The purpose of placemaking is to improve place qualities in street spaces, parks and other public spaces through collaborating with citizens and
Have your say on the Urban Agenda for the EU and its future development! The European Commission is conducting an assessment study
The fifth edition of Urban Lunch Talks invited experts and viewers to discuss a viable framework for Positive Energy Districts that meets
The midterm event was hosted at the Research Council of Norway on May 21st and invited projects and other actors involved in
The event was organized at the Research Council of Norway in Oslo, on May 20th, with the aim to provide projects with
JPI Urban Europe will join Placemaking Week Europe 2019 on 12–15 June in Valencia, Europe’s biggest conference and festival celebrating the impact
The paper, written by JPI Urban Europe’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), presents the requirements and challenges of urban transitions towards sustainability from the
Today I’m talking to Nicolás Pardo about the project Surecity. It’s a project which aims to give city developers a holistic view of how their future energy mix could look in cities. Nicolás works at the Austrian Institute of Technology and he’s the coordinator for Surecity. His academic background is focused on energy systems, so he seems like the perfect person to coordinate this project. I ask Nicolás to tell me in a single sentence what the project is about. He says, “it’s about creating a platform which allows cities to develop their energy and environment abatement strategies in a easy manner.” Seems like a great aim to me, so I say, “how are you going to do this?”
The Programme on Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods (PED) has the ambition to develop pathways towards implementation of 100 Positive Energy Districts in urban neighbourhoods across Europe by 2025. This is seen as an important contribution to current policies on achieving the goals of reducing Europe’s carbon footprint, managing the energy transition and to cities ambitions towards sustainable urban development.