AIRQON Journal 1: First challenges

AIRQON Journal 1: First challenges

UIA Expert Javier Leiva reveals how the Breda project addresses the first implementation challenges: “One of the key aspects being addressed is the pa...

AirQon - Air Quality through EV Battery Connectivity

Air quality

Breda - The Netherlands

We need to share self-driving rides

We need to share self-driving rides

Self-driving vehicles can help solve mobility and congestion challenges in urban areas. That’s one of the conclusions of a COWI study conducted in Osl...

LINC - Transforming Urban Planning Providing Autonomous Collective mobility

Urban mobility

Albertslund - Denmark

Self-driving shuttle finds the fastest route to your destination using a new app

Self-driving shuttle finds the fastest route to your destination using a new app

Researchers from DTU Compute and developers from IBM are currently testing a newly developed app in the LINC project in a test area at DTU Lyngby Camp...

LINC - Transforming Urban Planning Providing Autonomous Collective mobility

Urban mobility

Albertslund - Denmark

Picture of the "Yes We Rent!" Website

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...

Yes We Rent! - Leveraging vacant private property to build up a cooperative affordable housing scheme

Housing

Mataró - Spain

Affordable housing
Économie circulaire
Co-housing
Energy retrofitting
Logement
Housing cooperative
Super Circular Estate Zoom-in 2: How BRX could support reuse of building materials

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

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

Super Circular Estate - First Circular Social Housing Estate for 100% Material and Social Circularity

Circular economy

Kerkrade - The Netherlands

A2U Food Journal 3: New lessons learnt

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

Circular economy

Heraklion - Greece

The VILAWATT currency

The VILAWATT currency

The Vilawatt currency, which is born from the European project of energy transition Vilawatt, is not a currency in itself isolated from the project, b...

Vilawatt - Innovative local public-private-citizen partnership for energy governance

Energy Transition

Viladecans - Spain

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

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

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

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

Urban poverty

Barcelona - Spain

Once upon a time there was... the Vilawatt Consortium

Once upon a time there was... the Vilawatt Consortium

There are several aspects that led Vilawatt to be selected by the European Union as a benchmark innovative project in the energy transition. However, ...

Vilawatt - Innovative local public-private-citizen partnership for energy governance

Energy Transition

Viladecans - Spain

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