Layered City

🎄 Merry Christmas from Layered City! This Christmas, we celebrate joy, hope, and a shared mission that inspires us to keep building a better future. We are deeply thankful for the partnerships and your support we've received this year, to create more inclusive and sustainable cities. Wishing you a peaceful holiday season and a bright new year, The Layered City Team

🚶♀️ At Layered City, we’re using a citizen-driven approach to tackle #mobility, #accessibility, and #sustainability challenges in urban planning – layer by layer. Watch the video to discover how we’re creating more inclusive places! Based at Vienna University of Technology, we’re collaborating with vulnerable groups represented by AccessAustria and Amazing 15, and expert groups like Community Creates Mobility to tackle the pressing challenges related to mobility and movement. 🌍 Key Milestones: ✅ Conducted 10 city walks with 250+ high school students through WIENXTRA Ehrenamtswoche. ✅ Mapped mobility barriers in Vienna with visually impaired groups, supported by AccessAustria. ✅ Joined the Municipality of Kalamata, Greece in efforts to reimagine a public park using citizen engagement. ✅ Engaged children through #KinderUni Technik 2024, incorporating drawings and games to make participatory mapping fun and meaningful. ✅ Communicated our research at major events like the EU Researchers' Night, Life is Science ✅ Earned recognition by becoming an EU finalist at the EU Sparks for Climate Championship, and incubated at the TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center (i²c). Congrats to the team that made all this possible Androniki Pappa Angelos Chronis Domagoj Krhen Stanislava Fedorova 🌈 eveline wandl-vogt Huge thank you to Nikolina Žabčić for taking the effort to make the video! Together, we’re striving to make cities more inclusive and sustainable for all. #LayeredCity #UrbanInnovation #CitizenScience #InclusiveCities

We're on a mission to create a user-friendly tool that lets non-technical users and researchers design and monitor custom mapping projects — no coding needed. From mobility to climate, pollution, or biodiversity, we're working toward an all-in-one solution for community-driven spatial insights. Excited to see the possibilities unfold! #CityLayers #Urban #CitizenParticipation

🚶♀️🚴♂️ Navigating urban spaces should be effortless for everyone—but for many, it’s not. Health-impaired individuals, those with functional diversity, children, and seniors often face barriers to mobility, lacking tools to communicate their needs or access vital information about their surroundings. That’s where Layered City comes in. 🌍 This fall, we hosted two Layered City Mobility Experts workshops to tackle these challenges. Together with representatives from academia, the public sector, private enterprises, and expert groups, we identified key urban mobility issues Viennese citizens can reflect upon using our collaborative mapping tool. ✨ Want to help shape our beta mapping tool and improve mobility in Vienna? Simply share location and evaluate city layers via our platform here: https://lnkd.in/dAQjK-Ci Special thanks to our dear colleagues and contributors to our research: Academia: Irene Bittner, Mohammad.S Aminian, Anna Walter-Dockx, PhD, Romi Mikulinsky, Tanya Efremenko Public sector: Agnes Sindelar, Maria Wieser Private sector: Lisa Pointner, Elisa Quintero, Richard Preißler, Diedo Ladstätter, Claudia Falkinger, Albert Vogl-Bader Supporting groups: IMPETUS for citizen science!, Community Creates Mobility, Amazing 15 We’d like to extend our sincere appreciation to Angelos Chronis and Stanislava Fedorova for the brilliant technical implementation of our tool! Our workshops were led by Androniki Pappa, with support from project lead Lovro Koncar-Gamulin and researchers Domagoj Krhen, and 🌈 eveline wandl-vogt. Thank you to everyone who joined us to shape a more inclusive urban mobility future! 🙌

Meet the champions of the recent EU Sparks for Climate citizens' hackathon! Well done to all 27 teams participating in the final stage of the EU wide competition for #citizen driven solutions for climate and a special shout out to the nine finalists and three winning teams! 👉 Read the full story to learn more about the innovative solutions: https://lnkd.in/etkHSnxb

🥇27 teams reached the EU Final and, in the first round of evaluations, 9 teams impressed the jury members with their solutions for their communities and regions. Want to check out the finalists' projects?👉 https://lnkd.in/evfqkipE #EUSparks #EUSparksforClimate #competition #hacktahon #championship #CitizensHackathon #ClimateAction #EUChampionship #ClimateAdaptation #EUmissions #SmartCities #InnovationChallenge #SocialInnovation #ClimateInnovation European Commission EURADA - European Association of Development Agencies Energy Cities ECSA - European Citizen Science Association CapaCITIES DUT Partnership NetZeroCitiesEU Mission Implementation Platform for Adaptation to Climate Change (MIP4Adapt)

We're honored to have been mentored by passionate experts in urban innovation during our EU Sparks for Climate journey, Damian Wagner-Herold and Attila Katona! Through the EU Sparks for Climate Hackathon, our Layered City team had the chance to grow and develop innovative solutions for city-making, and we're proud to be among the top ten teams in Europe! 🎉

Have a look at our collaborative mapping tool for responsive city-making – a proposal shortlisted among the best in the EU Sparks for Climate Grand Final! 🎉 After winning the Regional Hackathon for Austria & Germany, this recognition on the EU stage is a huge step forward for us. Great work Layered City team & external collaborators! Lovro Koncar-Gamulin Domagoj Krhen Andrea Wiesinger Angelos Chronis Androniki Pappa Stanislava Fedorova 🌈 eveline wandl-vogt Serjoscha Düring A special shoutout to Damian Wagner-Herold and Attila Katona for their incredible support and mentorship throughout this journey! We’re excited to turn our vision into action and keep building on our proposal!

🎉After a day of presentations and evaluations, the results of the EU Sparks for Climate Final are out! The 9 finalists from the first European Citizens Hackathon Championship are: 🔹Allium – winners of Poznan Hackathon 🔹City Layers – winners of Kassel & Klagenfurt Hackathon 🔹deICE – winners of Trondheim Hackathon 🔹Green Cool Innovators– winners of Kassel & Klagenfurt Hackathon 🔹HempSustain Builders – winners of Coimbra Hackathon 🔹Plimira – winners of Athens Hackathon 🔹Smog Busters Alliance– winners of Burgas Hackathon 🔹The Nettuniani– winners of Coimbra Hackathon 🔹ToysAreGreen – winners of Madrid Hackathon   And now, it’s time to celebrate the three champion teams: 🏆 The Nettuniani for Adaptation to Climate Change Mission 🏆deICE for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission 🏆Allium for Cross-Cutting   Congratulations to all the winners, participants, experts and jury members who contributed to this event! Join us at eusparks.eu to continue our EU Sparks journey! #EUSparks #EUSparksforClimate #competition #hacktahon #championship #CitizensHackathon #ClimateAction #EUChampionship #ClimateAdaptation #EUmissions #SmartCities #InnovationChallenge #SocialInnovation #ClimateInnovation European Commission EURADA - European Association of Development Agencies Energy Cities ECSA - European Citizen Science Association CapaCITIES DUT Partnership NetZeroCitiesEU Mission Implementation Platform for Adaptation to Climate Change (MIP4Adapt)

✨ Das war die European Researchers' Night 2024 unter dem Motto "Life is Science" – ein riesiges Dankeschön an unsere großartigen Aussteller:innen und die vielen interessierten Besucher:innen! 💡🌍Ihr wollt mehr über unsere spannenden Mitmachstationen und Workshops erfahren? 🎧 Dann hört unbedingt in unsere neue Podcast-Folge rein – es lohnt sich! https://lnkd.in/dfc54yWr #LifeIsScience #ResearchersNight2024 #WissenschaftErleben #MitmachenUndEntdecken University of Graz, FH St. Pölten – University of Applied Sciences, Bernhard Weingartner, acib GmbH, @imπact, Fraunhofer Austria, Layered City, FH Joanneum, BNN - BioNanoNet, GREENOVET , proHolz Steiermark, Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark, Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, Institut AllergoSan, EM-TECH project, EFFEREST, TU Graz Life Long Learning, Montanuniversität Leoben, @Center of Science Activities, ALLODD Allostery in Drug Discovery, BIOVOICES, B-THENET, @Insignia-Bee.eu, BeeGuards Horizon Europe Project, MCAA Austria Chapter, E³UDRES² European University, FEASTS, European Research Executive Agency (REA), Photonics Austria