Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ENUTC (ERA-NET Urban Transformation Capacities)
Período documentado: 2020-11-01 hasta 2022-01-31
Research and innovation contribute with evidence on how to address urban dilemmas, while supporting capacity building for urban transformation and turning wicked issues into synergistic potential. This needs to be supported by aligning ongoing related initiatives and activities, as well as building upon existing knowledge in order to achieve stronger synergies towards greater impact.
ENUTC aims at pooling resources from 16 participating research programme owners / managers of 14 countries to implement joint actions, including one main call (WP2 and WP3) and one additional call (WP6) for proposals, and networking activities (WP7) in the area of urban transformation capacities.
The objectives of ENUTC are to:
1) To enable capacity building in research, business, city administration and society for urban transformation;
2) To support integrated approaches and solutions for sustainable urban development for the three topics of ENUTC: Urban circular economies, community-based developments and urban innovation ecosystems, and robust and resilient urban infrastructure and the built environment;
3) To support transnational, pan-European research networking, community building and ensure synergies;
4) To support activities which have a clear impact on transnational and evidence-based urban policies;
5) To support research and innovation, which make a clear progress to reaching targets of the international policies, goals and missions.
A major achievement of the call is succeeding to fund 16 transnational projects and reaching a high number of cities: both as Co-Applicants and Cooperation Partners: https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/projects/.
The 16 projects are expected to fulfil the second objective of the program: To support integrated approaches and solutions for sustainable urban development for the three topics of ENUTC; Urban circular economies: 2 projects, Community-based developments and urban innovation ecosystems: 11 projects, and Robust and resilient urban infrastructure and the built environment: 3 projects.
Within the program we have in the first period started to plan the coming capacity building activities to be able to support the projects to reach their goals. The two consortium meetings and the two capacity building meetings, with their breakout sessions, as well as the communication strategy have all initiated a further development of activities that will be performed in the coming three years and that are expected to contribute to fulfil the objectives of the program.