Project description
Climate-neutral solutions for waterfront cities
Urban planning and design plays a critical role in achieving climate neutrality by 2050, the goal of the European Green Deal. The EU-funded Re-Value project demonstrates how climate neutrality and urban quality can be aligned by re-valuing cities’ connection to their waterfronts, strengthening co-benefits and mitigating potential adverse impacts. In line with the EU Cities Mission, Re-Value is testing solutions in the waterfront cities of Ålesund, Bruges, Burgas, Rimini, Cascais, Constanța, İzmir, Písek and Rijeka covering six systemic challenges: in governance, regulatory structures and advocacy; societal and spatial quality; financial and circular value chains; data-driven co-creation and digital twins; energy and mobility; and nature-based solutions. Project results will accelerate urban efforts towards climate neutrality.
Objective
In Re-Value, 9 European waterfront cities (Ålesund, Bruges, Burgas, In Re-Value, 9 European waterfront cities (Ålesund, Bruges, Burgas, Rimini, Cascais, Constanta, Izmir, Písek, and Rijeka) will test, capture and share how to create value through urban quality, in a holistic approach towards climate neutrality. They will cover 6 systemic challenges of urban planning and design, aligned with the Cities Mission:
- Systemic changes in governance, regulatory structures, advocacy
- Societal and spatial quality
- Financial and circular value chains
- Data-driven co-creation, digital twins
- Energy and mobility
- Nature-based solutions
The model will be supported by 3 Innovation Cycles that run across the cities
- Aligning climate neutrality and urban quality, using participatory story-building to identify co-benefits
- Co-creating data-driven transition scenarios, empowering cities to use better data / data better
- De-risking investments, through value-based financial and partnership models
to enable the cities to document and capture different values in urban complexity, and to synthesise them into a holistic approach towards climate neutrality. Supported by this approach, the 9 Re-Value Cities will fine-tune, share and test a Portfolio of Urban Design and Planning Methods in the project’s Community of Practice.
4 Leading Cities (Ålesund, Bruges, Burgas, and Rimini) will demonstrate full-scale how integrated urban planning and design can be optimally deployed to achieve climate neutrality and significantly reduce GHG emissions by 2030. 5 Replication Cities (Cascais, Constanta, Izmir, Písek, and Rijeka) will learn, replicate and develop their own visions, scenarios and investment plans to accelerate their journeys to climate neutrality. While geographically and culturally diverse, the 9 cities share a curiosity and ambition to experiment, learn from each other, and share the Re-Value results and outcomes together with other cities in the Cities Mission communities.
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7491 Trondheim
Norway
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Participants (24)
6003 ALESUND
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8000 Brugge
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8000 Burgas
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47921 Rimini
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2645 138 Alcabideche
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900725 Constanta
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35251 İzmir
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397 01 Pisek
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51000 Rijeka
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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2400 Mol
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40126 Bologna
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4466-901 S.Mamede De Infesta
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35430 İzmir
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5000 Nova Gorica
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1040 Etterbeek
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6003 ALESUND
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6009 Alesund
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1504 Sofia
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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900725 Constanta
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120 00 PRAGUE 2
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6413 Molde
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39701 PISEK
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4051 Basel
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