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🚶♀️ 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

Hello, 2025 This year begins with exciting partnerships and meaningful city [re]development processes that inspire and motivate us at Play the City. Take, for example, the #FoodsharingGame, which we’re developing in collaboration with the #Cultivate teams, including Wageningen University & Research , and the follow-up stages of #Kangoeroewonen036 with Kunstlinie Almere. Across the Atlantic, we’re thrilled to work with Stantec and the Urban Land Institute Boston/New England on a #MultifamilyHousing Development Game. Meanwhile, here in Europe, the #CivicEconomyGame with #Civic from London is set to roll out, with potential implementations in Voznesensk and other Ukrainian cities. In Ukraine, we’re also proud to start the partnership with Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine, STIPO, and INBO on #CommunitiesattheHeartofUrbanChanges —a collaboration that reinforces our commitment to urban resilience and recovery. In Türkiye, new projects are taking shape. We’ll be developing games for İzmir and the Marmara region in partnership with the #İzmirPlanningAgency and Marmara Municipalities Union. However, if there’s one thing we’ve learned from recent years, it’s that the world remains an unpredictable place. While we don’t know exactly what 2025 will bring, we’re open to face it with new collaborations and growing mindset for resilience.

𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 🌟 This month, YERUN highlights the 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 #CivicEngagement in the context of Ecosystems! In a time when collaboration is key to creating inclusive and equitable societies, our member universities are stepping up to empower communities and strengthen #DemocraticParticipation. From voter education to urban transformation, YERUN universities are shaping a brighter future for all. 💡 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 YERUN universities are leading the way in civic responsibility and inclusivity: 🔹 Nicolaus Copernicus University partners with Toruń city to improve urban spaces and offer free public consultations. 🔹 The University of Antwerp’s De Stemtest empowers informed voting and political debate, strengthening democracy in Belgium. 🔹 The University of Limerick’s Citizens’ Assembly unites stakeholders to tackle UN SDGs, demonstrating the power of academia-community collaboration. These efforts showcase how universities can transform societies, build inclusive communities, and create lasting impact. 🌍 🌐 Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/dzmMXe9D 📩 Subscribe to the YERUN Newsletter 👇 https://lnkd.in/eUxDaKYA

DREAM_PACE challenge at the Technische Universität Berlin and BGI - Sustainable Ventures winter school held in #Aveiro (Portugal)!   Together with BGI - Sustainable Ventures from Lisbon and the Universidade de Aveiro, Technische Universität Berlin invited 35 students across Europe for the #Innov4Mobility winter school on latest trends in urban mobility and research.   “How to reconnect Europe’s rural regions” was the DREAM_PACE challenge set by TU Berlin. 6 students discussed mobility services nowadays and worked on a business idea on #DRT (Demand Responsive Transport) in rural regions. The aim was to develop a social-technological solution to provide villages of the Hinterland with mobility provision.   As a result, the group developed - in February 2024 - their DRT-platform CommuniRide in line the principles of blue zones (where people live especially long and healthy) and the integration of local business. #CominiRide does not only aim to guarantee mobility services but also envisions DRT as a collective space of social interaction.  

🌍✨ OD4GROWTH Study Visit in Liepāja, Latvia 🇱🇻 (19–20 November 2024) Over two enriching days, project partners gathered in the vibrant city of Liepāja to explore its innovative use of open data for sustainable growth and urban development. 💡 The visit kicked off with the welcome from Liepāja City Council Executive Director Ronalds Fricbergs, who shared the city's vision for a future rooted in innovation. We also heard from Mārtins Ābols about the city's transformative economic focus, and Kārlis Beihmanis emphasized the importance of integrating energy data for a sustainable future. 🌱 🎭 We explored Liepāja’s path to becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2027, where culture is a key driver of urban development. The evening was filled with rich connections at a networking dinner inside a 17th-century museum, celebrating the city’s deep cultural heritage. 🗺️ Day two continued with insightful discussions led by Roberto Sandrini (lead partner, Veneto Region) on project updates. Madara Letinska and Māris Dubrovskis gave an exciting presentation on the role of spatial data and GIS tools in urban planning. The event ended with an inspiring exchange of ideas for future pilot projects using open data in urban development. 🤝 Wıth OD4GROWTH we are driving forward sustainable and innovative solutions! #OD4GROWTH #OpenData #SustainableDevelopment #UrbanInnovation #Liepaja #CulturalHeritage #GIS #Collaboration #InterregEurope #EUProjects #SustainableCities #InnovationInAction #FutureGrowth #CulturalCapital2027

-3 to PROMEnhance Winter School 🚀 Just a few days to go before the start of #PROMEnhanceWinterSchool, an intensive week of classroom lectures, study tours and immersive workshops entirely dedicated to the themes of participatory local development. 👩🏫 Five days with international lecturers, research experts and policy makers that will take place in #Turin from December 2 to 6 and will involve 25 students and young professionals from Italy, Romania, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece. 📎 PROMEnhance Winter School is an experimental training offering created as part of the European Erasmus + PROMEnhance project to explore the topic of professional competences in participatory planning for #localdevelopment. 📎 We will talk about participatory urban planning, project management applied to the complex processes of territorial co-design; we will reflect on the importance of the involvement of communities in decision-making processes to counter marginalization and social inequalities. 💡 Through study visits of good practices born in the context of the city of Turin - Torino Urban Lab, Fondazione Time2, Spazio Comune, Via Baltea - Laboratori di Barriera, Trattoria Decoratori e Imbianchini - concepts will be contextualized into the concrete experience of practices. 📌 For more on the project the research process of which the winter school is one of the main outcomes, visit https://lnkd.in/duM2hJbD 🇪🇺PROMEnhance Project partnership 🇪🇺 Leading Partner Università degli Studi di Torino + S-Nodi, SYNTHESIS Center for Research & Education, Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Lisboa, Commonspace Coop, Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București #ErasmusPlus #Promenhance #PromenhanceProject #EU #Competencies #Skills #Participatoryplanning #Localdevelopment #Sustainability #Capacitybuilding

💫 Call for Abstracts for the MSCA CORAL-ITN Final Conference Exploring the impacts of collaborative workspaces in rural and peripheral areas in the EU; new horizons for regional socio-economic development 🔍 Thematic areas: - CWS impacts on local businesses/ freelancers - CWS and their role in local business/ innovation ecosystems and other regional networks - Wider social and cultural impacts of CWS in rural areas - CWS as intermediate learning spaces, spaces for NEETs and alternative modes of education  - Labour arrangements and collaborative production in rural CWS  well-being in CWS - Inclusive workplace, women-centred or women-only CWS  social innovation processes in rural CWS - CWS as tools for local/ regional development policies - The diverse functions of CWS in rural areas ⌛ Submit your abstract until the 6th of September 2024 More info here 👇 https://lnkd.in/d_UTN7EH

📄 The PlaceOut! Charter is finally here! After two years of collaboration, this charter captures the voices of residents from non-urban areas and transforms their insights into a blueprint for bottom-up policies aimed at tackling the unique challenges faced by these communities. 👉 Read the PlaceOut! Charter here: https://lnkd.in/dUrqivP5

We are finalizing our work on the Mykolaiv Master Plan. 🤝We would like to welcome to Mykolaiv representatives of the Italian company One Works and the United Nations Economic Comission for Europe, who have been working on the Master Plan for a long time. I emphasize that this project is important and unique for us. Mykolaiv is one of two cities where the Master Plan is being developed. Now other cities can follow our example and use our developments. This document covers all aspects of city life. As part of this strategy, several pilot projects related to five key components of the city have been identified to be developed. ✅ Innovation and entrepreneurship: a new multifunctional microdistrict focused on science and innovation - Innovation District of Mykolaiv. ✅ Industry and trade: regeneration of the former embankment industrial area into a mixed-use complex and a new multi-use industrial park to support production and logistics. ✅ Housing and community: redevelopment of social housing, including the renovation of existing buildings and the addition of new residential elements. ✅ Culture and heritage: restoration of a heritage and cultural area or building that is especially important to the city and its people. ✅ Green and public spaces: refurbishment and improvement of a key city center or riverside public space to enhance social activity. At this meeting, we discussed the details of the work and the short-term and long-term projects that need to be implemented for our city. #MasterPlan

#Traveling is one of the most demanding and yet rewarding aspects in #research. This time, heading #north, in #Norway, I could meet the other DARE2CYCLE project partners and have some great discussion about current and future developments in the #circularbioeconomy and #alternativeprotein transition within the #dairy sector.