youtu.be/iAz9GGSWd0U
Watch
> Youtube Livestream: https://lnkd.in/ekJEwGr

Matchmaking Event in ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities
2021-03-09 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
UPDATE:
Due to the large interest in this call and an unforeseen limit to the Zoom meeting of 100 participants, we regret to inform you that not everyone could have seat to the Zoom meeting. However, the key matchmaking is going on, and will continue in the matchmaking platform until 15 April. We welcome you to join the platform and include your project idea in your bio, make connections and schedule meetings with each other. The PPT from the Zoom meeting on 9 March is available here.
>> Go to the matchmaking: https://enutc.b2match.io/

If you have questions about how to best use the matchmaking platform, please forward them to patrik.ryden@viablecities.se.
For general questions about the matchmaking process in this call, please e-mail webinar@jpi-urbaneurope.eu

INVITATION
Welcome to a matchmaking event in ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC). The event provides an opportunity to more easily find potential project- and consorita partners for a joint application in the call. Participants to the event are introduced to the matchmaking platform and it is strongly recommended that participants have registered in the matchmaking platform (B2Match) prior to joining the event. Here, participants can create a profile and use the search function to find suitable consortia partners for a joint application.
AGENDA

Welcome and intro
Brief presentation of the call by the international call secretariat (Detailed call presentation is available here)
Example of project ideas submitted by registrants upon registration
Good advice from previous JPI Urban Europe funded projects
Introduction and guidance to B2Match: Create your profile and partner search to build your consortia!
Q&A via the chat
Participants continue the matchmaking in B2Match for one hour. The platform is open for you to request meetings 1:1 as part of this matchmaking event.

Instructions for participation on 9 March

1. IMPORTANT: Create a profile in the matchmaking platform: https://enutc.b2match.io/
The second hour of the meeting will take place in this platform. Make sure you have registered and that you have requested some meetings for this hour (9 March 11.00 – 12.00):
– Register and create a profile by clicking “Register” in the upper right corner. Present yourself and your potential project idea to the other registrants in your profile.
– Partner search: Connect with interesting participants and request meetings to discuss the possibilities of forming a joint consortium that can submit a proposal. You can request and hold video meetings 1:1 directly in the platform.
– Remember: Each project proposal must be submitted by a project consortium consisting of at least three eligible applicants applying for funds in the call, from at least three different countries whose funders participate in the call. Which type of organisations that are eligible for funding depends on your national requirements. Learn more in the call text.
2. Visit the call page and get acquainted with the call text to learn about the criteria for consortium building
3. If you’re interested in a detailed call presentation, please listen to the recording from the information webinar.
4. We welcome you to join with your camera turned on to familiarise yourself with other interested participants in this call. Since we have about 200 registrants to this meeting, and with respect to the presenters, please stay muted throughout the whole meeting. You are much welcome to use the chat to get in contact with each other or ask questions.
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About the ENUTC call
The ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) invites researchers, urban government authorities, – including cities and municipalities, – businesses, civil society and other stakeholders to build transnational consortia to create innovation and research projects that enable and support capacity building for urban transformations. Learn more on the call page.

Call for papers: Special Issue on "Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts: Urban Perspectives in 2021"
2021-03-11 - 2021-04-30
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) is open for submission of manuscripts. This special issue belongs to the section “Energy and Buildings“. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2021. Read more here.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Paola Clerici Maestosi
Guest Editor
ENEA – SMART ENERGY DIVISION, Energy Technologies Department, via Martiri di Monte Sole 4, 40129 Bologna, Italy-
Interests: sustainable development; sustainability; urban development; urban planning; urban sustainability; renewable energy technologies; land use planning; architecture; sustainable architecture
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals

Keywords

sustainable urban areas
energy production
energy efficiency
energy flexibility

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.

>> Read more

Urban Lunch Talk #16: Positive Energy Districts - The Do’s, Don’ts and Dilemmas
2021-03-19 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Welcome to an Urban Lunch Talk about Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods (PEDs) with a variety of invited guests. What does it take to transform the urban energy system to a sustainable one – and how can stakeholders succeed with vital steps in the implementation process of for example Positive Energy Districts? Participants to this webinar can join with input in the chat and vote in polls.
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Materials from the event
> Slides by Chris Cooper in the CRUNCH project
> Questions And Comments In The QA
> Slides by Christoph Gollner in the PED Programme
Background
In this lunch talk, invited guests will share their experience of either implementing Positive Energy Districts or working with energy related sustainability transitons. Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) are energy-efficient and energy-flexible urban areas or groups of connected buildings which produce net zero greenhouse gas emissions. PEDs actively manage an annual local or regional surplus production of renewable energy. They require integration of different systems and infrastructures and an interaction between buildings, the users and the regional energy, mobility and ICT systems. PEDs also need to secure the energy supply, and a good life for all in line with social, economic and environmental sustainability.​​​​​​ Europe aims to be a global role model in energy transition and reducing its carbon footprint. Cities and the building sector play a decisive role in that process. The Programme “Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods for Sustainable Urban Development” aims to support the planning, deployment and replication of 100 Positive Energy Neighbourhoods by 2025 and is joined by 20 EU member states. The Programme is conducted by JPI Urban Europe, and involves stakeholders from R&I funding networks, cities, industry, research organisations and citizen organisations.
Join the chat and the polls with your input:
– Is a neighbourhood-oriented approach like Positive Energy Districs a useful contribution achieving climate-neutral cities?
– What are methods and processes already tested in local energy transitions, and what can we learn from these experiences?
– From your perspective, what are most urgent R&I topics regarding PED development and local energy transitions?
– What are your do’s, don’ts or dilemmas for realising local energy transitions towards sustainability? How do you move forward in complicated situations?
Meet

Christoph Gollner, the PED Programme Coordinating Programme Manager. Christoph is a graduate engineer in spatial and urban planning and has been working for the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in urban revitalization for the City of Vienna.

Professor Goran Strbac from the STEP-UP project: Socio-Techno-Economic Pathways for sustainable Urban energy development. The project studies four cities (London, Beijing, Delft and Suzhou) which together represent large and medium as well as historic and new cities in EU and China. The findings will be summarized in policy recommendations, a business case and a road map for urban energy transformation in the EU and China will be proposed when the project finalises. STEP-UP is part of the pilot call Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas organized by JPI Urban Europe and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Goran is Professor of Electrical Energy Systems at Imperial College, London.
Chris Cooper from the CRUNCH project (Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices: operationalising the Food-Water- Energy Nexus) investigates food, water and energy as one complex system, leading to increased knowledge and discoveries that cannot emerge when investigated separately in ‘silos’. Chris works with the CRUNCH IDSS as a digital twin concept and how the data management regime was identified using smart city standards.
Jim Segers from City Mine(d) -an international organisation based in Brussels and London. Since 1997 it developed over one hundred projects in fifteen cities throughout Europe, either at its own initiative or as facilitator. City Mine(d)’s aim is to make urban development everyone’s business. One current project is “La Pile“: a project that creates links between neighbours to that reinvents electricity in the city. You can here join the electric test field to generate electricity locally, distribute it to neighbours, consume less, or at other times, invest together in the future.
Caroline Wrangsten (host), project manager in JPI Urban Europe with a focus on communication. Caroline has a MSc in Environmental Social Science where she majored in human geography and urban development. Caroline has previously worked at the UN Association of Sweden and think tank Global Utmaning. She is part of the international expert group for #UrbanGirlsMovement and #HerCity.

Read more
>> Article: Towards 100 Positive Energy Districts in Europe – Preliminary Data Analysis of 61 European Cases
>> PED Booklet
>> Announcement: Projects awarded funding in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) pilot call

Urban Lunch Talk #17: Regenerative Green Neighbourhoods and Circularity Transitions - The Do’s, Don’ts and Dilemmas
2021-04-16 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Welcome to an Urban Lunch Talk around the themes in the “Regenerative Green Neighbourhoods” pillar in the Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future (DUT). What are the dilemmas, do’s and don’ts around this pillar in theory but more importantly practice? Which are the policy- and practice recommendations and the cross-cutting issues? Meet guests with experience from research, innovation and policy across and beyond Europe. Attendees will be invited to JPI Urban Europe’s Slack space for further self-organised exchange. EDIT: You can now watch a recording of the lunch talk.

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Downsizing District Doughnuts – An Integrated Approach for Urban Greening and Circularity Transitions
Downsizing district doughnuts hinges on the three Rs of reduction, regeneration, redistribution in order to break the unsustainable linear economies of make-sell-waste. Increased efficiency in resource use alone comes with risks of rebound effects, hence reuse is not enough and a reduction of consumption is needed to keep within the ecological ceiling. In turn, transition pathways towards regenerative cities and urban areas are needed, in order to be active upcyclists and drive a planetary economy. As boundaries and operational limits are set, this furthers redistribution among practices and actors to foster sustainable urbanisation. By developing and improving blue-green infrastructure (BGI) and nature-based solutions (NBS) overall urban liveability, public health, and urban robustness may be considerably improved together with cutting-edge approaches to clean technology and entrepreneurial creativity. In combination with an increased circularity in urban economies, this is a crucial transition pathway to drive urban transformation to facilitate genuinely regenerative places. Hence, cities and urban areas are attractive starting points for making the global transformation to liveable societies, circular economies, and planetary health.
Regenerative Green Neighbourhoods is one of three transition pathways in the Driving Urban Transition to a Sustainable Future (DUT) partnership programme currently under development by JPI Urban Europe. Focus in this Urban Lunch Talk will be given to identify do’s, don’ts and dilemmas of the Doughnut Economy model on local scale, relating to nature-based solutions and circular economies.
What is meant by a dilemma-driven approach?
Everyone who is somehow involved in city development knows about the wicked issues that emerge from strategic decision making in this context. In a changing, interconnected and hyper-complex environment urban practitioners and strategists often encounter dilemmas (or even tri-lemmas). In its simple definition, a dilemma means having to decide between two or more alternatives that seem equally desirable or undesirable. However, dilemmas may also mean difficult situations where the path taken is not clearly beneficent and the need to compromise continuously appears. In other words, typical implementation, transition, and innovation situations. Dilemmas occur where the level of uncertainty is too high to rely on a pre-calculated action plan.
Guests and participants are welcome to share ideas and experiences on questions like:
– Have you encountered any dilemmas related to this topic?
– Can you reflect on a “do” and/or a “don’t” based on this dilemma-experience? This could be process/method related.
– Do you have a policy- or practice recommendation?
Meet the guests:

Dr. Volker Coors, Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart from the project IN-SOURCE: Integrated analysis and modelling for the management of sustainable urban food-water-energy (FWE) resources. IN-SOURCE helps decision makers (such as governments, utilities, developers, investors) identify and visualize FWE systems and their interrelations for urban strategic planning investments. The project is active in New York (USA), Vienna (Austria) and Ludwigsburg Region (Germany).
Dr. Maria Beatrice Andreucci works at the Department of “Planning Design Technology of Architecture”, “Sapienza” University of Roma (IT), and is member of the steering board of Urban Europe Research Alliance UERA), where she leads the working group “Urban Economies and Welfare”. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and an M.B.A (INSEAD). She is a registered architect and an economist who focuses her professional activity, research and teaching on the application of environmental technological design and environmental economics theories, principles and methods on urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture projects. She will launch, in May 2021, the book “Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy” (Andreucci, Marvuglia, Baltov & Hansen, Future City, Springer Nature). She is a member of the COST Actions “RESTORE”, “Circular City”, and “PED-EU-NET”.
Dr. Thomas Nehls, Technische Universität Berlin from the Vertical Green project. The project re-develops “vertical greening” of urban areas according to stakeholder needs and different architectures and climates. How do create positive impacts to as many urban neighbourhoods as possible? The project is active in Berlin (Germany), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Taipei (Chinese Taipei) and Vienna (Austria).
Daniela Rizzi, Senior Officer for Nature-based Solutions and Biodiversity at ICLEI Europe – Local Governments for Sustainability,has been promoting capacity-building, peer-learning and partnerships between civil society, businesses and all levels of government through the UrbanByNature programme to help cities plan and deliver nature-based solutions. Daniela has a doctoral degree in Landscape Architecture and Planning and is currently involved in EU-funded projects about measuring NBS impact on climate change adaptation, inclusive urban regeneration, urban governance through research and demonstration actions within urban living labs in Europe, China and Latin America (see for example Connecting Nature, CLEVER Cities, REGREEN, CONEXUS. ICLEI Europe recently joined a coalition of 31 stakeholders calling on the European Commission to deliver an ambitious EU strategy for a Sustainable Built Environment (SSBE) as part of its implementation of the Circular Economy Action Plan. ICLEI hosts its World Congress in Sweden this week (13 – 15 April).
Daniel Black, Director at “Daniel Black + Associates” and TRUUD (Tackling Root causes of Unhealthy Urban Development) at University of Bristol works to bridge the gap between research and practice to achieve impact and is part of the WASTE FEW ULL project. WASTE FEW ULL contributes with policy decision support models for economically viable waste reduction, rethinking waste as a resource as well as establishes entrepreneurship networks in each of the project’s Urban Living Labs to continue working after the formal end of the project. The project is active in Cape Town (South Africa), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Campinas (Brazil) and Bristol (United Kingdom).
Johannes Riegler (host) is the Stakeholder Involvement Officer in JPI Urban Europe and manager of the AGORA – JPI Urban Europe’s Stakeholder Involvement Platform to build capacities to co-creating pathways for urban transitions. He also works with matters of internationalization beyond Europe and the conceptual work around urban living labs. Johannes is an urbanist and geographer and conducted his studies in Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Madrid, Budapest and Klagenfurt.

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Seminar: Towards Co-creation of Public Services at the local level – innovative concepts and practice across Europe
2021-05-05
What are the key issues around co-creation of public services at the local level across Europe? Which challenges, potentials and characteristics can be identified? This seminar is organized by Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) JPI Urban Europe, University of Wroclaw and the project consortium Co-creation of Service Innovation in Europe (CoSIE).
Registration will open from April 15th. Participation in the seminar is free of charge.

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AGORA Thematic Dialogue | Pathways towards 15-minute cities | Registration Closed
2021-05-10 - 2021-05-11
This workshop is fully booked. Many thanks for your understanding.

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When:
Get together – 10 May 2021, 16.45-18.15 CEST (Brussels, Berlin, Warsaw)
Workshop – 11 May 2021, 10.00-16.30 CEST (Brussels, Berlin, Warsaw)
Venue: Online via Zoom
More events on this topic:
Urban Lunch Talk #18 – 15-min cities, do’s, dont’s and dilemmas

Questions, requests, opinions? Contact johannes.riegler@jpi-urbaneurope.eu

Kick-off in ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) | Invitation only
2021-05-10 10:00 - 13:45 (Europe/Stockholm)
JPI Urban Europe invites all projects funded in the ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) 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 project, engage in strategic discussions and find partners for future cooperation. You can register at the bottom of this page.
Time: Monday 10 May, 10:00 – 13:45 CEST, online (Zoom-platform)
Target groups: Partners from ENUAC funded projects and stakeholders, representatives from JPI Urban Europe funding agencies and other key people
Registration: Please register at least three represenatives as soon as possible but no later than April 19, see bottom of this page.
Join the JPI Urban Europe community and receive important information!

The purpose of the meeting includes networking activities and strategic discussions. The aim is to provide useful information and to establish a strong community from the start. The program strives for a high level of interaction mixing presentations with interaction in group discussions and workshops. The ENUAC team will give important information on formal requirements and programme activities in the coming four years and respond to questions from the projects. All projects are invited to give short “pitches” in a cavalcade of projects. Participants will a have chance to explore the links in ongoing projects and future cooperation in breakout sessions.
Welcome to register three partners from each project to different breakout sessions
Be sure to join with at least three representatives from every ENUAC project to join the plenary and different breakout sessions. This also helps to ensure a good balance between researchers and partners outside academia at the meeting.
The kick-off takes place back-to-back with the AGORA Thematic Dialogue “Pathways towards 15MinuteCities” on 11 May. Projects funded in ENUAC are counted on to join the AGORA workshop on May 11 with one to two representatives. Go here for separate registration to the AGORA Dialogue.
Program
10:00 Welcome and introduction
10:05 European Commission (tbc) – Expectations on the coming years for ENUAC
10:15 Margit Noll, Intro JPI Urban Europe – projects community & knowledge hub
10:30 Aims and ambitions in ENUAC
10:40 Projects in the spotlight – pitching session + projects catalog
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00 Breakout rooms x 4:

Urban Mobility Living Labs
Urban mobility test beds
Cities’ benefits and challenges of being a project partner
Urban accessibility and connectivity: policy contributions

12:45 Briefs from the breakout rooms in plenary
13:10 Information on the AGORA Thematic Dialogue
13:20 Communication and engagement activities the coming years
13:30 Keeping up the pace: Information on reporting and monitoring
13:45 End of Meeting (don’t forget to join the AGORA at 16.45 – more info here)

Information about breakout sessions

We encourage partners from the same project to attend different breakout sessions.
Session: Urban Mobility Living Labs
This session aims to explore different ways that enable mobility hubs to become game changers towards inclusive sustainable urban mobility and accessibility using co-creation and human-centred approaches.
Target group: ENUAC projects focused on living labs and their stakeholders
Session: Urban mobility testbeds
This session aims to connect ENUAC projects that focus on urban mobility demonstration or urban testbeds and engage them in an exchange regarding the challenges and barriers in user acceptance and behavioural change they need to overcome.
Target group: ENUAC testbeds projects
Session: Cities’ benefits and challenges of being a project partner
This session is an open discussion regarding the experiences of the cities involved in ENUAC projects, their expectations and challenges and how they plan to engage within the projects.
Target group: cities involved in ENUAC projects and their partners
Session: Urban accessibility and connectivity: policy contributions
This breakout session aims to bring together ENUAC projects working towards policy improvements for inclusive sustainable urban mobility and accessibility.
Target group: policy-focused ENUAC projects and external stakeholders (e.g.: ELTIS, CIVITAS, POLIS)

Registration is now closed.
Not signed up yet? Email amanda.ritzman@iqs.se with your name, email, project and organisation.

Urban Lunch Talk #18: 15-minute cities - Do’s, don’ts and dilemmas
2021-05-28 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Welcome to an #UrbanLunchTalk about the 15-minute cities pillar in the partnership Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future (DUT). To this talk, each invited guest brings one dilemma, one “do” and one “don’t” to the table – with regards to realising 15 min cities. Participants are welcome with their input via Menti. Attendees will be invited to JPI Urban Europe’s Slack channel for further self-organised exchange after the talk.

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>> Slides by Guntram Geser, the SimpliCITY project
>> Slides by Giuseppe Mella, City of Venice
>> Slides by Angela Muth from the project OptiMaaS
Menti results

15-minute cities – Rethinking the Urban Mobility System and Space
Concepts for the 15 Minute City are gaining traction throughout Europe and the world. Amplified by urban vulnerabilities and weaknesses which have been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, rethinking urban areas along the principles of the 15 Minute City has been illustrated as one central pathway towards sustainability and liveability. The 15 Minute City is one priority of the upcoming Driving Urban Transitions Partnership which JPI Urban Europe is currently designing. The partnership proposes to follow the vision of the 15-minute city as a way towards a holistic, people-oriented, and challenge-driven perspective for the redesign of urban mobility and planning.
Facing the climate crisis, we need to take action now and cannot wait longer to find “perfect solutions”. Instead, taking measures into implementation and practice must be at the top of the list. Although many technological solutions to drastically lower GHG-emissions already exist, the institutional and regulatory surrounding is often lagging or simply not in place yet, thus blocking a shift towards sustainable individual behaviour.
But it isn’t that simple. Everyone who is somehow involved in city development knows about the wicked issues that emerge from strategic decision making in this context. In a changing, interconnected and hyper-complex environment urban practitioners and strategists often encounter dilemmas; having to decide between two or more alternatives that seem equally desirable or undesirable. Dilemmas occur where the level of uncertainty is too high to rely on a pre-calculated action plan.

What are the dilemmas involved in realising 15 min cities – where lies the friction and the conflict of trade-offs?
What traps can or should we avoid – what are the “don’ts”?
Which are the enablers – the “do’s”?

Meet the guests

Guntram Geser works with the SimpliCITY project, supported in the JPI Urban Europe call Making Cities work. SimpliCITY explores digital services and incentive design for smart sustainable communities. The project boosts the digital competences of the urban communities in Salzburg, Uppsala and three follower-cities in living a sustainable lifestyle. One aim is to raise awareness for a “sustainable city lifestyle” and increase the number of engaged urban citizens by developing methods and tools for nudging a community towards the consumption of regional sustainability services (RSUS). Focus is on bike mobility services, local production and consumption and digital inclusion services.
Angela Muth from tbw research (AT) is the project leader of the project OptiMaaS: Optimized Mobility as a Service – Holistic mobility solutions for the urban periphery. OptiMaaS is too part of the Making Cities Work call and aims at reducing hurdles for implementing better multimodal, environmentally friendly mobility services in the urban periphery and improving the social acceptance of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) offers. MaaS-Systems are traffic services including public transport in combination with other transport modes (taxi, car-sharing, bike-sharing etc.). This combination is facilitated using IT-Platforms that bundle existing mobility offers.
Giuseppe Mella is a senior officer of the European Policies Department of the City of Venice, Italy. He is the project and communication manager of European projects in the field of international cooperation (Asia Urbs with China and India), RTD and innovation (FP6, FP7, Horizon2020, Interreg IV C, Urbact), sustainable mobility (Alpine Space, Interreg), environment (IEE) and culture (Culture 2007-2013, Creative Europe).
Dr. Nina Mostegl works at the Salzburg Institute for Regional Planning and housing in the Energy and Climate department as an interdisciplinary smart city expert. She advises and manages the Smart City Initiative of the city of Salzburg for which she develops and coordinates (national and international) implementation projects, organizes (local and national) information and awareness-raising events and supervises the general Smart City dissemination activities to achieve the energy and climate targets outlined in the Masterplan 2025. Further, together with her SIR colleague Helmut Strasser, she manages the Smart Cities Network Austria, an exchange platform for the seven largest cities in Austria, which aims to support and accelerate innovation processes in cities and strengthens joint learning. In this context, she is also involved in the national consultation process of the Fit4UrbanMission – a research program of Austrian climate ministry that specifically targets cities and aims to support them to participate in the Horizon Europe Mission “100 Climate-Neutral Cities by 2030” and to start the transformation process towards climate neutrality.
Johannes Riegler (host) is the Stakeholder Involvement Officer in JPI Urban Europe and manager of the AGORA – JPI Urban Europe’s Stakeholder Involvement Platform to build capacities to co-creating pathways for urban transitions. He also works with matters of internationalization beyond Europe and the conceptual work around urban living labs. Johannes is an urbanist and geographer and conducted his studies in Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen, Madrid, Budapest and Klagenfurt.

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This event is part of JPI Urban Europe’s series of Urban Lunch Talks around the pillars (areas of priority) in the Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future (DUT) partnership.

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PED Pilot Call 2020 Kick-off Meeting | Invitation Only
2021-06-07 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online
Let’s get it started …
Kick-off Meeting of the Selected Projects in the Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) Pilot Call 2020

JPI Urban Europe invites all projects funded in the Positive Energy Districts pilot 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 project, engage in strategic discussions and find partners for future cooperation. You can register at the bottom of this page.
Time: Monday 7 June 2021, 14:00 – 17:00 CEST, online (Zoom)
Target groups: Partners from funded projects in the PED pilot call (approx. five representatives per projects including one city partner) and representatives from JPI Urban Europe funding agencies and other key people.
Download Invitation to PED Pilot Call Kick-off Meeting
Join the JPI Urban Europe community and receive important information!

The purpose of the meeting includes networking activities and strategic discussions. The aim is to provide useful information and to establish a strong community from the start. The program strives for a high level of interaction mixing presentations with interaction in group discussions and workshops. The PED team will give important information on formal requirements and programme activities in the upcoming years and respond to questions from the projects. All projects are invited to give short “pitches” in a cavalcade of projects. Participants will a have chance to explore possible links to the other projects and future cooperation in breakout sessions.
Program

14:00 Welcome
>> Intro JPI Urban Europe – projects community & knowledge hub
>> Intro PED Programme – mission & ambition
14:20 Aims and ambitions in PED Pilot Call
14:30 Projects in the spotlight: Pitching session
14:50 Breakout sessions
>> PED definition
>> PED stock-taking/mapping
>> PED collaboration tools and techniques for stakeholder involvement
15:40 Break
15:50 Reporting back to the plenary
16:00 Communication and engagement activities the coming years
16:10 Keeping up the pace: Information on reporting and monitoring
16:20 Q&A / Networking opportunity
17:00 End of Meeting

AGORA Thematic Dialogue: Unfolding Dilemmas of Regenerative Green Neighbourhoods
2021-06-09 - 2021-06-10 | Online
Invitation to the AGORA Thematic Dialogue:
Unfolding Dilemmas of Regenerative Green Neighbourhoods
Get together: 9June 2021 – 17.00-19.00 (CEST-UTC+2)
Workshop: 10June 2021 – 10.00-16.30 (CEST-UTC+2)
Join the discussion
Regenerative Green Neighbourhoods is one of three transition pathways in the Driving Urban Transition to a Sustainable Future (DUT) partnership programme currently under development by JPI Urban Europe. Join this AGORA Thematic Dialogue to build the programme and first actions well on available evidence, local strategies and practical needs. Focus will be given to identify dilemmas, critical issues and potentials to implement principles of the Doughnut Economy model on local scale, unfold the potential of nature-based solutions and circular consumption and resource management.
Booklet of abstracts
After the registration, participants are asked to provide a brief abstract on their main expertise, field of interest and position in the field of regenerative cities, NBS, and urban circular economies (about 400 words). These contributions will be used to design the workshop according to the represented expertise. The book of abstracts will be shared among the participants in advance of the workshop to allow for preparation on all sides and inform focused discussions right from the beginning of the workshop. Additionally, the contributions will be used for elaborating a policy report on the topic.

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Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) 12 - 15 June 2021
2021-06-15
The Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021) is the world’s first transdisciplinary gathering in sustainability – it will be a space of fierce advocacy for sustainability scholarship, innovation, collaboration and action.

This annual event unites global sustainability leaders, experts, industry and innovators to inspire action and promote a sustainability transformation. In addition to the 100+ sessions available throughout the day and night, thanks to the global reach of SRI and partners, the SRI2021 Online Package includes exclusive events and services, starting as soon as February 2021.

SRI is a joint initiative of Future Earth and the Belmont Forum. Australia, who hosts the Congress in 2021, has a unique role to play in the global community as a conduit between the Global North and the Global South, indigenous peoples and traditional sustainability practices. The local hosting consortium, led by Future Earth Australia and CSIRO, features academia and government partners from Brisbane and the State of Queensland to meet the breadth of the SRI2021 agenda.
JPI Urban Europe co-hosts the following sessions:
🗓️ Session: Urban Nexus Innovation Showcase: Think Like a Mayor!
Monday 14 June 12.00-13.45 UTC, 14.00 CEST
🗓️ Session: Networking and knowledge exchange:Towards circular urban economies and regenerative cities – Lessons learned from nature-based solutions and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
Tuesday 15 June 12.00-13.30 UTC, 14.00 CEST

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Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus

The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a call jointly established by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe. The cooperation was established in order to bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative new solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. Projects and partners from the SUGI Nexus will join the SRI congress.

2021 URBACT City Festival
2021-06-15 - 2021-06-17
After two years of experimenting, exchanging and learning, over 150 URBACT cities are ready to share how they made a difference. Delving into 23 urban good practices proven to have made an impact, cities from 25 countries joined forces to understand, adapt and re-use the initiatives in their local contexts. Throughout this event, you can:

Hear from city staff willing to show and tell their journey
Get up to speed on the big issues facing cities today
Connect with peers and get inspired to try something new

Cities have been in the frontline of the global pandemic, but a window of opportunity has been opened for sustainable change. If you want your city to be more green, more just and more aligned with the needs of citizens… this is the exchange space you need.
When? The Festival officially opens on the 15th June, closing on the 17th early in the afternoon.
Who? If you are a city practitioner, a decision-maker at any level, an academic, an activist or simply an urban enthusiast, this event is for you! This is also a unique opportunity for people who are keen to learn more about URBACT

>> Read more and join the URBACT festival here

ENTRANCE - Webinar on EIB funding mechanisms for providers of sustainable transport & mobility solutions to boost EU uptake
2021-06-22 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Zoom
WEBINAR WITH THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK TO DISCOVER FUNDING MECHANISMS FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT & MOBILITY SOLUTIONS.
Are you looking for funding sources that allow you to launch your innovative product on the market?
The ENTRANCE project is designed to mobilise financial resources and boost sustainable innovations in the transport and mobility sectors. To do so, the partnership will create an environment for promoting solutions to find buyers or investors. These solutions will gain visibility through the ENTRANCE Matchmaking Platform, that will count also with a Knowledge Hub to learn more about sectorial trends and financing insights.
This work is strengthened with the first project’s webinar: EIB funding mechanisms for providers of sustainable transport & mobility solutions to boost EU uptake. A Live Webinar in which European Investment Bank experts will present its funding mechanisms for transport and mobility solution providers across Europe and how these can be applied for deployment projects and scaling up of innovative transport and mobility solutions.
The webinar will take place on June 22nd from 10.00 to 11.30 (CEST), SAVE THE DATE! Registration is open now: https://www.entrance-platform.eu/
Agenda:

Presentation of the ENTRANCE Matchmaking Platform
Presentation of EIB funding mechanisms and presentation of examples of deployment projects scaling up innovative transport solutions
Q&A and Discussions on EIB Financing including Future Mobility Facility

Remember to subscribe to ENTRANCE newsletter to be informed on the latest project updates!

The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement N°101006681.

SUGI Open House (for SUGI projects only)
2021-06-24 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
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: Jun 24, 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 Urban Europe. The cooperation was established in order to bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative new solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge.

Driving Urban Transitions towards Sustainable Futures: A workshop for experts from Latin America and the Caribbean
2021-06-28
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 Latin America and the Caribbean, discuss the pathways to make those visions a reality and how international cooperation can support local urban transitions.
When:
28 June 2021
15.00-19.00 UTC+2 (Brussels) / 10.00-14.00 UTC-3 (Buenos Aires)
Where:
Online via Zoom
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The EUKN-OECD Week of National Urban Policies
2021-06-28 - 2021-06-30
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 and contribute to EU Member States’ work to create more just, green and productive cities!
Organisers: European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) and the OECD
Registered participants will receive the webinar link in advance. The event will also be live-streamed.
Read more and register here

Horizon Europe Info Days 28 June - 9 July 2021
2021-06-28 - 2021-07-09
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 take place following the Horizon Europe info-days calendar:

28 Jun – Infrastructures
20 & 30 Jun – Digital, industry & space (cluster 4)
30 June – Civil security for society (cluster 3)
1 July – Culture, creativity & inclusive society (cluster 2)
1 July – The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: what is new under Horizon Europe
2 July – Health (cluster 1)
5 & 6 July – Climate, energy & mobility (cluster 5)
7 & 8 July – Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture & environment (cluster 6)
9 July – European Research Area (ERA) & Widening

>> For more information and practical details, visit the event website.

CHC’s Placemakers: Development, Design and Regeneration Conference
2021-06-30
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 fore.
This conference will explore what Placemaking means for housing associations, how it can be delivered in practice, and seek to gain inspiration from elsewhere. What have we learned over the last year, and how can we build places that people want to live in? To view the full conference programme, please click here
If you would like to book to attend the event, please contact rhian-robinson@chcymru.org.uk
