JPI Urban Europe

Making Cities Work projects kick-off meeting
2019-02-13 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Norway House @ Rue Archimède 17, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
JPI Urban Europe invites all projects funded in the Making Cities Work call to a projects kick-off meeting in Brussels on 13 February 2019 starting with a joint dinner the evening before.
The meeting provides an opportunity for the projects to discuss common challenges, shareideas, inspire and be inspired. They will also get useful information and a sense of the JPI Urban Europe community.

Invitation & Programme

Workshop: ETIP SNET - High level talks among energy systems related initiatives
2019-03-14 | Leopold Hotel, Rue du Luxembourg 35, Brussels, 1050, Belgium
Leveraging the clean energy technologies potential through integration into an efficient system.
The ETIP SNET has issued the document “VISION 2050 – Integrating Smart Networks for the Energy Transition: Serving Society and Protecting the Environment” which considers the long term development towards a full decarbonisation of the energy system in 2050 by digitalization and coupling of all energy carriers. This vision will be the common background around which to develop the workshop discussions.
The players of these high level talks are the European technologies and Innovation Platforms (ETIPs) of the SET Plan as well as PPPs, with particular reference to those that deal with more closely to the integration (e.g. SNET, RHC, SCC, Biofuels, PV, Wind, Ocean energy, DHC, Geothermal, H2 etc.) as well as innovation initiatives at European level (Set Plan IWGs, PPPs, EERA, ERANet etc.) and international institutions and initiatives (IEA, Mission Innovation).
Read more and register here.

RSU Conference 2019 - PLACES: Challenges and Agendas in the Age of Uncertainties
2019-04-02 | Riga, Latvia
PLACES is an international conference which invites representatives of various social sciences to reflect upon global challenges for science, political, judicial, economic and communication environment in the age of global uncertainties.
Since decades science reflects on everlasting transformations of social spaces, its growing plurality and uncertainties which exist at various levels, starting from individual identities in the postmodern diversity, growing beyond conventional borders of social groups, nations and states. What and where are places in which changes take place? Who and how transform places, work to restore, threaten or rethink places where collective identities take place?
Questions of durability of various explanatory paradigms produced by social sciences arise. Are social sciences still capable of anticipating future challenges? Can social sciences explain rapid growth of populism and spreading disinterest in democracy across Europe? How is international legislation being merged with growing skepticism towards inclusive role of the EU? How can we resist control of mass media and abuse of social media by unclear global capital aligned with political populism? Is there still a place for social activism in the totality of consumerism?
These and many other topical issues indicate rapidity of changes unseen in the previous centuries, thus producing reality, which is far too vibrant to be explained in longue duree tempo which dominated social sciences in the previous century. Is there a crisis in the social sciences? What impact has global fluidity and intense networking of on-line and off-line realities on explanatory potential of the social sciences? Are we, scientists, losing our capacities? How and what should be transformed in scientific process? How is an increased automatization and digitalization impacting business and societies? How governments can respond to growing economic imbalances and how to improve economic policies?
PLACES aims at capturing glimpses of rapid global changes and will each year choose a global topic to reflect upon it in details. We plan a special issue in one of the Baltics related journals which would keep the content of the debates available for wider audience.

ERA NET Smart Cities and communities Final event
2019-04-02 10:00 - 18:00 UTC
Registration for the ERA NET Smart Cities and communities (ENSCC) Final Event on the 2nd of April.
Invitation Only.
The registration for this event has closed. If you still wish to sign up, contact klara.broms.seving@iqs.se.

Workshop: TRANS-FORM: Smart transfers through unravelling urban form and travel flow dynamics
2019-04-04 09:00 - 18:00 UTC | EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
The consortium of an European (ENSCC funded) project “TRANS-FORM: Smart transfers through unravelling urban form and travel flow dynamics” will hold a workshop as we approach the end of this project, which will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland on 4 April, 2019.
The workshop aims at having an interactive discussion on the public transport system operations between researchers and stakeholders. We will have three keynotes (one from science and two from industry) and sessions for discussion as well as presentations of scientific outcomes by the consortium members.
Registration: Free. Please send e-mail by February 28 (Subject: TF Workshop)
More information: http://www.trans-form-project.org/index.php/workshop/
Contact
Yuki Oyama, EPFL: yuki.oyama@epfl.ch
Documents
Invitation Final Event TRANS FORM

The Smart City Guidance Package: the way foward!
2019-05-08 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99, Bruxelles, 1000, Belgium
The objective of the event is to launch the Smart City Guidance Package (SCGP) by presenting the results of the work led by the Integrated Planning, Policy and Regulations Action Cluster of the EIP-SCC in order to provide public authorities of cities and communities, as well as non-governmental actors, with the necessary support for planning and managing smart city projects.
In the initiative “From Planning to Implementation and Upscaling of Smart City Projects” cities, industry, NGO’s and knowledge partners collaborate on the exchange of experiences in the integrated planning and implementation of smart city projects, and their upscaling and replication afterwards to achieve the urban transition to smart and sustainable cities on an increasing scale across Europe.
The Smart City Guidance Package (SCGP) wants to support this exchange so other urban stakeholders can benefit from what has already been done by others. It offers inspiration and guides urban stakeholders by bundling experiences and best practices of cities working on ambitious smart city strategies and projects.
Agenda: The Smart City Guidance Package
Register here

Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas Projects Kick-off Meeting
2019-05-20 | Norwegian Research Council, Drammensveien 288, Oslo, Norway
JPI Urban Europe invites all actors involved in the Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas call to a Projects Kick-off Meeting in Oslo on 20 May 2019 with the possibility to attend the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures Call (ENSUF) Midterm Event taking place the following day, 21 May.
Invitation only.
For any questions, please contact the JPI Urban Europe Events Secretariat:
Klara Broms Seving:
klara.broms.seving@iqs.se, +46 708 96 32 78

ENSUF Midterm Event
2019-05-21 | Norwegian Research Council, Drammensveien 288, Oslo, Norway
JPI Urban Europe invites all actors involved in the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures Call (ENSUF) to a Midterm Event in Oslo on 21 May 2019.
Invitation only.
For any questions, please contact the JPI Urban Europe Events Secretariat:
Klara Broms Seving:
klara.broms.seving@iqs.se, +46 708 96 32 78

Urban Future Global Conference
2019-05-22 - 2019-05-24 | Oslo, Norway
JPI Urban Europe are next year an academic partner to Europe’s biggest event on how to make cities more sustainable! With more than 50 sessions on urban mobility, built environment, green business & innovation and leadership as well as numerous field trips in and around Oslo this is one of the signature events of Oslo European Green Capital 2019.
Read more and get your ticket here.

The Nature of Cities Summit
2019-06-04 - 2019-06-07 | The Sorbonne, Paris
A first-ever gathering of The Nature of Cities community where thought leaders from communities of practice, policy, and academia come together to discuss the nature of cities—green cities that are better for people and nature. The TNOC Summit will be a gathering unlike any before in its commitment to convening diverse voices and actors in support of propelling a movement for collaborative green cities.

Read more here.

Save the date: Final conference for PARENT (PARticipatory platform for sustainable Energy managemenT)
2019-06-04 08:00 - 2019-06-05 17:00 UTC | Brussels
The PARENT project (PARticipatory platform for sustainable Energy managemenT) is a citizen-oriented research project empowering people to reduce their electricity consumption through energy monitoring, collaboration and information exchange. The project operates in Brussels, Amsterdam and Bergen. Have a look at the project’s website: http://www.parent-project.eu/
Some of the participants may be very familiar with theproject, having participated in the pilot or the steering committee. With others the project participants have struck up conversations along the way to exchange ideas on how to foster sustainable (behavioural) change in an urban context. A final few may be hearing about the PARENT project for the very first time.
The final conference of the project will take place in Brussels on Tuesday 4 June and Wednesday 5 June 2019. Whether you are an interested citizen, activist, politician, public administrator, entrepreneur or academic, we invite you to join our sessions on sustainability, technology and collaboration in Brussels.

Tuesday (afternoon) 4 June: exchange of practices among sustainability city initiatives
Tuesday (evening) 4 June: cocktail reception with project participants and politicians
Wednesday (morning) 5 June: citizen workshops on smart, sustainable and collaborative city

Please save the date, and feel free to share this message with others.
More information and a registration form will follow in due course.

PARENT is a JPI Urban Europe funded project within the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Cities and Communities call.
Read more about the conference

Webinar: Urban Lunch Talk #5 Towards Positive Energy Districts – Defining a framework
2019-06-07 09:00 - 22:00 UTC
Discussions on defining a PED framework are very much in focus, since there are several European-wide approaches towards the topic (as can be seen in the Booklet of Positive Energy Districts in Europe). A PED framework needs to cover cities’ actual needs and challenges, deal with conflicting targets, be precise enough to set up clear implementation strategies and at the same time be wide enough to include different local or regional pre-conditions for PEDs across the continent. Last but not least: How does it relate to integrated urban strategies or climate targets?
The Urban Lunch Talk provides an overview of approaches and encourages participants to engage in a discussion on a PED framework.
MODERATOR:
Margit Noll, Chair of MB JPI Urban Europe/FFG
PANELLISTS:
Hans-Günther Schwarz, Chair of SET Plan Action 3.2/BMVIT

Annemie Wyckmans, Chair of EERA JPSC/NTNU
Petra Schöfmann, Expert Energy Center/Urban Innovation Vienna
Participants from anywhere in the world who will join the conversation through the chat room, polls and Q&A sessions.

Join the webinar on Friday, 7 June at 09.00-10.00 CEST by clicking here.

Placemaking Week Europe 2019
2019-06-12 - 2019-06-15 | Valencia, Spain
Placemaking Week Europe 2019 is Europe’s biggest conference and festival celebrating the impact of placemaking on the urban fabric. Approximately 400 placemakers, a diverse mixture of professionals working on creating a better public space and city at eye level, will meet in Valencia from June 12th-15th. A variety of placemakers, politicians, civil servants, developers, big and small companies will share best practices, create new knowledge in interactive workshops, accelerate existing and new projects and celebrate the growing contribution of placemaking in creating better cities.
During the four days of activities, placemakers from all over Europe and beyond will not just share their own stories. Together we’ll spend part of the conference, learning from, and working with local challenges in La Marina as well as in and around the city of Valencia. They will be testing, adapting and implementing placemaking tools for future use.
Placemaking Week Europe 2019 is a unique way to get to know professional peers and the city of Valencia through the lense of placemaking.
This year Placemaking Week will revolve around five main topics:
1) Placemaking for Innovation
2) Creative Bureaucracy
3) Open-source sharing from placemaking practice
4) Future-proof cities through placemaking
5) Waterfront cities

Placemaking Week Europe 2019 is organized by La Marina de Valencia, STIPO and the European Placemaking Network with the special collaboration of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival. Click here to know more about the organizers and how to become a member of the European Placemaking Network!
Programme and registration

AESOP Annual Congress 2019
2019-07-09 - 2019-07-13 | Venice
The annual congresses are a wide platform of exchange in the fields of research, education and practice in planning. This year, the congress invites scholars and practitioners to reflect on the theme Planning for Transition.

Contemporary cities and territories face significant challenges – natural disasters due to climate change impacts, ecological crises, growing socio-economic unrest, global migration, political rifts including a rise of right wing factions, ambitious public works and mega-projects – all of which require new capacities in dealing with such individual and multiple groupings of such challenging and profound changes.
The congress invites scholars and practitioners to present and discuss case-studies of cities and projects that have engaged in meeting challenging situations – supporting transitions in urban contexts. Specifically, it is aimed at offering an understanding of the forms of knowledge, concepts, tools, and skills needed to plan and address transition. Furthermore, it seeks to explore whether (and how) managing such changes has brought any overall reconsideration of the city design model and towards more general institutional reconfigurations.
The LOOPER consortium will be hosting a special session during the event with the topic of learning loops in co-creation to improve public spaces in cities focusing on the use of participatory sensing to identify problems and online and offline participation tools for co-creation in multiple domains (transport, air pollution, urban design).

Read more and register here

OpenLivingLab Days 2019
2019-09-02 - 2019-09-05 | Concert Hall M2, Thessaloniki, Greece
OpenLivingLab Days (OLLD) is the annual gathering of the global Living Lab community. A space for public officials, companies, entrepreneurs, academics, living lab representatives, and innovators to connect and work together: to create new products and services, to set the basis for debate and exploration of theories, and to discuss and process policy recommendations within the practical elements of open and user-driven innovation. Through interactive panel discussions, hands-on workshops with leading experts and site visits to our local partners, OLLD offers an exclusive networking and knowledge sharing experience.

Join Living Labs, companies, public officials, policy makers, researchers, non-profits and entrepreneurs to:

Explore co-creation methodologies, tools and best practices
Meet new partners for consortium building and set-up transnational experimentation grounds
Transform markets by engaging citizens in co-creating products and services
Find potential experimentation & test environments

JPI Urban Europe will host a workshop called “After Urban Living Labs“, on Wednesday September 4, at 2pm in Room “Museum”. You can read about it here!

More information about the OpenLivingLabs Days

The Bucharest Urban Climate Summer School (BUCSS) 2019
2019-09-02 08:00 - 2019-09-06 17:00 UTC
The Bucharest Urban Climate Summer School (BUCSS) 2019 aims to provide structured information and skill-building capabilities related to urban climate monitoring, modelling, ecology and bio-meteorology, and it is tailored towards hands-on experiences on:
1. Modelling tools used in urban meteorology and climatology
2. Urban ecology as an instrument for adaptation to climate change challenges in cities
3. Exploring critical linkages among environmental factors and emerging and chronic health threats and health disparities
The summer school is primarily intended for doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers who already have basic knowledge and interest for urban climate issues. Basic skills in climate studies, climate
modelling, programming and statistics is required.
The summer school takes place from September 2-6, 2019, in Bucharest (Romania) and it is jointly organised by Research Institute of University of Bucharest (ICUB), Ghent University (Belgium), University of Bochum (Germany), Romanian Association for Applied Meteorology and Education (Romania).
One may apply to attend BUCSS 2019 by e-mailing to the address svmp@icub.unibuc.ro the following: a) 2-page CV; b) 1-page letter of motivation; c) names, affiliation, e-mails and phone numbers of two professors or senior researchers who could provide references.
The deadline for submitting your application is 10 July 2019. More information and details can be found at
BUCSS2019.

Making Cities Work Conference
2019-09-06 - 2019-09-11 | Brussels
Making Cities Work is a series of events, from 6-11 September 2019, aimed at contributing to new ways of thinking about the urban economy.
How can alliances of policy makers, citizens, entrepreneurs and civil society organisations contribute to a more social and sustainable economy? How can we counter the socio-economic polarisation within European cities and regions and, as a matter of course, integrate climate protection measures and practices into economic practices? How can innovation be more inclusive?
Cosmopolis – Center of Urban Research, Building Brussels and Cities of Making present the Foundational Economy and a well-founded vision of what 21st century cities should be manufacturing within the socio-ecological transition of the urban economy.
The Making Cities Work days will end with the JPI Urban Europe financed project Cities of Making final event on the 11th of September.
Topics:
Foundational Economy
The foundational economy covers those branches of the economy that provide the infrastructures and services of everyday life. These include the universal basic goods and services that every citizen needs, such as food, housing, utilities. As such, productive and related sectors such as food, logistics, construction, health care and various other sectors deserve a renewed attention from scholars and policy makers alike.
Urban Manufacturing
Manufacturing – the transformation at scale of physical goods through labour or technology – has traditionally concentrated around cities. Only recently, as many European cities find themselves with a dwindeling manufacturing sector, are questions being asked about what kinds of manufacturing needs cities and what city needs are answered by manufacturing.
Read more about the events, register and find the agenda here.

International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019
2019-09-10 - 2019-09-13 | Wallenberg Conference Centre at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
The aim of this conference, Joining Forces for Change, is to bring together actors from different professional mandates, disciplines and sectors to engage and discuss practical examples and case studies that approach societal transformation through boundary breaking collaboration. The conference invites practitioners and researchers from government and administrative organisations and agencies, interest groups from community and business, and researchers and students from across the university. The overall focus is on what we can learn from our collaborative experiences, case studies and practices regarding wider societal transformation, methodological innovations and theoretical development. We will specifically search for “sites for change” in terms of spaces, practices and learnings where TD research and co-production play a crucial role.
Learn more about the conference and register here.

Cities of Making Final Event
2019-09-11 | perspective.brussels, Rue de Namur 59, Brussels, Belgium
Cities of Making is a European project exploring the topic and urban manufacturing and the question of what European cities should be making in the 21st century. On the 11th of September, partners from Brussels, London and Rotterdam will showcase results of 2,5 years of work.
The final event is part of Making Cities Work, a series of events from 6-11 September 2019, aimed at contributing to new ways of thinking about the urban economy.
The project, Cities of Making is part of the JPI Urban Europe ERANET Cofund Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF) Call.
Read more about the event and register here.

Sustainable Built Environment Conference - Transition Towards a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment
2019-09-11 - 2019-09-14 | Graz University of Technology, Kronesgasse 5, 8010, Graz, Austria
The SBE19 Graz conference is part of a major international series of conferences that focuses on sustainable buildings and construction. The series was launched by the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) and the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) more than ten years ago, and these partners were subsequently joined by the Sustainable Building and Climate Initiative (SBCI) of UN Environment, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) and the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GABC).
The series, now on a three-year cycle, has become recognized as the world’s preeminent conference series in this important field. The series consists of a first year of planning, followed by a series of regional conferences in the second year, and culminating in a global event during the third year. In 2019, SBE19 Graz will be one of the regional conferences, while the global conference World Sustainable Built Envoronment Conference (WSBE2020) will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2020.
The thematic umbrella of the WSBE2020 will be the United Nations SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (UN SDGs). SBE19 Graz will be organized in thematic line with this conference. In addition, a focus should be put on approaches for implementation of sustainable developments. Graz University of Technology is going to host this conference in co-operation with University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna and for the first time internationally with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and ETH Zürich.
Read more about the conference and agenda

European Research and Innovation Days
2019-09-24 - 2019-09-26 | Brussels
European Research and Innovation Days is the first annual policy event of the European Commission, bringing together stakeholders to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape.
Speakers will include ministers, commissioners, members of European Parliament, researchers, as well as surprise guests each day.
Learn more about the event here.

Webinar Urban Lunch Talk #6: From Project Partners to Synergy Soulmates
2019-09-27 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Paris)
EDIT: The recording is available on our Youtube channel!
What if integrated approaches and cross-fertilization of issues were made key in urban transformation? How can public authorities and research actors together break out of silos-thinking, and maximize the outcome for the innovation ecosystem that they are part of? What added values are shaped when projects and their partners work synergy effects? For whom, how? The recording is available on our Youtube channel!

Welcome to a webinar about using integrated approaches as a key in urban transformation. We will discuss how for example city authorities can partner in ways that has long term and cross-cutting impact on the state of the city. We look into how integrating a wide range of projects and issues can create valuable synergy effects, both between projects and between projects and their surrounding environments and stakeholders.
Urban transitions and sustainable urban development involve many different (sub)targets, which tend to result in strategies or actions pursued in parallel or disconnected from each other. While some targets support each other, others conflict across administrative departments, sectors, or societal groups. The global achievements of the UN Agenda 2030 SDGs, and the implementation of the Paris Agreement raise several questions on ways of organizing and operating in order to reach targets on time. Both agendas serve a strong urban dimension and assert that ideally, urban synergetics should underpin liveable and just cities.
Meet…

Joe Ravetz is Co-Director of the Collaboratory for Urban Resilience & Energy at the Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester. He has pioneered the art of strategic thinking for sustainable cities and regions, which brings together environment-climate policy, urban planning and design, new economics and governance, innovation and futures studies, systems thinking and complexity science. With a background as an architect, planner and development manager, he is also a creative graphic facilitator and foresight trainer. Joe works with the LOOPER Living Labs which serve as new models for experimental design and innovation at the urban and community level. They can address practical problems such as air quality, road safety, noise, crime or greenspace and are based on the involvement of stakeholders, continuous monitoring of changes and direct consideration of their impact on the implementation process. There are Living Labs in Brussels, Manchester and Verona. The project is part of the JPI Urban Europe ENSUF call. Joe covers material featured in these slides in his talk:
– Joe’s talk props
Joke Quintens (@jokequintens) is a “transitioneur”, former deputy Mayor in the city of Genk, passionate co-creater, matchmaker and facilitator. Joke lives and works in Marseille (France) and in Living Lab Moving Marseille, she uses the city as a laboratory to learn, but also to connect people and projects inside and outside Marseille. She shares stories about sustainable transitions and the challenges of participation and co-creation in workshops, writings, interviews, talks and other exchanges. She practices “Making City Together” as an expert in participatory policies and as a Wetopia ambassador, with a first Wetopia Academy to be set up in Cape Town in October:
“Dreams of a Wetopian Society”
Open Desgin Afrika: Wetopia
Twenty Thirty
Adrian Hill is a researcher, designer and planner. He is interested in participatory oriented projects that are built around governance, strategic communication and local economies. Adrian has worked across a range of issues including urban sustainability, mobility, agriculture, eco-systems management, renewable energy networks, industry and material cycles. Most recently he has been focusing on urban manufacturing and industrial symbiosis. Adrian is based in Brussels and is the cofounder of the OSMOS Network, a collaborator with LATITUDE platform and the coordinator of the JPI Urban Europe financed project Cities of Making through the ENSUF call. The link to the stakeholder management approach that Adrian uses can be found here and the images he presented in the talk here:
– Adrian’s talk props
Marcelline Bonneau (@ResiliaSolution) links theory and practices on sustainable and just cities, grassroots activities and strategic ones, the local and EU levels. She has been working on projects for societal transition of city administration via the URBACT networks (REFILL, MAPS, BioCanteens) in order to support integrated governance processes via peer to peer learning amongst EU cities. She is an URBACT Programme Expert, an expert to the UIA Antwerp Circular South project and an UrbanA Fellow. Marcelline researches and experiments on the interaction between city administrations and citizens’ initiatives in Brussels (VILCO). You can take part of her publications on social innovation in cities at URBACT and Routlegde.
– Marcelline’s talk props
E-mail: marcelline@resilia-solutions.eu
Participants from anywhere in the world who will join the conversation through the chat room, polls and Q&A sessions. Previous Urban Lunch Talks have attracted visitors from more than twenty different countries, representing urban administration and public authorities, research community, business representatives and civil society.
Host: Caroline Wrangsten, Urban geographer and Assistant Project manager in JPI Urban Europe.
Rapporteur: Jonas Bylund (@urbanalys) Research and Innovation Officer in JPI Urban Europe. We will enjoy a wrap up and a meta-reflection from Jonas who will link the talk outcomes to the purposes of JPI Urban Europe’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and dilemma-driven approaches to urban research and innovation. Jonas refers to the following two images in his speech:

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Urban and regional transition in widening countries and lagging regions: knowledge, tools and platforms for mutual learning and exchange
2019-10-09 16:30 - 18:00 UTC | Square – Brussels Convention Centre – 311+312, Mont des Arts, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
At the European Week of Regions and Cities, the European Commission, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and JPI Urban Europe will organize a session with focus on Urban and regional transitions in Widening countries and lagging regions and the best way they can be supported through smart specialisation and transnational cooperation.
JPI Urban Europe has the aim to establish long-term policy relations and support urban transitions in and with Widening Countries and Europe’s Outermost Regions by engaging (urban) actors, practitioners, decision makers in its activities.Something which is in foucs in our EXPAND II project that aims at mobilising national communities of urban actors of Widening Countries and to be the platform to create, combine, discuss and make available knowledge and robust evidence for urban transition. With cases from the Azores, Cyprus, Romania and more Widening countries and regions, we hope for a fruitful discussion and sharing of knowledge!
AGENDA
16:30 Welcome and setting the scene
Speaker: Magda DE CARLI, Head of Unit, European Research Area and Country Intelligence, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission, Karel Haegeman, Joint Research Centre, Sevilla (ES)
A selection of four territorial case studies from Widening Countries and Lagging Regions will focus on reflections on the key requirements for urban transitions: the particular conditions, the difficulties, which support activities would be beneficial (R&I support, networks, funding, etc.) More concretely, the session will focus on the following questions:

How to mobilise cities and urban actors for urban transitions? How to connect them to other regions/cities? Which benefits, conditions and requirements of stakeholder engagement do exist in Widening Countries?
How to mobilise national R&I programmes to engage transnationally? What are barriers and opportunities? What are the benefits, conditions and requirements of funding bodies to join transnational programmes and partnerships?
What are the benefits, conditions and requirements of policy support measures? How can RIS3 implementation at regional and city level be supported through transregional cooperation, transnational ideation (entrepreneurial discovery) and project development (in development labs)?

To this end, cases from 4 different territories will be presented:
16:40 Targeted support to RIS3 implementation in the city of Bucharest and Ilfov region (JRC STRIVE in collaboration with the European Parliament and DG REGIO)
Speaker: Catalina Udrea, Regional Development Agency, Bucharest – Ilfov, Planning Department
16:50 JPI Urban Europe’s approach to Widening Countries and build capacities for urban transitions in science and policy (EXPAND II project)
Speaker: Natalia SA. Silva, Regional Fund for Science and Technology of the Azores
17:00 Support to ideation and project development of innovative ideas in an international context for Centro region (PT) (JRC STRIVE in collaboration with the European Parliament and DG REGIO)
Speaker: Ana Abrunhosa, President of CDRC – Centro Region
17:10 RISE.eu (H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TEAMING PHASE 2)
Speaker: Professor Giorgos Chrysanthou University of Cyprus (UCY), Research Director of RISE
17:20 Discussion: How to get engaged and use ongoing networking and support options for Widening Countries and Lagging Regions. Panel discussion with DG RTD (RISE), JRC (STRIVE) and JPI Urban Europe (EXPAND II)
17:50 Closing words Magda De Carli

Read more and register here.

Sharing Cities Summit Sweden
2019-10-10 08:00 - 2019-10-11 17:00 UTC | Lund and Malmö, Sweden
Sharing Cities Sweden is organising a conference and exhibition on exploring the role of sharing cities in advancing the sustainable development goals.
Save the date 10-11 October 2019 and stay tuned for more information soon!
Please register interest to attend the event by using this form and receive further information.
For questions, please contact Kes McCormick.

Webinar Urban Lunch Talk #7: From Test to Success
2019-10-18 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
EDIT: Listen to the recording of the webinar on our Youtube channel, here.
Welcome to a webinar about Urban Living Labs 2.0. What does “success” mean in the context of urban experimentation and Urban Living Labs (and how do you get there in practice?) Can Urban Living Lab approcahes be tools for capacity building on wicked issues? It is time to make the investment in Urban Living Labs more sustainable and the learning more integrated.
Urban Living Labs have over the recent decade become a common type of co-creative experimentation, offering us the opportunity to research and innovate on a wide variety of challenges in everyday setting and test hypotheses and elements to pathways for making transitions towards urban sustainable living. Europe seems particularly a hotspot for this approach. A typical Urban Living Lab will run for as long as a project (usually three years) and after this period data is collected, results are drawn together, a summary is written and, in some situations, changes in the wider urban context happen. However, mounting concern by practice, innovators, and research is that this last step is too rare and after the project funding stops there is little systematic integration of any of the practical outputs. Is it really about “scaling up” successful results, or rather about “scaling across”? In sum, the intended and potential contribution by Urban Living Labs to urban transformation seems unfulfilled. In this webinar we explore going beyond Urban Living Labs towards a different paradigm offered by Living Labs 2.0…

How can cities, innovators and researchers best synthesize and make use of results from many different successful test beds, labs and urban experimenting?
Can Urban Living Lab approcahes be tools for capacity building on wicked issues?
How might we integrate Urban Living Labs approaches into the DNA of Urban Governance? Should we?

Bring your knowledge, projects and concerns to this webinar. Participate and exchnage in the chat, Q&A and polls.

Meet…

Claire Gordon is a Senior Researcher at Social Life (@SL_cities)an independent research organisation created by the Young Foundation in 2012 to work internationally on innovation and placemaking. As part of the Bright Future project (JPI Urban Europe ENSUF call), Social Life has been leading a process exploring how locally-driven social innovation can help respond to the needs of industrial towns in Slovenia, Romania, the Netherlands, Finland and the UK. Alongside this, Claire has worked on a range of place-based projects exploring the dynamics of neighbourhoods and how they are impacted and can be supported through development or regeneration. Prior to joining Social Life, Claire worked as a researcher examining market approaches in development at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and at the University of Oxford. Her background is in the not-for-profit sector, having spent several years at a digital inclusion NGO in Brazil.
Michiel Dehaene is associate professor at the department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, where he teaches courses in urban analysis and design. He is the chairman of the Flemish Jury of Urban Renewal Projects in Flanders. His work focuses on sub-urban renewal, the (planning) history of dispersed urban development, and sustainable cities. His research includes systematic work on planning and design models to address the urbanizaton of food. Michiel currently works with the project “Urbanising in Place” (JPI Urban Europe SUGI call) which seeks to define components of an “agroecological urbanism”: a model of urbanisation which places food, metabolic cycles and an ethics of land stewardship, equality and solidarity at its core. The project works with communities of practice in in both South America and in Europe: Rosario, Riga, Brussels and London.
Jochen Wendel is a researcher at the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is coordinating, together with Pia Laborgne, the SUGI nexus project Creating Interfaces project running Urban Living Labs in Poland, Romania and the U.S. They work with capacity building for the urban food-water-energy (FWE) -nexus, making the FWE-linkages understandable to the stakeholders (city government, science, business and citizens), and facilitating cooperation and knowledge exchange among them by using innovative approaches for local knowledge co-creation and participation through Urban Living Labs and Citizen Science. His background is in GIScience and he received his PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Prior to the Creating Interfaces project, Jochen has worked on several projects related to smart cities applications, location-based services, and data visualization with several state agencies and private companies in the US and Germany. Pia Laborgne is sociologist and researcher at the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER), focusing on urban sustainability strategies, e.g. regarding citizen participation, citizen science and stakeholder cooperation. With Jochen Wendel, she is coordinating the SUGI nexus project “Creating Interfaces”.
Participants from anywhere in the world who will join the conversation through the chat room, polls and Q&A sessions. Previous Urban Lunch Talks have attracted visitors from more than twenty different countries, representing urban administration and public authorities, research community, business representatives and civil society.
Your rapporteur, Johannes Riegler, Stakeholder Involvement Officer in JPI Urban Europe.
Your host, Caroline Wrangsten, urban geographer and Assistant Project Manager in JPI Urban Europe.

Listen to the recording of the webinar on our Youtube channel, here.

Symposium: Technology and Green Spaces
2019-10-29 | The Garden Room, St Luke’s Community Centre, 90 Central Street, London, EC1V 8AJ, United Kingdom
Technology and Green Spaces is a one-day symposium showcasing the use of the latest technology in green spaces. Participants will have the opportunity to join fascinating sessions covering topics surrounding technology, food, environment and access plus a presentation by key-note speaker Mike Hardman, University of Salford.
The event is part of the JPI Urban Europe funded project FEW-meter within the Sustainable Urban Global Initiative (SUGI) / Food-Water-Energy Nexus.
Register and learn more here.

ICERI2019 (12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation)
2019-11-11 - 2019-11-13 | Seville, Spain
After 12 years, ICERI has become an annual meeting point for lecturers, researchers, professors, educational scientists and technologists. Every year, ICERI brings together over 700 delegates from 80 different countries.
It will provide the ideal opportunity to present your projects and experiences to an international audience. Also, it will offer participants an overview of the current situation of education and new learning technologies.
ICERI2019 Proceedings will be reviewed for their inclusion in the ISI CPCI (Web of Science). Previous editions are already indexed. Also, a DOI number will be assigned to each accepted paper.
The conference will be of interest for professionals in the area of Education, Research and Innovation.
The deadline for abstract submissions is July 11th, 2019.
Abstracts should be submitted on-line at: http://iated.org/iceri/online_submission

Making Climate Services a Reality in Europe
2019-11-13 - 2019-11-14 | Brussels
Making climate services a reality in Europe is a two-day conference that will bring together 100+ climate researchers, policy-makers and industry experts as well as city and regional actors to showcase how climate data can serve both cities, regions and business. The conference will focus on climate services for energy, mobility, future cities, health, agriculture, water, tourism and disaster risk reduction.
The conference begins on 13 November at 12:00 (CEST) with lunch at the marketplace, closely followed by the opening session. Different topics will be discussed throughout the afternoon. The day concludes with a reception at the marketplace until 19:30. On 14 November, the guests should arrive by 9:00 am for new rounds of thematic sessions. After the closing session and a small lunch break (until 2:00 pm), the attendants will have the opportunity to visit a site (place to be determined).
​More information, registration and programme can be found at climateservices.biz

Webinar Urban Lunch Talk #8: From Public Space to Liveability Case
2019-11-14 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
EDIT: Listen to the recording of this webinar on our Youtube channel, here.
Welcome to an interactive talk about doing business as (un)usual for liveable public space. How can cities and national stakeholders contribute to high-quality Baukultur, and what does it mean? What are the synergies in public space dilemmas, and how can they contribute to more liveable urban areas? You can watch the recording of this webinar in a our playlist on Youtube.
There are several dilemmas (competing goals, interests, strategies, etc.) involved in the development and maintenance of urban public space. Ideally, city stakeholders can integrate issues such as climate, energy, mobility, inclusivness, placemaking and liveability. However, addressing one issue or challenge in an urban context might have negative effects in another area. Typical crossings of concerns relate to everyone’ right to the city, openness to different societal groups, climate change actions and how to cater for safety and security without promoting increasingly exclusive spaces. ‘Inclusive Public Spaces for Urban Livability’ is one of the thematic priorities of JPI Urban Europe’s SRIA 2.0. In this webinar, invited speakers lay out ideas for transitions pathways in public space dilemmas.

What actions should innovators, businesses, researchers, civil servants and policy makers attend to, in order to work successfully with the dilemma of public space? What can you do in your specific role?
How can cities and national stakeholders contribute to high-quality Baukultur, and what does it mean?
Aligning with the World Urban Forum 10 thematics: What is the role of culture (human behaviours, historical culture) in urban public space?
What are the interactions among public spaces, urban design, sociology and behaviour research on the one hand- and ICT on the other?

Meet…

Christina Haas is an Urban designer, architect and Baukultur specialist at the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, committed to the sustainable promotion of a high-quality Baukultur: “building is culture and buildings create space for culture” as demonstrated in the Davos Declaration. High-quality Baukultur can lead to well designed and lively cities and villages equipped to meet changing social requirements, while preserving their historical character. How can you contribute to high-quality Baukultur in urban areas?
Peter Dalsgaard, Professor of Interaction Design at Aarhus University. Peter explores the use and design of digital systems from a humanistic perspective. On the practical side of things, he explores how we can use these insights to develop new interactive systems that support and augment creative work, often in collaboration with external partners in industry and the public sector. Peter is the Principal investigator of PLACED (Place- and Activity-Centric Digital Library Services) which is part of the JPI Urban Europe ENSUF call. PLACED introduces a new type of place- and activity-centric digital library services. Whereas library services typically focus on providing access to a collection of media, PLACED services support activities.
Barbara Goličnik Marušić is Head of research at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, leading and coordinating the interdisciplinary research programme Spatial planning. She holds a PhD in landscape architecture and is mainly involved in multidisciplinary projects concerned with sustainable development, quality of living and environment-behaviour issues in the context of urban planning and design. Barbara is part of the project C3PLACES (JPI Urban Europe ENSUF call) which uses information and communications technology (ICT) for co-creation of inclusive public places. The project uses a Urban Living Lab approach and is present in Crema (Italy), Ghent (Belgium), Lisbon (Portugal) and Vilnius (Lithuania). The aim is to advance knowledge on the interactions among public spaces, urban design, sociology and behaviour research on the one hand- and ICT on the other. Contact Barbara.
(Rapporteur) Jonas Bylund(@urbanalys) is the Research and Innovation Officer in JPI Urban Europe. We will enjoy a wrap up and a meta-reflection from Jonas who will link the talk outcomes to the purposes of JPI Urban Europe’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and dilemma-driven approaches to urban research and innovation.
(Host) Caroline Wrangsten, urban geographer and Assistant Project Manager in JPI Urban Europe.
Participants from anywhere in the world who will join the conversation through the chat room, polls and Q&A sessions. Previous Urban Lunch Talks have attracted visitors from more than twenty different countries, representing urban administration and public authorities, research communities, business representatives and civil society.The results of this webinar will feed into JPI Urban Europe’s AGORA workshop “Dilemmas of Public Space“, taking place on 20-21 November in Riga. The workshop in Riga will be used by JPI Urban Europe to (a) develop a policy brief on the matter of dilemmas related to urban public spaces (participants are welcome to be listed as contributors); (b) generate input for its 2020 joint call ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transition Capacities; and (c) provide input to the Urban Agenda for the EU Partnership on Security of Public Spaces.
Listen to the recording of this webinar on our Youtube channel, here.

JPI Urban Europe session at United Cities and Local Governments World Congress, Durban
2019-11-15 15:00 - 17:30 UTC | Durban, South Africa
This year’s World Summit of Local and Regional Governments is strongly focussed on the implementation of UN’s Agenda 2030 and the Climate Agreement. JPI Urban Europe will discuss with participants how experimental methods in R&I projects, such as Urban Living Labs, can contribute to achieving global goals and targets.
In the session („Urban Living Labs: Experimenting for Sustainable Urban Development“), a key note presentation will point out the key aspects of ULL and experimenting in urban areas. Furthermore, Sigrun Kabisch (Chair of the JPI UE Scientific Advisory Board) will introduce the relevance of R&I for implementing the Agenda 2030 and UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda. Projects from the Making Cities Work and ENSUF will highlight their experiences with experimental method to contribute to sustainable urban development and implementing global strategies. The vast time of the session will be dedicated to discuss and exchange with the audience how experimental approaches such as ULL can support urban administration in their sustainability journey and what framework conditions need to be respected in different regions across the globe when applying experimental methods.
The session organized by JPI Urban Europe will take place on 15 November, from 15.00-17.30
Read more about the congress here.
For more information, if you would like to participate or simply to say hi please contact Johannes Riegler: johannes.riegler@jpi-urbaneurope.eu
