WUF11: Ensuring equitable and inclusive urban transformations leaving nobody behind: the role of science-policy- society cooperation
2022-06-28 12:30 - 14:00 UTC | International Congress Centre (MCK), Plac Sławika i Antalla 1 40-163 Katowice, Poland.
Track: “Transforming European Cities” – Equitable and inclusive, perspective: NGO and academia
In the last years, numerous global and European strategies, frameworks and policy agendas have been published and agreed which underline the need for transforming urban areas to address the biggest challenges of our time. In order to leave nobody behind, inclusiveness and equity need to be at the centre of the transformation processes. Research and innovation projects can provide a platform to tap upon the transformative potential and local knowledge of civil society actors and urban stakeholders to drive change towards sustainable and livable urban futures.
The session moderated by Margit Noll, Chair of the JPI Urban Europe Management Board will highlight selected cases, local initiatives, projects which aimed at transforming urban areas on a neighbourhood scale and offer good practice on how to achieve inclusive and equitable urban transitions.
Speakers

Chiara Tornaghi, Coventry University
Jim Segers, City Mine(d)
Simon Pemberton, Keele University
Matthew Bach, ICLEI Europe
Martina De Sole, European Network of Living Labs
Cristina Robledano Noreña, Porticus

Visit the website to learn more about the European Track of WUF11

WUF11: Training session Urban Living Labs: Let’s co-create! But how to start?
2022-06-29 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | International Congress Centre (MCK), Plac Sławika i Antalla 1 40-163 Katowice, Poland.
There is a lot of fuzz around experimental methods such as urban living labs since recently as contributing to urban transitions implies per definition to so things differently. However, talking about experimental approaches seems to be much easier than planning and implementing them in existing (governance) structures, let alone, making experimenting part of full urban development processes. This training sessions allows participants to playfully lay out the cornerstones for experimental approaches and to discuss all the relevant questions such as Where to start? how to plan? … and what are the right methods / tools to tackle a specific urban challenge or implement global/national/regional sustainability strategies? Who should be involved? What if we fail? etc.
This training session aims at addressing these questions in a structured way addressing concrete urban challenges. By using (parts) of the URB@EXP Urban Lab Kit, participants will decide on a concrete urban challenge which they want to address. The Urban Lab Kit guides the participants to ask all relevant questions which are essential for planning, starting, conducting an experimental project / urban lab as well as how to boost its impact. Thus, the training session will allow participants to plan the main elements of their “experimental project in a day”, build capacities to work with experimental projects and allow them to discuss what benefits experimenting would have in their concrete urban context.
Training instructors

Johannes Riegler, Stakeholder Involvement Officer – JPI Urban Europe
Margit Noll, Management Board Chair of JPI Urban Europe – Strategy and Coordination

Lead organization

JPI Urban Europe

WUF11: Green and Blue Infrastructure in Cities - Innovative Solutions for Governing Food-Water-Energy Nexus in Cities
2022-06-29 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris) | International Congress Centre (MCK), Plac Sławika i Antalla 1 40-163 Katowice, Poland.
This event will be based on the results of the projects supported by JPI Urban Europe and the Belmont Forum as part of the Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative – SUGI: Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in Cities (IFWEN) and Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices: operationalising the Food-Water- Energy Nexus (CRUNCH). Participants will learn about the importance of Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) to improve Food-Water-Energy Nexus (FWEN) in urban settlements. This is important for advancing sustainable urban development because urban resource systems are under stress due to climate change and growing populations, and many urban and environmental experts would agree that conventional siloed approaches often miss opportunities to manage these resources more efficiently. Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a powerful concept for showing the interdependencies between systems. Cities can play an important role in managing resources, but are often unable to integrate different mandates or work across sectors.

Program
The program will be comprised of:

Introduction to the training (5 minutes) – Introduction of the participants and objectives of the meeting
Project presentations (40 minutes) – Each project will present to the participants the key results related to Food-Water-Energy Nexus in cities;
Discussions (40 minutes) – Participants will reflect on the opportunities and challenges for using GBI in their cities
Concluding remarks (5 minutes) – Discuss the main takeaway points from the FWEN in cities

The event takes place at the JPI UE/DUT booth.

Profile of the training instructors
Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member at FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas), Brazil. He leads the consortium of the research project IFWEN.
Johannes Riegler is the Stakeholder Involvement Officer at JPI Urban Europe.
Joanna Bach-Głowińska, (Dr. Eng. Arch.), is an Adjunct Professor at Gdansk University of Technology in Poland, the Principal Investigator at both ERA-Net Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) and of the research project CRUNCH.

Lead organizations
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
FGV – FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGAS
JPI Urban Europe

Opportunities for Technological Collaboration: Sustainable Cities - Uruguay
2022-07-05 15:00 - 18:00 UTC | Digital
This joint webinar organised in collaboration with the Eurocámara Uruguay aims to provide learning on the national challenges arising from ecological and digital transitions and opportunities for technological collaboration between Europe, Latin American, and Caribbean countries. The webinar will focus on Uruguay on the topic of sustainable cities with particular emphasis on Electric Mobility. Experts from will provide valuable insights about the mobility sector in the country.
Register to participate here

International Symposium: Territorial Turn!
2022-09-15 - 2022-09-16 | Graz University of Technology, Kronesgasse 5, 8010, Graz, Austria
Join us for the International Symposium Territorial Turn! held by the Institute of Urbanism, TU Graz, and elaborate together with our keynote speakers and presenters on changes, values and framework conditions of urbanism. The discussion on theoretical concepts and ideas, as well as pioneering practical urban design propositions will contribute to actively think, plan, design, and implement an ecological and equitable urban future on a territorial scale.
The symposium will offer 1,5 days of presentations and discussions with international scholars and practitioners of the disciplines of Urbanism, Architecture, Landscape, Planning, Urban Studies and Design such as Susanne Eliasson (GRAU), Stefan Rettich (University of Kassel), Eva Pfannes (OOZE), Paola Viganò (EPFL Lausanne, IUAV Venice), who will present their perspectives on the Territorial Turn.
It will also feature testimonies of Ali Madanipour (University of New Castle),Christian Schmid (ETH Zürich), Maarten Van Acker (University of Antwerpen), Erik Wieërs (Flemish Government), Judith Schwentner (City of Graz) and Chris Younès (École spéciale d’architecture and École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris La Villette), while Philipp Misselwitz (TU Berlin, Bauhaus EARTH) will present an excerpt of the Bauhaus EARTH Charter.
In addition, paper presentations will be followed by discussion panelled with Juliette Bekkering (Eindhoven University), Han Meyer (TU Delft ) and Marcel Smets (KU Leuven), among others.
Click here to find more information on the symposion and purchase a ticket!

5th Annual Place Making Week
2022-09-27 - 2022-09-30 | Pontevedra, Spain
Placemaking Week Europe is Europe’s founding and largest placemaking festival. In the spirit of collaboration and inspiration, over 400 practitioners meet every year to share knowledge, learn and network. The host of the fifth edition is the city of Pontevedra in Spain. A place that for the last twenty years has been an example of how to organise a city around people. Drawing on their positive example, we will look to the future together.
The CUE Transition Pathway has planned a workshop session titled “Building radically regenerative public spaces” for the Place Making Week. The workshop invites participants to envision urban areas in 2050 and how regenerative urbanism can help human societies address and cope with anthropogenic climate events that are currently increasing both in frequency and magnitude. Using fictional city typologies as point of departure, participants will explore and build a vision for 2050 streetscapes.
Find more information about the event!

A European task: Integrating refugees in the housing market
2022-09-27 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Digital
With the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 onwards, the immigration of refugees to several European countries has massively increased. This has resulted in enormous pressure for adequate short-term accommodation for these people and their long-term access to the housing market. With the influx of refugees from Ukraine since February 2022, access to the housing market as well as the provision of affordable housing are once again extremely pressing issues. In addition, the question of affordable housing does not only arise for refugees, but also includes other disadvantaged groups on the housing market in different European cities.
Experiences and approaches from Austria, Germany, and Sweden provide indications of the prevailing barriers at the housing markets and strategies to overcome them. During the Online-Event, representatives from academia and practice will highlight existing approaches and strategies in the housing market.
The registration deadline is September 26, 2022. Read more about the programme and register here!

Driving Urban Transitions launching event
2022-10-04 - 2022-10-05 | Brussels
Save the dates 4-5 October for the official launching event of the DUT partnership taking place in Brussels, which will be a hybrid event that combines activities on-site as well as online. Be inspired and engage in conversations that:

Demonstrate ways to improve impact, replication, and peer-to-peer learning throughout Europe and beyond.
Reflect the accomplishments of research and innovation projects.
Explore ways to link research and innovation with local action.
Highlight examples of best practice.

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.
Whether you are an interested citizen, activist, politician, public administrator, entrepreneur or academic, we gladly invite you to join our sessions.
An invitation with program will follow and registrations open in August.

7th UCLG World Congress - Daejeon, South Korea
2022-10-10 - 2022-10-14
UCLG organises its world congress every three years; the 2022 edition will take place in Daejeon, Korea, from 10-14 October. At this milestone event with 3000 representatives from local governments worldwide, UCLG will present its ‘Pact for the Future’ – a renewed strategy for the organization and its members. Working on ecological transition and resilience is one of the pillars of this Pact, under the heading of ‘Planet’.
More information about the programme will be available in the coming months.
Visit the official webbsite.

Natural Gas-Free Neighbourhoods Workshop
2022-10-13 - 2022-10-14 | Rotterdam
Within the Dutch ‘Natural Gas-Free Neighbourhoods’ (PAW) programme, city districts are currently trying different methods to achieve the transition to a low-carbon energy system.
At the two-day workshop in Rotterdam you will get the opportunity to have a first-hand look at these projects. Join us to exchange insights with the people who are leading the transition – both from the Netherlands and other countries in Europe.
Register here!

Urban Lunch Talk #20: Envisioning a sustainable future: Public infrastuctures – what will they be and look like?
2022-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Zoom Webinar
Welcome to this Urban Lunch Talk about sustainable urban futures and infrastructural transition. How will this be addressed and approached, and what is to be achieved?
Save the venue into your calendar today (ics)! The webinar will be easy to join without the regular pre-registering.
Zoom: Join the webinar
The webinar was recorded in Zoom, and published for the JPI Urban Europe’s Youtube channel. You may watch the episode by clicking this link.
New envisioned future theme
The Urban Lunch Talk concept has newly shifted focus to the partnership Driving Urban Europe (DUT) part about sustainable futures. The upcoming talk about public infrastructures will involve discussions on the envisioned future of urban infrastructures based on the latest research and innovation knowledge. What are the dilemmas with public infrastructure development, technically and socially, and which are the ways to address the challenges? What is there to be achieved – what will sustainable urban infrastructure in the future be and look like?
Guests from ENUTC
For the Urban Lunch Talk #20 the invited guests for the panel on public infrastructure are all from projects in the ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC).

Christian Peer (OPUSH), Senior Scientist, TU Wien, Future.lab Research Center
Tanu Priya Uteng (CARIN-PT), Ph.D. Research Leader, Regional Planning and Development, Institute of Transport Economics (TOI), Norwegian Center for Transport Research
Johanna Rivano Eckerdal (ILIT), Head of Center for Oresund Region Studies, Reader/Associate Professor in Information Studies, Departement of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University
Milena Maj (City&Co), PhD Student, Center for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies, Jagiellonian University Krakow

Call topic about urban infrastructure
In ENUTC, urban transformation capacities are related to call topics addressing a wide variety of urban challenges, such as robust and resilient urban infrastructure. This topic, including built environment, implies an urban infrastructure that can resist natural, environmental, social, economic and technological threats on smaller and larger scales based on efficient use of resources. It also implies fair access to urban infrastructure and the built environment.
>> Learn more about ENUTC at the call website

The 2022 Urban Research Conference
2022-10-27 - 2022-10-28
2022 was the year that cities would recover from the woes of the pandemic and tackle rising social and economic inequality. Then Putin invaded Ukraine.
Now cities are faced with heightened geopolitical tensions, alongside increased violence, demonstrations and divisions following, among other things, the COVID-19 pandemic, the extreme weather events associated with climate change, the rise of alt-right and left movements, fallen democracies, reinvigorated authoritarianism and unequal treatment of migrants.
This year’s conference is concerned with, on the one hand, emerging conflicts, seen as a dynamic interplay between different discourses and actors in «the politics of conflictual governance». On the other hand, it pays attention to social forces that draw in the opposite direction, uniting ordinary citizens in political mobilisation through practices of daily life, and paving the ground for new forms of interaction between citizens and city representatives in «the practices of collaborative governance». We scrutinise the role of institutions and institutional adaptiveness towards new inclusionary initiatives.
Find the full programme here.

PED webinar series: PEDs & ENVIRONMENT
2023-01-13 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Digital
We invite stakeholders in the energy transition processes and all interested in driving urban transformation to join a DUT webinar series on key elements for accelerating the implementation of Positive Energy Districts. Go to the DUT website for more information!

PED webinar series: PEDs & PEOPLE
2023-01-20 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Digital

PED webinar series: PEDs & MONEY
2023-01-27 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Digital

PED Pilot Call Final Meeting / PED Call II Kick-off Meeting
2023-01-30 09:00 - 2023-01-31 16:30 UTC
JPI Urban Europe PED Projects Meeting

PED Pilot Call Final Meeting / PED Call II Kick-off Meeting
JPI Urban Europe hereby invites projects from PED Pilot Call (2020) and PED Call II (2021) to participate in the combined JPI Urban Europe PED Projects Meeting on 30/31 Jan in Copenhagen, hosted by Innofund Denmark.
Date: 30 and 31 January 2023
Location: Soho, Flæsketovet 68, 1fl, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark

PED webinar series: PEDs & REGULATION
2023-02-03 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Digital
We invite stakeholders in the energy transition processes and all interested in driving urban transformation to join a DUT webinar series on key elements for accelerating the implementation of Positive Energy Districts. Go to the DUT website for more information!

3 Feb 2023, 12:30 – 13:30 hrs (CET)

AGORA Strategic Dialogue #1: 16 February 2023 09.00-12.00 UTC [10:00-13:00 Brussels, 11:00-14.00 Cape Town]
2023-02-16 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Digital
REGISTRATION CLOSED
This AGORA Strategic Dialogue is fully booked! But you can still register for the two remaining dialogues:
AGORA Strategic Dialogue #2 – 22 February 7:00-10:00 UTC
AGORA Strategic Dialogue #3 – 28 February 17:00-20:00 UTC

AGORA Strategic Dialogue #2: 22 February 2023 Time: 7:00-10:00 UTC [08.00-11.00 Brussels; 12.30-16.30 Mumbai; 15.00-18.00 Beijing; 16.00-19.00 Tokyo]
2023-02-22 07:00 - 10:00 UTC | Digital
Registration closed!

Urban Lunch Talk & Information meeting – Envisioning a sustainable future theme: How do art and design unlock the full potential for urban transition?
2023-02-27 00:00 - 13:30 UTC
Welcome to an Urban Lunch Talk about building transformation capacities through art and design. With the new envisioned future theme, the event will involve discussions on how to imagine a sustainable urban future with aesthetic perspectives and approaches. After the Urban lunch talk, 12 am–1 pm, short information of a new call about art and design will follow, 1–1.30 pm.
Please observe that the date has been changed to 27 February 2023. The event is going to be performed as a Zoom webinar, and you may save the event in your calendar (ics-file).
Click here to register for the event in order to make sure being invited to upcoming Urban lunch talks and networking activities.
>>Click here to go to the Zoom webinar (also without pre-registering).
After the Urban lunch talk, an information meeting (1–1.30 pm) about a new call about art and design will follow in the Zoom webinar.
The webinar was recorded in Zoom, and published for the JPI Urban Europe’s Youtube channel. You may watch the episode by clicking this link.
New envisioned future theme
The Urban Lunch Talk concept has newly shifted focus to the partnership Driving Urban Transition (DUT) part about sustainable futures. The upcoming talk will involve discussions about an envisioned future with art and design based on the latest research and innovation knowledge. How can urban dilemmas be addressed with aesthetics, what is there to be achieved – what will a sustainable urban future be and look like?
Imagination as a tool for urban transformation
Our current crisis is not only about the environment and the climate, but also a crisis of the imagination. We seem simply not capable of imagining the sustainable societies of tomorrow, but are stuck in current modes of thinking and old solutions that were perhaps useful to solve old problems. There is a need to emphasize the importance of imagination, creativity and the cultural sector, to support and enable the transformation of our societies towards a sustainable, climate neutral and just future.
The thematics of art and design are closely linked to the upcoming call within the ERA-Net Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) – learn more via the call pre-announcement.
Panel guests
• Cecilie Sachs Olsen, Professor of Art in Society
Cementing the importance of the arts in imagining urban transformation, Cecile researches the role of artistic practice in forming societal imaginaries and in materially making and shaping urban space, lives and communities. Currently at the Department of Art, Design and Drama at Oslo Metropolitan University, she develops creative methods for urban research and explores how artistic practice can be used as a framework to analyse and re-imagine urban development, space and politics. Cecile is also engaged in the JPI Urban Europe (ENUTC) project Conflict in Transformations (CONTRA), researching sustainable futures through arts-based methods, conceptualized as “drama labs”, as a new manifestation of urban living labs.
Website: oslomet.no/en/about/employee/cecilies/
• Bettina Schwalm, Experience Designer
As an Experience Designer, Strategist and Researcher, Bettina Schwalm has a long experience serving society, culture and the environment. She is educating and coaching teams in innovation and future thinking, always with a strong focus on behavioural studies. She is the Center Director for Konstfack (University of Arts, Crafts, and Design) at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and a guest lecturer in various institutions worldwide. Her interdisciplinary approach is at the intersection of science and design, developing hands-on tools and visions for organisations and the public realm. Her recently Vinnova-funded speculative design project “Signs of Change”, in collaboration with Radical Norms, explores aspects of Urban Transformation and the impact of extreme climate futures through public street signs.
Websites: bettinaschwalm.com, signsofchange.io
• 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.
Website: Jenny Kornmacher, Linkedin
• Bruno Georges, Grand Projects and Innovations Director
Bruno is an innovations director for major project development in the private engineering group OteisLab, and previously the creator and manager for sustainable design office ITF. Bruno is engaged in having a longer time perspective of sustainable projects, rather than decades. For radical urban transformation, culturally and financially – there is a need for a change in imagining the future.
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruno-georges-839466104/?originalSubdomain=fr
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.

AGORA Strategic Dialogue #3: 28 February 2023, Time: 17:00-20:00 UTC [08.00-11.00 Seattle, 14.00-17.00 Sao Paulo, 18.00-21.00 Brussels]
2023-02-28 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Digital

Matchmaking event for the new BTC ENUTC call about building transformation capacity through arts and design
2023-03-06 13:00 - 13:45 UTC
There is a need to emphasize the importance of imagination, and the cultural and creative sectors, to support and enable the transformation of societies towards a sustainable, climate neutral, and just future. In the new Building Transformation Capacities (BTC) call within the Era-Net Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) – art and design form the focal point. During this matchmaking event, we will discuss how to apply for the call.
>> Download the event into your calendar (ics-file)
>> Go to the matchmaking event (Zoom) (no pre-registration)
Scientists and practitioners from the cultural and creative sectors, and from other disciplines, are welcome to apply for the call. Projects will revolve around the call topics:

Experimentation and co-creation for a beautiful and sustainable urban future
Transformation to sustainable cities
Designing inclusive, liveable and green neighbourhoods

For more information about the call, topics and proposal – go to the BTC ENUTC call website.
During the matchmaking event we will talk about how to build a proposal, and the call time schedule for submission of proposals.
Welcome!

Seminar: ACUTE Accessibility and Connectivity - Knowledge Hub for Urban Transformation in Europe – 15-minute city
2023-03-08 | Polytechnic of Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan, Italy
Contributors from academia and practice are invited to orally present their ideas and specific projects, discuss them, and share their latest methods and results within the fields of mobility, transportation, and urban development in the context of the 15-minute-city concept.
For more details, we would like to invite you to have a closer look at the website of the event: https://acute-uera.sciencesconf.org/
For presenters, 500-word abstracts have to be submitted (here) before 17 February 2023.
Whether you are a presenter or an attendee, it is necessary to register for the event (here) between 24 February 2023 and 03 March 2023.

UERA Seminar: The Role of Urban Research. Opening, Mediating, and Facilitating Pathways in Times of Multiple Crises
2023-03-09 | Bocconi University, Room AS 01, Via Roentgen 1, Milan (Italy)
The relevance of urban dimension is rapidly growing in shaping policies for sustainable development, as put in evidence by the inclusion of Goal 11 in the Agenda 2030 and the recent adoption of the EU Mission for 100 climate-neutral and smart cities. In this perspective, the role of urban research is fundamental in driving policy innovation. UERA is one of the key initiatives of JPI Urban Europe and brings together 58 European research organisations from 20 different countries committed to address the Driving Urban Transition pathways through the integration of environmental and socio-economic research in energy, mobility and circularity. Discussion will be focused on the role of research in supporting sustainable urban transition, considering an evolving institutional framework and innovative experiences.
The UERA seminar aims to discuss the role of urban research in progressing innovation capabilities and sustainable urban transitions.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We welcome abstracts (200 words) or presentation descriptions (10 lines description) exploring diverse transition pathways or topics that could inspire present and future urban models and good practices. You can submit your abstract or presentation description by 1 March (here).
A selection of final papers will be published after the conference in a Special Issue or a Book Serie – findings and overall suggestions enhancing inputs on the transition pathways and their interactions will be the primary output.
REGISTRATION
Whether you are a presenter or an attendee, it is necessary to register (here) between 24 February 2023 and 8 March 2023.
To participate in person fill in theREGISTRATION FORM. Registration will close on 9 March 2023 at 8:00AM.
The morning session will also be available in live streaming:
REGISTER HERE by 8 March at 3:00PM to receive the Zoom link.
AGENDA

Date: 9 MARCH 2023Place: Bocconi University, Room AS03, Via Röntgen 1, Milan

UERA General Assembly (invitation only)
2023-03-10 | Bocconi University, Room AS 01, Via Roentgen 1, Milan (Italy)
Date: 10th March 2023
Where: Bocconi University, Room AS 03, Via Roentgen 1, Milan (Italy)
The UERA General Assembly will consist of a parallel discussion within the Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) in two parallel sessions, a workshop on the status of their work, and their ideas for the future. It will continue with a formal assembly with UERA changes and needs, presentation of new members for approval, and presentation of candidates for election. A specific round table will be dedicated to the COST Action (submission Fall 2023). You can find the final program (here)
It will be possible to participate in the event also remotely – access to the link will be given to UERA members upon registration (here)

AGENDA
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome:
Edoardo Croci, Bocconi University (IT) – UERA Chair
Enza Lissandrello, Aalborg University (DK) – UERA coordinator
9.30 – 10.30 Internal parallel discussions within each Thematic Working group: First session
TWG1 – Circular Urban Regenerative Economies
TWG2 – Sustainability – Nature-Based Solutions and Climate
TWG3 – Mobility and Accessibility
10.30 – 11.30 Internal parallel discussions within each Thematic Working group: Second session
TWG4 – Governance, Participation, and Equity
TWG5 – Energy Transition and Smart City
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break
Presentations of the status of the Thematic Working Groups and ideas for the future
Chair: Enza Lissandrello, Aalborg University (DK) – UERA coordinator
11.45 – 11.55: TWG1 – Circular Urban Regenerative Economies
Presenter: Maria Beatrice Andreucci – La Sapienza University Roma (IT)
11.55 – 12.05: TWG2 – Sustainability – Nature-Based Solutions and Climate
Presenter: Stephen Venn, University of Lodz & Helsinki University (PO and FI)
12.05 – 12.15: TWG3 – Mobility and Accessibility
Presenter: Alain L’Hostis, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
12.15 – 12.25: TWG4 – Governance, Participation, and Equity
Presenter: Pia Laborgne, KIT Karlsruhe (DE)
12.25 -12.35: TWG5 – Energy Transition and Smart City
Presenter: Anders Riel Müller, University of Stavanger (NO)
12.35 – 13.00: Teamwork activities and UERA program activities 2023 and 2024
Presenters: Nacima Baron, University Gustave Eiffel (FR) and Aldona Wiktorska-Swiecka, University of Wroclaw (PL)
13:00 – 13.45 Lunch
FORMAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Presenter: Enza Lissandrello, Aalborg University (DK) – UERA coordinator
13.45 – 14.10 Presentation of UERA changes and needs
14.10 – 14.20 Presentation of new members for approval
14.20 – 14.30 Presentation of candidates for election
14.30 – 15.30 Section on Planning for the COST action
15.30 – Closing remarks: Edoardo Croci, Bocconi University (IT) – UERA Chair
Organizing Committee:
Enza Lissandrello (Aalborg University, UERA Coordinator), Benedetta Lucchitta (Bocconi University – SUR Lab), Tania Molteni (Bocconi University – SUR Lab), Elisa Torretta (Bocconi University – administrative support)

How to strengthen national governance for achieving the Cities Mission - good practice cases from Austria, France, Greece and Hungary
2023-03-20 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Digital
You are interested in how to strengthen national governance for achieving the Cities Mission and are involved in the national implementation?
Then join our first webinar on 20 March 2023 (2pm-4pm CET) on good practice cases from Austria, France, Greece and Hungary!
In order to support the implementation of the EU Cities Mission the CapaCITIES project addresses the national governance system and support measures to improve the innovation eco-system for cities to act. Through a series of webinars and seminars capacity building is aimed at by sharing good practice cases on national level, initiating exchange of experiences and knowledge as well as building an alliance for long-term peer learning on central aspects and challenges of urban transitions.
All relevant stakeholders, such as representatives of ministries in charge of urban or sectoral transitions, R&I ministries, national urban policy agencies, city authorities, funding agencies and urban actors are welcome to participate and engage.

Agenda:
2:00-2:15 pm CET Welcome and CapaCITIES state of the art
2:15-2:45 pm CET Capacity building – good practice cases from France, Greece, Austria and Hungary
2:45-3:20 pm CET Discussion of key elements and exchange of first experiences
3:20-3:55 pm CET Alliance and peer learning in four break–out groups of shared cases
3:55-4:00 pm CET Wrap-up and closure

We are looking forward to welcoming you on 20 March 2023!
If you have questions please contact Elli Tzatzanis-Stepanovic.
elli.stepanovic@ffg.at

[https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101056927]

Urban Living Labs: Experiments for designing radical urban transitions
2023-03-28 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Digital
Over the last decade, experimental approaches such as urban living labs have become widely spread across Europe and the world. Urban living labs (ULLs) are tools for transforming urban areas by engaging different publics, from local public administrations and residents, to businesses, NGOs, civil society organisations, and more. Experimental approaches like ULLs can facilitate the co-design of radical transitions towards greater liveability in urban areas. DUT invites urban living lab managers to join the workshop “Experiments for designing radical urban transitions” to exchange perspectives, experiences and ideas. You have the opportunity to share your insights about the requirements to take the big leaps forward towards sustainability and
liveability.
This workshop aims at providing a platform for urban living labs managers to connect, discuss and learn from each other. You will be identifying critical features, methodologies and aspects, which facilitate learning in and from urban living lab experiments. This includes identifying challenges, barriers and potentials for radical urban transformations. Additionally, we will discuss the essential conditions for ULLs such as funding requirements, open governance structures and understanding participatory and co-creative process designs for applying urban living labs designing (radical) urban transitions.
Registration closed.

Urban Lunch Talk #22 - Envisioning a sustainable future: When urban mobility is inclusive
2023-03-29 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Digital
The Urban Lunch Talk is open for all to join.
The webinar was recorded in Zoom, and published for the JPI Urban Europe’s Youtube channel.
Below, at the end of this page, you can register for the event in order to make sure being invited to upcoming Urban lunch talks and networking activities.
The mobility sector and urban planning play a decisive role in combating climate change as well as in guaranteeing healthy living conditions for citizens. However, access to mobility differ between geographical contexts and socio-economic groups. This Urban Lunch Talk discuss what this implies for equity and inclusion and ways forward to improve urban accessibility and mobility for all groups of society. Can participatory approaches ensure more inclusive city strategies and policies?
Welcome to a new episode of the Urban Lunch Talks series addressing Envisioning a Sustainable Future. The Urban Lunch Talks is an interactive webinar series to discuss and synthesize cross-cutting research- and innovation results with diverse stakeholders across Europe and beyond. This episode will start from two projects funded in the ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) call issued in 2020 which focused on measures to improve urban accessibility and connectivity for all groups of society while moving towards more sustainable urban mobility systems.
The discussion will evolve around visions, dilemmas, ways forward. Looking at the past, present and future: How inclusive was mobility 100 years ago or so, what is it now and what can it be like in the future? What needs to happen to unlock the full potential of the 15-minute city concept in terms of inclusiveness? Are there lessons from the past? How much depends on R&I? Can participatory approaches ensure more inclusive city strategies and policies?
Speakers
Dick Ettema, professor of Urban Accessibility and Social Inclusion in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning in Utrecht University, director of the Urban Futures research program and board member of the Focus Area ‘Sport & Society’. Dick Ettema is the coordinator of the COCOMO project financed in the ENUAC call.
Alexis Conesa, Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Geography and Land Planning, LIVE (Laboratoire Image Ville Environment) of Univesrity of Strasbourg – Unistra and scientific coordinator of the JUSTICE project financed in the ENUAC call.
Maximilian Jäger, expert for mobility innovations at AustriaTech, coordinates the 15-minute City Transition Pathway at the European partnership Driving Urban Transitions (DUT).
Natalie Whittle, a writer and editor based in Glasgow and author of the book The 15 Minute City – Global Change Through Local Living. Natalie also worked for 15 years at the Financial Times in London, where she held editing roles across the magazine and arts sections of FT Weekend.
Moderator: Caroline Wrangsten, Urban Planner SWECO

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.

ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity Joint Meeting & 15-minutes city Agora Strategic Dialogue
2023-05-15 - 2023-05-16 | Bucharest, Romania
By invitation only
Time: 15 – 16 May 2023 (Agora Strategic dialogue 17 May)
Place: Bucharest (Commons Unirii) and online (zoom-platform)
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 Joint ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) hybrid event is taking place in Bucharest and online between 15-16 May, combining a midterm-event for the first ENUAC projects that started in 2021 with the kick-off events for projects funded in the additional calls and starting in 2023. In total, this event will gather 27 projects. Back-to-back with this event we will organise a Strategic Agora Dialogue on the 15-minutes city topics on 17 May, click here for more information.
The purpose of this combined event is to provide an opportunity for projects funded in the three ENUAC calls to meet for knowledge sharing 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.
The meeting provides an opportunity for the project partners to meet and to share knowledge, introduce their project, engage in strategic discussions and networking. We expect 2-3 partners from each project to join the meeting.
The purpose of the joint event is to provide:

A forum for exchange for all projects within the ENUAC calls
Strategic discussions and exchange on impact assessment (mid-term)
Information about ENUAC communication and support activities and requirements for the coming years
A workshop with the team of the ACUTE, ENUAC Knowledge Hub
Reporting on your projects’ research so far (mid-term)
Foster consortia spirit and a sense of community
Networking

Target groups: Partners from ENUAC funded projects, representatives from JPI Urban Europe funding agencies and experts from ENUAC JPI Urban Europe long term cooperation partners.
Please note, we expect 2-3 representatives from each project to participate in the meeting.

Practical information – travel pack
For information about the meeting venue, travel and accomodation, please download the document Practical Info ENUAC Bucharest May 2023.
Program
The program will be subject for change, a detailed program will be available in coming weeks.
Time in EEST (CEST + 1hr)
Day 1 | Monday, 15 May 2023 | Setting the scene & Policy-related session (hybrid)
14.00 – 14.10 Welcome and warm-up for all participants
14.20 – 14.35 ENUAC’s Journey: vision & reached goals – Pascal Bain, ENUAC Coordinator, Head of Scientific Department “Physical Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry, Energy“, ANR
14.35 – 15.00 ENUAC embedded in the JPI Urban Europe and DUT 15min city priorities – Margit Noll, CEO Driving Urban Transitions Partnership, JPI Urban Europe
15.00 – 15.45 Break
15.45 – 17.00 ENUAC cities challenges in achieving the Cities Mission and the Global Urban Mission (panel)
17.00 – 17.45 How ENUAC solutions answer to the radical changes of the urban landscape (panel)
17.45 Wrap-up
19.00 Networking session and joint dinner – Linea/Closer to the Moon, Calea Victoriei 17, Bucharest, Romania
Day 2 | Tuesday, 16 May 2023 | Focus on the Projects (on site & hybrid) Meetings are taking place in parallel for each ENUAC initiative.
10.00 – 16.45 Parallel sessions (breaks included)
Kick-off event projects in ENUAC Sino-European call (Hybrid)
Kick-off event projects in ENUAC Innovation Action (on site)
ENUAC co-funded call projects Meeting (Hybrid)
13.30 Joint lunch break
14.30 Thematic Exchanges (world café)
16.00 Outcomes of the thematic exchanges and open discussion
16.30 Break
16.45 Joint Sessions (all projects): ENUAC outcomes and impact session (intro), Johannes Bockstefl, FFG
17.05 Interactive Workshop in plenary with all projects’ participants on site and online on impact
18.45 Wrap-up
19.00 Joint networking dinner with Agora participants – Commons Unirii – https://www.commons.work/unirii – Strada Halelor 5
Day 3 | Wednesday, 17 May 2023 | ‘15minC’ Agora Strategic Dialogue (on site)

10.00 On site visit (please find more information below)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Break
13.00 – 16.00 Agora Strategic dialogue with participants representing the broad 15-minutes city community with researchers and stakeholders from municipalities, business, civil society and European policy makers. Participants from ENUAC projects are welcome to join.
Click here for more information about the Agora Strategic Dialogue
Additional activities

On site visit
Proiectul Liniei – Largest linear park in Romania taking shape in Bucharest’s District 6
Part of the Integrated urban development program of District 6 Bucharest 2021 -2030 for connectivity and mobility

Project for the revitalization of Liniei street and Lujerului pedestrian passage

Bucharest’s District 6 is to have the largest linear park in Romania. Planned for the Militari neighbourhood, the new 4.2 km park has already started taking shape, with the first phase estimated to be completed this spring. Street, green pedestrian promenade, dedicated to alternative transport and commercial life, with above-ground passages, playgrounds, landscaping and facilities for outdoor sports activities for the whole family, places where children, parents and grandparents enjoy an active lifestyle.
According to the District 6 City Hall, the new Liniei Park will stretch over the former railway line on Liniei Street, abandoned for 20 years, which served several factories, and the adjacent land, over a width of 400 meters. It will have bike paths, basketball courts, a skatepark, a children’s playground, a dog area, a dry-deck fountain, hammocks, and beanbag chairs.

Romanian Design Week
The 11th edition of Romanian Design Week (RDW) 2023 will take place between 12-28 May at Amzei Market, Bucharest. Guided tours of the main exhibitions can be provided upon request for ENUAC participants.
During the past 10 years, Romanian Design Week has become the most complex event dedicated to the creative-cultural industries in Romania. The 2023 edition aims to identify and analyze the processes that generate innovation and give birth to truly remarkable projects. The main goal is to create the contexts and pretexts necessary to encourage and promote creative projects, revolving around concerns related to creative communities and their role in the development of cities, with a focus on multidisciplinary, collaboration and dialogue.
Click here for more information about the Romanian Design Week.

AGORA Thematic Dialogue: 15-minute City – a concept for all?
2023-05-16 - 2023-05-17 | Strada Halelor 5, București 030167, Romania, Romania
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.
Learning from local needs to tackle critical issues of urban mobility transitions
While providing an attractive narrative for urban mobility transition, 15-minute City concepts need to be specified further when focusing on implementation and adaptation in different contexts. Building on the experience and practice of Romanian cities taking part in the EU Cities Mission “Bucharest – District 2, Cluj-Napoca and Suceava”, we invite participants from policy, research, business and civil society to discuss local challenges and critical issues for 15-minute City approaches. We connect this AGORA event with the meeting of projects in the ERA-Net Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) and embed it in a framework programme offering attractive opportunities for engaging and networking around topics of urban mobility transition. Through the AGORA Dialogue, we want to start collaborating and co-creating on positions from policy and science towards proximity-oriented concepts and take these further in a position paper within the frame of the Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT).
Feel free to sign up for the workshop! We are looking forward to taking it further together with you!
On-site workshop and framework programme in Bucharest, 16 and 17 May 2023:

Joint dinner of ENUAC projects and AGORA participants:
16 May, 19.00-21.00 [EEST, local time]
Site visit for local implementation of 15minC measures:
17 May, 10:00-12:00 [EEST, local time]
Please find more information below
AGORA Dialogue:
17 May, 13:00-16:00 [EEST, local time]Location: Bucharest (Commons Unirii) – https://www.commons.work/unirii – Strada Halelor 5, București 030167, Romania

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 Driving Urban Transitions Partnership.
Combine practical exchange of experiences with a site visit and exciting discussions on the 15-minute City concept
Contribute to Driving Urban Transitions’ thematic priority development regarding 15-minute Cities

Practical information – travel pack
For information about the meeting venue, travel and accomodation, please download the document Practical Info ENUAC Bucharest May 2023.
On site visit
Proiectul Liniei – Largest linear park in Romania taking shape in Bucharest’s District 6
Part of the Integrated urban development program of District 6 Bucharest 2021 -2030 for connectivity and mobility

Project for the revitalization of Liniei street and Lujerului pedestrian passage

Bucharest’s District 6 is to have the largest linear park in Romania. Planned for the Militari neighbourhood, the new 4.2 km park has already started taking shape, with the first phase estimated to be completed this spring.
Street, green pedestrian promenade, dedicated to alternative transport and commercial life, with above-ground passages, playgrounds, landscaping and facilities for outdoor sports activities for the whole family, places where children, parents and grandparents enjoy an active lifestyle.
According to the District 6 City Hall, the new Liniei Park will stretch over the former railway line on Liniei Street, abandoned for 20 years, which served several factories, and the adjacent land, over a width of 400 meters. It will have bike paths, basketball courts, a skatepark, a children’s playground, a dog area, a dry-deck fountain, hammocks, and beanbag chairs.
