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Ghent Knapt Op Journal 4: final updates and new beginnings for Ghent’s housing renovation project

After almost 4 years of intensive work and challenging times, Ghent Knapt Op came to a successful end in spring 2022. The project started in 2019 as a...

ICCARus (Gent knapt op) - Improving housing Conditions for CAptive Residents in Ghent

Housing

Ghent - Belgium

Affordable housing
synergies

How project synergies bring new opportunities: the example of EPIU

Synergies between projects can generate a wide range of opportunities for municipalities. For example, the ability to share knowledge and best practic...

EPIU - Energy Poverty Intelligence Unit

Urban poverty

Getafe - Spain

Urban poverty
painting about La Chanca-Pescaderia

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...

CAMINA -Community Awakening for Multicultural Integrative Narrative of Almería

Culture and cultural heritage

Almeria - Spain

Culture and cultural heritage
SPIRE Journal 3 - Figure 1 - MakerSpace

SPIRE Journal 3: Overcoming the challenges

Following the triple bottom line (TBL), the SPIRE project initially tackles the challenges urban ecosystems suffer at the nexus of the economy-society...

SPIRE - Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem

Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions

Baia Mare - Romania

Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions
Improving Urban Security through Spatial Interventions in Piraeus

Improving Urban Security through Spatial Interventions in Piraeus

The Be Secure - Feel Secure (BSFS) project is a comprehensive initiative aimed at improving urban security and increasing citizens' sense of safety th...

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

Urban security

Piraeus - Greece

Urban security
Several municipalities are adopting the solution for snow clearance developed in Växjö during the Diaccess project.

Several municipalities are adopting the solution for snow clearance developed in Växjö during the Diaccess project.

Clearing snow and prevent slippage is not difficult, but it is costly and difficult to plan. That's why Växjö municipality, together with the company ...

DIACCESS - Digital ACCeleration for medium SizE Sustainable cities

Digital transition

Växjö - Sweden

Monitoring a quay wall by volunteers

Volunteers play an important role in GreenQuays’ biodiversity monitoring

The main innovative feature of the GreenQuays in Breda is to build them nature-inclusive. For achieving this, the construction will lay the foundation...

GreenQuays - Urban River Regeneration through Nature Inclusive Quays

Sustainable use of land and nature based solutions

Breda - The Netherlands

Nature based solutions
Electric minibus tested for on-call service in Sofia (Photo by Gereon Meyer)

Electric minibuses offering on-demand and zero-emission public transport options to citizens in Sofia

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 - Innovative demand responsive green public transportation for cleaner air in urban environment

Air quality

Sofia - Bulgaria

Air quality
An eye-bird's view of an Automatic Composting Unit in Heraklion Photograph by I. Daliakopoulos (HMU), 27 December 2022

A2UFood Journal 6 - Looking back, learning for the future

A2UFood - Avoidable and Unavoidable Food Wastes: A Holistic Managing Approach for Urban Environments

Circular economy

Heraklion - Greece

Circular economy

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