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Final journal of the UIA project “E-Co-Housing”

Moving into E-Co-housing! The first experiences in community living and housing

On 25.10.2023, the newly refurbished house in Mexikói út 11/B in Budapest's district Zugló was handed over to its 40 new residents within the framewor...

Improving social housing in Zugló: Not just the hardware, also the software!

The mentoring programme for social housing tenants E-Co-Housing is about refurbishing an old building into an environmental-friendly, smart and inn...

Not a worm this time: a virus and the wood sector

How can a global sanitary crisis affect a single construction project in Budapest? A taste of the housing crisis in 2021 in Budapest: “The renta...

E-Co-Housing Journal 1: More than a house

UIA Expert Annette Kuhk “elaborates on the ambitions of the E-Co-Housing project, with a zoom-in on the specific location (Gizella út), the programme ...

Future of Commuting in Europe - Tips and Tricks of Employer engagement

Come join us on Wednesday 10th of November at 9.30h for a panel discussion on the Future of Commuting to Work and its consequences in urban mobility p...

SASMob Journal 5: Quality time and anguish: slowing down during the pandemic

SASMob is approaching the end of its journay to develop city wide innovative partnership for sustainable commuting. In this 5th Journal, UIA expert Zs...

Interview with Sándor Nagy, vice mayor of Szeged

In her second zoom-in, UIA Expert Zsuzsa Kravalik explores the policy drivers and institutional challenges behind mobility projects. She interviews vi...

SASMob Expert Journal 4: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months

In her 4th journal, SASMob Expert Zsuzsana Kravalik discusses what could a mobility project working on sustainable commuting gain from the lockdown mo...

SASMoB Expert Journal: about company investments and sustainable commuting

In her 3rd journal of SASMoB, UIA expert Zsuzsanna Kravalik guides us through the last 6 months of the project. She gives the readers a taste of how ...

SASMOB 1st project journal

In her first journal of the SASMob project, UIA expert Zsuszana Kravalik looks into the change of mobility culture that is currently being attempted i...

Commuting patterns explored in SASMob's 1st zoom-in

Check out the different commuting patterns within the SASMob partnership. Look at how personal choices can be geared into different mobility patterns ...

SASMoB Expert Journal: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months

In her 2nd journal of SASMoB, UIA expert Zsuzsanna Kravalik reveals an additional layer of the project’s implementation progress in what regards the m...

CUP4Creativity Journal #3: Institutionalisation and continuous experimentation

This journal by expert Levente Polyák documents the evolution of the UIA project CUP4Creativity. This issue serves as a summary of the project’s devel...

Building new communities through culture: The legacy of CUP4Creativity in Újbuda

In the past three years, the Urban Innovative Actions-funded project CUP4Creativity has been working on strengthening the local cultural and creative ...

CUP4Creativity Zoom-in #2: Building local civic ecosystems

Local civil ecosystems are important building blocks of our cities. With a better understanding of the resources and needs of local initiatives, we ca...

Towards new cultural services: using service design to explore user perspectives

How can we understand the attitudes of different local stakeholders to culture and community? How can we design better instruments to enable connectio...

CUP4Creativity Journal #2

This journal by expert Levente Polyák accompanies the UIA project CUP4Creativity in its development. This second issue serves as a summary of the proj...

Planning a new cultural venue, Part 2: Connecting to Újbuda’s existing institutional tissue

How to conceive a new cultural institution in an area already known for its strong cultural scene? How can a new venue integrate into an existing inst...

Planning a new cultural venue, Part 1: Exploring the needs of Újbuda’s cultural ecosystem

How to plan a new cultural venue in a district already rich in cultural life? How can a new cultural institution help to connect existing spaces and o...

CUP4Creativity Journal #1

Seeking to create new connections between cultural producers, creatives, technology initiatives, businesses and residents, the UIA-funded project CUP4...

From initiatives to synergies: Mapping Újbuda’s cultural scene

It is difficult to measure the cultural vitality of a neighbourhood. We can browse through a city’s event calendar and assess the concentration of act...

CUP4Creativity: Can culture become the protagonist of social cohesion in Újbuda?

CUP4Creativity is a project of the Budapest district of Újbuda, funded by the EU’s Urban Innovative Actions programme. The project builds on the distr...

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...