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How CAMINA invented a novel approach for cultural participation in Almería

In this second zoom-in output developed for the project “CAMINA”, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, focuses on the “Civic Curators”, an innovative concept p...

DARE Ravenna Zoom-in #3 - Co-designing a future vision: The selection of a tactic for Ravenna's Darsena

Podcast: the benefits and challenges of cargo bike and trailer sharing systems

Join us in this podcast as we delve into the groundbreaking cAIRgo Bike project, an initiative transforming Brussels with cargo bikes to improve air q...

Zoom-in about the VoxPop open call for innovators

This video presents the second zoom-in of the VoxPop project. ...

Zoom-in 3: Elevating youth participation in North Tilburg

A Commitment to Youth Empowerment. A dedicated team of young individuals is making a difference through the Noordvoerders platform. Bridgebuilders bet...

SPIRE ZOOM IN 2 - WHAT - WHY - WHO - HOW

Do you want to know the specifics of a successful project like SPIRE in Baia Mare? Have a look at the What, Why, Who and How of SPIRE....

On the road: cyclist vs motorist pollution exposure - Zoom-In #2 on Families

On the road: cyclist vs motorist pollution exposure - Zoom-In #1 on Service trips

Innovation teams in public service: Unpacking the case of the CXI unit

Unpacking the case of the Citizens Experience and Wellbeing Institute (CXI) in Kosice among government innovation units globally....

The Added Value of Air-Break to the City of Ferrara

In this podcast series I will be discussing the concrete experience, challenges and learnings of the Urban Innovative Actions project Air-Break Ferrar...

The Air Fest: an Open Platform for Engaging Citizens and Stakeholders around Air Quality in Ferrara

In this podcast series I will be discussing the concrete experience, challenges and learnings of the Urban Innovative Actions project Air-Break Ferrar...

CAMINA has been implementing the activity of “Civic Curators”!

On 21st February 2023 the Municipality of Almeria officially launched the activity of “Civic Curators - Social Laboratories for co-designing cultural ...

Introducing Air-Break Ferrara's Smart Hubs

UIA Expert Pietro L. Verga interviews Gabriele Mengozzi (HERA Group) on the main features of the Smart Hubs developed in Ferrara to support and facili...

The construction of Ferrara’s new Smart Bike Lane. Adapting to new conditions and challenges

The Smart Bike Lane is part of the infrastructural upgrades plan through which the Air-Break project is facilitating slow mobility within the city of ...

Zoom-in 2: How to win the hearts of youth

Join me as we delve into the impact of art interventions, hear inspiring stories from artists and young people as we discuss how art can be a catalyst...

Zoom-in 1: Engaging women in a masculine neighbourhood

Discussion about how the gender perspective became important in ForwArt project and how to give space to women in a neighbourhood renewal process....

DARE Ravenna Zoom-in #2 - Towards a tactic for the Darsena

The Urban Innovative Actions-funded project DARE is a non-conventional urban regeneration project that instead of focusing uniquely on the physical en...

Traveling with mobility impairments in Lisbon

Presentation of the status of the mobility of people with impairments in Lisbon and the VoxPop navigation support tool for vulnerable city users. ...

Electric minibuses offering on-demand and zero-emission public transport options to citizens in Sofia

The INNOAIR Podcast episode #4 is covering the on-demand green public transport service that he Bulgarian capital of Sofia has started to test with a ...

Rennes Urban Data Interface - Zoom-in #2 - Let's design the governance model

This video reports on how the Rudi partners and key stakeholders designed the governance model for the future....

Boosting green businesses and jobs in Greater Manchester

In this Zoom-in, UIA expert Birgit Georgi tells how the IGNITION project triggered the creation of new businesses, business segments and more jobs; ...

SCALING UP AND SCALING OUT COGHENT…

Across Ghent and beyond......

Zoom In #2 - Crime prevention and spatial transformations

On this publication, we zoom-in on the spatial transformations that have taken place in Piraeus as part of the BSFS project. ...

AIR BREAK Participatory Air-Quality Monitoring – Zoom-In 1

This Zoom-In describes in detail the participatory air-quality monitoring system designed and implemented by the AIR BREAK Ferrara project....

"The voice of Hadrian aqueduct", episode no. 2

Cultural Hidrant is contributing the conversation about green and just transition in the Athens area, showcasing how city resiliency, strategies of ad...

"The voice of Hadrian aqueduct" - zoom-in #1

Cultural Hidrant is becoming a watershed for inter-municipal approaches to urban development and water services management. With its 23 km long path...

CUP4Creativity Zoom-in #1 - Imagining the Adaptér

In this first Zoom-in for the UIA project CUP4Creativity, Levente Polyak visits a pop-up event in the future Adaptér, to learn about the art & tech ce...

Sofia Coin: Rewarding healthier travel behavior for cleaner air

INNOAIR Podcast Episode #3 presents the concept of Sofia Coin, a smart phone app that rewards its users for walking and cycling instead of driving whi...

Discovering CAMINA by walking in Almeria with the delivery partners

On the 21st and 22nd April 2022, CAMINA hosted the project officer Nelida Hancco-Herrera for a field visit in the places interested by the cultural an...

Passport for Work Zoom-in: The Skill Based Economy

The Dutch labour market is facing unprecedented shortages, calling for a skill based economy in which skill based matching, reskilling and upskilling ...

CAMINA – How CULTURE fosters social integration and re-connects degraded cultural heritage neighbourhoods within city life

The project “Community Awakening and Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería (CAMINA)” has been fostering a new approach to promote Cultural Pa...

Zoom in - the Team behind BRISE Vienna

In BRISE Vienna, the City of Vienna is developing a fully digitized tool for the verification and permit of new buildings. Meet the people behind this...

WESH: video explaining how ‘Heerlens Heitje’ works

To explain how We.Service.Heerlen (WESH) actually stimulates civic participation in the city of Heerlen, we have produced a documentary-style video in...

DARE Zoom-in #1: Narrating urban transformation - a digital platform for Ravenna's Darsena

In this first Zoom-in for the UIA project DARE, Levente Polyak explores the digital platform conceived to support the transformation of Ravenna's Dars...

Cluj Future of Work Zoom-in 2: CREIC and the role of innovation hubs for urban growth

The second Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on CREIC, the Regional Center of Excellence for Creative Industries that is hosting the Labs of Cluj Futu...

UPPER Stories - ZOOM IN 1

The territory changes with physical work, but also through the story, the memory, the imagination of change. The UPPER stories are a collection of n...

Rennes Urban Data Interface Zoom-in #1

Rudi aims to develop a platform for local data exchange. The project is now entering a new phase, represented by a call for projects to reuse data sha...

Artificial Intelligence: Can smarter transit prevent Sofia from car overkill?

INNOAIR Podcast Episode #2 is covering the opportunities and challenges of using artificial intelligence in managing sustainable on-demand mobility so...

What is RE/SOURCED?

The RE/SOURCED Project & TRANSFO...

GreenQuays Zoom-in 1: Making Breda’s nature-inclusive quays health-inclusive

The GreenQuays project in Breda aims to develop and establish nature-inclusive quays. Although it was not in focus when developing the project, this Z...

The Climate Shelters project - Climate innovation to beat the heat

In his 2nd Zoom-in, Constantinos Cartalis, UIA Expert for the Climate Shelters (Adapting Schools to Climate Change through green, blue and grey Soluti...

CAPACITyES zoom-in 1, the fantasy that creates places

Children's imagination can make our cities more welcoming and harbingers of inclusion-oriented messages, of symbolic meanings that can enrich our expe...

SPIRE Zoom In: Plantathlon and Phytoremediation in Baia Mare

The Plantathlons activities carried out in baia Mare during spring 2021 created a collaborative ecosystem supporting citizens-led actions and enhancin...

Nature Based Leadership and the Green Minds systems approach - Zoom-in

Keeping the balance between doing too much and not doing enough is challenging, implicitly necessitating an overall integrated perspective and strateg...

Passport for Work Zoom-in: Skills based matching

In the second Passport for Work zoom-in, the implications of skills based matching are explored among employers. We visited employers in three differe...

Finding innovative ways for local authorities to boost greenspace and nature-based solutions

This Zoom-in reflects on the lessons learned in the IGNITION project on the way to find wider options for local authorities – despite challenges - to ...

How a Place to Be-Come is transforming local parks while addressing social exclusion - ZOOM IN

On February 2020, the Centre Public d’Action Social (CPAS) - the local institution that delivers social aid - and the project partner Natagora - a gra...

How monitoring and evaluation can support innovative interventions

UIA projects are designed to go beyond traditional policies and services – they need to be bold and innovative. In that context, the monitoring and ev...

INNOAIR hackathon: How to make urban mobility in Sofia smart and green?

INNOAIR Podcast Episode #1 is reporting on a hackathon aimed at ideas and solutions making Sofia's urban mobility smart and green....

The water reclamation plant

In the 1st zoom-in of the GUARDIAN project, UIA expert Elsa Pastor dives into the first piece of water infrastructure designed and implemented in GUAR...

Experience and learned lessons from procuring innovative solutions – IGNITION’s Living Lab

A core element of the IGNITION innovation project is the Living Lab at the campus of the University of Salford. Here, different nature-based solutions...

A Junglathon to imagine your urban forest

The City of Prato is experimenting urban forestation strategies through the Prato Urban Jungle (PUJ) project . The project foresees three pilot areas ...

Green Minds – rewilding people and places

How the Green Minds team aims to put nature at the heart of our decision making; encouraging individual connection with nature and a city-wide shift t...

Cluj Future of Work Zoom-in 1: Pata-Rât and the future of work

The first Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on Pata-Rât, a Roma settlement located near the city landfill which is one of the main focus of the Urban ...

New skills for a new home: Training refugees in Athens - Zoom in 2

In his 2nd Zoom-in, UIA expert of the Curing the Limbo project in Athens, Levente Polyak, explores how education and training activities within the pr...