URBAN-NET Stakeholder Workshop 4

"Transnational Research on Urban Sustainable Development", Stockholm City Museum, Stockholm, 17 & 18 November 2009

The 4th stakeholder workshop on a theme of added value and the integrated approach in urban research was held at the City Museum of Stockholm, 17th - 18th November. In addition to attendance by representatives of URBAN-NET partner organisations, networks and stakeholders we were pleased to meet many of the researchers funded by the first URBAN-NET pilot call and hear about project progress to date.

Participants also heard from:

DG Research on FP7 Environment theme funding programmes and developments;
a new Swedish centre of excellence for urban sustainable development; and
Joanneum Research, Austria, on a Joint Programme Initiative proposal for “Cities of the Future / Transport”

"Added value" from transnational research and an "integrated approach" to research on urban sustainability were the main concepts discussed during two parallel sessions. During a third session on day 2, Programme Managers discussed future funding of urban sustainability research while researchers discussed complementarities and synergies across the research projects and knowledge exchange options. These included publication of a research anthology, creation of short videos and engagement in a proposed networking event to be hosted by URBAN-NET at the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro March 2010.

The full programme for Stakeholder Workshop 4, copies of the presentations given and the conference report (Proceedings of Stakeholder Workshop 4) are below.

Stakeholder Workshop 4 Programme

URBAN-NET overview presentation - June Graham

Transdisciplinary knowledge production and capacity building - Merritt Polk

Developments in EU urban research - Dr Karen Fabbri

Cities of the future/transport - Wolfgang Polt

Pilot call results and 2nd call - Ulla Westerberg

Project Presentations

Sustainable land use policies for resilient cities - Ayda Eraydin

DEGRA-CO, Vectors of degradation in privatised large housing estates - Claudiu Runceanu

CURE, Cultural industries and urban resilience - Robert Kloosterman

REPLACIS, Retail planning for cities sustainability - Mattias Karrholm

SUPER, Sustainable urban planning for ecosystem services and resilience - Johan Colding