The four day conference ‘Cities as Seedbeds for Innovation’ gave plenty of time for participants to listen to and participate in discussions on (funding opportunities of) urban research:
- Designing Cities of the Future: Towards smart, safe & liveable cities!
- Local Agenda 21: What has been achieved, and what’s next
- Innovations of Governance in Cities and Urban regions
- Integration and Social Inclusion: Europe’s Youth and the City of Tomorrow
- Cities and Innovation in the Knowledge Society
- JPI Urban Europe
As part of the conference programme, four out of the ten First JPI Urban Europe Pilot Call (2012) projects presented themselves:
- Gentrification 2.0 (Arnoud Lagendijk from the Radboud University)
- APRILab (Federico Savini from the University of Amsterdam)
- IMAGINATION (Peter Scholten from the Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- b-Part (Titiana-Petra Ertiö from the University of Turku)
Other conference contributors linked to JPI Urban Europe included: Wim Hafkamp (former Management Board member), Edwin Hubers (Call Secretariat JPI Urban Europe), and Sigrun Kabisch (Scientific Advisory Board member). For more information on the EURA conference ‘Cities as Seedbeds for Innovation’, please visit the eura-website.