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.

ESF Meeting Vienna 2 June 2023
2023-06-02 | Vienna

Designing inclusive and engaging hybrid workshop formats
2023-07-20 14:00 - 17:00 UTC | Karlsruhe/Germany and online
The Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural change (KAT at KIT) and the Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) invite you to the workshop Designing inclusive and engaging hybrid workshop formats with specific focus on urban transformation. The workshop will be held on 20th of July 2023 at 2 PM CEST. Since the workshop will take place in a hybrid form, you will have the chance to participate either onsite in Karlsruhe/Germany at KIT-ITAS or online.
Find more information and register for the event here.

This workshop is designed for stakeholders in the field of urban transformation with diverse background (e.g. researchers, professional facilitators, practitioners, public administration,) who are interested in creating effective and engaging workshops that combine both in-person and remote participation. With a particular emphasis on urban transformation, we will explore how hybrid workshops can be used to drive positive change in cities and communities.

ACUTE / UERA TWG Urban Accessibility and Connectivity: Research Seminar
2023-10-11 09:00 - 18:00 UTC | Antwerp (Belgium), Belgium
Accessibility and Connectivity of the 15-minute-city
ACUTE / UERA TWG Urban Accessibility and Connectivity
Scientific seminar, open to practitioners
11 October 2023 9.00 am – 6.00 pm in Antwerp (Belgium)
Within the framework of the ACUTE (Accessibility and Connectivity knowledge hub for Urban Transformation in Europe) and UERA TWG Urban Accessibility and Connectivity, a seminar will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, with a particular interest given to the issues of accessibility and connectivity, especially in the context of 15-minute-city urban model, for both goods and people.
The contributors from academia and practice are invited to orally present their projects, discuss them and share their latest results and methods within the fields of Accessibility and Connectivity of the 15-minute-city:

Accessibility as a long-term academic and operational concept
15-minute-city as a renewal of accessibility planning approaches with temporal urbanism
15-minute city or X-minute city in the suburbs
The social dimension in the design and implementation of the 15-minute city
Accessibility and sustainable mobility, the transport modes of the 15-min-city
Inclusive design and development of 15-min-cities

Click here for more information, agenda and registration.
The registration is open until 06/10/2023.

Joint Mid-term and Kick-off Event for ENUTC and BTC calls followed by Agora Dialogue
2023-11-08 14:00 - 2023-11-10 13:00 UTC
November 8–10, participants from both ERA-NET Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) calls, including the Building Transformation Call (BTC), will gather in Delft in The Netherlands for inspiration and mutual exchange, onsite and online. Projects from the co-funded call will meet for their mid-term event, and the projects who are to be selected for the BTC call will see each other for a kick-off. Wednesday afternoon the funding agencies will meet for a Consortium meeting, and there will be a possibility for the projects to meet up separately. Thursday will be dedicated to the joint mid-term and kick-off event, and Friday morning will revolve around a Strategic Agora Dialogue, onsite in The Hague. The days will revolve around the theme of the new call – what art and design mean for urban transformation.

Purpose
Project partners in the co-funded call will meet for a mid-term gathering, and the projects who are to be selected for the BTC call will meet for kicking off together. Project partners from both calls are jointly invited to participate for inspiration and mutual exchange.
The purpose of the joint event is to:

provide a forum for exchange for all projects within the ENUTC calls,
have strategic discussions and exchange on impact assessment (mid-term),
inform about ENUTC communication, support activities and requirements for the coming years
report on your projects’ research so far (mid-term),
foster consortia spirit and a sense of community, and
networking.

The Strategic Agora dialogue will include in-depth conversations and a wider spectrum of participants.
Aim
The event will facilitate exchange and community building among the projects and their project partners, support measures for projects to strengthen communication and impact creation, and inform about formal requirements on monitoring and reporting, and guidelines and support activities. The event will also connect the projects to a wider stakeholder community.
For whom
Project coordinators and project partners are invited to the joint mid-term and kick-off event, as well as the Strategic Agora Dialogue. In order to build a multi-stakeholder community for the ENUTC, project partners from municipalities, business, local communities and research are encouraged to participate in both events.
Please note, 2-3 representatives from each project are expected to participate in the meeting.
Dates
November 8: Funding agencies will meet for a Consortium meeting (agenda is sent out separately). We encourage projects to join us already on the Wednesday for registration which will be open from 1 pm, and we may help out finding a location to host a project meeting. The Consortium meeting (only funding agencies) ends with a mingle activity, and a toast will be given at 5 pm – projects are welcome to mingle.
November 9: The joint mid-term and the kick-off will start on the Thursday, onsite and online as a hybrid event. The day will end with a social activity.
9.00–10.00 Registration
10.00–10.30 Introduction
– Michael Creek, moderator
– Alexandre Torres, online moderator
– Esther van der Wel, NWO
– Marcus van Leeuwen, SIA
– Alberto Pozza, EC
– Kristina Laurell, Formas
– Ann Maudsley, Formas
10.30–12.00 Projects mingle & presentations
12.00–12.45 Lunch
12.45–13.30 Guided tours, Green village
13.30–15.15 Parallel sessions (including fika)
– Urban living labs, Ulrike Stroissnig, FFG
– Public infrastructure for change, Rianne Melik, ILIT
– Inclusive citizen urban transformation, Isabel Ruiz, Coolschools
15.15–16.00 Communication spot: Make social social again
– Sophia Koistinen, Formas
16.00–16.15 Closing remarks and connecting to Driving Urban Transitions
– Kristina Laurell, Formas
– Ann Maudsley, Formas
16.15 BTC projects q/a (15–30 minutes)
– Ann Maudsley, Formas
– Elena Simion, UEFISCDI
19.00 Dinner
November 10: The Strategic Agora Dialogue, only onsite, will take place in the morning on the Friday, ending with a lunch together. The purpose is to discuss further what art and design mean for urban transformation, accompanied by exciting projects.
9.00–10.00 Registration
10.00–13.00 Agora dialogue about involving art and design for urban transformation
– Dramalabs (Contra)
– Susdesign
– Soundtrackcity
13.00 Lunch
Locations
The joint mid-term and kick-off hybrid event will be located in Delft in The Netherlands at The Green Village, Van den Broekweg 4. The Strategic Agora Dialogue, which will be only onsite, will be arranged in The Hague, Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 300.
Registration
Registration per invitation is closed.
Please, see the information package via e-mail. Instruction for preparations is e-mailed to project coordinators.

Crafting Tomorrow: The Power of Arts & Design in urban transformation
2023-11-10 09:30 - 14:00 UTC | NWO The Hague (Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 300, 2593 CE The Hague). Further information: https://www.nwo.nl/en/how-reach-nwo-hague
AGORA Thematic Dialogue
Join us on our transformative journey in our AGORA workshop, where we explore the intersection of arts and design with urban transformation to find new, innovative solutions for urban areas in Europe. We will showcase inspirational projects funded and supported by ENUTC in JPI Urban Europe, an initiative of the Urban Doers Community within the Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT), and more. The workshop is a call to action, inviting participants to start thinking about the integration of arts and design into their steps towards a sustainable future. By showcasing the impactful role of arts and design, we aim to inspire participants to envision a future where urban transformation is synonymous with ecological responsibility and enhanced quality of life for all.
What can you expect from your participation in the AGORA Dialogue?

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

Timeplan:
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee & welcome
10:00 – 13:00 AGORA workshop
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch for all participants
Target group for the workshop: Representatives of public administrations, non-governmental and grassroots initiatives, creative and cultural sectors, urban policy makers on various levels, representatives of business and companies, research and innovation community and all urban change makers working in the field of urban transitions.
For questions and more information, contact ulrike.stroissnig@ffg.at
Register for the AGORA Thematic Dialogue
Registration closed.

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

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

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

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

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

The registration is closed!

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

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

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

Blog entry
Documentation

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

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

Registration closed.

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

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

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

Agenda
Possible changes may occur

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

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

Hotel recommendations
Hotels close to ANR (in pdf)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Register here

Program

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

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

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

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

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

Jenny Kornmacher, Innovations Director, EIT Culture & Creativity

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

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

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

Susanne Thurén, Strategic Urban Development, Umeå, Sweden

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

Johannes Riegler, Management Board Member, Driving Urban Transitions

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

Mapping of Circular Urban Economy Cases across Europe – Results Webinar
2024-06-04 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna)
The webinar will delve into results from a comprehensive mapping of best-practice cases of circular urban economies in European cities.
Experts from consultancy firm Sweco Sweden and Belgium led the data collection process concerning practical experiences in circular urban transitions. Together with other experts, they will provide insights into the structured outline of this mapping project, including the bottom-up, Power BI-driven methodology used to collect and compile circular urban economy cases.
Additionally, the webinar will allow space to delve deeper into specific aspects of the topic at hand and interact directly with a panel of urban circularity experts.
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