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Global trends affecting urban life
Urban challenges influencing urban dynamics
• Managing urban growth or shrinkage in a sustainable way
• Mitigating and adapting to climate change
• Ensuring resource & energy efficiency
• Anticipating mixed generation needs
• Tapping the potential of diversity
• Addressing social tensions and economic threats
• Providing infrastructure, affordable housing and public space for all
Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe
Global urban challenges – joint European solutions
The transnational research & innovation initiative has the ambition to address these
challenges in its research & innovation programme
• Inter-disciplinary cooperation to address the complexity of urban challenges
solution orientation and impact
• Multi-stakeholder engagement social innovation
• Trans-disciplinary approach science – policy cooperation
The SEiSMiC ambition Societal Engagement in Science, Mutual learning in Cities
• Creating a structured dialogue and mutual learning with citizens and urban actors on
social innovation for the urban future
• Mobilizing wide range of urban actors, in particular civil society
• Contributing to the social dimension of the research & innovation agenda of JPI Urban
Europe and urban policy
• Sparking initiatives and cooperation among new partners
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SEiSMiC approach
• Establishing networks in each of the countries
• Identifying social innovation needs & opportunities
• Collecting the diversity of these needs across Europe
• Reflecting European urban policy
& research strategies on urban issues
• Providing a platform for creating and sharing ideas
and starting into joint actions
• Providing input for future European urban policy
& research
SEiSMiC Framework
Development of National Networks Implementation and operational phase of National Networks
Kick-off Workshop of national networks
1. NaNet Workshop
2. NaNet Workshop
3. NaNet Workshop
4. NaNet Workshop
SEiSMiC Process
National Focus
Groups
11/2014 10/2013 10/2016
o Discussing needs & opportunities for social innovation
o Facilitating a dialogue between all kinds of stakeholders (civil society,
city administration, companies, research, media, arts, NGOs,
grassroots, associations, etc.)
o Showcase latest developments
o Using the platform for idea generation
o Meeting and teaming up with new people engaged in urban issues
o Bringing up social innovation needs to policy and research
o Raising
awareness
o Developing a
joint vision
o Identifying
topics and
fields for action
o Creating a
space for ideas
Identification of
key challenges
and need for
action
Requirements
for network
architecture to
ensure strong
engagement
Development of National Networks Implementation and operational phase of National Networks
Kick-off Workshop of national networks
1. NaNet Workshop
2. NaNet Workshop
3. NaNet Workshop
4. NaNet Workshop
SEiSMiC Process
National Focus
Groups
11/2014 10/2016 10/2013
Side Events
Side Events
Side Events
Side Events
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Impact and policy relationships
EU level
(Trans) national
level
City level Cities involved in the network, use the
dialogue for their issues, reflect policy and
measures
Provide input to JPI Urban Europe and its
transnational research agenda;
Social innovation as key element of future
research policy
Facilitate a communication channel from urban
society to EC policy, provide recommendations to
EC
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Conclusions
• The complexity of urban challenges requires multi-stakeholder cooperation to
support transformation
• Social innovation and societal engagement is high on the agenda to reach a
broader understanding of urban development needs
• New models and methods are needed to attract society and establish new
ways of cooperation
Contact
Margit Noll [email protected]
JPI Urban Europe Management Board
www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu
www.seismicproject.eu
