The recommendations from the ‘City Science for Urban Challenges’ report were re-validated, stressing to improve the relevance of EU research for city challenges, to improve uptake on local level, to strengthen data for fact-based policies, and to improve the cooperation between cities, universities and Commission.

CSI has been confirmed as a good platform for information exchange, sharing practices and addressing urban challenges around city science as a multidisciplinary issue, while being able to work in an agile way with smaller dedicated teams in larger frameworks. As such, CSI can  play a key role in the implementation of the Urban Observatory and setting of dedicated experiments (City-Labs).

If you wish to know more on the next steps of the CSI and if you would like to hear/look back at the recording of the meeting, please send an email to Silvia Iodice and/or Sjoerdje van Heerden.

Presentations and main conclusions from the event can be found in attachement.