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Articles & publications (48)

Smart Urban Security and Event Resilience (SURE) Journal 1: How Tampere is intervening in the area of urban security and daily city resilience through the lens of event management

SURE is about urban security and public space management through the lens of event management. SURE is improving the security and accessibility of pu...

SURE Tampere, Finland

Sharing knowledge across projects on urban security

Last April, the teams leading the Call 4 UIA Projects for urban security got together for an online meet-up: different cities, different contexts, one...

Piraeus, Greece

Insecurity and city level: why does it matter?

Cities are hubs for the exchange of goods, services, knowledge, and ideas, and nowadays, they are growing at unprecedented rates. With an increasing ...

BeSecure-FeelSecure Piraeus, Greece

Not all evils come to harm: Insights on how the ToNite project is dealing with the Pandemic.

The resurgence of Coronavirus cases in recent days, making it clear that this second wave is upon us in Europe, is a good opportunity to focus our att...

To-nite Turin, Italy

Tonite Journal 1: the first year of the project

Tonite project aims at improving urban security perception at night-time by providing new services with the citizens' engagement and more pro-active a...

To-nite Turin, Italy

Community activation in urban regeneration at night time

In the framework of the Tonite project, a tender was launched with the goal of collecting proposals from local communities. The aims of the project ar...

To-nite Turin, Italy

Be Secure Feel Secure Journal 1: get an update about Piraeus' project for safe cities

JOURNAL 01 - BSFS Year 1 BSFS project has completed its first year of implementation, while a global pandemic has changed how we approach urban proje...

BeSecure-FeelSecure Piraeus, Greece

Citizen participation: empowering city dwellers to make cities safer

There is no question that the built environment has an important effect on perception of security. Urban interventions to foster security are appealin...

BeSecure-FeelSecure Piraeus, Greece

Tampere hosted the ‘Keeping Cities Vital: Public Space and Resilience’ event

Is city vitality a lost case under COVID-19? How do urban authorities respond when managing a ‘slow-burning’ crisis, such as the current pandemic, a c...

SURE Tampere, Finland

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 Nantes, France

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...

5Bridges Nantes, France

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...

5Bridges Nantes, France

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 Nantes, France

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....

FED Gothenburg, Sweden

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 Gothenburg, Sweden

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 Gothenburg, Sweden

FED Journal 3: Tackling silo-thinking

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

FED Gothenburg, Sweden

FED Journal 4: The FED system becomes operational

Gothenburg is heading towards a successful closure. ...

FED Gothenburg, Sweden

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 Gothenburg, Sweden

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...

FED Gothenburg, Sweden

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 Gothenburg, Sweden

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

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

OpenAgri Milan, Italy

Implementing the Open-Agri project in Milan: get an update on the activities carried out in the second UIA expert journal

UIA Expert Miguel Sousa has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Milan fo...

OpenAgri Milan, Italy

OpenAgri Zoom-In: In-depth look at the Experimentation Lab in Urban Agriculture

In this first Zoom-In, the UIA Expert Miguel Sousa looked at one of the innovative aspects of the OpenAgri project in Milan, the Experimentation Labor...

OpenAgri Milan, Italy

UIA projects contributing to inclusive and smart growth: Report reflecting experiences and first lessons now available

Read the final report with conclusions from the jobs and skills in the local economy capitalisation activities...

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Milan OpenAgri's 3rd project journal

In the third edition of the OpenAgri journal, the UIA expert Miguel Sousa, gives a complete overview of the latest development and challenges faced by...

OpenAgri Milan, Italy

Promised land, the future of urban consumption - takeaways

The Municipality of Milan organised in June a two day event to discuss the future skills, new technologies, narratives and policies with which cities ...

OpenAgri Pozzuoli, Italy

The Open Badge, an innovative tool to enhance individual skills

In this Zoom-in, Miguel Sousa, UIA Expert for the OpenAgri presents an innovative instrument developed in the framework of the project: The Open Badge...

OpenAgri Milan, Italy

OpenAgri Journal 4: synergies and integration of the project into the broader Milan Circular city strategy

In the fourth edition of OpenAgri Journal, the UIA Expert Miguel Sousa, presents the synergies and integration of the project into the broader Milan C...

OpenAgri Milan, Italy

OpenAgri Participative Urban Metabolism- ZOOM IN 3

In this last Zoom-in of Open-Agri, UIA Expert Miguel Sousa reflects on how the project has embedded an urban metabolism approach, with the aim of ensu...

OpenAgri Milan, Italy

OpenAgri Journal 5: get an update of Milan's project

The last year of OpenAgri wasn’t an easy one. After more than three years, the project is coming to an end, and it is time to celebrate its results an...

OpenAgri Milan, Italy

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 Barcelona, Spain

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 Barcelona, Spain

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 Barcelona, Spain

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...

B-MINCOME Barcelona, Spain

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 Barcelona, Spain

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 ...

Re-appropriating Ravenna’s waterfront: towards a collective story of transformation

Ravenna's Darsena area has been a delicate spot on the city’s map. After a process of deindustrialisation and a series of attempts to regenerate the f...

DARE Ravenna, Italy

DARE Journal #1: The Project’s Approach

The DARE (Digital Environment for collaborative Alliances to Regenerate urban Ecosystems in middle-sized cities) project connects urban regeneration w...

DARE Ravenna, Italy

Ravenna Mapping Darsena: In search of visions, lost and found

Many urban regeneration schemes focus on architectural interventions or masterplans that aim to transform the social fabric of an area through shaping...

DARE Ravenna, Italy

First activities and results of the UPPER project at Latina

UPPER project aims at transforming misused and abandoned urban green areas into Productive Parks (PP) devoted to research, technological development a...

UPPER Latina, Italy

Journal 1 UPPER project

The Journal is aimed to describe the activities of the UPPER project and the results achieved during the first period of implementation. It also descr...

UPPER Latina, Italy

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...

PUJ Prato, Italy

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...

PUJ Prato, Italy

THE SECOND WAVE OF SMART CITIES: learning from the experience of a “SMART CITIES LIGHTHOUSE” PROJECT through a study visit in Milan

“The overall evidence suggests that we do not lack technologies, nor the data captured by technologies, but that the bigger challenge lies in governan...

AVEIRO STEAM CITY Aveiro, Portugal

How may policy discourse influence local jobs and skills agendas? The case of the Vantaa GSIP Project

Transnational and comparative social policy research shows that integrating individuals with complex social problems (such as low qualifications, outd...

Urban Growth-GSIP Vantaa Vantaa, Finland

AVEIRO STEAM CITY LIVING LAB, THE CITY-AS-A-PLATFORM

A couple of years ago the Guardian declared the need for cities to become active as Living Labs, as places where designers, scientists, companies and ...

AVEIRO STEAM CITY Aveiro, Portugal

The Urban Commons in the era of public health emergencies: How Sevilla and the UIA community is problem-solving for safeguarding public space and public life in the face of increased risk

While images of empty cities made the world-tour and provoked understandable owe, empty and limited public space is in fact an imminent if not ever-pr...

CartujaQanat Sevilla, Spain
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Projects (11)

To-nite - Community-based urban security

Turin, Italy Urban security
879.546
01/09/2019 - 31/08/2022
4,643,903.28

BeSecure-FeelSecure - Holistic Urban Security Governance Framework for Monitoring, Assessing and Forecasting the Efficiency, Sustainability and Resilience of Piraeus

Piraeus, Greece Urban security
163.688
01/09/2019 - 31/08/2022
3,973,140.00

SURE - Smart Urban Security and Event Resilience

Tampere, Finland Urban security
235,239
01/09/2019 - 31/08/2022
3,205,722.00

5Bridges - Creating bridges between homeless and local communities

Nantes, France Urban poverty
691,604
01/08/2017 – 31/07/2020
EUR 4,953,297.32

FED - Fossil Free Energy Districts

Gothenburg, Sweden Energy Transition
548,190
01/11/2016 – 31/10/2019
EUR 4,654,800.00

OpenAgri - New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture 

Milan, Italy Jobs and skills in the local economy
1,324,169
01/11/2016 – 31/10/2019
EUR 4,996,745.52

B-MINCOME - Combining guaranteed minimum income and active social policies in deprived urban areas

Barcelona, Spain Urban poverty
1.620.809
01/11/2016 - 31/10/2019
EUR 4,854,088.56

DARE - Digital Environment for collaborative Alliances to Regenerate urban Ecosystems in middle-sized cities

Ravenna, Italy Digital transition
157,630
01/09/2019-31/08/2022
4,998,004.00

UPPER - Urban Productive Parks for the development of NBS related technologies and services

Latina, Italy Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions
135,705
01/09/2019 - 31/08/2022
3,947,760.00

PUJ - Prato Urban Jungle

Prato, Italy Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions
194,603
01/09/2019 - 31/08/2022
2,959,792.00

CAMINA -Community Awakening for Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería

Almeria, Spain Culture and cultural heritage
198 533
01/07/2020-30/06/2023
€ 4,364,691.76
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Call4_Topics_Urban Security_PDF

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Nantes_5Bridges_Zoom in 1 (December 2018)

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Nantes_5Bridges_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Dcb 2017)

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Gothenburg_FED_Journal 5 (Octb 2019)

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Gothenburg_FED_UIAExpertJournal 4 (March 2019)

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Gothenburg_FED_UIAExpertJournal3 (December 2018)

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Gothenburg_FED_UIAExpertJournal2 (July 2018)

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Gothenburg_FED_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Dcb 2017)

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Milan_OpenAgri_Journal 4

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Milan_OpenAgri_Zoom-in (Sptb 2019)

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Milan_OpenAgri_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)

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Milan_OpenAgri_Zoom-in 1 (Sptb 2018)

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Milan_OpenAgri_UIAExpertJournal2 (June 2018)

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Milan_OpenAgri_UIAExpertJournal 1 (Dcb 2017)

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Participative Urban Metabolism Open Agri - ZOOM IN 3

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OpenAgri @Milan - Journal5

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Barcelona_B-MINCOME_Journal 5

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Barcelona_B-MINCOME_UIAExpertJournal 4 (Sptb 2019)

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Barcelona_B-MINCOME_Zoom in 1

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Barcelona_BMINCOME_UIAExpertJournal3 (Nvb 2018)

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Barcelona_B-MINCOME_UIAExpertJournal 2 (may 2018)

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Barcelona_BMINCOME_UIAExpertJournal1 (Dcb 2017)

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