JPI Urban Europe’s SRIA 2.0 aims at strengthening international exchange and cooperation for an exchange of good practice, capacity building and overcoming lock-in thinking at local level. The two sessions/workshops organized in October and November will help to prepare next steps for:
a.) cooperating with global and international funding agencies,
b.) showcasing JPI Urban Europe as a network creating scientific evidence and good practices for urban policy on an international scale
c.) gradually open up cooperation with new countries outside of Europe.
For more information, please have a look at the Annexes of the SRIA 2.0, p. 35.
Africa is the region hit the second hardest from human-induced Climate change, right after the Polar Regions. Therefore, the format of the African Climate Risk Conference comes at a very important moment in time. JPI Urban Europe is contributing a session on SUGI: Tackling urban challenges by co-creating knowledge on food-water-energy nexus (for more on the SUGI call and projects: https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/calls/sugi/). The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy (FWE) Nexus is a joint initiative established by JPI Urban Europe and Belmont Forum to enable research collaboration worldwide.
In the session, representatives of the CRUNCH (Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices: operationalising the Food-Water- Energy Nexus) and IFWEN (Innovation in Food-Water-Energy Nexus project will present their co-creative approaches, findings and the added value the project’s create by involving partners beyond Europe. Furthermore, parts of the session will be organized as a workshop were together with the participants are asked to assess how the projects presented might be relevant for African urban areas in times of the climate crises and how learning and knowledge exchange can be faciliated across continents.
Read more about the conference here.
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