UIA Knowledge Lab

Gent Knap Op - Zoom in N°3 Improving Housing Conditions

The third Zoom-in dives in the representation of the life cycle of the project through infographic diagrams and explanatory illustrations. The diagram...

Mataró’s Tenants Housing Cooperative for affordable rental housing - zoom-in °2

Mataro's tenants housing cooperative, Bloc Cooperatiu, provides affordable rental housing reactivating private vacant flats. This article describes ho...

'From House to Home' The Recurring Fund: A sustainable future for low-income housing renovations?

The Gent Knapt Op (ICCARus) pilot project focuses on the renovation of existing substandard homes of vulnerable homeowners. The project aims to renova...

Recommendations for the establishment of a new housing cooperative to provide affordable housing in Mataró

The challenge of evaluating an innovative housing project

The city of Mataró has developed an innovative housing project to provide affordable housing in the private rental market. In order to learn from the ...

A day to remember: 18.2.21, Mataro has a new offspring – the tenant housing cooperative BlocCooperatiu!

On 18th of February 2021, the notary LOPEZ & ALBIOL formally approved Mataro’s new tenants housing cooperative ‘BlocCooperatiu’. Dedicated residents o...

An alternative experience of cohousing: children, and migrants cooperating for innovative solutions!

Bergamo had the great misfortune of being among the first cities in Europe to have been affected by the effects of COVID 19, when all over Europe it w...

Cities engaging in the right to housing #3: Fair Finance - Introductory paper

In this note, Laura Colini and Ivan Tosics introduce the financilisation phenomenon of the housing market and its consequences faced by cities at loca...

Ghent Knapt Op CO-DESIGNS with residents and delivers its first housing renovations

As Ghent suffers a lack of affordable housing and rising housing prices, the Ghent Knapt Op project aims to renovate houses for vulnerable families an...

Home Silk Road and Housing First in the Metropole of Lyon

This Zoom-In takes a close look at how the Home Silk Road UIA Project fits into the broader Housing First strategy of the Metropole of Lyon. Housing F...

First owner signed contract to bring his flat to the ‘Yes, we rent!’ housing scheme

On 28th of September the time had come. The first owner, Antonio Martínez, signed the contract to make his empty flat available to the 'Yes, we rent!'...

Engaging cities to reject housing exclusion as a ‘fact of life’

Could Covid-19 prove a turning point in the fight against homelessness? The second URBACT-UIA web conference on the right to housing engaged cities to...

Community-led housing – a key ingredient of urban housing policy

Collaborative housing models that put residents' needs before private profit are raising standards in affordable and adequate housing. They are part o...

UIA and URBACT joint initiative on implementing the right to housing

The EU Cities Forum 2020, held in Porto, provided the perfect time and location to launch a new URBACT and UIA (Urban Innovative Actions) joint initia...

Cities engaging in the right to housing Web conference #2 - No one left behind - Introductory paper

The introductory paper provides background to the web conference “No one left behind”, the second in a series on “Cities Engaging in the Right to Hous...

UIA knowledge journey starts with Housing and Mobility topics!

Throughout 2020, UIA will run two thematic knowledge activities on housing and mobility. Explore the UIA Knowledge Lab to get the first insights. ...

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 ...

5Bridges project and the French national Housing First strategy

This zoom-in explores the potential of a strong link being established between the 5Bridges project and the recent national Housing First strategy lau...

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...

Zoom in 3: The Situation of Homeless Families in the Home Silk Road project

This Zoom-In digs into the inclusion dimension of the Home Silk Road by exploring the current situation of the homeless families who are being accommo...

Temporary Urban Planning to Address Homelessness Gains Ground in Villeurbanne, Grand Lyon

This article shows how the Home Silk Road project is part of a bigger strategy to use temporary urban planning and architecture to provide solutions t...

Cooking up an Inclusive City!

Article on the opening of BaklAAVA restaurant/caterers on the Home Silk Road site...

Innovating in the time of COVID19

A look back at the impact of COVID19 on Home Silk Road ...

Point de CHU…T: Rap, Slam & the City for All!

Point de CHU...T is a rap and slam project developed at the initiative of young people living in emergency shelter on the site of the Home Silk Road U...

Home Silk Road Journal 2: Get an update about Lyon's project

This journal describes implementation challenges in the second phase of the Home Silk Road project. This project is testing an innovative housing solu...

Journal 1: Putting vulnerable people at the heart of the city

UIA Expert Ruth Owen presents Lyon’s initial challenges, the most relevant of which is “the participative approach for co-implementation. Using cultu...

Super Circular Estate Project, Journal no. 5, Municipality of Kerkrade

Super Circular Estate (SCE) Project illustrated potential of reactivation of resources within existing built environments and helped us understand bet...

Kerkrade Zoom-in 3: The monitoring process and its results

UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic interviews Michiel Ritzen from ZUYD University on the monitoring process of the Super Circular Estate project and its resul...

SCE Journal 4: State of the art construction of three circular houses

UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic explains how the “three new houses have been constructed by reusing more than 90% of materials from the existing building a...

Super Circular Estate Journal 3: Kerkrade’s challenges

UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic tells us how “the SCE consortium is already finalising the construction phase of the three new houses made of reused materi...

Super Circular Estate Zoom-in 2: How BRX could support reuse of building materials

One of the lessons learned from Kerkrade’s project “regarding future buildings, is that reuse potential of building products need to be embodied into ...

Super Circular Estate Journal 1: Get to know the project’s first steps

The UIA Expert unveils Kerkrade’s initial achievements in the first journal....

Super Circular Estate Zoom-in 1: Circular versus conventional building process

UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic zooms into the differences between circular and conventional building process through interviews with the key members of th...

Super Circular Estate Journal 2: Next steps

Take a look at the latest developments around Kerkrade’s project. ...

Curing the Limbo Journal #5: Adapting to Covid-19

Curing the Limbo is an Urban Innovative Actions-funded project to develop a trajectory for refugees to find their new home through education, employme...

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

This journal accompanies Curing the Limbo in its past half year of progress. ...

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

This Journal accompanies Curing the Limbo in its past half year of progress. By giving an account of the main activities and achievements of each proj...

Curing the Limbo UIA Expert Journal – Learn more about the first steps in integrating in an innovative way Athen’s refugee population

UIA Expert, Levente Polyak, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...

Curing the Limbo Zoom-in 1: From refugees to active citizens

Mapping the Victoria neighbourhood in Athens....

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

This Journal accompanies Curing the Limbo in its past half year of progress. By giving an account of the main activities and achievements of each proj...

Rethink your monitoring and evaluation practices

You want to capture the change that your project is bringing at local level? The new monitoring and evaluation platform is now online: browse through ...

The Legacy of CURANT

The Legacy of CURANT is a short video documentary telling the story of what is left of the project after its end. Through a series of interviews to me...

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

In his 5th journal of CURANT, UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli discusses about the legacy of the project and the concrete things that stay behind - for the ...

CURANT Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Antwerp is doing in this UIA Expert journal!...

Read CURANT's 3rd project journal!

With 39 duos of young refugees and local buddies already cohabitating, the delivery of the new modular housing units and a wide range of active inclus...

CURANT Zoom-in 2: Theory of Change

UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli dives into the details!...

Implementing the CURANT project in Antwerp: Get an update in the second UIA journal on the activities carried out

UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Antwer...

CURANT Expert Journal: holistic approach to integration and evaluation mechanisms

In his 4th journal of CURANT, UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli discusses the significance of a holistic approach to integration and the potential contributio...

Ghent Knapt Op takes on another challenge: ‘Non-take-up’

More than 500 people from the City of Ghent have been interested in taking part in the Ghent Knapt Op project and on improving their housing condition...

Ghent Knap Op Journal 3: The Seven Challenges

Like many cities, Ghent suffers a lack of affordable housing: high-quality and energy-efficient homes. Quality homes that are affordable are scarce in...

Ghent Knapt Op: Construction during Covid-19

As in most countries globally, commodity prices for building materials have risen in recent months. Anyone who is building or renovating has already s...

ICCARus (Gent knapt op): Accessible Homes, Accessible City

A view to a life-long living for seniors and vulnerable citizens. The City of Ghent puts at the forefront accessibility by making homes adaptable for...

Coronavirus-Proof Community Building in Ghent

How to connect people despite the current Covid-19 pandemic restrictions? Ghent Knapt Op is a pilot project that not only sets up a new financial sys...

Gent Knapt Op Journal 2: Five homes renovated and handed over

UIA Expert Martha Giannakopoulou reveals how “Gent Knapt Op launched a series of open calls (waves) and employed an intense communication strategy. Th...

Ghent Zoom-in 1: From House to Home

UIA Expert Martha Giannakopoulou “focuses on the most intricate and complicated part of the ICCARus (Gent Knapt Op) project so far: the selection crit...

The first 25 renovations begin and a ceremony to celebrate it!

Gent knapt op’ has just concluded successfully its first phase of selection process and 25 households and participants are ready to start renovations....

GENT KNAPT OP SPREADS THE WORD AROUND THE CITY

Gent, a city of 260,000 inhabitants just outside of Brussels, Belgium, is like many cities: it faces the problem of not enough affordable and quality ...

ICCARUS (Gent Knapt Op) Journal 1: Up and running!

UIA Expert Martha Giannakopoulou shows how the project “addresses not only the provision of adequate healthy housing for vulnerable citizens but also ...

Yes, we rent! Journal 3: the seven major implementation challenges

‘Yes, We Rent!’ Journal 2: Reactivating the private empty flats has started!

UIA Expert Nils Scheffler updates us how “the acquisition of empty flats as well as the training of troubled adolescents for the renovation of the emp...

A look ahead - What does 2021 bring for the 'Yes, we rent!’ project

COVID-19 and its effects continue to be a reality in Mataró, but also for the project 'Yes, we rent!'. ...

Do not bury your head in the sand - especially despite COVID 19!

Interview with Laura Font Mela, director of Salesians Sant Jordi-PES Mataró, how they have successfully shifted their physical training program for tr...

Mataro Zoom-in 1: Vacant flats for a better future of vulnerable young adults - The ‘Yes, We Rent!’ training programme

Yes, We Rent! – Training vulnerable young adults...

Journal 1 for ‘Yes, We Rent!’: Mataro’s first steps

UIA Expert Nils Scheffler explains that “so far, no serious challenges for the project have arisen. There is a quite strong political and administrati...

Owners, make your empty apartments available!

In order to acquire apartments for the 'Yes, we Rent!' housing scheme, the first information campaign measures were started and first apartments visit...

Mataró has kicked off its project for a larger audience: The Learning event!

Mataró faces the problem of “people without flats and flats without people”....

Final Journal UIA VILAWATT project

The VILAWATT project was implemented to secure a stable energy transition process through the setting of an innovative governance structure (local pub...

Implementing the VILAWATT project in Viladecans: the use of gamification to communicate on complex energy projects

UIA Expert Lucia Fuselli has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Viladec...

VILAWATT Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Viladecans is doing on the topic energy transition in this UIA Expert journal....

Vilawatt Zoom-In: Exploring the project’s communication and stakeholders engagement strategies

UIA Expert Lucia Fuselli has developed a PPT slide show to discuss how the Vilawatt project in Viladecans has approached communication, stakeholder pa...

Vilawatt Journal 3: New insights on the progress of the project

Stay up-to-date with the latest achievements of Viladecans...

An update on the implementation of the Public Private Citizen Partnership and on the virtual currency

Vilawatt is currently considered to be a Spanish example in social innovation and community energy, at a time when energy poverty and energy access ar...

5Bridges Expert Journal 3: Get to know what happened in the last 6 months!

In his 3rd Journal, Freek Spinnewijn summarizes the activities that took place in the last months in the 5Bridges project....

5Bridges Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Nantes is doing on the topic urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal....

5Bridges Expert Journal: Desiging the social restaurant and the urban farm

In his 2nd journal of 5Bridges, UIA expert Freek Spinnewijn looks into how the project has left behind a difficult period and entered one with more op...

CORE Zoom-In: Video provides testimonies on Peer Mentoring Course

UIA Expert Christoph Reinprecht and the CORE team produce a video on a key part of the project’s empowerment work stream. ...

CoRE Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Vienna is doing on the integration of migrants and refugees in this UIA Expert journal. ...

CoRE project and the role of volunteering

In his third journal, UIA Expert Christoph Reinprecht guides us through the role and relevance of voluntary activity both from the angle of refugee (s...

Integration from day-one to fight de-qualification: an analysis of the CORE project

UIA Expert Christoph Reinprecht has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of ...

MAC (Monterusciello Agro City): A courageous, creative, concrete and inclusive project.

This latest Journal of the MAC Project is a critical narrative of a project that encountered many complicated moments to deal with during its implemen...

MAC Zoom-In: Video looks at creation of the Agro Urban Centre

UIA Expert Pietro Elisei highlights in this video the steps being taken to bring new opportunities to the Monterusciello neighbourhood...

MAC Project ZOOM-in 3: The protagonists pass on the acquired knowledge

There are several elements of innovation within the urban regeneration path activated by the MAC project in Pozzuoli. ...

Pozzuoli journal: what impacts on the local community?

The current issue of the Journal focuses on the design and implementation path that has characterized the last 12 months, underlining the positive imp...

MAC journal and the challenges of a coordinated dialogue with the project partners

In this edition of MAC Journal, UIA Experts Pietro Elisei presents the implementation challenges and developments faced by the project. ...

MAC Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Pozzuoli is doing on urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal. ...

Implementing the MAC project in Pozzuoli: Find out in the second UIA Expert Journal what activities have been carried out

UIA Expert Pietro Elisei has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Pozzuol...

The MAC Project Journal 3: The progress so far

Get the latest news about Pozzuoli’s project!...

About Urban poverty and urban agriculture

The UIA Expert Pietro Elisei, in the second zoom-in for the MAC project, focuses his lens on the project process and on design pillars. ...

SALUS Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Bologna is doing on the topic integration of migrants and refugees in this UIA Expert journal....

FED Journal 6: A view on the functioning FED system

UIA Expert Zeno Winkels provides insights on the legacy of the FED project one year after its successful end. As he mentions: “The main legacy of the ...

FED Journal 5: End of the project

UIA Expert Zeno Winkels describes how “at the Chalmers campus in Gothenburg, the 6500 kW steam boiler was installed, as well as the more novel PCM (Ph...

Market design for local energy systems of the future

On the last day of October 2019, the Fossil-free Energy Districts (FED) project will be completed. The collaboration has, during three years, designed...

FED Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Gothenburg is doing on the topic energy transition in this UIA Expert journal....

Implementing the FED project in Gothenburg: Get an update on the activities carried out in the second UIA Expert journal

UIA Expert Zeno Winkels has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Gothenbu...

FED Journal 3: Tackling silo-thinking

Check out how Gothenburg is implementing effective cross departmental working....

FED Zoom-In: Video sheds light on the project

The UIA Expert Zeno Winkels has produced a video to discuss what UIA is and explain the main elements of this Energy transition project....

FED Journal 4: The FED system becomes operational

Gothenburg is heading towards a successful closure. ...

Last UIA TAST'in FIVES Journal: Urban labs as a new way of creating and living the city

This last journal of the UIA TAST’in FIVES project accounts for the evolution of the project after UIA funding was stopped. It details the way it has ...

TAST'in FIVES Journal 3: State of Play after 3 years of UIA funding

This Journal accounts for the overall achievements of the UIA TAST’in FIVES project after 3 years of implementation and in light of the prefiguration ...

Testing a future Food Court by prototyping it in real-life: lessons from the experience of UIA TAST’in FIVES’ L’Avant-goût

Refugee Food Festival at L’Avant-goût (Lille) -©Charles Mangin In light of the experiences taking place throughout Europe, this article observes th...

Food-related activities as a leverage against urban poverty

Workshop on Libanese food (c)Les Sens du Goût The UIA TAST’in FIVES project, taking place in the Fives neighbourhood of Lille, France, has aimed at...

What have been the impacts of TAST’IN Fives food related activities on the inhabitants of Fives and the project partners?

This Zoom-In presents an infographic of the analysis contained in the article Food-related activities as a leverage against urban poverty. It is based...

Read the 2nd project journal of Tast'in Fives

Faced with several issues that consistently delayed the works of the community kitchen and the surrounding spaces (mainly due to additional depollutio...

TAST'in FIVES Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Lille is doing on the topic urban poverty in this UIA Expert journal....

The B-MINCOME scheme during the heights of the pandemic

What happened to B-MINCOME during the pandemic when people lost their jobs or had their incomes cut? In September 2021, the Barcelona City Council an...

B-MINCOME Journal 5: A successful journey towards participative and community-oriented social welfare system

In a moment where welfare state has been retrenched and the public support becomes pivotal to respond to people’s needs arising from rapid and unstabl...

B-MINCOME Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

Get to know better what Barcelona is doing on the urban poverty topic in this UIA Expert journal. ...

B-Mincome Expert Journal: Get an update of what has been happening in the last 6 months

With the end of the selection process of the 2000 families included in the different pilot schemes for Minimum Income, the project has now fully enter...

B-Mincome – blog post on two of the project’s Active Social Policies

The B-MINCOME project is already in place. Nevertheless, as long as this pilot is made-up of different Active Social Policies, they should be consider...

B-MINCOME and the Guaranteed Minimum Income

In this first Zoom-in, Laura Colini, UIA Expert for B-MINCOME shows the approach taken by the project of combining the Guaranteed Minimum Income to di...

UIA projects experimenting bold solutions for a Circular Economy – Part 1

As part of the 2nd Call for Proposals, the UIA initiative has supported eight projects under the Circular Economy topic. This article will tell you mo...

Introducing 3 new projects on Integration of Migrants and Refugees

When the UIA Initiative was officially launched in 2015, the media headlines all over Europe were reporting dramatic stories of tens of thousands of r...

USE-IT! Zoom-In: Creation of social enterprises

In this first Zoom-In, the UIA Expert Nils Scheffler looked at one key element of the USE-IT! Project: the creation of a community of social enterpris...

UIA Call 3: Read our Topic Coordinators findings from the proposals submitted

Four papers give insight into the main trends in the proposals submitted under Call 3....

Welcome home!

Come to 59-61 rue du Delta, 1190, Forest on the 4th of September, an unexpected sunny day in Brussels, and you will find the building of CALICO celebr...

CALICO in the Brussels Capital Region - Journal 1

UIA expert Laura Colini provides a descriptive overview of the project and focuses on the 7 UIA challenges. Furthermore, she explores “the model of th...

CALICO. More than a CLT

The main objective of CALICO is to realise more than a typical Community Land Trust (CLT) but an intergenerational inclusive cohabitation focussed on ...

Passport for Work’s scientific impact study kicks off

Ever since the Passport for Work project started, it has been a key objective to support its social innovation process with a scientific impact analys...

Major milestone for P4W: national skills survey complete

In October 2020, Passport4Work started an ambitious national research endeavour: replicating the survey of the leading skills taxonomy O*NET in the Du...

Passport4Work expands target group: focus groups with University students

Striving for an inclusive labour market instrument, Passport4Work organized 2 focus group sessions with University students to establish its utility b...

Passport4Work Journal 3

Passport4Work is nearing the product delivery phase. Learn more about the state of play of the project and its contributions to a skills-based economy...

Passport4Work launches employer prototype at HR Live

Passport4Work reached a major milestone in its project, by recently finishing the first prototype of the employer interface of the tool. This prototyp...

P4W Journal 2: A phase of intensive technical development and prototyping!

In his 2nd journal, UIA Expert Ronald Lievens reflects on the current state of affairs in the Passport4Work (P4W) project, its developments, and the d...

Passport4Work completes series of tests of first prototype (video)

After a series of sophisticated user experience tests, Passport4Work launched its first prototype this month. ...

Passport4Work starts ambitious Dutch validation of US-based O*NET framework

Passport4Work has started a widespread, ambitious national study among Dutch employers, job seekers and intermediaries to contextualize and validate t...

Passport4Work: Towards a common understanding of skills

Passport4Work update: abstract skills in layman's terms

As described in the previous web article, P4W is developing tools for skills assessment, eLearnings and job matching....

The legacy of IGNITION: Multiple support tools making co-investment for nature-based solutions work

The goal of IGNITION, which started in November 2018, was to develop innovative financing schemes for the implementation of large-scale nature-based s...

Ecostreets – How small-scale action can inspire large-scale solutions

Over summer 2021, the IGNITION partner Groundworks in collaboration with the charity We love Manchester organized a competition among local communitie...

First tangible results and a continuous learning loop - IGNITION Journal n3

With roughly half a year left to its end, the project’s results are taking shape, such as the fully functioning Living Lab with its multiple interconn...

The long and winding road to financing nature-based solutions

Unlocking innovative sources of finance for nature-based solutions is a critical but challenging goal facing many city regions across Europe....

The IGNITION project: How support for greenspace has increased during Covid-19 pandemic

The multiple and immensely negative impacts of the COVID-19 crisis are felt almost everywhere and at all times. When the IGNITION project started in 2...

IGNITION’s Living Lab for nature-based solutions - more than a nice experiment

“The Living Lab at the University of Salford will be a critical element of the project.” That is what I was told at the beginning of the IGNITION proj...

IGNITION Journal 2: get an update about Greater Manchester's project

IGNITION is mid-way on its journey to develop innovative financing for nature-based solutions. In this 2nd Journal, UIA expert Birgit Georgi sees a su...

How IGNITION found an innovative approach to collaborate with its diverse team

Finding innovative solutions goes beyond business as usual approaches, though the driving partner might lack the specific skills and expertise require...

Knowledgeable citizens push for more green - Zoom In 1 IGNITION

First Zoom In of the UIA project IGNITION and visualisation of the project’s citizen engagement activities....

IGNITION Expert Journal 1: Get to know the project and what happened in the first 6 months!

In her 1st Journal, Birgit Georgi, UIA expert of the GSIP project, discusses all key activities that you need to know about, what the project is about...

How to convince investors that nature-based solutions are good to invest in?

IGNITION aims to develop innovative financing of nature-based solutions for climate resilience. The lead partner Greater Manchester Combined Authority...

AIR-HERITAGE biomonitoring: Interesting facts and results!

AIR-HERITAGE aims to improve the City of Portici’s knowledge on local air pollution, through monitoring and modeling air quality, so that the city can...

Actively engaging people during the pandemic: AIR-HERITAGE info points

AIR-HERITAGE aims to address air pollution in the City of Portici. A key element of the project is actively engaging citizens throughout the process. ...

Two UIA projects working together to tackle urban challenges

AIR-HERITAGE aims to address air pollution in Portici. A key element of the project is actively engaging citizens throughout the process. In this cont...

Biomonitoring: An alternative way to monitor air pollution in Portici

AIR-HERITAGE aims to improve the City of Portici’s knowledge on local air pollution so that the city can more effectively address this issue. More spe...

Air Heritage Journal 2: get an update about Portici's project latest achievements

This second Journal presents AIR-HERITAGE key achievements to date and describes how the various challenges faced, have evolved over time, as well as ...

Making better decisions, faster, to tackle air pollution

The first AIR-HERITAGE zoom-in focuses on the technical aspects of the project. It aims to present the Decision Support Tool developed for supporting ...

Air-Heritage journal 1

Andriana Stavrakaki, UIA expert for the AIR-HERITAGE project, in this journal edition describes the measures put in place by the City of Portici to ov...

Actively engaging students to improve the quality of life of residents, even during a pandemic

Are Amsterdam’s blue-green roofs good value-for-money for the city? Applying a Total Economic Value framework to urban Nature-based Solutions

Assessing the hydraulic performance of Blue-Green Infrastructure: the case study of Amsterdam's adaptive smart network blue-green roofs

A stepped process to evaluate the true potential of adaptive-blue green roofs for reducing flood risk ...

Engaging citizens in the development of multi-purpose Nature Based Solutions: how the RESILIO blue-green roofs project connects with communities

Why, how and when to engage citizens in the development of NBS? what are the challenges of engagement to be aware off?...

RESILIO's Journal #2: From planning to development

This is the 2nd Journal article describing progress of the RESILIO activities and associated implementation challenges. The purpose is to provide a nu...

Blue-Green roofs as accessible space in a 1.5-meter distance world?

Photo of the De Boel smart blue-green roof at Amsterdam Zuid (photo credits: De Dakdokters)...

RESILIO Journal: developing a network of innovative and smart rooftops in the city of Amsterdam

Through an analysis and contextualization of the 7 implementation challenges, UIA expert Leon Kapetas presents the RESILIO project, which aims to deve...

Smart Blue-Green Roofs of Amsterdam: Why you should be interested and how to get involved in the RESILIO project

RESILIO is the new Climate Adaptation project that takes place in Amsterdam and will install 10,000 m2 of Blue-Green Roofs on social housing complexes...

Involving citizens for better air quality measures: the 5 UIA cities leading the way

Despite the recent considerable progress, ambient air pollution remains the first environmental cause of death in the EU, still leading to about 400.0...

Migrants and refugees integration: first lessons to share from the UIA projects

Read the final report with conclusions from the migrants and refugees integration capitalisation workshop....

The Healthy Households’ Office service (OHS) in Getafe, ready to face the high energy prices

Energy prices are at record highs and remain volatile in Europe. Situations of energy poverty are exacerbating and families in Europe are struggling t...

Journal 2: Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU)

This is the second journal of the Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU) project since its start in September 2019. EPIU led by Municipality of Getaf...

Start-ups’ business models as inspiration for local innovations: the case of EPIU

At corporate level, a business model is a strategy for operating a business. It describes how a company will generate value for its customers. Althoug...

Interview with Sara Hernández, mayor of Getafe

In this article, UIA Expert Marta Garcia interviews the mayor of Getafe, Sara Hernández, to explore how the municipality is integrating EPIU, the UIA ...

Strategic Committee as a governance tool to ensure a committed leadership: the case of EPIU project

Implementing an Urban Innovation Action implies a degree of risk for local authorities and a committed leadership is a requisite for municipal led inn...

The challenge of identifying hidden energy poverty

Energy poverty is a situation in which households are unable to access essential energy services. With nearly 34 million Europeans unable to afford to...

Journal 1: Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU)

This is the first journal of the Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit (EPIU) project since its start on September 2019. EPIU led by Municipaility of Getaf...

Preparing to land: WISH-MI about to go live

The second WISH-MI journal presents the state of play as the project prepares to go live. It draws upon material gathered during the expert visit to M...

Mapping the UIA innovation challenges with the Wish-Mi stakeholders

Building youth wellbeing through community hubs

A sneak peek of the WISH-MI hubs. City of Milan Director, Sabina Banfi. Shares her thoughts on the project’s new youth spaces with UIA Expert Eddy Ada...

Money talks: How Milan and other UIA cities are stimulating behaviour change using financial proxies.

Milan is one of a number of UIA cities exploring innovative financial tools to nudge behaviours. This article explores the Milan vouchers model, and t...

WISH-MI Journal 1

Milan is a city of 1.4 million people, 230,000 of whom are minors. It has a wide and growing rate of inequality, with 30% of its population either in ...

Co-designing services with young people. WISH-MI ZOOM-IN

This slide deck shares the content and learnings from the WISH-MI youth co-design webinar held on 9th June 2021. ...

WISH-MI: Resetting the wellbeing dial for Milan’s youth

Like many cities, Milan faces the challenge of widening inequalities. This risk particularly affect the city's most vulnerable young people. The UIA W...

Innovation and Circular Economy – Bold Approaches from UIA

Circular Economy is at the centre of many UIA projects. At the moment, UIA funds eight projects within the topic of Circular Economy under Call 2. Out...

The HUB4KIDS: An “inclusive energy” maker at urban scale.

In the Capacityes project, the active involvement of children and adolescents is reflected in the design and construction of the Hub4Kids. This struct...

"Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone"

The CAPACITyES project focuses on the fight against urban poverty. The added value of this approach lies in the fact that the project puts on the tabl...

Participate, prepare, accompany and carry out

Implementing projects accepted by local communities and, consequently, characterized by different types of sustainability, requires a long and methodi...

Changing People and Places through an Act of Fantasy.

The CAPACITyES PROJECT  identifies and manages the problems of urban poverty and marginalization through an urban regeneration paths characterized by ...

CAPACITYES Journal 1: get an update on Bergamo's project

The CAPACITyES project focuses on the fight against urban poverty. The added value of this approach lies in the fact that the project puts on the tabl...

The second wave of the pandemic threatens the participatory process. Being able to move the project forward despite the second wave of the pandemic

The low numbers of infected people during the summer made it possible to have an important dialogue with the target groups of the Capacityes project. ...

Green is health

The green interventions at “Nuovo Ospedale Santo Stefano'' of Prato will create a new urban park within the city bridging the gap between health and b...

Urban Jungle: Prato truly means it

Legambiente is a non-profit association, made up of citizens who care about the protection of the environment in all its forms, the quality of life an...

Prato Forest City: a tree for every citizen

Prato Forest City is the new strategic approach to urban planning, developed by the Municipality of Prato....

Prato rewards sustainable behaviours

greenApes is a digital platform that engages and rewards actions and sustainable lifestyles: users accumulate reward points through their sustainable ...

PUJ - Journal 2: Prato Urban Jungle implementations

Impacts of urban forestry: innovative, socio-ecological and economic added values - ZOOM-IN

PUJ - Journal 1: Project activities development

UIA Expert Daniela Patti focuses her first journal on presenting the main objectives of the Prato Urban Jungle project, the pilot sites, the consortiu...

Prato Turns Green - From the master plan approval to the creation of urban jungles

Prato Urban Jungle – PUJ – project will renew its city districts with greater social, productive and environmental dimensions turning itself into an u...

Qualification of Childminders as Part of the UIA Project "home and care"

The UIA project home and care targets the the further qualification of child minders to become educators and child day care workers. In doing so the e...

Balancing family life and work in the care sector - Experiences from the UIA project “home and care” in Landshut/Germany

A better way of balancing family life and work - single parent care workers in the health and social care system as a target group for poverty prevention

The Home and Care project in the German city of Landshut has set itself a goal. It wants to try out innovative ways to protect people from impending p...

The “home and care” project from Landshut between first results and new challenges

The corona pandemic meant that the first contacts between the employees in the home and care project in Landshut / Germany and the UIA expert Prof. Dr...

The home and care Project - Journal 1

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SPIRE Journal 2: The project moves forward

This is the second journal of the Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem (SPIRE) project since its creation on 1st September 2019. The impact of...

What do E-WALLETS have to do with environmental protection?

If we consider money as a social technology, we could agree that it should never be "neutral". Now as the world is immersed in this global pandemic an...

Baia Mare community in action

The ecological transformation and recovery of five contaminated areas in Baia Mare, along with the significant environmental behavioural shift from ci...

Resilient cities after COVID-19: the need for green infrastructure

The impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the severe climate trends has shown how visionary the SPIRE project is, reclaiming and enhancing Baia ...

Re-naturing cities through phytoremediation: How Nature Based Solutions can make a difference.

One of the essentials of the SPIRE project that appealed all the parties involved from the beginning, as well as the newcomers, is “the magical” abili...

SPIRE Journal 1: get to know the latest project achievements

This is the first journal of the Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem (SPIRE) since its start on 01/09/2019. SPIRE, led by the Municipality of...

Creating new social and economic value: Restoring the urban ecosystem

This article is the first to review Baia Mare and the SPIRE project (Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem), financed under the 4th call of the...

Urban soil decontamination for citizens’ health

Pollution is one of the most significant environmental challenges worldwide; according to the European Environmental Agency, the management of pollute...

Work and the city: how Cluj-Napoca is involving local community in the debate on the future

Local community can be part of the collaborative effort of reflection on the future of work: Cluj-Napoca is involving experts, academics, stakeholders...

Learning to live with WUI fires

While fire has been one of the most relevant elements for the advancement of mankind, paradoxically it has also been -and still is- the responsible fo...

What is the RE/SOURCED Smart Grid

This article describes the key elements of the RE/SOURCED Smart Grid...

RE/SOURCED Journal 1

UIA RE/SOURCED Journal - 1...

ForwArt activities in a week - photo essay

The occassion of the UIA officer Isabella Schneble's visit to Tilburg North provided an opportunity to have a glimpse into the artistic activities wit...

Which artistic expression deserves public match-funding and who can decide on it?

Engaged art in Europe

"Arts and culture deserve a similar acknowledgement of their relation to sustainable development as sport, as they have been proven to have social imp...

Youth participation in action

"A generation apart" - this frequent term makes us aware that youth participation is not an easy task to perform since those youngsters are at least a...

BRISE Vienna - building the future of EU cities

European cities are as diverse as the continent. Some are growing, some are shrinking, but all try to figure out, how data and digital technologies ca...

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...

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 ...

Passport for Work Zoom-in: Skills based matching

In the second Passport for Work zoom-in (the first can be found here), the implications of skills based matching are explored among employers. We visi...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

What is RE/SOURCED?

The RE/SOURCED Project & TRANSFO...

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...