The Informed Cities initiative - making research work for local sustainability - is a European initiative driven by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability which aims to bridge the gap between research, policy-making and action in sustainable development, at and for the local level.
Drawing on various research projects, the Informed Cities initiative is a meeting place for dreamers, thinkers and doers who want to co-create the future of European cities.
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Informed Cities has been supported by a number of research and innovation projects over the past years.
SUMP-PLUS helped cities of all shapes, sizes and development stages to enhance their SUMP implementation processes and address diverse mobility challenges.
ROBUST examines governance systems, processes and practices in 11 different city-regions, and recommends more effective arrangements and better policy frameworks.
ARTS (Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability) is committed to understanding the role and impact of transition initiatives in cities and examining the conditions that can aid accelerating change towards a sustainable low-carbon society.
OpenHeritage identifies best practices of adaptive heritage re-use, develops inclusive governance models for overlooked heritage sites and tests them in six Cooperative Heritage Labs.
InContext (Individuals InContext: Supportive environments for sustainable living) identified framework conditions enabling societal transition towards an ecologically sound, economically successful and culturally diverse future.
smarticipate aims to use open data to give citizens the information needed to help shape their city. By making data accessible and understandable, citizens are empowered to give input on new public services and solutions to urban problems.
GreenCharge aims to demonstrate how technological solutions and associated business models can be integrated and deployed to overcome barriers to wide-scale adoption of EVs in Barcelona (Spain), Bremen (Germany), and Oslo (Norway).
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
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