City Science for Urban Challenges
Pilot assessment and future potential of the City Science Initiative 2019–2020
ISBN 978 9 46402 545 3
Design: Office of CC
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2020 CSI: City Science for Urban Challenges
Between January 2019 and July 2020, over 35 European cities formed the City Science Initiative (CSI) to explore how the science-policy interface operates in light of the emergent urban challenges and crises. It seems that the impact of current national and EU funded research and programs need to be enhanced for tackling cities urban challenges. This report aims to inspire people in municipalities, universities, networks, different lay- ers of government and the European Commission to develop a variety of science-policy interfaces for handling of urban challenges in the near future.
The CSI pilot collaboration has brought together European small, medium and large sized cities, different services of the European Commission, different networks of cities and funding programmes. The gathered City Science Officers reflected on what they need and exchanged current practice and insight. To bridge the existing gap between science and policy, new methodologies need to be developed in all phases of the research process. The report argues that design as a discipline can help to build bridges, solutions and communication strategies for such science-policy interfaces.
The CSI concludes that the science-policy interface needs to improve significantly and soon. Cities are not rich and need to be efficient in how they develop policy for making people’s living environment healthy and safe. Collaboration between cities, facilitated by European institutions and networks, is crucial for handling urban challenges and unanticipated crises as also the COVID 19 pandemic indicates.
Please find the download link for the report below, as well as the press release and the letter signed by the mayors of the six leading cities. -
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Amsterdam & Europe
Amsterdam in de context van Europa: onderzoek op Europees niveau over steden en specifieke Europese subsidies voor projecten en onderzoek in Amsterdam
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5-22 Oct: European Week of Regions and Cities 2020
The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to regional policy.
The event has grown to become a unique communication and networking platform, bringing together regions and cities from all over Europe, including their political representatives, officials as well as experts and academics. Over the last 17 years, it has done much to promote policy learning and exchange of good practices.
In 2019, the #EURegionsWeek reached a record high of more than 9000 participants and more than 330 sessions, which shows the event's relevance and potential as a platform for political communication in relation to the development of EU cohesion policy, raising the awareness of decision-makers about the fact that regions and cities matter in EU policy-making.For more information, see website EC
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22-24 Sept: European Research and Innovation Days
European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.
With our societies gradually lifting their lockdowns and recovery plans taking shape, we must now ensure that the transition to a post-corona society is sustainable, inclusive and resilient.
Research and innovation will be key to achieve this. This year's format will provide an opportunity to connect, take stock of research and innovation achievements in the global response to the pandemic and build on the EU’s response: worldwide coordination of excellent science for global health, social and economic recovery.For more information, see website EC
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28 Sept - 2 Oct: Creative Bureaucracy Festival
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2020 is just around the bend – a weeklong festival full of bureaucratic imagination. Our programme is jam-packed with new ideas, fresh insights, and pride in what the public sector can accomplish. Our goal is to create spaces for exchange, to show examples of bureaucracy at its best, and not least to help people have fun – not in spite of being bureaucrats but because they are.
This year, our festival will take place 100% virtually. It will be accessible to public servants and their allies all across the world. And it’s spread out over five days to better accomodate participants’ schedules. We’re already counting down the days until we kick off. And we hope you are, too. Get ready to see bureaucracy in all its beauty.
