Co-creating innovation: "Scaling up Urban challenges from Local to Global” by European Network of Living Labs

Co-organised by the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL); European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation (DGR&I); and the Executive Agency Small and Medium Entreprises of the European Commission (EASME)

Scaling up Challenge Report 2019

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Scaling up Challenge Report 2019

“Co-creating innovation: scaling up Urban challenges from Local to Global” Thessaloniki, 3 September 2019

The 2019 Scaling up Challenge was co-organised by the European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation and the European Commission Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises.

IMPRINT

Introduction The ENoLL Open Living Lab Days celebrated its 10th Annual Summit in Thessaloniki, Greece in September 2019. This short report summarises the main highlights and key findings of the Scaling up Urban Challenge Workshop, co-hosted with the European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation and the European Commission Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises.

Forewords

Its aim was to transfer knowledge across the different programmes that cities or urban actors, with their civil servants, policy makers, Living Lab coordinators, academia, and the private sector are working on; as well as also exploring solutions to their individual and common challenges. Exchanges were related to scaling up, internationalisation, interoperability, and replicability. In addition, the workshop provided a forum for feedback on the recently published High-Level Expert Group report ‘The human-centred city’ (https://op.europa.eu/s/nNpm).

Opening up innovation processes for all is essential in order to solicit broader perspective of citizens. Through an iterative co-creation process, following the Living Lab methodology concept, we can reflect on their perception on resources available and understand their needs for new solutions.

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) - is projecting its vision of multi-stakeholder user-centric innovation with the ambition of being a landing platform for those aiming at innovation-led growth and positive social transformation achieved hand in hand. The challenges faced cannot be solved by one institution alone and ENoLL will contribute to the consolidation of our innovation ecosystems through Knowledge Creation, Strong Partnerships and Capacity Building in a Europe open to the world, “Empowering everyone to innovate”.

By managing a global network of benchmarked Living Labs, representing open innovation ecosystems worldwide, we have the privilege of collaborating with experienced experts working in the field regularly. Experimentation and validation is in their veins and they are glad to share their know-how and facilitate ideation and trialling of solutions to presented challenges.

Fernando Vilariño

Zsuzsanna Bódi

Chairperson of the European Network of Living Labs

We hope you enjoy reading the session’s findings and that you will join our next Scaling Up edition, the upcoming Open Living Lab Days, in September 2020.

Director of the European Network of Living Labs

Project timeline April 2019

Stakeholder meeting between ENoLL, DGR&I and EASME

June-August 2019

Co-designing the workshop methodology and aimed goals of the validation activity

August 2019

Publication of the first draft of ‘The human-centred city’ report

3 September 2019 » »

January 2020

High level Panel introducing ‘The human-centred city’ report (DGR&I) High level Panel introducing the large scale pilot projects feeding ‘The human-centred city’ report (EASME) Scaling up Urban Challenge session, Thessaloniki Open Living Lab Days 2019 - Part I

Official publication of ‘The human-centred city’ report

February 2020

Scaling up Social and cultural innovation for sustainable cities networking event, Abu Dhabi World Urban Forum - Part II

September 2020

Scaling up City Challenge on Digitalization, Culture and Social Impact session, Ghent Open Living Lab Days 2020 - Part III

Join us and co-create the theme of the next Scaling up session! Send your input to: info@enoll.org or via our social media channels! 5

Main highligths and conclusion

Jean-François Aguinaga Head of Unit D2 Future Urban and Mobility Systems - DGR&I Introducing ‘The human-centred city’ report and Scaling up challenge on the high level panel

“There are gaps in knowledge, innovation, technology to successfully implement this transition. Cities need to be central and will be central in Horizon Europe. We need to turn the challenges and problems into opportunities – for prosperity and wellbeing.“ Maria Yeroyanni, Senior expert Innovation cities DG Research & Innovation European Commission

What? The event contributed also to the shaping of other EU initiatives such as the CSI-City Science Initiative, led by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and DGR&I, the European Commission report on ‘Foresight 100 techs and the cities’, the Global Covenant Of Mayors GCOM and Mission Innovation through key highlights and recommendations for future R&I actions for Horizon Europe. The event discussed and unanimously accepted the report ‘The human-centred city’. The discussions and highlights of the event contributed to the EU R&I Days 2019 and particularly to the cityrelated sessions.

The European Network of Living Labs’ (ENoLL) main annual event, the ENoLL Open Living Lab Days, was held in Thessaloniki, 3-5 September, 2019. The focus was on scalability of solutions, transnational collaborations and widening participation, with a special attention to urban Living Labs. In this frame, DG Research & Innovation (DGR&I) and the Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises of the European Commission (EASME) co-organised with ENoLL the challenge session dedicated to Innovating Cities on 3rd of September. “Co-creating innovation: scaling up urban challenges from Local to Global”. The event involved around 100 participants from 25 cities that have been funded across Horizon 2020, in particular under Smart and Sustainable cities calls’ and about 40 ENoLL urban/city Living Labs and representatives of the construction sector, engineers, architects, innovation firms, urban and civil planners and citizens.

How? The co-creating workshop consisted of two sessions. In the first one, 12 parallel round table discussions with 7-8 participants each were organized. They tackled a number of transversal themes covering all different topics related to urban sustainability.

Why?

The second part of the workshop focused on “What success looks like? Visions for the cities of the future” and how EU R&I programme could accelerate transition to success for cities of the future. The main highlights from the 12 round table discussions were announced and later they were reported into 4 round tables of 2425 participants each.

The aim of the challenge session was threefold: firstly to discuss the impact of H2020 urban projects’ solutions & tools and the citizens’ engagement (eg. co-creation processes, multi-stakeholder involvement) used, that could be scaled-up to other EU cities and beyond; secondly, to give a feedback on the main findings of the High-Level Expert Group report ‘The human-centred city’; thirdly, to mobilize a first group of cities as the core of a community of more than 200 cities funded by H2020 that are testing and deploying innovations for sustainability.

These 4 round table discussed the four main chapters of the report ‘The human-centred city’ (place, people, resilience, prosperity). The findings of the report were validated with a majority acceptance from all the participants of the workshop. 7

Outcomes of the workshop

Each one of the twelve round table discussions of the first part of the workshop, discussed: (i) examples of successful tools/solutions, impact (systemic, crosssectorial) implemented in cities that can be replicated, adapted and up-scaled to other European cities and beyond; (ii) examples of best-used processes, methodologies (participatory multi-stakeholder, co-creation etc.) that helped to ensure successful implementation and impact for cities and citizens’ daily life, and that could serve as a model methodology approach for other cities; (iii) the above issues were dealt in line within the thematic area of each round table discussion and the chapters of the High-level Expert Group report (Place, People, Prosperity, Resilience, Governance, Impact and measurements); (iv) the vision of “how success looks like” for the cities of 2030 was discussed in all round tables. 8

The participants highlighted the following:

and engagement. It requires that cities, citizens and organizations shape visions of the future and take responsibility and ownership for social, economic and environmental achievements towards sustainability (for example citizens can become ‘prosumers’, and not only consumers, as in the case of production of clean energy).

The human-centred approach »

Cities are recognized as the ground in which new challenges and problems emerge but also as centers of innovations and ideas, where opportunities for R&I, new jobs, economic growth and solutions for well-being and for environmental sustainability are tested. The focus of the human-centred cities where citizens are city-makers and actors of innovation was strongly appreciated and validated. This approach goes beyond pure citizens’ participation

To this aim, innovative governance coupled with a ‘local’ and participatory approach is needed. This approach utilize local conditions, adapt diverse solutions to local environments to allow all citizens to benefit from new urban planning.

Monitoring, measuring and tracking the processes is key, overcoming knowledge, innovation, technology, and data gaps. To this aim, participants highlighted the need to reinforce the role of Public authorities to manage data and ensure flows of data in and between cities (e.g. data on land use, waste, production), as data is usually managed by private companies.

The Living Labs »

Participants recognized the catalyst role of urban Living Labs to successfully address societal challenges and scale-up innovative solutions to other cities.

They highlighted the need for R&I solutions to be open and accessible to citizens and city actors so that these solutions can be tested, scaled-up and replicated to other cities that share similar problems.

They stressed the need to strengthen the collaboration of national city Living Labs with EU funded city labs in order to share best practices and common methodologies to address urban challenges on the ground.

They claimed for the human centred digital technologies preserving the face to face interaction, as core value of the city (e.g. smart cities technologies must be adapted to the citizens and not the other way around).

Multi-stakeholder innovation, co-creation and experimentation calls for a professional orchestrator, therefore Living Labs have a crucial role.

Issues and priorities in European cities »

Keep the cultural and historic identity of the city through actions for its tangible part (e.g. adaptive reuse of existing buildings, regeneration of the city center avoiding gentrification processes) and its intangible elements, such as local cultures (e.g. food culture, traditional and simple best practices).

Imagine the future smart cities and smart countries, where cities and citizens need to ensure the ‘European way of life’, through integrated approaches for a people-centred development in co-creating and co-implemeting urban transition pathways towards Climate Neutral and Smart Cities of 2030 and the EU Green Deal initiative

Manage mobility to ensure air quality and better quality of life for citizens, considering cities as a healthy ecosystem and supporting regional climate alliance.

Sustain the iCapital city model: key initiatives to transform a city into a lab for innovation through citizens engagement, scaling-up innovative results and cities peer-learning approaches.

Include small cities at the periphery of Europe to join the innovating process.

Promote urban design and planning culture to safeguard natural resources, encourage high density communities to avoid sprawl, use fewer resources, build with green architecture and use renewable energies.

Finally, an overall conclusion was that to address global challenges, cities need to be more than just smart, but inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, practitioners of democracy, promoting civic dialogue where solutions are co-designed and co-implemented.

The participants gave unanimous support to the the focus on the “human-centered city”.

Highlights per merged round table discussions

PLACE

The round-table discussed how EU R&I can make the ‘Places’ where we live more attractive, safe and healthy.

PEOPLE

Research and Innovation solutions have to be accessible to citizens. City actors need to test these solutions by adapting solutions to other cities that share similar problems, taking into account the issue of having different regulation among cities and regions.

Need for innovative new governance and financial models and innovations in the public sector, benefiting from collective intelligence, being also able to target the right groups with an appropriate communication strategy.

To this aim, have a specific attention to disengaged groups, using new tools and incentives for including them in the process. Successful examples from cities include gamification or innovative 3D models for urban planning to help citizens to visualize future urban development (like with immersive reality).

These actions must activate innovation across different actors of the society (engineers, social workers, planners, scientists, economists, citizens, policy makers) and encourage all cities/ urban and peri-urban areas to participate in the process as co-designers and co-implementers.

The regeneration of city centers and urban heritage are key to keep local identities. They should be linked to the empowerment of local economy (eg the case of Skopje, where heritage was used as a potential for the future), considering also, how innovation in production can be built on traditional production and artifacts and on community knowledge and the inventory of local resources.

Adopt solutions that are transparent and traceable (eg. for waste) in order to make citizens responsible, considering that circular economy should focalize also on the production side, and not only on the waste side.

Promote the use of the right amount of data and more quantitative research. For example, there is the need to “quantify” sustainability with figures and numbers.

In particular this round-table discussed: (i) How to foster the transition to circular and regenerative cities, applying a circular model for the management of different flows (including for instance urban, construction, water and food waste in line with the EU Action Plan on Circular Economy). (ii) How this approach can be broadened to include the re-use of urban assets, spaces, built environment and materials and the redistribution of all “unused” resources, in particular how to make cities or abandoned areas more attractive, especially when undergoing through crisis (demographic, economic, environmental or societal crisis). (iii) How EU financing on R&I projects ensure smart mobility in cities, contributing to the reduction of emissions and leading to Carbon neutral cities of the future. (iv) How to put into practice the key message of the chapter “Place” of ‘The human-centred city’ report: Cities where citi-zens safeguard natural resources and biodiversity, where urban design encourages high density communities to avoid urban sprawl, use fewer resources (including greenfields), support green architecture, urban food production and renewable energies, taking into consideration the appropriate scale and the urban-rural nexus (eg. for food production, metabolism etc.).

Participants highlighted the following: »

Innovation has to happen at local level and neighborhood scale, through contextualized/tailored processes with a co-creation and cross-sectorial culture encouraging local experimentation.

The need to work again on lost stories of heritage and include heritage in the urban regeneration process (connecting people with spaces, creating new circular business models for adaptive re-use in cities).

R&I to create public space (place making) by using an integration of different kind of innovations (at the intersection of digital, technological, social, cultural, natural domains) to improve health and wellbeing, fight obesity and malnutrition, and ensure the right to cities for all.

The right to the city links to resilience and human settlements for all. This sets the scene that the right to the city is not just a speculation, but all cities are involved in the process with a shared vision on sustainable cities for all.

Need to think of business and innovation, think of social economy focus on industrial and cultural heritage. Cities need to be productive in terms of regenerative and co-create new markets of systemic solutions, (e.g. short-circuit food value chains), that are shared between public authorities and industries.

Encourage and involve small municipalities, strong industrial location but also social and participatory aspects (e.g. activate and coordinate local associations and coordination).

Connect urban and peri urban spaces. Promote innovative urban farming and collective agriculture in cities, foster tangible innovation for food system transformation.

Support social housing creating new areas of social Gardening by contemporary developing local skills.

Consider inclusive cities linked with universities, industry and business.

Pay attention to the scaling up process. Scaling-up can also be scaling down - i.e. many smaller projects happening in a place simultaneously or extending and experimenting projects in one local context from one to another thereby creating a critical mass. Scaling up from frontrunner cities to smaller cities (medium-sized, cities, at the periphery of Europe).

PEOPLE This round-table discussed how EU R&I can foster new systemic development patterns putting people at the center of their policies, combining digital, technological, social and nature-based solutions. In particular this round-table discussed: (i) How EU R&I projects can ensure health and well-being in cities, including nutrition, measures for improving living environment and reducing pollution, foster gender equality and offer opportunities and access for all citizens, including disadvantaged groups and ageing population. (ii) Presented the JRC report on the “Future of Cities” as well as the JRC initiative on the Community of Practice on Cities. In addition, the City Science Initiative (CSI), bringing together Science Officers from about 20 European cities to discuss the interaction between urban policies and academic research was presented and discussed. This is an initiative by the Chief Science Officer of the City of Amsterdam, together with the European Commission (JRC and R&I). (iii) Analysed and highlighted the key ingredients for the impact of health Living Labs.

Participants highlighted the following: »

Representatives from the city of Turin and Berlin explained how Turin is moving from an industry city to a city with nature and how Berlin is transformed from an industrial city to a city where urban biodiversity (diversity of species) and people co-exist (e.g. Berlin as food city). This was achieved in both case by strengthening the role of social and cultural aspects, empowering citizens and corporate citizens who work together to test innovative Nature-based solutions and regenerate industrial areas. 14

In Thessaloniki it was noted that the quality of living is better when people can interact with the municipality and with nature around them. Important to utilize local conditions and get citizens inspired.

Other successful Urban farming example are Berlin & Amsterdam, both MUFPP signatories. Moreover, Barcelona had a successful project regarding climate change by planting trees for climate.

The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) was mentioned to highlight the many European cities engaged in developing transformative multi-objective food systems policies. http://www.milanurbanfoodpolicypact.org/

A reference was made to FAO framework for the urban food agenda: http://www.fao.org/3/ CA3151EN/ca3151en.pdf

Another example mentioned is Amsterdam (a signatory of the MUFPP), with green diverse environment streets, Urban food forest as urban farming. Both initiatives aim to get the nature around and in the city.

Human centred technologies should consider the Intergenerational approach, younger generation for inspiration and the difficulty of elderly people. Activate/motivate/empower elderly people e.g. food forest/urban farming

Local conditions and needs differ. Less developed regions are posed with different challenges (criminality, social inequality). In order to see how diverse cities need to share data.

Municipalities should be transparent in communication (e.g. have communication offices, put research questions to the citizens). An example comes from e.g. Thessaloniki where citizens, help finding solutions for bicycle roads. This means different role for municipalities, emphasizing the facilitating task.

The experience of health Living Labs showed that the measures must be low cost, even free, and provide significant savings and improvements in efficiency. Also required an optimization of communication in hospitals between patients and medical staff. Examples from accident prevention in a worksite based on face recognition to check qualification of workers.

Creating an integrated set of projects that cluster together. As an example, the URBinclusion project in Turin where many projects across the city complement each other, whereby each element can be small and where there are community hubs – Casa Quartiere – that bind things together. Another example, from ENoLL itself, is how Barcelona has used existing infrastructure in libraries to flip a system as a whole as this acts as a replicating device. In essence all of this is about embedding change. See as example: https://www.torinosocialimpact.it/app/uploads /2019/06/URBINCLUSION_Leaflet_v17WEB.Pdf

PROS PERITY

Participants highlighted the following:

PEOPLE

How EU R&I can foster new financing mechanisms and innovative governance models to help cities to become prosperous and financially sustainable, and support new economic models.

RESI LIENCE

In particular this round-table discussed:

Cities as systems of systems, interconnected and cities footprint, as part of the global system. Support to the Urban Nexus approach.

Support to citizens engagement to shape visions, foresee new problems, share solutions and spread knowledge.

Urbanisation relates to the development of lifestyles and integrated use of land and natural resources.

Governance and measurements link all the dimensions. Knowledge helps to know what is going on in cities and be able to measure and evaluate R&I actions for cities that support a systemic approach promoting diversity and inclusion. All these dimensions are linked and the city needs to be considered as a living system.

The key focus of future R&I actions should tackle 2 or 3 of the above dimensions within the framework of good governance, measurement and evaluation.

It is the need of the citizens that drive a digital city and not the other way around and bring together the economic, social and environmental agendas in an integrated way, focusing on affordability to maintain diversity in the city.

Cities are nodes of global networks and important nodes of skills, capital, information that generate value to citizens.

Invite citizens to take responsibility of local food and nutrition projects (urban farming, food forest initiative for elder people and women practiced in Amsterdam).

Use community centres, libraries, universities and schools as platforms for engagement.

Urban farming, as well as sustainable healthy food environments and diet to increase well-being of citizens.

(ii) The transition to new collaborative productive systems in different sectors (from digital manufacturing to urban food labs). (ii) How can cities benefit from technology horizon scanning efforts and projects: usefulness of the report “100 radical innovations for the future”. (iii) What roles can foresight play to support City Strategies for resilience, sustainability and development?

RESI LIENCE

How EU R&I can foster the transition towards more resilient cities, particularly tackling climate change related hazards (including water related ones) and address energy efficiency. This round table discussed how to reach the targets of the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ and the Sustainable Development Goal 11. It built on the formal partnership between Mission Innovation (MI) and the Global Convenant of Mayors (GCom) been signed in May 2019. 10.000 cities in the world take part in GCom with specific energy plans for the cities. In particular this round-table discussed:

Building’s design and retrofitting are needed to install new materials and products that are more compact, affordable and circular, and can be used to generate renewable electricity.

Improve the energy efficiency of the building stock at district level. This appears to be one of the most catalytic action to reduce emissions and energy consumption, including heating and cooling.

The transition to clean energy must include people who have first-hand knowledge of energy poverty to help finding the solutions.

Energy poverty is very dependent on energy prices. Each member state should support energy efficient interventions without leaving behind low- income householders. Self-generation or community energy schemes can help to overcome poverty.

Cities should incorporate circular thinking processes that help sustainability goals such as decarbonisation and zero waste and develop local bio economies. The impacts of these approaches can be strong: a grid mix of 59-70% renewable energy by 2030 can be achieved and contribute to address energy poverty, optimizing the energy efficiency in buildings can close 2055% gap between current emission trends and 2030 abatement targets. Passive houses could reduce energy consumptions by 90%.

European cities of the future should leverage the opportunities offered by Research and Innovation to become more human centred, where citizens become city makers and shapers of their urban development.

The technology to produce clean energy and to increase energy efficiency has to evolve. The rules of the game have to change in order to set the right framework for the implementation of these technologies. The default setting is of particular importance.

Take into consideration MI and GCom research and innovation program: “Innovate4cities”. The partnership between MI and GCom connects

(i) What roles can foresight play to support City Strategies for resilience, sustainability and development? (ii) Comment on the potential usefulness of the European Commission Foresight report “100 radical innovations for the future”. (iii) Discuss the main findings of the ‘The human-centred city’ report with the Foresight report to input the Cities Mission in Horizon Europe and help cities become resilient, safe, inclusive and sustainable.

Participants highlighted the following: »

Cities should ensure that technology developments are human centred and affordable and not only technology driven, e.g.: cities that create positive-energy districts or neighbourhoods.

The better use of renewable energy systems integration through smart grids is crucial to enable a “prosumer” participation of the householders, as producers of clean energy and not only consumers.

ters and help the population to understand how to use them. The goal was to find ways to help people to use this technical object to save energy. The process was highly collaborative, and it was very important to develop trust among the participants. At the same time, it was needed to develop a community interest and to define clear questions, for example: what is needed to materialise energy? An artefact was developed and used open source processes. Fab Lab platforms are now adopting the same project in other Fab Labs in France with the aim to scale up.

the cities, the universities, private companies and national/international governments. Multiple stakeholders come together with different individual objectives but with a common mission: “accelerating clean energy innovation”. This represents a Public-Private Partnership. In order to transform it into a Public-Private-People Partnership, citizens should be engaged in this ambitious program as proposed in the quadruple helix model. »

Living Labs have the capacity to reach out to citizens citizen and co-develop concrete projects in cities in these actions. Living Labs are seen as ‘innovation intermediaries’, who orchastrate an ecosystem of actors in a specific region. Its goal is to co-design product and services, on an iterative way, with key stakeholders in a public private people partnership and in a real-life setting. One of the outcomes of this co-design process is the co-creation of social value (benefit). To achieve its objectives, the Living Lab mobilises existing innovation tools or develops new innovation tools.” (Mastelic, 2019).

The project “Green schools”, city of Trento (city led) was discussed as a good example. The aim was to engage people (mainly students) in boosting the results of energy performance contract. to refurbish energy performance of the buildings and renovate the buildings. Over the projects’ lifetime they have learned they were applying the Living Lab methodology.

A previous experience in engaging students proved to minimize the impact of maintenance of activities, as well as sensibilising people in using properly the building to minimize energy consumption. Actions require measurement of energy consumption before and after implementing activities. In general methodologies have proven to work better with the younger generation.

The project “Linky by makers” was presented as a good example by the Lorraine Fab Living Lab (university led) working on the “Linky project on smart grid use in France. The innovation element of the project is the cooperation with Fab labs and Living Labs. The French network of Fab Labs promoted an innovative process where makers are put around smart me-

An interesting example of Fab Lab and Living Lab cross-over project is Panglos Lab in Geneva, created by entrepreneurs and other individuals, privately managed by Yves Zieba. The Living Lab developed projects related to energy like Hydrogen projects. Τhe idea is to transform biomass to hydrogen. The community consists of hackers; makers but the business part was missing. The scaling up effect of the project was hold back due to administrative issues encountered in the cross-border (Switzerland and France) collaboration related to IPR, legal and financial support differences.

Patrik Kolar, Head of Department ‘LIFE and H2020 Energy, Environment and Resources’, EASME

Horizon2020 projects that contributed to the discussion »

“ARCH - Advancing Resilience of historic areas against Climate-related and other Hazards” https://savingculturalheritage.eu

“Bluehealth - Linking Up Environment, Health and Climate for Inter-sector Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in a Rapidly Changing Environment” - https://bluehealth2020.eu

“FORCE - Cities Cooperating for Circular Economy” - http://www.ce-force.eu

“NAIAD - NAture Insurance value: Assessment and Demonstration” - http://naiad2020.eu

“BRIDGE - Urban planning and design tools” Nektarios Chrysoulakis, FORTH, Foundation for Research and Technology

“OPENHERITAGE - Organizing, Promoting and Enabling HEritage Re-use through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment” - https://openheritage.eu

“CINDERELA - New circular economy business model for more sustainable urban construction” https://www.cinderela.eu

“POP MACHINA -Collaborative production for the circular economy; a community approach” https://pop-machina.eu

“CIRCuIT - Circular Construction in Regenerative Cities” - https://cordis.europa.eu/project/ id/821201

“ProGireg - Productive Green Infrastructure for post-industrial urban regeneration”- https://progireg.eu

“REFLOW - constructive metabolic processes for material flows in urban and peri-urban environments across Europe”- https://reflowproject.eu

“ROCK - Regeneration and Optimization of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities” https://rockproject.eu

“STEP-IN - Using Living Labs to roll out Sustainable Strategies for Energy Poor Individuals” https://www.step-in-project.eu

“CLEVER CITIES - Co-designing Locally tailored Ecological solutions for Value added, socially inclusive Regeneration in Cities” - https://clevercities.eu

“CLIC - Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural heritage adaptive reuse” - https://www. clicproject.eu

“Climate-fit.City - Pan-European Urban Climate Services” - https://climate-fit.city

“Grow Green - Green Cities for Climate and Water Resilience, Sustainable Economic Growth, Healthy Citizens and Environments”- http://growgreenproject.eu

“THINK NATURE - Development of a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform and Think tank to promote innovation with Nature based solutions” https://www.think-nature.eu

“UNALAB – Urban Nature Labs” - https://unalab.eu

“URBAN MAESTRO - Exploring formal and informal means of improving spatial quality in cities across Europe and beyond” - https://www.urbanmaestro.org

“Urbinat. Healthy corridors as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the co-creation of social, environmental and marketable NBS” https://urbinat.eu

“ICARUS - Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems” - https:// icarus2020.eu

“INTENSSS-PA, Integrated Sustainable Energy Planning” - http://www.intenssspa.eu

“iSCAPE. Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe” - https://www.iscapeproject.eu

“NextGen - Towards a next generation of water systems and services for the circular economy‘’ https://nextgenwater.eu

Liveable cities have happy citizens where cultural heritage is combined. This is all achieved by cities as Living Labs where best practices are shared.

Co-organised by ENOLL-DGR&I-EASME