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This journal by expert Levente Polyák accompanies the UIA project CUP4Creativity in its development. This second issue serves as a summary of the proj...
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...
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...
Seeking to create new connections between cultural producers, creatives, technology initiatives, businesses and residents, the UIA-funded project CUP4...
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 is a project of the Budapest district of Újbuda, funded by the EU’s Urban Innovative Actions programme. The project builds on the distr...
This journal summarizes the progress of activities of the project INNOAIR implemented by the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, with the support of the Urban In...
International networking and dissemination of the project's concept and solutions are at the core of GAVIUS mission: in this light, the project's team...
Last 1st and 2nd June, the 5th edition of the conference “For a Circular and Competitive Economy” took place in Gavà (Spain). This annual event is arr...
Given the complexity of urban challenges, the public administrations involved in the Urban Innovative Actions Initiative are well aware they need to s...
After having successfully concluded its co-creation phase, the GAVIUS project is deep diving into the development of the mobile application which will...
Municipalities and local agencies are the forefront of digital transformation experimenting to use Artificial Intelligence and Data Anaytics to improv...
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...
SURE is about urban security and public space management through the lens of event management. SURE is improving the security and accessibility of pu...
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...
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...
Urban transformation, especially in the form of large urban development projects, is often seen as primarily top-down, regulated by public administrat...
DARE is an innovative urban regeneration project that instead of focusing uniquely on the physical environment, invests in the skills of its inhabitan...
Many urban regeneration schemes focus on architectural interventions or masterplans that aim to transform the social fabric of an area through shaping...
The DARE (Digital Environment for collaborative Alliances to Regenerate urban Ecosystems in middle-sized cities) project connects urban regeneration w...
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...
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....
BRISE-Vienna addresses the challenge of accelerating complex verification and permission procedures in city administrations by applying the full range...
Artificial Intelligence (or what we understand by this term) is all over the place and it is quickly transforming economies and organizations. Yet, ci...
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...
BRISE-Vienna addresses the challenge of accelerating complex verification and permission procedures in city administrations by applying the ful...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The evolving links between the university and the local government are becoming a major focus of European regional policies in specific areas, as the ...
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 ...
Transnational and comparative social policy research shows that integrating individuals with complex social problems (such as low qualifications, outd...
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...
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 ...
Aveiro Steam City provides an intense training program for primary schools, which aims to enable children to all the basic skills necessary for progra...
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...
“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...
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...
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 ...
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...
It is widely recognized that cultural policies represent levers of urban economic development of cities, as well as producing significant social impac...
Aveiro Steam city (ASC) is a complex and fascinating project because it combines the provision of infrastructural actions and services; if - on the on...
In this second Journal, UIA Expert Lucia Scopelliti through the project latest achievements and challenges. ...
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 ...
Many municipalities all over the world turn to the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to prevent environmental deterioration, mitigate traffic congesti...
Aveiro Tech City Bootcamp is an intensive training program, dedicated to unemployed, students or employed professionals looking for new career opportu...
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 overall evidence suggests that we do not lack technologies, nor the data captured by technologies, but that the bigger challenge lies in governan...
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...
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...
The INNOAIR Podcast episode #4 is covering the on-demand green public transport service that he Bulgarian capital of Sofia has started to test with a ...
INNOAIR Podcast Episode #3 presents the concept of Sofia Coin, a smart phone app that rewards its users for walking and cycling instead of driving whi...
INNOAIR Podcast Episode #2 is covering the opportunities and challenges of using artificial intelligence in managing sustainable on-demand mobility so...
INNOAIR Podcast Episode #1 is reporting on a hackathon aimed at ideas and solutions making Sofia's urban mobility smart and green....
The Urban Innovative Actions-funded project DARE is a non-conventional urban regeneration project that instead of focusing uniquely on the physical en...
In this first Zoom-in for the UIA project DARE, Levente Polyak explores the digital platform conceived to support the transformation of Ravenna's Dars...
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...
The Urban Growth Vantaa project – Impact evaluation
Urban Growth Vantaa Action proposals
Growth through competence and technology
Personal Digital Coach - Implementation plan
Competence Mapping - Implemetation plan
Dashboard - Implementation plan
Chatbot - Implementation plan
New Competencies for Growth - GSIP Vantaa
Vantaa_GSIP_Journal 1 (Jan 2020)
GSIP @Vantaa - Journal 2
Urban Growth GSIP Vantaa Experiences so far from the Field
Continuous learning challenges the working adult – how to provide organisational support?
Aveiro_AveiroSteamCity_Journal 1 v(Jan 2020)