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18 November
2020
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Community of Practice on Cities
COP-CITIES Newsletter #4
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Foreword
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Welcome to the 4th Edition of the Community of Practice on Cities Newsletter!
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Dear Members of the Community of Practice on Cities, As 2020 draws to a close, and many Member States are experiencing a second lockdown, we take a moment to reflect. The pandemic has had a severe toll not only directly in terms of loss of life and a weakened economy, but also on our general well-being and individual freedoms. It is our hope that despite of this, many of you have learned new ways of working together and have been able to spend more time with your close family and on individual and community projects. While the need for resilience in cities has long been advocated, this year it has truly been put to the test. Cities across Europe have shown their strengths, and taken steps towards being more inclusive, more green, and more resilient. It is more important than ever to stay connected with each other, and this newsletter aims to keep you all up-to-date on recent relevant events, webinars and on-going research projects, as well as forthcoming activities. Please do let us know if you have any items you would like to share in a following edition or any suggestions via the Community of Practice coordinator. We hope you appreciate this edition, and wish you all a productive last few weeks at work and a relaxing and revitalising end-of-year break. The Editorial Team Ine Vandecasteele, Jean-Philippe Aurambout, Patrizia Sulis
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Highlights
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The call for research and innovation projects to respond to the European Green Deal are now open for registration!
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This €1 billion call is the last and biggest call under Horizon 2020 and aims to boost the green and digital transition
An info day and brokerage event for potential applicants and stakeholders took place during the European Research and Innovation Days, on 23 and 24 September. If you could not attend, all the sessions were recorded and are available here.
The deadline for submissions is 26 January 2021
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The JRC research campuses become living laboratories for smart city experiments
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The JRC has opened its research sites in Italy and the Netherlands as living laboratories to external companies for the testing of future mobility and digital energy solutions.
In the next months, project consortiums will be testing various smart city technologies, such as smart charging stations, automated droids, automated vehicles and robo-taxis on the sites.
A call for expressions of interest is open until December 31 for other private and public organisations that are interested in taking part.
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Useful Tools
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Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies
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The Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies is now available as an online platform . From the website, you can download the full report and other useful contents such as a ready-to-use presentation. Moreover, you can directly explore each chapter separately.
The Handbook is a policy-learning tool that helps cities and managing authorities in designing and implementing integrated urban strategies under the EU’s cohesion policy.
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Cooperation
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Valencia City Lab - An analysis of Urban Air Quality
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A new study on urban air quality has just been carried out in the framework of the collaboration between the City of Valencia, University of Valencia, and the JRC.
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Spotlight on CoP Work
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A new cutting-edge global reference layer on human settlements
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The Global Human Settlement Layer is releasing a new, free and open global built-up grid from Sentinel-2 Copernicus data. It shows humanity’s imprint as of 2018 at a spatial resolution of 10 meters.
Find out more!
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Estimating structural factors in the EU-wide costs of schooling
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The JRC together with the OECD and DG REGIO are working on estimating the facility and travel costs of schooling across Europe.
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Local ageing projections
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The JRC’s LUISA team has come back this year with an update of the LUISA EU reference scenario, with a big addition:
A breakdown of local population by gender and age group!
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Latest Publications
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A fine resolution dataset of accessibility under different traffic conditions in European cities
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A new article on urban accessibility and congestion in European cities has just been published by our CoP colleagues from the JRC and DG REGIO. The research gives valuable insight into how congestion can make accessibility vary, allowing comparisons even between neighbourhoods within a city.
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Living Cost Gap in the European Union Member States
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Our JRC colleagues just published a paper looking at living costs gap across EU member states.
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A new European regional tourism typology
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Our JRC colleagues just published an article classifying EU regions into five predominant tourism types: coastal, city, urban mix, mountains & nature, and rural. Each regional typology identified shows distinct profiles of tourism intensity and seasonality.
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City Science for Urban Challenges
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This pilot assessment report highlights the progress and achievements of the first two years of the City Science Initiative (CSI). The report provides useful insights on how to align European research with urban challenges. It specifically addresses the connection between research, policy and design; the collaboration between scientists, urban policymakers and European institutions; the need for data exchange frameworks and the integration of the CSI with other networks.
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Past events
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European Mobility Week
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Last September, nearly 3,000 towns and cities in Europe and beyond showed their commitment with zero-emission mobility for all. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, towns and cities responded with a mix of virtual and physical activities to raise awareness on sustainable mobility.
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Living-in.eu movement – 3rd meeting with signatories of the declaration
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With more than 150 participants in an interactive Zoom session hosted by ENoLL, the third plenary meeting of the Living-in.eu movement held on 29 September 2020 was a big success.
The chair Eddy Hartog and his colleagues had the pleasure to host more than 60 cities, partially signatories of the political declaration Living.-in.eu but also some guest cities from the Intelligent Cities Challenge programme, the organisations behind the initiative ENoLL, Eurocities, OASC, the Committee of the Regions and several services of the European Commission.
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Urban Mobility Days 2020
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The first Urban Mobility Days conference, held from September 30th to October 2nd, combined two leading events from Europe’s transport calendar: the CIVITAS Forum Conference and the European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs).
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European Week of Regions and Cities
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The European Week of Regions and Cities took place in October and the CoP hosted multiple sessions.
If you missed any of the sessions, you can now access the presentations and watch the recordings on the EWRC website.
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Living-in.EU movement – First meeting with supporters
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The first online meeting with supporters of the Living-in.EU (LI.EU) movement took place on 22 October 2020. Supporters of the movement coming from a range of organisations across the EU (NGOs, research institutes, companies and associations) were briefed on the progress to date in implementing the commitments of the “Join, Boost, Sustain” Declaration, and discussed ideas on how they can contribute to the LI.EU movement.
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Daring Cities Conference
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In the process of localising the SDGs, pioneer cities have conducted their own Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) based on local data and localised indicators. Back-to-back with launching the first VLR for Bonn, the City of Bonn also hosted a session at the Daring Cities Conference (7-28 October 2020), organised by ICLEI, bringing together practitioners and researchers. Bonn (Germany), Kitakyushu (Japan), La Paz (Bolivia) and others shared their experiences about developing their VLRs as well as their insights and lessons learnt.
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Webinars on Local work on the Sustainable Development Goals in UBC Cities organised by the Union of the Baltic Cities
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The first UBC TALKS webinar explored how to get started with the Voluntary Local Review (VLR) process. In the second webinar, the discussion focused on illustrating how the UBC member cities work with the VLR framework locally in different ways. The JRC contributed to the discussion with reflections on the ways in which cities integrate the SDGs into their strategies.
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Forthcoming Activities and Events
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