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Alternative training models in childcare - ZOOM-IN

In the home and care project, a new form of childcare is being developed that enables mothers with their children and childminders to live together un...

Cairgo Bike working on 3 Ts: Training, Testing and Trial

The Cairgo Bike project is designed to boost measures being applied by the Brussels Capital Region to structurally improve air quality in the city. It...

The paradigm of vocational education and training services in the Vantaa GSIP Project – The role of the Vantaa Vocational College Varia

This is the web-article No. 5 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop an innova...

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...

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...

USE-IT! Journal 6: Lessons Learnt and Recommendations

In his 6th and final journal, UIA Expert Nils Scheffler “focuses on presenting the lessons learned and recommendations from the 3-year long project, (...

Birmingham Zoom-in 3: Community research for a community-oriented urban regeneration

UIA Expert Nils Scheffler explores how “USE-IT! has set up a free accredited community research training programme to train interested local people do...

USE-IT! Journal 5: The project is coming to an end

Take a look at the latest developments!...

USE-IT! Journal 1: Hear from the project’s UIA Expert how it is implementing its bold solution

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

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...

USE-IT! Zoom-In 2: Jobs for overseas migrants

UIA Expert Nils Scheffler shares the project’s insights on how to qualify 180 local overseas migrants to become employees for the British health syste...

Implementing the USE-IT project in Birmingham: Find out in the second UIA Expert Journal what activities have been carried out

UIA Expert Nils Scheffler has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Birmin...

USE-IT! UIA Expert Journal – Progress continues on linking capital investments in deprived neighbourhoods with local communities

Third journal tells us how this complex project is being delivered and how it’s facing its challenges...

USE-IT! Journal 4: The project in its final year

Interim results, lessons learnt and further actions needed....

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

The AS-FABRIK project Journal n 6 Project led by the city of Bilbao

One year after the UIA funding ended, the AS-Fabrik project is standing on its own feet. In his 6th and final journal, the UIA Expert Willem van Winde...

AS-Fabrik Zoom-In: Interview provides insight into transformation of local economy

UIA Expert Willem van Winden interviews Eduardo Castellano one the architects of a highly innovative approach towards industrial modernisation. ...

Zoom-in: An innovation hub for the city of Bilbao

In his 3rd Zoom-in, AS-FABRIK expert Willem van Winden, guides through the innovation hub in the city of Bilbao. Bilbao is now constructing the AS-FAB...

AS-FABRIK Expert Journal 5: Get to know what happened in the last 6 months!

In his 5th Journal, Willem van Winden summarizes the activities that took place in the last months in the AS-FABRIK project. Most importantly, Willem ...

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

Get to know better what Bilbao is doing on jobs and skills in the local economy in this UIA Expert journal....

Co-creation and collaboration processes within AS-FABRIK project

This Zoom-in deals with the issue of co-creation in Bilbao, in the framework of AS-FABRIK project, wherein a physical location that will become the be...

AS-FABRIK Expert Journal 4: Get to know what happened in the last 6 months!

In his fourth Journal, Willem van Winden discusses all key activities that you need to know about AS-FABRIK. Most importantly, Willem shares his thoug...

Implementing the AS-FABRIK project in Bilbao: Get an update on the activities carried out in the second UIA Expert journal

UIA Expert Willem Van Winden has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Bil...

AS-FABRIK Expert Journal 3: Working on increasing the competitiveness of industry and developing new knowledge-intensive business services

UIA Expert Willem Van Winden provides an update on how the project is evolving....

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...

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....

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....

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...

MARES Journal 6: get an update about Madrid project

UIA Expert Alessandro Coppola drives us through the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Madr...

Implementing the MARES de MADRID project: Get an update in the 5th UIA journal

UIA Expert Alessandro Coppola drives us through the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Madr...

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

Get to know better what Madrid is doing on the jobs and skills topic in this UIA Expert journal. ...

Implementing the MARES de MADRID project: Get an update in the second UIA journal

UIA Expert Alessandro Coppola has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Ma...

MARES de Madrid Zoom-In: Learn how the city supports the emerging social economy sector

UIA Expert Alessandro Coppola provides an in-depth look at how the implementation is changing the local economy. ...

Implementing the MARES de MADRID project: Get an update in the 4th UIA journal

UIA Expert Alessandro Coppola drives us through the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Mad...

MARES's 3rd project journal

In his 3rd Journal of the MARES project, UIA Expert Alessandro Coppola takes his readers in a journey of how Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) works...

The OpenAgri Project Journal N°6

The City government of Milan decided to set up an urban coalition with a series of partners (Universities, companies, associations) in order to apply ...

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...

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 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 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 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!...

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 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...

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...

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...

BRIDGE Expert Journal: lessons left behind for other cities

In his 5th journal of BRIDGE, UIA expert Eddy Adams looks into the lessons generated by the project – the ones that are left behind for other cities. ...

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

In his 6th journal of BRIDGE, UIA expert Eddy Adams looks into the lessons generated by the project – the ones that are left behind for other cities. ...

A Word Amongst Friends

The pandemic and its aftermath have major consequences for international work. City authorities, and those working with them, need to adapt and develo...

UIA cities Rotterdam and Madrid exchanged ideas and experience

Rotterdam and Madrid are developing innovative jobs and skills solutions through Urban Innovative Actions. Both address the challenge of raising skill...

BRIDGE Journal - the future legacy of the project

In his 4th journal of BRIDGE, UIA expert Eddy Adams looks into the future legacy of the project. To name but a few, the high-level Work Learning Agree...

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

Get to know better what Rotterdam is doing on jobs and skills in this UIA Expert journal. ...

Implementing the BRIDGE project in Rotterdam: Get an update in the second UIA journal on what is happening on the ground

UIA Expert Eddy Adams has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Rotterdam ...

BRIDGE Zoom-In: Video reflects conflict between school culture vs. street culture

UIA Expert Eddy Adams highlights in this video animation the main elements of the BRIDGE project set in Rotterdam-South. ...

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

Read about the progress with a specific focus on monitoring and evaluation...

U-RLP Journal 6: One year later

UIA Expert Daniel de Torres reflects on main takeaways from the project one year after its closure: “Thanks to the lessons learned, the project's appr...

A look at Plan Einstein through the intercultural lens

This third and final zoom-in on the Plan Einstein project aims to provide a view of the project from the perspective of the intercultural approach. Al...

U-RLP Journal 5: The project comes to an end

UIA Expert Daniel de Torres explains how “The final months of the project have focused on completing the actions and outputs foreseen in the work plan...

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

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

How to manage the centre and the neighbour's participation - an update in U-RLP's journal 2

UIA Expert Dani de Torres has been collecting the knowledge stemming from the implementation of the innovative solution proposed by the City of Utrech...

U-RLP Zoom-In: Video looks at creation of the coffee of the world

UIA Expert Daniel de Torres highlights in this video the steps taken to create the project’s coffee of the world....

Read U-RLP's 3rd project journal!

The decision of the Dutch national agency for reception of asylum seekers (COA) to anticipate the closure of Plan Einstein and the transfer of asylum ...

U-RLP Journal 4 and the challenge of creating meeting spaces for residents and neighbours

UIA Expert Daniel de Torres shares the latest insights....

U-RLP Zoom-in 2: Plan Einstein’s Narrative

Is the Plan Einstein (U-RLP) project contributing to the creation of a new narrative on the reception of refugees?...

MILMA Final Journal !

MILMA (Migrants Labour Integration based on Acculturation) was a project funded by the EU, through the Urban Innovative Action (UIA) that promoted int...

MILMA UIA Expert Journal – creating an open and inclusive labour market

UIA Expert, Dario Mazella, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...

MILMA Zoom-in 1: The entrepreneurial approach

How entrepreneurship education helps to face challenges in regard to inclusion in the MILMA project....

MILMA's innovative approach towards improving integration of migrants - Journal 2

In his 2nd journal of the MILMA project, UIA expert Dario Mazzella highlights the progress of the MILMA Project in Fuenlabrada in the last month. It ...

A2UFood Journal 6 - Looking back, learning for the future

Bioplastics from Food Waste - ZOOM IN

The A2UFood project proposes a holistic approach to food waste management in the Municipality of Heraklion. It includes food waste reduction (awarenes...

A2UFood Journal 5: The progress of Heraklion during COVID-19

Digital tools, bioplastics laboratory trials, composting, awareness raising, dissemination and tendering have progressed. Heraklion is getting ready f...

A2UFood Zoom-in 2: The implementation of the RMF Tool

UIA Expert Christina Marouli goes into the details of the RESOURCEMANAGER-FOOD (RMF) tool for the hospitality units....

A2UFood Journal 4: Promising efforts – extremely tight time frame

UIA Expert Christina Marouli reveals that in the past months, Heraklion’s “primary focus has been the resolution of licensing and tendering challenges...

A2U Food Journal 3: New lessons learnt

UIA Expert Christina Marouli reports that “this third period constituted a continuation of the first year, with the primary focus being on implementat...

A2UFood Journal 1: The UIA Expert presents the project’s first steps

Get to know the initial achievements of Heraklion in the first UIA Expert journal....

A2UFood Zoom-In: Food waste and stakeholders’ views

The first Zoom-in of the A2UFood project has just been finalised! UIA Expert Christina Marouli presents the many different dimensions of the problem o...

A2UFood Journal 2: The project moves forward

Discover the latest updates around Heraklion’s project. ...

Curing the Limbo #3 - Housing refugees: Homes from vacant apartments in Athens

Curing the Limbo, an initiative by the Athens Municipality, connects the issues of integration, housing, exchange economy and active citizenship in a ...

Curing the Limbo Journal #6: Legacies

Curing the Limbo was an Urban Innovative Actions-funded pilot to develop a trajectory for refugees to find their new home through education, employmen...

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...

Create your collective energy in a MiFC platform

Search below for such wonders of the project, as; - how to become a common platform, with your own powers, - how to cement partnerships between all ...

Coventry Zoom-in 3: The unexpected results and actions of EMPOWERED MIGRANTS CREATING, DEVELOPING AND EVOLVING - positive evolutions of individuals, associations and local authorities

This final ZOOM-IN 3 concentrates on the unexpected results of the project, of which, there are many. They are surprising and show how strong individu...

MiFriendly Cities Journal 5: XXI century heroes – Social Enterprises and Social Innovations leading the way

In this Journal, UIA Expert Peter Wolkowinski shows “the incredible resilience of many of the MiFriendly Cities partners and participants"....

Coventry Journal 4: ‘Share My Language’ sessions

UIA Expert Peter Wolkowinski demonstrates “how, in normal circumstances the mixing of people coming from different countries and walks of life, can be...

Coventry Zoom-in 2: Changing Realities in the West Midlands

UIA Expert Peter Wolkowinski reveals how the project has developed its impact measurement. ...

Coventry Journal 3: Looking towards the future

UIA Expert Peter Wolkowinski shares that “MiFriendly Cities has been running for 18 months and to celebrate this interim juncture partners have been l...

MiFRIENDLY CITIES UIA Expert Journal – recognising the contribution of migrants and refugees to the wider community

UIA Expert, Peter Wolkowinski, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...

MiFRIENDLY CITIES Zoom-in 1: How an exemplary city/university partnership gives birth to a wellbeing FabLab

A bottom-up dominated adaptation to the needs of migrants and refugees in building a ‘Coventry for all’...

MiFriendly Cities Journal 2: Meeting, talking and confidence building

The essential elements of creating communities, innovation and social enterprises...

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...

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...

Final journal of the UIA project 'Yes, we rent!'

Consolidation of the public-citizens cooperation for the provision of affordable housing

One of the most innovative aspects of the ‘Yes, We Rent!’ project is to coproduce affordable rental housing through a collaboration between the munici...

4 key activities to mobilise empty flats for affordable rental housing - zoom-in °3

Mataro's city council has developed an incentive scheme and untertaken four key activitites to mobilise private empty flats for the affordable rental ...

Mataró concludes its project ‘Yes, we rent!’ – the final event

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

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...

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...

‘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...

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!'...

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”....

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 ...

The GUARDIAN Project - Journal nº4

Prescribed burning in GUARDIAN project: what could have been but never was…

In this article the UIA expert Elsa Pastor delves into the significance of prescribed fire, an activity initially programmed in GUARDIAN, a vital comp...

Demonstrating GUARDIAN economic feasibility

In this article the UIA expert Elsa Pastor digs into the ecosystem services’ valuation of La Vallesa forest to demonstrate the economic viability of t...

Zoom in: GUARDIAN community engagement - How can residents contribute to fire resilience

In this zoom-in the UIA expert Elsa Pastor digs into the participatory approach that GUARDIAN has implemented to engage communities within the global ...

Looking at the GUARDIAN system’s “brain”: The NetSense SIDEINFO platform

In this article we show the main features of the monitoring, control and intelligence system that Medi XXI has designed for the GUARDIAN project. This...

GUARDIAN is officially inaugurated!

In this article we provide all the details of the GUARDIAN official opening event that took place at Riba-roja and Paterna last April 7th. It was a gr...

GUARDIAN Journal 3: get an update about Riba Roja de Turia's project

In the third Journal of the Guardian project UIA expert Elsa Pastor reports on project progress during year 2021. She also analyses cross-cutting impl...

Zoom-in: Interview to Ferran Dalmau, MSc on Wildland Fire Science and Integrative Management, Medi XXI CEO

In this Zoom-in we summarize the conversation that we had with Ferran on less visible yet important aspects of the GUARDIAN project. During the interv...

Analysing the economic viability of GUARDIAN: current challenges and expected outcomes

In this article we present a preliminary overview of the methods and challenges that prof. Francesc Hérnandez and his team at Universitat de València ...

Innovative fuel management at GUARDIAN: the green firebreaks

The main axis on which GUARDIAN's integrated fire management strategy pivots is the construction of green firebreaks, a fire management infrastructure...

GUARDIAN works are in the spotlight!

GUARDIAN works are progressing at full speed this spring, as the initial commissioning of the entire hydraulic infrastructure is expected in 3 months’...

GUARDIAN Journal 2: get an update about Riba Roja de Turia's project

In the second Journal of the Guardian project UIA expert Elsa Pastor reports on project progress during year 2020. She also analyses cross-cutting imp...

Unsupervised irrigation, how GUARDIAN scientists satisfy their thirst for innovation

Automatic preventive irrigation through water canyons is one of the several fire management actions that GUARDIAN is implementing at La Vallesa Wildla...

The smart use of water to fight WUI fires

Water scarcity is increasing in many European countries, being the climate change crisis and the growing water demand in urban areas their main driver...

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

In her 1st Journal, Elsa Pastor, UIA expert of the GUARDIAN project, discusses all key activities that you need to know about GUARDIAN, what the proje...

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...

ZOOM IN 3 - EdTech galleries and the future of education

In this third Zoom In of the NextGen Microcities project, the UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli interviews the key people behind the development of the new Sc...

ZOOM IN 2 - The 7 challenges of implementing innovation in cities

In this second Zoom In of the NextGen Microcities project, the UIA expert Fabio Sgaragli interviews Laura Codere, Project Manager of the project. This...

Ventspils, Valmiera and the quest to attract foreign investments in European Microcities

In this article we look at results on the project’s line of activity concerning Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) attraction in Ventspils and Valmiera...

Future of work and future of education: STEM, EdTech and the case of the NextGen Microcities project

Latvia is still affected by a structural deficit of STEM professionals in the job market. The challenge to leapfrog the country into a digital transfo...

Journal N. 3 - NextGen Microcities

NextGen Microcities has formally ended as an UIA funded experimentation after three years of hard work. For one more year, partners are committed to k...

NextGen Microcities ends, but it is just the beginning

After three years of hard work, after the summer the team started to wrap up final activities, and organized the grand finale event in Ventspils on 13...

NextGen Microcities boosts career development guidance

There is much that can be done to support employability, and public administrations can play an important role in that. They can do so not just by des...

Prototyping innovation: enabling the future one step at a time

Digital and physical are blending through a transformation of atoms in pixels and vice versa. Cities can play a role in enabling this transformation f...

NextGen Microcities Journal 2: get an update about Ventspils and Valmiera project

UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli provides “updates on some of the most interesting activities carried out within the project scope:...

NextGen Microcities tests innovative approaches to match the demand for ICT talents in the job market

In this article, we focus on project’s activities that have the ambition to demonstrate what can be done to facilitate the match with the growing dema...

Ventspils and Valmiera pilot innovative EdTech solutions to prepare young people for the future of work

As this article is being published, four NextGen partners are launching new initiatives where technology becomes a tool for educating younger generati...

NextGen Microcities Zoom-in 1: Facing COVID-19

In the below video, UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli shows how some of the key stakeholders from Ventspils and Valmiera managed to carry out project activiti...

The City of Ventspils approves a new FDI strategy within the context of the NextGen Microcities project

Ventspils just produced a strategy paper, highlighting its new Foreign Direct Investment strategy, and this article presents it in the context of FDIs...

NextGen Microcities opens DARE, the makerspace for creative ideas and new opportunities

DARE was opened in Valmiera, right before the Covid-19 crisis....

NextGen Microcities Journal 1: First steps for Ventspils and Valmiera

UIA Expert Fabio Sgaragli reveals how “the ambition of the NextGen Microcities project is to develop a blueprint model for enhancing both the demand a...

Creating Healthy Air Quality in Schools

In this zoom-in, the issue of outdoor and indoor air quality in schools is discussed on the occasion of the project GBG_A2CC of the City of Barcelona....

A blueprint of actions at the city scale for a successful adaptation plan to climate change - Recommendations from the Barcelona GBG_AS2C project

This Web article presents a blueprint of actions for cities to draft their own adaptation plan to climate change, also exploiting their local knowledg...

Evaluation - An indispensable component of innovation projects

Evaluation is an indispensable component of any project, especially innovation ones. It provides an understanding of the reliability of the applied me...

Upscaling with a vision - The school yard as a school

In this Web Article, the upscaling plan of the Climate Shelters project of the City of Barcelona is presented. The plan reflects a vision, namely to c...

Journal No. 3 The “final mile” of the Climate Shelters project: communication, evaluation and replication

The Journal (the 3rd for the Climate Shelters project) aims to provide an overview of the progress of the Climate Shelters project, with emphasis give...

Cultivating a School Culture for Climate Action - The Barcelona example

In a world that’s becoming increasingly complex, there is a need to prepare especially young people for a future that will require good knowledge, an ...

Indicators as tools for Adaptation to Climate Change at the city scale - The Climate Shelters project of the City of Barcelona

In this Web Article, the approach of the City of Barcelona towards the development of Performance Indicators as tools for Adaptation to Climate Change...

Changing the lens in urban design to cope with the impacts of climate change to health - The Barcelona approach

Protecting citizens at the neighbourhood scale in the event of heat waves is at the core of the Climate Shelters project of the City of Barcelona. Rea...

Barcelona’s pilot project to beat the heat

It is only 10 am but air temperature in Barcelona is already high; another heat wave has hit the city, causing the further enhancement of the heat isl...

Barcelona: a city in climate action

Image of the Can Fabras school yard following the conversion of the school to Climate Shelter ...

Adapting Barcelona to Climate Change: A multi-criteria approach for the selection of schools to be converted to Climate Shelters - Zoom In

This zoom in focuses on a challenging feature of the Barcelona “Climate Shelters” UIA project, namely the methodology and criteria for the selection o...

Barcelona’s Climate Shelters project The challenge of communicating unwelcome messages on climate change

To connect with people and communicate climate change effectively, one should convey more than climate facts to people. Instead, there is a need to un...

Science in the City

Image of Barcelona by Kaspars Upmanis on Unsplash...

GBG_AS2C journal: Climate shelters in Barcelona

In this journal, UIA Expert Constantinos Cartalis provides a contextualization of the Climate Shelters project within the policy context of the Europe...

Aveiro STEAM city: how the A of Arts contaminated applied sciences

AVEIRO STEAM CITY JOURNAL 4: GET THE FINAL UPDATE ABOUT THE AVEIRO’S PROJECT

This is the final journal of the project Aveiro Steam City (ASC); at the time of writing (October 2022) the project is officially closed and so it is ...

UBBU: a platform for learning coding skills in primary schools turns out to be an entrepreneurial success story

Aveiro Steam City provides an intense training program for primary schools, which aims to enable children to all the basic skills necessary for progra...

AVEIRO STEAM CITY Closure Event: a legacy to inherit through a new governance pact

It’s time to draw the strings of a long journey that has brought important innovations to the city of Aveiro: Aveiro Steam City (ASC) project is comin...

The AVEIRO STEAM CITY Project Journal n.3

“Aveiro STEAM city” (ASC) intends to boost the use of new technologies in the public space, together with the aim to make these technologies accessibl...

CULTURAL HERITAGE AS A LEVERAGE FOR URBAN REGENERATION: ATLAS BUILDING IN AVEIRO, A TECH HUB

ATLAS, a hub for Tech city: there is a trait d'union particularly important among UIA projects: together with actions, projects and services, the prog...

AVEIRO TECH WEEK from the voices of the ASC partners

From October 11th to 17th 2021, Aveiro Tech Week (ATW) took place in Aveiro, Candidate City for European Capital of Culture, reaching its 3th edition ...

Zoom-In Aveiro Tech Labs: YOUNG MAKERS IN SCHOOLS!

Tech Labs in a nutshell One of the challenging objectives of the Aveiro STEAM CITY (ASC) project is the development of a STEAM learning context (sc...

LEVERAGING INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR CULTURAL POLICIES: ART TECH INITIATIVES IN AVEIRO STEAM CITY AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON AVEIRO EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2027 CANDIDACY

It is widely recognized that cultural policies represent levers of urban economic development of cities, as well as producing significant social impac...

ASC FROM THE VOICES OF THE USERS: interviews with teachers, startuppers, citizens in need for reskilling, young aspiring entrepreneurs in the field of art and creativity

Aveiro Steam city (ASC) is a complex and fascinating project because it combines the provision of infrastructural actions and services; if - on the on...

Aveiro STEAM City Journal 2: get to know the project latest achievements

In this second Journal, UIA Expert Lucia Scopelliti through the project latest achievements and challenges. ...

AVEIRO’S LABOUR OBSERVATORY: THE POST-GENERATIONAL WORKFORCE LOOKS BEYOND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

IoT’S POTENTIAL: AVEIRO'S DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AREAS OF MOBILITY, ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Many municipalities all over the world turn to the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to prevent environmental deterioration, mitigate traffic congesti...

Coding skills for non-geeks only! A smart strategy to train human resources and retain talents in the Aveiro Region - Zoom-in

Aveiro Tech City Bootcamp is an intensive training program, dedicated to unemployed, students or employed professionals looking for new career opportu...

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 ...

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 Journal: a new technological revolution in the city

Lucia Scopelliti, UIA Experts for the Aveiro STEAM city project, in this first edition of the Journal analyses how the project represents a huge chanc...

The GSIP Project Journal 4: How has an innovative idea enriched the local jobs and skills discourse

This is the fourth (and final) Journal of the EU (Urban Innovative Actions - UIA) funded GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, one of th...

The use of impact evaluation in local jobs and skills initiatives – The paradigm of the Vantaa GSIP Project

This is the third Zoom-in of the EU (Urban Innovative Actions - UIA) funded GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, one of the main instru...

Municipalities as drivers of change in the regeneration of urban labour markets – The paradigm of the GSIP Project “Updating skills for employees” model

This is the second Zoom-in of the EU (Urban Innovative Actions - UIA) funded GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, one of the main instr...

Management and monitoring models of local jobs and skills initiatives – Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

How could independent Research Organizations contribute to the development of local jobs and skills agendas? Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

This is the web-article No. 7 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop an innova...

The contribution of municipal companies to local jobs and skills agendas - Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

This is the web-article No. 8 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop an innova...

The GSIP Project story during 2021 - Journal 3

This is the third Journal of the EU (Urban Innovative Actions - UIA) funded GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, one of the main instru...

“Communication and dissemination strategies of local jobs and skills agendas - Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project Communication Plan”

This is the web-article No. 6 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop an innova...

How did the Vantaa GSIP Project achieve to develop active employment programmes with strong social impact? The GSIP 1 model case study

This is the web-article No. 4 of the GSIP (Growth and Social Investments Pacts) Project, an initiative of the City of Vantaa (FI) to develop active em...

GSIP Journal 2: get an update on Vantaa's project

Despite the strong challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and their effect on the broader Vantaa economy and social fabric, the GSIP Project continues it...

How could European cities promote a solid active inclusion model

In his 1st Zoom-In, GSIP expert Gabriel Amitsis, focuses on a rather neglected issue in the overall debate about the development of local community jo...

How Universities participate in the development of local jobs and skills agendas? Lessons from the Vantaa GSIP Project

The evolving links between the university and the local government are becoming a major focus of European regional policies in specific areas, as the ...

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

In his 1st Journal, Gabriel Amitsis, UIA expert of the GSIP project, discusses all key activities that you need to know about it, what the project is ...

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...

Live from the Growth and Social Investments Pacts Project! An interview with the City of Vantaa Mayor Ritva Viljanen

The City of Vantaa Mayor is now serving her first term. Ritva Viljanen talks about “Jobs and skills in the local economy” and reinforces the commitmen...

Journal #4: The final year for DIAMS

This is the fourth and last journal for the UIA project DIAMS (Digital Alliance for Marseille Sustainability). The Aix Marseille Métropole has led thi...

Zoom-in #3. Evaluation and monitoring innovative environmental projects involving citizen participation: the DIAMS approach

Monitoring and evaluating the impact of projects is essential to determine the success in implementing the action plan, achieving the objectives, and ...

Journal # 3: The challenges for the UIA DIAMS project

This is the third journal for the UIA DIAMS (Digital Alliance for Marseille Sustainability) project led by the Aix Marseille Métropole. In terms of a...

ZOOM – IN #2 - ENGAGEMENT OF CITIZENS AND STAKEHOLDERS IN THE FIGHT OF POOR AIR QUALITY: THE UIA-DIAMS APPROACH

The UIA DIAMS project, led by the Aix-Marseille Métropole, aims to engage the different parts of the society to improve the policies related to air qu...

DIAMS Journal 2: get an update about Aix-Marseille project

This second journal discusses the challenging times faced in this exceptional year, marked by the Covid-19 global pandemic, and how the DIAMS partners...

The DIAMS digital platform: Towards a collaborative approach to improve the air quality governance- Zoom-in

The UIA DIAMS project, lead by the Aix Marseille Metropole, aims to engage the different parts of the society to improve the air quality problems in t...

Diams Project Journal 1

In this first journal about the DIAMS project, UIA Expert Anna Font provides a general overview of how DIAMS fits within the existing European, French...

The living lab: a lab in the air, a space to create on earth

The Living lab opened its doors in October 2019 in Aix-en-Provence, one of the main cities of the Aix Marseille Metropole. It was conceived to be an i...

UFIL Final Journal

This is the fourth and last journal of the Urban Forest Innovation Lab project (2018-2022). ...

Urban-rural agenda of Cuenca: the way forward to 2030

The agenda is among the last deliverables produced by the Urban Forest Innovation Lab project. The document sets the roadmap for local and regional pu...

SEMBRIA, the missing perspective

SEMBRIA is a non-profit association with a mission: to address the needs of rural territories through the implementation of participatory projects. Th...

DENDRON, a 'tree' grown in UFIL innovation lab

Dendron is the Greek word for ‘tree’. This is the name given by Diego, Héctor and José to their company established in 2022 as a follow up to their pa...

Final (internal) evaluation and results: what can be replicated in other cities endowed with forest resources

In July 2022, the project started collecting the information for its final internal evaluation. Due by the end of October 2022, the evaluation was a m...

Incentive mechanisms for visibility and engagement: acknowledgments, prizes and awards

UFIL has given and gained visibility over the last three years. Prizes and awards were used to help young entrepreneurs to accomplish the UIA project’...

Zoom-in #3 - Lessons learnt in UFIL

UFIL is close to its completion and project's partners were invited to point out the main lessons learnt throughout implementation. By sharing this ex...

Forest certification in and around UFIL: a multi-functional driver

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international organisation promoting the responsible management of forests, and is one of the partners of t...

Local action plans for forest bioeconomy development: a mission impossible?

One of the main objectives of the UFIL project is to contribute developing a local bioeconomy ecosystem which is based on the sustainable exploitation...

Zoom-in #2 - Business and job creation in UFIL: sustainability mechanisms

The Urban Forest Innovation Lab project is a Jobs and Skills Urban Innovation Action. Through its innovative training, the project is expected to help...

How do UFIL entrepreneurial ideas link urban to rural areas? A mix of tradition and local innovation.

UFIL is an Urban Innovation Action and as such is supposed to focus on urban development. In fact, UFIL has a peculiarity that makes it different from...

UFIL Journal #3: how the project is about to begin its fourth and final year

This is the third journal of the Urban Forest Innovation Lab (UFIL) UIA project since its start on 1 November 2018. It covers the period 31 October 20...

UFIL Journal 2: taking stock of the project implementation

This is the second journal of the Urban Forest Innovation Lab (UFIL) project since its start on 1/11/2018. It covers the period 1 January 2020 – 31 Oc...

ZOOM-IN #1: The ‘business challenge’ mechanism of UFIL

In UFIL, the ‘business challenge’ is a mechanism ruling the internal competitions which are run in the project’s innovation lab. These competitions ar...

UFIL and the COVID-19 outbreak: challenges and opportunities.

UFIL is designed to create innovation and to impact at the socio-economic level. The project tackles job creation and development of new businesses in...

Scouting innovators: how ideas shape the future of Cuenca's forest-based bioeconomy

UFIL is looking for innovators and when potential candidates were asked to share their ideas on the future of Cuenca's forests, the city, the objects ...

Fostering local skills and innovation capacity in the forest sector: UFIL's first journal is out

In this first journal edition of the UFIL project, the UIA Expert Rossella Soldi presents the challenges and the solutions implemented by the City of ...

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...

Cluj Future of Work Journal 4: get the final update about Cluj Napoca project

UIA expert Simone d'Antonio provides the final updates on the activities carried out in the framework of Cluj Future of Work, such as the final event ...

Future of work is creative: how the Festival of Creativity engaged the local community in the project’s grand finale

The final event of Cluj Future of Work was a great opportunity for connecting the local audience to the topics of the UIA project...

Cluj Future of Work Zoom-in 3: creating innovation in culture, arts and design, the stories of the finalists of CULTUREPRENEURS

The third Zoom In of Cluj Future of Work is on the stories of the finalists of the CULTUREPRENEURS programme, the acceleration initiative at the core ...

Cluj Future of Work Journal 3: get an update about Cluj Napoca project

From Cluj Napoca to Venice: five points on the future of work in cultural and creative industries and community resilience

The results of the capitalization visit carried out by the team of Cluj Future of Work and the UIA expert to reflect on the future of work in cultural...

Three lessons that Cluj-Napoca, Aveiro and Eindhoven can learn from each other on future labour skills

The cross-fertilization action carried out by three UIA projects shares interesting elements contributing to the European debate on the skills needed ...

Cluj Future of Work Journal 2: get an update about Cluj Napoca project

UIA Expert Simone d'Antonio provides updates on the most interesting activities carried out in the framework of Cluj Future of Work. Among these, the...

Skills development as opportunity for local growth: a new approach with Culturepreneurs in Cluj-Napoca

The kick-off of the entrepreneurial educational programme of Cluj Future of Work paves the way to the promotion of a collaborative approach towards th...

Festivals, film industry and multimedia products after the pandemic: Cluj-Napoca gives a glimpse of the future

The partners of Cluj Future of Work and the participants to the Culturepreneurs programme are testing new ways for producing and distributing culture,...

The Cluj Future of Work Project Journal 1

In a city as, Cluj-Napoca, which had the highest economic growth rate in Romania in the last decade, the alliance between public authorities, private ...

Reimagining work: Cluj-Napoca uses future scenarios to make better predictions

The elaboration of future scenarios may be decisive for reimagining the future of work: Cluj-Napoca is using a wide range of methodologies to imagine ...

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...

WISH-MI Final Journal

Harnessing art to enable youth participation: the WISH-MI experience

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WISH-MI Journal #3

This is the third WISH-MI journal and the first that has been produced since the full implementation of the project. ...

Giornata del Gioco: World Play Day as a launchpad for the WISH-MI missions

The City of Milan is opening new avenues in its drive to improve youth well-being in the city. To coincide with World Play Day, WISH-MI has launched a...

Stimulating design innovation at the local level

WISH-MI aims to improve levels of youth wellbeing in the city of Milan. Improving the quality of, and access to, available services, is an important p...

Going Digital: The WISH-MI online platform gets the green light

The City of Milan has launched a digital platform to offer wellbeing services to its young people and families. The platform is now operational, comp...

Wish-Mi hubs ready to hit the ground

Wish-Mi is an ambitious wellbeing strategy for the young people of Milan. The model comprises a digital hub, enabling access to services, combined wit...

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...

Piloting the BRISE-Vienna results - Journal N° 3

The 3rd Journal of BRISE Vienna sums-up the progress that was made throughout 2022 and highlights the steps taken to achieve the proof-of-concept for ...

Disrupting without breaking - how Vienna is piloting a seamless digital building permission

Innovation in the public sector follows different rules than in the corporate world. But also here, new things need to be tested before adopting them....

The BRISE-Vienna Project - Journal N°2

BRISE-Vienna addresses the challenge of accelerating complex verification and permission procedures in city administrations by applying the full range...

AI for cities – the BRISE Example

Artificial Intelligence (or what we understand by this term) is all over the place and it is quickly transforming economies and organizations. Yet, ci...

BRISE-Vienna: innovation & transformation in cities – the role of the municipal employee

Changing a person's behavior is hard. Transforming organisations is even harder. But if we are to make our cities more sustainable, liveable and citiz...

Digitizing building permissions in Vienna: BRISE Journal 1

​​​​​​​BRISE-Vienna addresses the challenge of accelerating complex verification and permission procedures in city administrations by applying the ful...

BRISE-Vienna: The automated 3D reference model as municipal verification tool

The BRISE-Vienna project aims to fully digitize the process of building permission and - through this - at least half the time it takes the municipal ...

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...

Adapt to climate change starting from green areas

The APTBC project has invested significant efforts in improving the parks in the central neighbourhoods of Seraing, which are the least green areas of...

The future of the first creative station in Seraing

This article is based on an interview with Aurélie Portois, currently project coordinator at the Maison du Peuple, and on some preliminary drafts cont...

A Place To Be-Come journal 4

While the project was concluded in August 2023, this final issue of the journal offers a critical reflection on the challenges faced during implementa...

The final event of the APTBC project as a moment of collective sharing

This article is about the final event of the APTBC project, which took place in June 2023. The article presents how the results, ambitions and expecta...

APTBC impacts according to project partners - ZOOM IN

The project A Place to Be-Come has recently closed. Ahead of the final event, all the project partners have shared their ideas about what the project’...

Encouraging residents to use and become familiar with their local green areas

One goal of the project is to improve residents’ relationship with their local parks. This improvement involves on the one side improving the material...

A pilot project's legacy

'La Ruche à projets' has stopped being the APTBC temporary creative hub in central Seraing. However, it will not close its doors and its role as a com...

A Place To Be-Come: journal 3

The third edition of the journal covers almost the entire 2022. The implementation of most of the project actions has been completed and the remaining...

What it takes to raise a community in Seraing

The A Place To Be-Come project is built around one great idea: that inclusion can be promoted by building a community of local citizens eager to devel...

Under what conditions can we assure a real access to green areas in Seraing?

The city of Seraing has a bold plan to redevelop its post-industrial territory after decades of decline. In particular, some urban projects, such as a...

Co-designing a new day-shelter to improve access to low-threshold care in Seraing’s central neighbourhoods

In Seraing, two shelters welcome people experiencing homelessness or great discomfort associated with instable and precarious conditions of life. The ...

APTBC Journal 2: how the puzzle is assembling as an increasingly coherent whole

This second journal covers the year 2021, between the first year and a half and second year and a half of implementation of the A Place To Be-Come pro...

Seraing meets Turin: the power of sharing stories

Last October, a delegation composed by three members of the APTBC project management team, two city officials from Seraing and the UIA expert spent th...

Improving citizens’ relationship with their environment to promote social inclusion, or the A Place To Be-Come’s boldest ambition

In this journal, UIA expert Francesca Ansaloni provides an account of difficulties, challenges and achievements of A Place To Be-Come's first year of ...

Seraing resumes its long journey of commoning where it all began

La Maison du Peuple was built in 1916 in Seraing as a gathering place for the working class. “Before, social-democrat activists gathered in the old th...

How the pandemic diluted the project and how we learnt to stay put, but actively

Julien Bebronne and Lauranne Liégeois are respectively APTBC coordinator and project officer for Arebs, the municipal agency in charge of the project ...

Go transdisciplinary and flexible! The A Place To Be-Come way to learning

A Place To Be-Come aims to tackle urban poverty in Seraing by investing in people and the enhancement of their well-being. This goal is expected to be...

Understanding the dimensions of SURE

This article visits the key dimensions that SURE addressed reaching its goal to increase urban security through the lense of large-scale urban events....

ZOOM IN SURE – SCALING UP and SCALING OUT

This Zoom-in captures the key actions that the Tampere leading team of SURE took to ensure that this innovation project would successfully scale-up an...

Smart Urban Security & Events Resilience (SURE) Journal 2: Increasing safety of public events and building the city’s capacity for long-term resilience planning

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...

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...

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...

CAPACITYES, Final Journal:Legacy, Lessons learned, Replicability

This Journal marks the end of the Capacityes project, which has successfully wrapped up its activities in its final year. The journey wasn't easy, esp...

Everybody go home!

On Saturday, 6 May 2023, an event organised by the Municipality of Bergamo, the CAPACITyES project partners, together with stakeholders from the local...

Journal 3 - The cohousing experience in Borgo Palazzo: Ready to go!

The Capacityes project revolves around three central initiatives that reflect the regenerative path in Bergamo, with a particular focus on the Borgo P...

CAPACITyES presented to Italian Municipalities - the innovative path undertaken in Bergamo

The annual national meeting of ANCI, which this year was held in Bergamo, was an opportunity to have a moment of direct comparison with various Italia...

CAPACITyES ZOOM IN NO.2, The complexity of urban regeneration: a correlation between unpredictable and good local planning to counteract urban poverty.

This zoom-in, the second and final one of CAPACITyES, highlights how difficult it can be to complete redevelopment works in a period characterized by ...

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. ...

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...

Journal 3 - UPPER

The most important goal achieved by the Upper Project is that knowledge of NbSs and their potential impact on marginal areas has been gained by the lo...

Journal 4 – UPPER

The Productive parks and Demonstration sites included in the Upper project today represent milestones from which the current and future government of ...

Ce.R.S.I.Te.S. and the importance of NbS monitoring for strategic planning

The results of the UPPER project demonstrate how NbS (Nature Based Solutions) offer the opportunity to practice transdisciplinary dialogues, to spread...

Demonstration Sites – an operational laboratory for UPPER's environmental challenges

There were various environmental critical issues highlighted by the UPPER project for the territory of the Municipality of Latina, for which a range o...

UPPER faces - Zoom-In 2

Synergies for a sustainable and resilient territory

UPPER's first urban production park is underway

Journal 2 UPPER project

The UPPER project for the urban natural park of the Acque Medie canal

The Canale delle Acque Medie (The Canal of the Middle Waters) symbolizes an element of structural interest for the urban center of Latina, representin...

Another summer of play, health and wellness with UPPER SEEDS!

After the success of the 2021 edition, the 2022 UPPER SEEDs were kicked off on 13 June. The activities in which citizens, schools and all those who h...

UPPER JOBS: innovative skills for employment and social inclusion

The selection of participants in the second edition of UPPER JOBS has been completed. The participants selected by the Labirinto Social Cooperative ha...

An innovative platform for environmental monitoring

Thanks to the creation of two innovative platforms developed by the partners and integrated into a common observatory, the UPPER project is able to co...

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...

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...

From Result to Impact - The UIA Project "home & care" on the Way to Sustainable Implementation - Journal N° 3

Zoom In 2: First experiences from living together in the home and care house

Home & Care as an integration project

One of the cornerstones of the Home & Care project is the integration of people who, due to their life situation, their background, and their skills a...

Single-parent families in the Home & Care project – A local and European perspective

In the UIA project Home & Care, professional and social integration of single parents is tested with a new support model. Being a single parent in Ger...

The UIA project "home & care" in the transition from the project idea to the actual implementation - JOURNAL 2

Welcome to the new home – An introduction to the new "home & care" building

The development of the new home concept in the UIA project combining housing with work and childcare

From the potential target group to actual residents - experiences from a UIA-project that combines housing and childcare

In the UIA-project "home and care" of the city of Landshut, single mothers who work in the health care sector and single mothers who do an apprentices...

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

Journal N° 1...

Final Journal DIACCESS

This final journal provides an assessment of the DIACCESS project. It starts with brief update of the activities in the DIACCESS project since it’s en...

Unemployed youth and refugees as IT talent

There is a lot of work to be done in digitalization, in the private and the public sector. Companies and governments everywhere are doing their best t...

Växjö gives waste bins a brain for better waste collection and sorting

Digital technology can make household waste collection in cities more efficient and speed up the circular transition. Putting sensors in waste bins ca...

The slippery road of innovation procurement

Journal 3 DIACCESS project

Executive Summary The project has entered its extension stage; the digital lab and IT platform are completed. Three innovation partnership procurem...

Scaling up smart city innovations: how it is done in Växjö

This zoom-in focuses on the challenge of upscaling, with illustrative examples from the DIACCESS project. In that project, the Swedish city of Växjö i...

Växjö meets Amsterdam to discuss innovative procurement: some takeaways

This article reviews how the cities of Växjö and Amsterdam adopt innovative procurement methods, and the challenges they face. ...

DIACCESS Zoom-in 1: Developing smart city solutions using the Innovation Partnership method: how does it work? Lessons from Växjö

This zoom-in focuses on the innovation partnership (IP) model. This model opens new avenues for public bodies, including cities, to co-create solution...

Journal 2 DIACCESS project

This journal provides an update of the progress of the project at the time of writing (November 2021) in the three main domains: the innovative public...

Challenge-based procurement: but how to find the challenges?

A cornerstone of the DIACCESS project in Växjö is to run a series of innovative public procurement (IPP) processes/rounds, in which companies are aske...

Procurement for innovation in action: DIACCESS Journal 1

This journal gives an account of the first experiences in the DIACCESS project in Växjö, Sweden...

Digital innovations for Växjö: some first results and challenges of the DIACCESS project

If a soccer field is covered with a thick layer of snow, it’s better to close it for use or remove the snow; otherwise the field gets broken and repai...

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...

US4F Journal 4: How cities should organise their food production and distribution systems

UIA Expert Daniela Patti explores Maribor’s experience with “what has happened to the urban gardens, mainly focusing on the possibilities of the futur...

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...

Journal 4 - RE/SOURCED

Final Journal on the UIA RE/SOURCED Project...

RE/SOURCED - Journal 3

Our third RE/SOURCED Journal, covering Q1 2023 to Q1 2024...

A viable Energy Community at Transfo

Does circularity help to reduce carbon emissions?

This articles considers whether there is a link between circularity and carbon emissions. It also uses the RE/SOURCED project as an exemplar to show ...

Challenges adopting Circularity in Energy projects

RE/SOURCED aimed to construct a DC Smart Grid using circular principles at Transfo, a former coal fired power station site in Belgium. The original pr...

RE/SOURCED: Zoom-In 2

This video presents the second ZOOM-IN article for RE/SOURCED. It summarises the progress made by the project consortium in delivering the RE/Sourced...

RE/SOURCED - The Educational Perspective

RE/SOURCED is defined by a number of innovative but highly technical aspects of the project. This article presents a different perspective - the proj...

RE/SOURCED Journal 2

This article presents the second UIA Journal for Renewable Energy SOlutions for URban communities based on Circular Economy policies and DC backbones...

What are Energy Communities?

Energy Communities have had considerable press coverage recently and RE/SOURCED always had an Energy Community as one of the integral elements of its ...

Tenacity pays dividends for RE/SOURCED - ZOOM IN

This article sets out the regulatory challenges faced by the RE/SOURCED project team and the steps taken to overcome them. It highlights how regulatio...

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...

Final Journal - Community Awakening for Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería (CAMINA)

The Project CAMINA finished in June 2024. With this Final Journal, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, provides an overview of CAMINA focusing on project outp...

The last achievement of CAMINA: the implementation of a “Cultural Circular Route”

The last activity implemented by CAMINA (the project ended in June 2023) was the implementation of a “Cultural Circular Route” aimed at re-connecting ...

Online final event for CAMINA and HI.D.RA.N.T.

On 26 June 2024 the UIA projects focused on culture and cultural heritage CAMINA and H.ID.RA.N.T organised a joint online final event called “Engage.A...

Sharing CAMINA results to ARCHETHICS URBACT Network of cities: the innovative Inclusive approach for cultural production

On 8 May 2023 at the online webinar organised by ARCHETHICS, an URBACT Action Planning Network, CAMINA project was presented by the delivery partners ...

CAMINA - Journal 3 - Civic curators - Social Laboratories for Cultural Participation in Almeria

Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 3rd Journal, focuses on the “Civic Curators”, the collaborative laboratories to co-design and implement cultural p...

CAMINA - Journal 2 - From the Novel Cultural Narrative to Social Laboratories for Culture

Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 2nd Journal, focuses on the Novel Collective City Narrative, built up with the contribution of Almería citizens an...

The Novel Collective Narrative of Almeria to foster Cultural Participation

In this first episode developed for the project “CAMINA”, Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, introduces the Novel Collective Narrative of Almería’s Cultural ...

Journal 1 - CAMINA – Community Awakening for Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería

Ileana Toscano, UIA expert, in this 1st Journal, provides an overview of the policy context at local and international level, in which CAMINA has been...

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...

Journal 2 - The establishment of the innovation ecosystem

This is the second journal for Kosice 2.0 project that puts the second year of its implementation journey into the spotlight focusing on the key progr...

Embedding the culture of innovation - ZOOM IN (PART B)

Kosice 2.0 project aims at introducing new dimensions to the routines of work of Kosice City employees stimulating a shift in the culture of doing thi...

Embedding the culture of innovation - ZOOM IN (PART A)

How does the “Creative City” program, the capacity training program for the City employees of Kosice municipality, envisions to establish a new mindse...

Developing an open-data culture to advance city innovation: Open Data Kosice on the spotlight

Municipalities have been investing all the more in the last decade into developing infrastructures that enable them to work with data to improve their...

How does Kosice 2.0 project channels collective intelligence to respond to the Ukraine emergency

The second hackathon of the project developed solutions to help Ukrainian war refugees access the Slovak labor market....

Kosice 2.0 Journal 1: Hitting the ground running

The Kosice 2.0 project capitalizes on the ongoing culture-led transformation dynamics in the city of Kosice to increase citizens’ wellbeing while rein...

Kosice 2.0 launches its Urban Innovation Sphere and brings together citizens, start-ups and policymakers to drive change in the city

How can a City nurture intelligence among its society to improve public service provision and boost economic activity? What could be the role of cult...

T-reporters around Europe

How to empower young residents - interview with Paul Cornelissen

I asked Paul Cornelissen, thematic project manager of ForwArt about his vision on youth empowerment and how is he turning it into reality within proje...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What is RE/SOURCED?

The RE/SOURCED Project & TRANSFO...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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....

ForwArt's legacy: the municipal point of view

In this final episode of the ForwArt podcast series, we sit down with Inez Raskovac, project manager, and Ulco Mes, cultural policy programme officer ...

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...

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....