Contributors: Yamine Aït-Ameur (ANR), Patricia Clarke (HRB), Pablo Del Río (CSIC); Malin Mobjörk (Formas), Margarida Prado (FCT), Josef Stuefer (NWO), Gabriella Verbovszky (HUN-REN), Sarah Webb (UKRI).
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Guidance on Science for Policy activities (Science Europe)
Scientific research can and should support policy makers in navigating how to tackle societal challenges. Policy and decision makers deal with complex, knowledge demanding challenges for which simple solutions do not exist. Science can provide rigorous evidence of the challenges that they want to and must address, enabling a better understanding of the problem and assessment of the likely implications of available options.
This type of science-based contribution is able to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of policy making. This is the case for all policy challenges, but is particularly important for multi-disciplinary challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, or pandemics, which require a clear understanding of all the issues.Lead Author: Nicola Francesco Dotti (Science Europe)
Contributors: Yamine Aït-Ameur (ANR), Patricia Clarke (HRB), Pablo Del Río (CSIC); Malin Mobjörk (Formas), Margarida Prado (FCT), Josef Stuefer (NWO), Gabriella Verbovszky (HUN-REN), Sarah Webb (UKRI). -
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Clarity
Urban areas and traffic infrastructures that are linking such areas are highly vulnerable to climate change. Smart use of existing climate intelligence can increase urban resilience and generate benefits for businesses and society at large. Based on the results of FP7 climate change, future internet and crisis preparedness projects (SUDPLAN, CRISMA) with an average TRL of 4-5 and following an agile and usercentred design process, end-users, purveyors and providers of climate intelligence will co-create an integrated Climate Services Information System (CSIS) to integrate resilience into urban infrastructure.
As a result, CLARITY will provide an operational ecosystem of cloud-based climate services to calculate and present the expected effects of CC-induced and -amplified hazards at the level of risk, vulnerability and impact functions. CLARITY will offer what-if decision support functions to investigate the effects of adaptation measures and risk reduction options in the specific project context and allow the comparison of alternative strategies. Four Demonstration Cases will showcase CLARITY climate services in different climatic, regional, infrastructure and hazard contexts in Italy, Sweden, Austria and Spain; focusing on the planning and implementation of urban infrastructure development projects.
CLARITY will provide the practical means to include the effects of CC hazards and possible adaptation and risk management strategies into planning and implementation of such projects, focusing on increasing CC resilience. Decision makers involved in these projects will be empowered to perform climate proof and adaptive planning of adaptation and risk reduction options.
Source: Clarity - Project Overview
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Urban Adaptation Support Tool - Climate ADAPT
The Urban Adaptation Support Tool guides European adaptation decision-makers and practitioners in cities through the main steps of the adaptation process. The tool is based on the adaptation policy cycle, which highlights that climate change adaptation is an iterative process. The UAST is divided into six steps and a number of sub-steps. It is regularly updated and for each sub-step it provides links to carefully selected resources that can be of the greatest use to cities.
The UAST supports Covenant of Mayors signatory cities to develop and implement their action plan and complete the adaptation-related sections of the Covenant of Mayors reporting platform MyCovenant (see also the offline working version of the reporting template).
The Urban Adaptation Support Tool highlights the key issues to be considered when planning and implementing adaptation. The six steps of the Tool help to prepare ground for adaptation, understand the risks and vulnerabilities to current and future climate hazards, identify and assess adaptation options, develop and implement a climate change adaptation strategy and/or action plan and monitor the results of adaptation action. Steps are divided into sub-steps. For each sub-step, a brief summary of the given issue is provided, followed by a more detailed guidance under ‘Read more’. Each sub-step provides links to guidance materials, case studies or specific tools, including:
- Climate-ADAPT case studies of concrete examples from multiple European cities
- Guidance and tools relevant to local adaptation action
- Publications, reports and other Climate-ADAPT database resources
- Relevant EU-funded projects
- Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy resources
The tool is closely linked and aligned with the European Covenant of Mayors commitments and reporting requirements. It can serve as a step-by-step guidance to Covenant signatory cities in designing and implementing their adaptation action plan. The sub-steps clearly highlight aspects of importance for completing the Covenant reporting requirements.
The Urban Adaptation Support Tool can be used as a guidance on its own, or in combination with other guidance documents and tools developed on international, national, local and sector specific levels (see below). It is especially recommended to check your country page for guidance relevant to your country.
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Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
In 2014, the Mayor of Milan decided to launch an international protocol aimed at tackling food-related issues at the urban level, to be adopted by as many world cities as possible. The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact was signed on the 15 October 2015 in Milan by more than 100 cities. It represents one of the most important legacies of Milan EXPO 2015.
The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact is an international agreement of Mayors. It is more than a declaration, it is a concrete working tool for cities. It is composed by a preamble and a Framework for Action listing 37 recommended actions, clustered in 6 categories. For each recommended action there are specific indicators to monitor progresses in implementing the Pact. The Milan Pact Awards offer concrete examples of the food policies that cities are implementing in each of the 6 Pact categories.
Governance
The recommended actions falling into the “Governance category” are all those actions aimed at ensuring an enabling environment for effective action in cities, such as: to facilitate collaboration across city agencies and departments, to strengthen urban stakeholder participation, to identify, map and support local and grassroots initiatives, to develop or revise urban food policies and plans and to develop a disaster risk reduction strategy.
Click here for their resources.
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Rock
ROCK focuses on historic city centres as extraordinary laboratories to demonstrate how Cultural Heritage [CH] can be a unique and powerful engine of regeneration, sustainable development and economic growth for the whole city.
Rock Vision
Rock aims to support the transformation of historic city centers afflicted by physical decay, social conflicts and poor life quality into Creative and Sustainable Districts through shared generation of new sustainable environmental, social, economic processes.
Rock Ambition
ROCKS aims to develop an innovative, collaborative and systemic approach to promote the effective regeneration and adaptive reuse in historic city centers by implementing a repertoire of successful heritage-led regeneration initiatives related to 7 Role Model selected cities:Athens, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Liverpool, Lyon, Turin and Vilnius.
The replicability and effectiveness of the approach and of the related models in addressing the specific needs of historic city centers and in integrating site management plans with associated financing mechanisms will be tested in 3 Replicator Cities: Bologna, Lisbon and Skopje.
Concept
The overall concept of Rock is based on the development of a shared multi-cultural, multi-heritage and multi-stakeholders city vision, which integrated heritage-led regeneration, sustainable economic development, city promotions, and knowledge sharing.
All the involved cities are characterized by their high Cultural Heritage (CH) value: the Role Model cities have already experienced a transformation from Heritage cities to Creative and Knowledge-based cities, while the Replicators are currently initiating the process, developing transformation programs, finance and engaging key-players.
ROCK develops and apply an innovative circular systemic approach to connect different actors, places of CH value and systems, at a European level as well as at a local level, facilitating the innovation process and the adoption of environmentally and socially sound solutions to achieve sustainable growth.
ROCK conceptualizes an innovative circular urban system model - the ROCK Circle - to implemented such process.
Read here the project strategy.
Click here for the tools.
Source: Rock - About
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Urban Maestro
The quality of the urban environment derives from various interventions and policy decisions over time and reflects the collective work of multiple stakeholders – public, private and community. While European cities have developed sophisticated laws and regulations (‘hard power’) to secure diverse public interest objectives through the governance of urban design, the quality of the resulting urban places can be disappointing. Often outcomes are not aligned with commonly shared objectives such as creating environmental sustainability, human scale, land use mix, conviviality, inclusivity, or supporting cultural meaning. At its core, the coordination and support action Urban Maestro aims to understand and encourage innovation in the field of urban design governance through a better understanding of alternative non-regulatory (‘soft power’) approaches and their contribution to the quality of the built environment.
Far from limiting themselves to be simple regulators or even direct investors, many European countries and cities have developed these alternative approaches in order to enhance their ability to intervene as enablers or brokers in urban development. Through these means they have initiated strategies to promote a high-quality built environment, often combining different formal and more innovative informal tools to guide, encourage and enable better design.
For instance, a city may decide to promote quality by supplementing its zoning-based planning system with non-mandatory guidance, by organising architectural competitions, by setting up a process of peer review for design proposals, by instigating temporary urban interventions to demonstrate the potential of particular spaces, or by creating financial incentives linked to achieving certain design or other social objectives. Of these various strategies, financial mechanisms and their relationship to informal tools of urban design governance represent a particular focus of the project. It is hypothesised, for example, that synergies between such tools have the potential to make both approaches more effective in attaining their desired outcomes.
Urban Maestro aims to capture and highlight knowledge about how such initiatives are used in practice, with what purpose, and with what impact on delivering better-designed places. Ultimately, Urban Maestro expects to contribute to the global urban debate and the realisation of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by enhancing practices of urban design governance within Europe and beyond.
The project
Urban Maestro was launched in 2019 by three partners: the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Brussels Bouwmeester Maître Architecte (BMA) and the University College London (UCL). It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
To structure the analysis and build a common understanding, the Urban Maestro team developed an analytical framework and a typology of the tools available to public authorities in order to positively influence the outcomes of the design processes.
Urban Maestro conducted a survey to map out and understand the current landscape of policies and urban design governance practices across Europe. The Urban Maestro team and its project advisors have explored other examples through research and live exchanges at events. We are constantly on the lookout for new examples, and external contributions are always welcome through the dedicated “Submissions” page.
Click for their typology of tools for the governance of urban design here.
Source: Urban Maestro - About
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PoliVisu
The Vision of PoliVisu is to enhance public involvement and enable evidence-based decision making in urban policy design, though equipping decision-makers with the skills and tools for open geodata processing, advanced visualisation and collaborative policy experimentation. As a result, the city makes better sustainable policy decisions and operations are managed more effectively.
PoliVisu will change the way urban policy-making is created by supporting cities (with limited resources) to make effective, informed, data-driven decisions. A suite of data processing and visualisation tools coupled with a structured and tailorable methodology for introducing open (geo) data into the policy-making lifecycle helps cities overcome barriers to big data use and enables them to leverage the benefits of data analytics to build stakeholder engagement. This data-driven approach gives everyone in the policy value-chain the opportunity to gain a wider understanding of issues and options which drives fact-based policy discourse. Though the dialogue may not lead to policy consensus, satisfaction with the process is improved, as everyone involved feels heard and understands why urban transformation decisions have been made.
Big data and big data analysis techniques offer a new potential to derive insights from large datasets, some of which may be quick-changing, volatile or uncertain (Volume, Volatility, Velocity and Veracity). Big data - as well as data analysis, modelling and visualisation based on it- allow deeper insights for policy-makers and stakeholders. These data analytics also provide an insight into evolution in the past, insight at the today situation and in potential policy scenarios in terms of the impact on and behaviour of (anonymous) individuals at specific times. The use of effective and compelling visualisations will allow the value of big data to be available not just to technical analysts but also to policy-makers themselves and to other stakeholders, and will make it easier to have an informed dialogue among all stakeholders both about the policy scenarios under consideration and, where relevant, the co-creation of other solutions.
Cities across Europe hear about PoliVisu success stories from the initiative founders (both cities and data/ technology experts) via targeted social media campaigns and conference demonstrations. The cities access the policy experimentation tools, best practices, policy knowledge base and user data through the PoliVisu Toolbox available online via PoliVisu’s own portal or through the Open Government Partnership (OGP) toolbox. The Toolbox contains a tried and tested methodology that when used with PoliVisu’s big data processing and data visualisation tools enriches the traditional policy-making process with opportunities for policy experimentation.
The PoliVisu tools enable cities to test a variety of policy strategies and actions with stakeholders using local data sets (for example road sensor data on traffic flows, historic accident data, traffic light data, pedestrian data etc.) to visually simulate potential impacts. This opportunity to experiment with policy options ensures cities can explore complex systemic urban problems, which require innovative thinking to develop transformative and sustainable solutions, without the need to deploy multiple, costly test pilots.
Thanks to PoliVisu, city operation managers and policy-makers work together more effectively to solve their transport and land-use related dilemmas. For example, the balancing of long-term infrastructure planning vs short-term initiatives to ease congestion. Furthermore, as a result of PoliVisu introducing well-defined processes for data governance and decision-making into the transport domain and beyond.
Outside of the public sector, local stakeholders, including citizens, businesses and media have an improved relationship with their city as a) it's simpler to make their opinions heard and considered; b) it’s easier to hold city governance to account through an increasingly participatory and transparent policy-making process; c) they benefit from faster on-the-ground implementation of effective city transport and land-use enhancements, which makes daily life easier for all, and d) they also have the opportunity to create visualisations for sharing with their own constituencies to strengthen support and engagement for their own specific causes.
By selecting a combination of tools, techniques, processes and best practices from the Polivisu Toolbox appropriate to their local needs, policy-makers can ensure everyone and anyone with an interest in transport and land-use policy, regardless of technical background, may participate in the experimentation of different strategies and actions by exploring one shared version of the challenge (e.g. location map, heat map or other forms of visual display) regarding the current situation. Using this shared baseline, stakeholders can together change data parameters to simulate policy impacts and explore the pros and cons of different strategies and decision paths. Together with the tools and methodology, PoliVisu helps cities to engage and harness the collective intelligence of their stakeholders for collaborative solution development ensuring both short-term management decisions and long-term strategic policy align and work together to deliver cohesive and effective urban transformation.
Discovering the right data and converting it into usable form are key elements in the policy visualisation and policy-making process. The availability and findability of big and open data is a crucial element. Polivisu’s Toolbook provides practical experience on obtaining data from data owners on ensuring that personal privacy is protected, and on transforming it into policy-ready data. PoliVisu will improve the link between policymakers and data scientists by a better adaptation of the policymaking process and the evidence creation process by data scientists.
Click here to see their toolbox and here to see their publications.
Source: PoliVisu - Vision
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NADINE
NADINE recognises that smooth access to employment is a key ingredient in successful integration of migrants in their new societies. Individual needs in accessing the labour market are determined by who we are, where we come from, what skills we have and the socio-cultural and material contexts in which we are placed. Societal norms and routines in regards to work, education, family life, consumption, and recreation greatly determine our expectations as well as our ability and/or willingness to change those expectations in a new country. Without a comprehensive understanding of these factors, public policy measures to integrate migrants at individual or societal level are likely to fail.
The NADINE platform aims to use open data to gain a better understanding of migrant realities and the challenges associated with their integration. Data about local services and migrants will feed user-friendly tools for employability and career guidance, whilst assessing supply and demand of migrants’ skills.The platform will also focus on the social, educational and cultural needs of migrants and how these fit to existing services offered by local hosts. Overall the system will allow public authorities and guidance professionals to offer a personalised service to migrants based on real needs and the opportunities available to them.
NADINE Technology
The NADINE system will be based around two key banks of data – a repository of information about host societies and migrants from which a range of services will be produced. As users access the services, more data will be captured to enhance the existing banks and feed reliable information into the system.
Click here to see their publications.
Source: NADINE - About
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EU Environmental Technology Verification
Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is a new tool to help innovative environmental technologies reach the market. The problem at the moment is that many clever new ideas that can benefit environment and health are not taken up simply because they are new and untried. Under ETV, claims about innovative environmental technologies can be verified – if the 'owner' of the technology so wishes – by qualified third parties called 'Verification Bodies'. The 'Statement of Verification' delivered at the end of the ETV process can be used as evidence that the claims made about the innovation are both credible and scientifically sound. The EU Environmental Technology Verification pilot programme is trying out ETV on a large scale with volunteer organisations and Member States.
For a technology company developing eco-innovations
The ETV pilot programme provides for third-party verification, on a voluntary basis, of the performance claims made by technology manufacturers in business-to-business relations. The end product is a Statement of Verification, summarising the actual performance of the verified technology as well as the results of the tests performed. With proof of performance credibly assured, innovations can expect an easier market access and/or a larger market share and the technological risk is reduced for technology purchasers.
The ETV pilot programme is open to environmental technologies ready for the market and showing a potential for innovation, while providing environmental benefits in three technology areas:
- Water treatment and monitoring (for example: monitoring of water quality, treatment of drinking water and of waste water)
- Materials, waste and resources (for example: separation and sorting of solid waste, recycling of materials, end-of-life products and chemicals, products made of biomass)
- Energy technologies (for example: renewable sources of energy, energy from waste, energy efficiency technologies)
To know more about the ETV pilot program, how it works and relevant contacts in Member States, please have a look here.
For an organization interested in being an ETV Verification Body or testing laboratory
ETV services are provided by 'Verification Bodies', which are existing organisations specifically accredited to perform verification under ETV for a given area of technology. The accreditation requested is based on the ISO/IEC Standard 17020 for inspection bodies, and on the ETV General Verification Protocol.
The ETV General Verification Protocol (GVP) is the technical reference document describing the procedures guiding the verification process and the requirements for the organisations taking part in it. The GVP has been revised in July 2014 and the revised version is applicable immediately. The revised text (version 1.1) is available here.
Organisations interested to become Verification Bodies should contact their national accreditation body, whose contact details can be found on the webpage of the European Co-operation for Accreditation.
Organisations interested to become testing bodies (performing the tests on which technology verifications are based) or analytical laboratories (analysing test samples when analyses are required) should refer to the ETV General Verification Protocol to ensure that they fulfill the requirements to participate in ETV. In particular, certification to the ISO Standard 9001 is recommended for testing bodies and accreditation to the ISO Standard 17025 is required from analytical laboratories.
Verification Bodies participate in ETV technical working groups, along with independent experts, with the objective to exchange experience, harmonise practices and give guidance on procedures. Technical working group may also be consulted in case of disagreement between a Verification Body and a third party. To contact the technical working groups or ask for more information, please send an e-mail to: JRC IET ETV
For someone wishing to know more about ETV and similar programs world-wide
The objectives and operational principles of the ETV pilot programme are described in the Commission Staff Working Paper on 'The Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) initiative – Helping Eco-Innovations to reach the Market'.
Summary information on ETV and relevant contacts in EU Member States are available in the Information Note. Also available are Frequently Asked Questions.
The ETV initiative is part of the Eco-innovation Action Plan. The EcoAP website provides information on other EU actions to support eco-innovation, as well as news and good practices on eco-innovation in EU countries.
A detailed assessment of the market potential and demand for an EU ETV scheme was produced by the EPEC consortium and published in June 2011.
- Final report (including Executive Summary) and annexes: Business Case and Market
- Presentation on the final report
Please also have a look at the following websites on ETV in countries participating in the ETV Steering Group:
- Danish Centre for Verification of Climate and Environmental Technologies
- Le programme ETV (in FR)
- NPL|CCM webpage on ETV (in EN)
- ETV on the website of the Polish Ministry of Environment (in PL)
Information on ETV international activities and links to non-EU programs is available on the 'International ETV links' page.
Source: EU Environmental Technology Verification - European Commission
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The New Urban Agenda Platform
The New Urban Agenda Platform is the knowledge portal for gathering voluntary reports, best practices, and data - both quantitative and qualitative, for reviewing the progress made in implementing the New Urban Agenda to achieve the 2030 Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals. This platform is for national governments, subnational governments, local authorities, civil societies, UN entities, private sector, regional organizations and all other key stakeholders to voluntarily share their contributions to the implementation of the global agenda from the global, regional, national and local level. A one-stop shop for both reporting and learning, the platform supports knowledge exchange, builds interaction and supports capacity development to establish communities of practice for sustainable urbanization development.
The New Urban Agenda call for multi-stakeholder partnerships
Thematic multi stakeholder and cross-sectoral alliances involving governments and related institutions at all levels, UN agencies, funds and programmes, civil society, private sector, academia, and other stakeholders are essential for achievement of SDGs and the New Urban Agenda. The dearth of information and data on SDG 11 and other urban related SDGs and the New Urban Agenda calls for collaboration, pulling together and standardization of data from different sources. Without this, assessment of implementation of these global agendas and regional frameworks will be difficult.
The Urban Agenda Platform facilitates the sharing of experiences, best practices, and establishment of alliances for increased action in coming decade.
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Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor
The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor is designed to help national, regional and municipal policy makers identify local strengths and opportunities and benchmark their cities against similar urban centres using both quantitative and qualitative data. The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor is thus an instrument to promote mutual exchange and learning between cities. For researchers, the pool of comparable data is expected to generate new questions and insights into the role of culture and creativity in cities’ social and economic well being.
What makes a cultural and creative city?
This second edition of the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor covers 190 cities in 30 European countries (the EU-27 with Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), 22 more than the 2017 edition, namely:
- 98 cities which have been European Capitals of Culture up to 2019, or which have been shortlisted to become an European Capital of Culture up to 2023;
- 33 UNESCO Creative Cities (up to 2017 winners) - excluding overlap with the European Capitals of Culture;
- 59 cities hosting at least two international cultural festivals running until 2018 or 2017 for biennal festivals.
These three selection criteria were used to refine the list from about 1 000 cities in Eurostat's Urban Audit database (with a minimum of 50 000 inhabitants) down to 190 cities on the basis of their demonstrable engagement in the promotion of culture and creativity - being included in the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor is thus in itself an acknowledgement of these cities' efforts in this domain.
By applying these criteria all the capital cities of the 30 countries are automatically included in the Monitor.
What does the Monitor measure?
The quantitative information is captured in 29 indicators relevant to 9 dimensions reflecting 3 major facets of the cultural, social and economic vitality of cities:
The qualitative component includes key facts and manifestations of cities' cultural and creative assets to illustrate and complement the quantitativeevidence. These touch on features ranging from the main cultural sites, artistic institutions or live events to the development of policy strategies and infrastructure (e.g. funds, tax incentives, creative incubators, fab labs) that demonstrate a city's commitment to supporting culture and creativity.
Some samples of qualitative information are offered in the report, with more comprehensive information available in the Cities pages and in Cultural gems.
A unique and comprehensive tool
Forty similar international indices inspired the development of the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor. However, the Monitor combines eight key design and quality features that set it apart from other similar indices and make it valuable for a large number of cities, thus providing a powerful resource that can inform city-level policy debates both within and across countries.
More specifically, the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor:
- Provides a holistic and actionable measurement framework that is intended to inform the development of culture and creativity-related policies. It thus provides not only an aggregate Index score, but also allows for benchmarking cities on three sub-indices, nine policy dimensions and 29 individual indicators.
- Is relevant to all city types and makes benchmarking possible between five different city groups based on similar population, employment rate and wealth to help local authorities interpret results in the light of peer cities' performances.
- Offers two different and complementary versions - 'standardised' and 'flexible'. This online tool enables users to visualise results but also to input their own data for an existing city, create a new city entry or change the weights of dimensions or sub-indices to create tailored versions of the Monitor.
- Clearly spells out the cities' selection criteria, so that the approach to the extremely broad concept of 'Cultural and Creative Cities' can be easily understood.
- Goes beyond 'usual suspects' by including a majority are small and medium-sized cities (with a minimum of 50 000 inhabitants).
- Has been developed to ensure representativeness of the results, comparability (both within and across city peer groups), and ease of use.
- Follows, in its development, the methodology detailed in the JRC-OECD 'Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators' (2008). Both the data and the complete methodology can be accessed in Docs & Data.
- Is based on both quantitative data (which combine official statistics and experimental data from the web) and key qualitative information showing the diverse forms that cities' cultural and creative vibrancy can take, from the hosting of internationally renowned festivals to state-of-the-art policy measures supporting culture and creativity.
Source: Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor - European Commission
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Climate-ADAPT
The European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT is a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA). Climate-ADAPT is maintained by the EEA with the support of the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (ETC/CCA).
Climate-ADAPT aims to support Europe in adapting to climate change helping users to access and share data and information on:
- Expected climate change in Europe
- Current and future vulnerability of regions and sectors
- EU, national and transnational adaptation strategies and actions
- Adaptation case studies and potential adaptation options
- Tools that support adaptation planning
Climate-ADAPT organizes information under the following main entry points:
- EU Policy: EU Adaptation Policy, Adaptation in EU Policy Sectors (Agriculture, Biodiversity, Coastal areas, Forestry, Water management, Marine and fisheries, Ecosystem-based Approaches, Disaster Risk Reduction, Buildings, Energy, Transport, Health, Urban), EU Regional Policy
- Countries, Transnational regions, Cities
- Knowledge: Topics, Data and indicators, Research and innovation projects, Tools, Practice,
- European Climate and Health Observatory (accessible through "Knowledge")
- Networks
The platform includes a database that contains quality checked information that can be easily searched.
Source: Climate-ADAPT - About
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Urban Electric Mobility Initiative - UEMI
The Urban Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI) was launched by UN-Habitat, building on international activities in the areas of sustainable urban development, energy, mobility, and focusing on the equal access provision of urban basic services in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Learning Resource
UEMI_SOLUTIONS in cooperation with the FUTURE-RADAR project offers several e-courses addressing different aspects of road transport. The first course focuses on urban electric mobility solutions and provides an overview of opportunities and illustrating examples.
Click here to read more about their Learning Resources.
Source: UEMI
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SOLUTIONSplus Project
The SOLUTIONSplus project aims to enable transformational change towards sustainable urban mobility through innovative and integrated electric mobility solutions. To deliver this objective the project will boost the availability of electric vehicles, foster the efficiency of operations and support the integration of different types of e-mobility in large urban areas and addressing user needs and local conditions in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The project SOLUTIONSplus sets up a global platform for shared, public and commercial e-mobility solutions, and to kick start the transition towards low carbon urban mobility. The project encompasses city level demonstrations to test different types of innovative and integrated e-mobility solutions, complemented by a comprehensive toolbox, capacity development and replication activities.
SOLUTIONSplus brings together highly committed cities, industry, research, implementing organisations and finance partners. Through numerous synergistic projects, networks and a strong technical experience, the project will be able to deliver its highly ambitious goals. Direct co-funding contributions will be provided by partner cities and SOLUTIONSplus works closely with UN Environment and the International Energy Agency (IEA) on a joint global urban e-mobility programme that will significantly boost replication and impact of this Innovation Action.
Through the regional platforms, a global programme and local teams, the project aims to develop highly effective and innovative approaches to urban e-mobility ensuring that mobility systems and interventions from this project deliver on the Paris Agreement, meet the Sustainable Development Goals and address the New Urban Agenda.
Source: SOLUTIONSplus - About