Project description
Supralocal networks of citizen initiatives in urban transformation processes
Local citizen initiatives can play a relevant role in addressing public problems. However, urban specialists underestimate the innovative effects of citizens' participation in supralocal networks and organisations at national, European and global levels. The EU-funded SUPRALOCAL project will explore whether supralocal networks and organisations of citizen initiatives can disseminate, institute, and innovate knowledge and resources of urban action and shape the production of new urban transformation processes. The project will combine ethnography and cooperative action research to study the local effects of three supralocal networks and organisations in two cases of citizen-initiated urban transformations. It will focus on their long-term development and short-term adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic, and describe their influence, effects, and role in urban transformation processes.
Objective
Citizen initiatives in our cities are developing innovative answers to local public needs, through direct actions such as urban transformation processes. Urban scholars have interpreted these processes and innovations as locally-determined phenomena, disregarding the increasing participation of citizen initiatives in networks and organizations at national, european and global level. The aim of SUPRALOCAL is to investigate whether and how supralocal networks and organizations of citizen initiatives share, institute and innovate knowledge and resources for urban action, influencing the generation of innovative urban transformation processes by local citizen initiatives. Combining two inquiry methods - ethnography and cooperative action-research - the research explores the local effects of three supralocal networks and organizations on two cases of citizen-initiated urban transformations in Italy and Germany, focusing on their long-term development and their short-term adaptation to the COVID-19 crisis. Relevance of SUPRALOCAL: i) to enrich the debate on citizen-initiated urban transformations and innovations with a supralocal analytical perspective, beyond localistic interpretations ii) to scale up the innovative impacts of supralocal networks and organizations, informing leaders of networks, policy makers and citizens. SUPRALOCAL objectives: i) to understand whether and how these supralocal networks and organizations influence the generation of innovative answers to problematic situations in urban transformation processes developed by local citizen initiatives ii) to describe how supralocal networks and organizations share, institute, and innovate repertoires of knowledges and resources for urban action ii) to further explore the effects of direct citizen action in the publicization of problems iii) to develop a strong interdisciplinary and independent research profile in urban planning and policy, focused on citizen initiatives, supralocal dynamics and innovations
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
This project has not yet been classified with EuroSciVoc.
Be the first one to suggest relevant scientific fields and help us improve our classification service
You need to log in or register to use this function
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme -
H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2020
See all projects funded under this callCoordinator
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
75270 Paris
France
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.