Project description
Training climate-neutral urban experts
The challenge of achieving climate-neutral cities is a pressing concern, given the complex urban activities and diverse stakeholders involved. To address this, the European Commission has identified participative city governance and integrated urban planning as crucial drivers. However, there is a shortage of highly-trained interdisciplinary professionals to ensure progress. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the C-NEWTRAL project aims to bring together and train a cadre of champion researchers ready to undertake the climate-neutral city challenge. C-NEWTRAL will provide a structured framework for individual research projects that span a spectrum of urban challenges. What is unique about C-NEWTRAL is its focus on training researchers in advanced participative methods, governance, and integrated planning tools for transitioning to climate neutrality.
Objective
Achieving climate-neutral cities is an EU priority, yet faces many challenges because of the complex urban activities, and the vast range of stakeholders involved. The European Commission has identified ‘participative city governance’ and ‘integrated urban planning’ as key enablers for driving climate-neutral cities forward. Cities require enhanced capacity and ongoing support for implementation of climate-neutral solutions and assessment of how they may impact different sections of society. There is however, a lack of highly-skilled, highly-trained interdisciplinary researchers and professionals for this task, which C-NEWTRAL aims to address.
C-NEWTRAL is underpinned by five key thematics (Urban Nature, Urban Mobility, Built Form, Energy, Circularity), which are integrated through two cross-scale research dimensions, linked to drivers identified by the EU: I. Citizen Engagement & Public Participation and II. City Governance & Decision-Making. This provides a framework for individual research projects examining participation and decision-making for integrating nature-based solutions in urban regeneration, active/ green/ just mobility transitions, social acceptance of energy performance standards in buildings/ neighbourhoods/ social housing, hydrosocial/ circular/ digital approaches in urban water management, and nexuses among these. Each researcher will be trained in advanced participative methods and use of governance & planning tools, supported by digital technologies - recognised by the EU as a priority, but still under-developed within city planning processes. Researchers will be exposed to secondments in local authorities, NGOs or industry.
The program will provide a dynamic, intellectually-challenging, interdisciplinary training environment attracting the best international graduate candidates and fosters an enthusiastic and innovative community of researchers - effectively placed to advise on cross-sectoral strategies for achieving climate-neutral cities.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringurban engineeringsmart cities
- social sciencessocial geographyurban studies
- social sciencessocial geographytransport
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringarchitecture engineeringsustainable architecturesustainable building
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinator
4 Dublin
Ireland
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Participants (4)
40126 Bologna
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69117 Heidelberg
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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17004 Girona
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Partners (22)
50 305 Wroclaw
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6052 Hergiswil
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53113 Bonn
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D06CA18 DUBLIN 6
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2514 EG Den Haag
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2800 Lyngby
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023977 Bucuresti
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02150 Espoo
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1221 Budapest
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69120 Heidelberg
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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D02 KT73 Dublin
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17004 Girona
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40122 Bologna
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47521 Cesena
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69117 Heidelberg
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G2 1DU Glasgow
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D08 RF3F DUBLIN 8
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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48001 Bilbao
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20121 Milano
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BT7 1NN Belfast
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